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Improving Preformance
De4dd0g
Member Posts: 157
I have a
I5 2.4ghz
Geforce 360M
4gb DDR3
Game gets kinda laggy in areas... what's some ways to improve the game?
//Processor//AMD Phenom II x6 (4.6GHZ)//Video//CrossfireX ATI Radeon HD 5850//Motherboard//ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3//RAM//6GB DDR3 2000mhz Patriot//HDD//Raid 0 7200RPM Seagate 1TB//
Comments
The best start is to optimize your computer. It should give you a little boost in whatever you do.
Start with turning of all fluff in windows like fading menus and similar. Takes system resources and give you nothing in return.
Then clean your register and any crappy programs that starts with your computer and isn't something you always use (Viruskiller is something you need, Winamp agent something you don't). Here is a free program to help you with this: http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
Have 10% of your main harddrive free and optimize it.
You do have a laptop with that card? They are generally not performing really great in high end games like FF. And you do use a 64 bits version of windows I guess? If both those are true there isn't that much more you can do, besides having all latests windows patches and possibly get some more ram (but I am not sure it is worth the cost).
I just discovered a little thing I thought helped a lot: Open up your configuraiton program (should be on the start menu), go into Graphics and set Texture Quality to "Standard." It makes a big difference to your performance in aspects such as switching equipment or having NPCs/PCs enter view, while not making all that hard of a hit to your visual quality at all, particularly if you have FSAA enabled at all.
I also just discovered that Double Buffer Size + Ambient Occlusion causes severe lag. Don't do that. Really, I'm not sure what (if any) benefit setting buffer size above "resolution" does. Setting buffer below resolution makes things uglier, which leads me ot believe if it's *at* resolution it's basically rendering the whole screen. Maybe double bufferis intended for stereographic displays.
The official recommended configuraiton settings are here, and you'll note Ambient Occlusion is actually disabled. I find enabling it is okay on my system, but htat's probably because I have a quad core CPU, which FFXIV utilizes fully up to ~85%. It causes a bit of that "kinda lag'," I recommend disabling it if you want more performance, the difference is minor - makes things seem more dreary or bright, mostly.