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An idiots guide on getting five more frames per second.

DarkVagabondDarkVagabond Member UncommonPosts: 340
in Final Fantasy XIV

Look at your desktop.

See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

What now?

You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

 

Its that easy.

 

As an added bonus, I will reveal how to suddenly make the game playable on an 8800GT or similar video card.

Inside the game, find the magical button "Extended Drawing"

Turn that off. Your skippy terrible gameplay is suddenly beautiful and smooth!

 

Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

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  • tooga123tooga123 Member UncommonPosts: 113

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

    Spoiler!!!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Buy a Delorean and talk to Dr. Emmit Brown!!

    EDIT 100th post FTW

  • DisdenaDisdena Member UncommonPosts: 1,093

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Look at your desktop.

    See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

    Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

    What now?

    You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

    Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

    Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

     

    Its that easy.

    Thumbs up! I'll remember this at release if I have any framerate problems.

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  • SnievanSnievan Member Posts: 31

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Look at your desktop.

    See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

    Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

    What now?

    You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

    Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

    Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

     

    Its that easy.

     

    As an added bonus, I will reveal how to suddenly make the game playable on an 8800GT or similar video card.

    Inside the game, find the magical button "Extended Drawing"

    Turn that off. Your skippy terrible gameplay is suddenly beautiful and smooth!

     

    Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

     Would you like to provide a link to a test that shows that disabling Aero actually increases performance during games?

  • EtraEtra Member UncommonPosts: 164

    Originally posted by Snievan

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Look at your desktop.

    See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

    Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

    What now?

    You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

    Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

    Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

     

    Its that easy.

     

    As an added bonus, I will reveal how to suddenly make the game playable on an 8800GT or similar video card.

    Inside the game, find the magical button "Extended Drawing"

    Turn that off. Your skippy terrible gameplay is suddenly beautiful and smooth!

     

    Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

     Would you like to provide a link to a test that shows that disabling Aero actually increases performance during games?

    It does if you have a low supply of RAM. However, if you have an issue with aero in games, your PC won't be able to run XIV at any extent.

  • AIMonsterAIMonster Member UncommonPosts: 2,059

    Going to msconfig and disabling unneeded services can also speed up performance, especially a lot of the network services that are enabled by default that are rarely used.

  • ironleviironlevi Member Posts: 122

    Originally posted by Snievan

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Look at your desktop.

    See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

    Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

    What now?

    You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

    Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

    Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

     

    Its that easy.

     

    As an added bonus, I will reveal how to suddenly make the game playable on an 8800GT or similar video card.

    Inside the game, find the magical button "Extended Drawing"

    Turn that off. Your skippy terrible gameplay is suddenly beautiful and smooth!

     

    Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

     Would you like to provide a link to a test that shows that disabling Aero actually increases performance during games?

    Run the benchmark yourself with Aero on, then turn it off and run it again. More points. 

  • EtraEtra Member UncommonPosts: 164

    Originally posted by ironlevi

    Originally posted by Snievan

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Look at your desktop.

    See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

    Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

    What now?

    You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

    Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

    Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

     

    Its that easy.

     

    As an added bonus, I will reveal how to suddenly make the game playable on an 8800GT or similar video card.

    Inside the game, find the magical button "Extended Drawing"

    Turn that off. Your skippy terrible gameplay is suddenly beautiful and smooth!

     

    Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

     Would you like to provide a link to a test that shows that disabling Aero actually increases performance during games?

    Run the benchmark yourself with Aero on, then turn it off and run it again. More points. 

    My points didn't increase at all with it off. Actually went up by 4 with Aero on.

  • ironleviironlevi Member Posts: 122

    Good to know then. I can't say it worked like that for win 7, but I saw a large increase when I turned Aero off in Vista.

    I do a lot of benchmarking for windows and hardware and some stuff definitely gives higher scores with Aero off. 

  • LowdosLowdos Member Posts: 644

    For potential OB folks - Turn off Ambient Occlusion in the FFXIV Config. (it is turned off by default..with good reason)

  • kilunkilun Member UncommonPosts: 829

    You know you don't have to turn Aero off right?  Just click the compatibility tab and disable visual themes and desktop composition right?  Does the same thing when your running a specific program. A few other nifty things you could do to speedup performance but those are really lame and a pain, like turn of explore.exe.

  • skeaserskeaser Member RarePosts: 4,216

    Originally posted by ceforlife

    End some of yer processes as well.  Firefox in the background running? Itunes?  eMail proggie, printer utilities? Do you have Norton installed?  Task manager is your friend, and all that stuff adds up and causes hic-ups in system performance and can add some slowness.  Also, maybe this is just something I think which may or may not be ture, but a bazillion icons on your desktop seems to slow down a system as well.  Anyways, end all that junk you don't need running.

    http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

    Let the program end them for you when you start gaming and the restore them after...for FREE!

    (I've used this program for about a year now, works like a charm, can also quick defrag a game directory)

    Sig so that badges don't eat my posts.


  • d0n0d0n0 Member Posts: 123

    No, don't, if you tell us how to time travel, some idiot will travel back in time and post this before you!!!

    There is no knowledge that is no power.

  • BademBadem Member Posts: 830

    Originally posted by Lowdos

    For potential OB folks - Turn off Ambient Occlusion in the FFXIV Config. (it is turned off by default..with good reason)

     Ahhh I remember turning this on for fun adn god it was awful

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Norsefire-logo.png

  • MrbloodworthMrbloodworth Member Posts: 5,615

    Originally posted by Snievan

    Originally posted by DarkVagabond

    Look at your desktop.

    See that right mouse button, press it somewhere.

    Its time to PERSONALIZE! Aww yeah!

    What now?

    You see the section titled "Aero Themes"? Well we hate them.

    Instead, scroll down to Basic and High Contrast Themes.

    Pick one, tahdah, your videocard is done rendering tacky see-through title bars.

     

    Its that easy.

     

    As an added bonus, I will reveal how to suddenly make the game playable on an 8800GT or similar video card.

    Inside the game, find the magical button "Extended Drawing"

    Turn that off. Your skippy terrible gameplay is suddenly beautiful and smooth!

     

    Next week I reveal the secret to time travel!

     Would you like to provide a link to a test that shows that disabling Aero actually increases performance during games?

    Many games automaticaly disable it.

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