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cant even play (bad fps)
phufur
Member Posts: 20
okay my computer easily passes all specs. but im lucky to school over 300 on the benchmark test. and thats just awful... i heard that the game is having problems with nvidia cards what kind of problems?
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I can "play" the game if "play" is what you want to call it =P. My problem is I'm having issues with full screen. If I start the game in Full screen all I get is a black screen (using 2 8800 in SLI Mode).
I can run the game just fine in Windowed mode, but because it's windowed mode I'm getting severly reduced frame rates.
After dealing with launcher problems and having to resort to downloading patches through uTorrent, coupled with the whole Black screen thing, I decided it was in my best interest to just uninstall. No harm done. I'm still interested in the game; however.
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Two points of contention here:
If you're getting 300 on the benchmark, I'm not sure why you're saying your computer passes the specs. What CPU, Video card, RAM are we talking here?
The game has a harder time with ATI cards than NVIDIA cards, from what I hear.
This game may have aspirations of casual-friendliness, but it's definately not too casual-friendly to your hardware.
Sorry, but 300 on the bench is dismal at best. I'd be surprised if you could get past character creation. If your computer passes the specs then something somewhere has gone horribly wrong. Update drivers, make sure everything is connected and working because..wow. My fiances crummy e-machine pulls higher than a 300 and it has nowhere NEAR the required specs to run this game.
300 on the benchmark means nothing to anyone. If you want a real answer, post your actual PC specs.
Yeah post your spec, seriuolsy 300 is well very low...
I did some test with a
Atlon x2 4200+ 2.2 ghz
4 gb rams corsair twins 5400c
and a cheap on board crad HD 4200 radeon
and i can still play the game at low settings with this rig so serioulsy if you cant play there is 2 choice
1. Your PC dont have the minimum requirement
2. Your PC have some nasty problems with is configuration (virus, bad driver, bad connection etc)
2.8ghz quad core amd
GeForce GT 240 1gb gddr5
8gb ram
windows 7 x64
i can make my toon fine, but when my game loads up i press to move fowards and it takes like 2 seconds to move...
also the videos in game run perfectly... lag maybe? im on a 10mb connection..
Its really 300 point on benchmark test or you miss spelled, its +3000 point? Becaue my computer almost like yours,
2.8ghz quad core CPU
Geforce GTS 250 1gb
4gb ram
Windows 7 X64
I have got like 3256 point on benchmark test and game runs very smooth with everything on maximum settings.
(btw AA off, Depth of field off)
when i goto settings i cant change my buffer size or the screen just shoes up black aswell.. maybe i had a bad update or install? it only works on three-quarters window size
I was pulling 1900-2000 on the benchmark with a Duel Core and my 285gtx.
I just got a Intel I5 2.67 Quad with 4g Memory to go along with my 285gtx and I pull over 5000 on Low and 3000 on High.
There is something seriously wrong with your system if your only getting 300 on the benchmark. Even with my duel core I was getting 12-15 FPS but the game was playable, now I get around 45 FPS.
The benchmark has almost nothing to do with the CPU its a graphic intensive benchmark so pretty much if you are not running some super duper GFX card you won't score high, my 260GTX score roughly a 3k on high, and my 460 got a little over that with 3.2k-3.5k if I remember correctly and I switched from a 3.0Ghz Quad to a 3.2Ghz Hex ran both which each processor and only a 200 improvement, it has seldom to do with your processor especially if hes already running a 2.8Quad
don't forget the 240GT is a very cheap budget card, its barely able to pull pass the 9600GT and its under the 9800GT in performance it was never meant to run FFXIV..............he could overclock to make up for some slack but its still pushing it.
Sure the graphics card is what makes higher scores on the benchmark, unless you are bottlenecked becuase of a duel core system like I was below:
Duel Core + 285 GTX + Low Setting = 1900-2000
Duel Core + 285 GTX + High Setting = 1900-2000
Quad Core + 285 GTX + Low Setting = 5200-5400
Quade Core + 285 GTX + High Setting = 3000-3200
If you Low and High scores have a good spread, then a better video card would improve your performance.
If the Low and High Scores are about the same. your CPU, or memory, are making your system bottleneck and you should upgrade that before your video card.
The GT 240 is a budget card, scores near the bottom of the latest Tom's Hardware charts, you can get one off NewEgg for about $70 right now. It's a safe bet that your bottleneck is there, you'll want a beefier card to push FFXIV.
Even so, 300 does seem a bit low. My own GTS 250 is only about 170% better than the GT 240 on that same Tom's Hardware chart and pulls a FFXIV benchmark of about 2600 I'd expect you to score about 1300 - 1700 - still not optimal, but better than 300. Try renstalling the latest NVIDIA drivers and see if that helps.
Yes, the 240 GT is really not up to par with what they game would like, but it still should work better then 300 on the benchmark. My bro had a quad and he was using an extremely cheap 9200 and he was still pulling a 1500 in the benchmark.
He could have other things slowing his system down, maleware, running too many unneccesary programs at the same time, ect.
Well try in the setting to turn off Ambient occlusion, depth of field, and lower some other setting like textures quality and resoltution.
If you still cant play, it mean you got problem with your PC.
Ambient Occlusion is a terrible resource hog and offers a slight visual upgrade. Not worth it, in my opinion. I was getting a 40FPS drop with it on and barely saw the difference.
huh... that why i said to turn it off....
Gonna take a shot in the dark and say that OP has his buffer size set at double resolution.
My single 9800GT can run textures at max , fullscreen 1680x1050, occlusion off, and buffer size at resolution and get 20-40fps depending on area.