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This is what I have to resort to :-(
pmcubed
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The above picture is what I have to resort to to get acceptable (by my standards) FPS.
I play in Japanese - Disregard that.
My system is not the best in the world, but it should run this game at something better than this right? lol
Q6600 quad core OC > 3.15 gHz, 4 GB DDR2 800 OCZ, 8800 GT, 500 GB 7200 RPM WD HDD
Other games play fine, but this one kicks my PC's ass
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With all due respect as a PC gamer you know that you need to keep your system updated to play some of the newest games. get a better proc and video card and I am sure you will not have the issue, if you want a controlled game that has been tested and optomized for a certain type of hardware go with the PS3 version.
Not to sound like a dick but people need to understand that as PC gamers we have a responsibility to keep our systems current, yours is relatively current, however it may not cut it for this game.
I am sorry man but this is hilarious, what makes you beta test this slow ass game any longer, have you fall to sleep at your PC yet?
My system is almost identical to yours. As soon as I put my Buffer size setting in the config utility to 3/4s a got a perfectly playable game with a decent pic. (Turned off ambient occlusion and depth of field)
Seriously, if you try to insult something, at least speak proper english.
Odd, my computer isn't much better and I play it on high. I don't have some of the extra things turned up to 16x blah blah blah, but it's clear and the graphics are awesome and clear. o.o
Objectivity is delivered with a lack of personality made for the mainstream but never used for the mainstream.
How can it be even possible for the game to look like that?
Heh look at the ui it's not "boxed" like the world.
Alot of things can contribute to bad performace.
Make sure you keep drivers up to date, remove old ones before instaling new. As FF is still in BETA latest drivers are so very important.
What OS - if you are using - Vista, you won't stand a chance. And you have 4gb ram so you should have a 64bit OS.
Free space, try not to let it drop below 10gb (pref 20+) on system drive.
Make sure your ram is running in dual channel mode.
Newer games start using newer technology available to them, you could have the fastest clocked processor there is, but it still run shit depending on "how" the game uses whats available to it.
Keep an eye on the Rxxx at he top, this is data coming from server, you may be getting network lag, not graphics lag.
Core i5 13600KF, BeQuiet Pure Loop FX 360, 32gb DDR5-6000 XPG, WD SN850 NVMe ,PNY 3090 XLR8, Asus Prime Z790-A, Lian-Li O11 PCMR case (limited ed 1045/2000), 32" LG Ultragear 4k Monitor, Logitech G560 LightSync Sound, Razer Deathadder V2 and Razer Blackwidow V3 Keyboard
Wait, so you wrote up a reply just tell to him he missed some punctuations and forgot the "-en" at the end of "fall?" That's sad. You're trying to get him together and you're own backyard is a mess. Speaking proper English is nice, but when you type it in English it should be capitalized. Lol.
Latest drivers, 150 gb free space, dual mode on a 64 bit OS
So... Vista is my problem maybe? How so? hehe
When I first started the game, it set my defaults to medium with some of the eye candy's turned on, but perhaps I mistook the UI and cursor lag for FPS lag? Even with medium specs, that cursor lag really bugs me to death >_<
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
"Q6600 quad core OC > 3.15 gHz, 4 GB DDR2 800 OCZ, 8800 GT, 500 GB 7200 RPM WD HDD"
I have an E6600 dual core at 2.4 and a gtx260.
I'd suspect you should be able to play at standard resolution. In FFXIVConfig set textures to standard
and filtering to lowest. In game shut off all graphics options (shadows, dust, extended, physics).
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On a side note, one of the nice things about the game is that it does draw the UI at resolution. (except player/npc names =/)
Drop the next-gen marketing and people will argue if the game itself has merit.
Man, that's impossible... Dual core 6700 @ 2.66ghz, 4GB ddr2 ram, geforce 8800gtx and a crappy 320gb HD lol...
Here what come. It's in window mode on a 30" screen , as well I haeve firefox open with over 100tabs so it eat half my CPU yet the game is still playable.
Your system is only going to be as fast as your slowest part. Your 8800 is very old tech for current games and the bells and whistles. It was a fantastic card for it's time but those days are long over. You can easily drive a GTX260 which would massively increase your framerate.
People all over the place are struggling to run this game with systems a few generations newer than yours so much of it has to do with the game engine itself.
"I'm not cheap I'm incredibly subconsciously financially optimized"
"The worst part of censorship is ------------------"
Cursor lag is just their way of telling you to get a controller. They don't have hardware-driven mouse enabled and may never enable it. That's not fps lag, it's something weird with the game.
UI lags a little for everyone currently I believe. That hopefully is because they're stressing the servers during beta. Menus should pop up instantly for everyone and interaction should be quick. I'm not sure anyone has that going for them right now.
