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GurpslordGurpslord Member Posts: 350
in Final Fantasy XIV

Hello folks, to start with I'll say that I'm running an ATI Radeon HD 3870x2.  I know she's an older bird but she typically gets the job done.

In FFXIV I'm encountering some unusual issues, first and foremost, even with my drivers fully updated, it would appear that only one of my GPU cores is doing anything while the other is sitting idle and making me cry.

Secondly, no matter what settings I change both in and out of game I can't seem to change the FPS I get, which is a meager 15-30 in occupied areas and 35-40 in the emptiest of the empty.  OCCASIONALLY I get hopeful becuase for no apparent reason I'll kick up to 60FPS in an area where I would normally only get 20 or so but then a few mins go by and it's back to 20.

Is my card just too darned old or am I missing something?  Please, any help would be appreciated.

Comments

  • AnimatorKidAnimatorKid Member Posts: 208

     This game does some weird things to players systems. It really is not optimized for the Pc world much like FFXI back in the day.

  • terroniterroni Member Posts: 935

    I'd first and foremost just blame the game engine.

    Secondly I believe there are reported issues with the game and SLI.

    My theory if that things you change in FFXIV config would mainly deal with your GPU load.

    Options inside the game probably affect CPU load. Physics for example are done by the CPU.

    To get playable framerates I shut off all in game effects. I also reduced texture size and filtering out of game.

     

     

    These are the recommended specs and setting.


    • OS: Windows® 7 32-bit/64-bit*

    • CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 2.66GHz or higher

    • RAM: 4GB or more

    • HDD/SDD: Installation: 15GB of free space; Download: 6GB of free space on the drive containing "My Documents"

    • Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 or better with VRAM 768MB or more

    • Sound Card: DirectSound® compatible sound card (DirectX® 9.0c or higher)

    • Internet Connection: Broadband or better (always-on)

    • Resolution: 1280x720 (32-bit) or higher

    • DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c

    • Others: Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad

     


    Note the three things in bold underline. I'd say most of us (myself included) are running at a higher resolution with weaker hardware.

    Drop the next-gen marketing and people will argue if the game itself has merit.

  • GurpslordGurpslord Member Posts: 350

    You have a point about the higher resolution thing with weaker hardware.  Still, even going down a few steps in resolution to the reccomended buys me only a handful of frames where one would think it'd do a much bigger difference.  I dunno, things don't seem intuitive when it comes to the settings, I can't get my mind around it.

  • karmathkarmath Member UncommonPosts: 904

    It's horribly laggy due to it being a console game ported to the pc. The fanyboys will tell you otherwise though.

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