My system is very similar to yours and it looks like this (although better because this pic is resized), so go figure. Only difference is I have 2 g more of DDR3 RAM, and my processor is an i3 which is newer I believe but it's also a lower clock speed, so who knows. Graphics card is also an 8800gt which someone just said is too old to play this game (it's not, although it would be my first upgrade had I not just upgraded my comp- maybe if I stumble on an extra couple hundred bucks).
Err holden, your signature is a bit off...
I'm wondering how significant the OS is in all this.
Drop the next-gen marketing and people will argue if the game itself has merit.
You guys should include a FPS overlay in your pictures so you can do a direct comparison. One guy might see 12fps as playable and another guy 40fps (such as me). You can get free programs that can do this, I think Rivatuner can do it with all video cards. Not sure but FF14 may actually have it built in.
"I'm not cheap I'm incredibly subconsciously financially optimized"
"The worst part of censorship is ------------------"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121383&cm_re=gtx_465-_-14-121-383-_-Product
I was thinking this if it won't create too much of a bottleneck for my CPU
Also, I tweeked the config a bit. I mean, I can run 1600x900 on medium settings. It's not fantastically perfect, but the cursor and UI lag still present and issue. I suppose you really have no choice but to play this thing with a controller :P
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
Get a new video card bro. I am willing to bet that one has pretty much gone down the crapper and no longer functions correctly.
Other people with the same card as you can actually play the game, maybe on low settings, but still playable.
I used to have a pair of 8800s and they both went out after about 18 months due to heat issues with the brand of cards I had..
One of them just stopped working at all, the other would still render but very very poorly somewhat like what you are experiencing.
Plus an 8800 is a pretty low end card nowdays for new games.
Good luck and I hope you find and fix your problem
Get the hardware mouse patch, it really is night and day.
In my estimation the game is very CPU limited, but that card should help significantly.
Drop the next-gen marketing and people will argue if the game itself has merit.
OMG, I saw you running around Mysida the other day!
"There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
I think the op is lying or a troll to be honest.
I have a single core 3.6, 756 mb vid card, 2 gb of ram. I'd post a screen shot but I deleted the game, but I was playing on medium settings and it was decent. If this is a real problem for the op, I would suggest a flat out reformat because with your system that shouldn't happen.
This game could have the best gfx in the world and have it count for nothing when the game play is bad.
The game play is slow and chunky. And no im not laggy.
pressing more than one button to cast 1 spell is just fail.
There wasn't much difference in fps gain with turning settings down to minimal such as the above screenshot for me. My system is only a dual core with around the same clock, but I use a gts 250, which is a small increase over the 8800gt.
An OC'ed Q6600 cpu should be fine as it is, the rebranded 8800gt/gtx's are showing their age, but a game like this especially in minimal settings shouldn't cause that type of pc to drop to its knees. FFXIV's open beta client is just poorly optimized. Even the PS3 version doesn't look like that, and supposedly it has a much lower texture size and its resolution halved.
On the note of playable framerates, everyone has a different level of what is considered tolerable for them. I myself, am used to the smooth 60+ fps coming from PC first person shooters. Of course, an rpg does not need 60 frames for solid gameplay, usually it does well hovering around 30. FFXIV however, does not give close to 30 fps for a fair amount of people on medium settings, thus the complaints.
Just in case someone uses the fallible argument regarding the human eye and its supposed limitation of 30 fps, the below link is added.
http://www.boallen.com/fps-compare.html
I got the cursor patch. It is amazing. Working like a normal mouse cursor finally.
Probably gonna pick up a gtx 465 today...
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
I would not go with the GTX 465, go for the GTX 460 1GB instead. They have on par performance, but the GTX 460 uses about 15W less and runs 15C cooler. While they are the same price you will save money in the long run on power consumption and the components life should be better at lower temperatures.
Make sure it is the 1GB version though.
I just ran fraps and it looks like I get 17-25 at a crystal with a whole bunch of people around and about 40-45 running in a straight line without anybody around. The cool thing is although people keep saying the game isn't optimized, I normally experience dropped frames when running in games like LOTRO and WAR, and there's nothing of the sort in this game. Whether it's low or high, the framerate stays stable which is great!
The one thing I did that made a difference (if nothing else it eliminated screen tearing) was I forced v-synch on in my nvidia control panel. Everything else is probably what most would consider "medium" settings- 4xMS, shadows on standard and everything else on high, AO off and depth off, and resolution buffer. It looks good though- certainly better than the OP's pic, even though we have similar setups, and I'm using an 8800gt which isn't supposed to be able to run the game according to some in this thread.