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emi56
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My rig specs:
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.5 , 4 Gigs DDR2 RAM, XFX GTX 260 Black Edition.
Not a beast PC by any means but I thought I should be able to play FFXI at 25+ FPS on standard settings but the game is very choppy and laggy for me I get around 13-15 FPS in towns and it goes up to 20-22 in less crowded areas. Is this game not optimized yet or whats the deal? Thx for any help/advice in advance.
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i have a q6600 quad core over clocked to 3.1ghz and 4 gig memory with a 9600gt video card and am not having laggy or bad fps at all except when i'm going through a zone shift than it kinda chunks but unless i'm moving from a zone to zone i get really no lag i was surprised.
This is the reason i wanted in OP to see if my rig could play the game and so far pretty smooth for me.
Q6600 @ 2.4 (4cpus) overclocked to 3.0GHz
600gig velociraptor HD 10,000 rpm, 8 gigs of ram, and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 470. No problems for me.
Same proc here mines only at 3 ghz though and 8 gigs DDR2 800, with a Sapphire ATI 5850 TOXIC 1 GB.
No problems here, but I run the game at 1680x1050 (as high as my monitor can support, and I find the higher ones hard on my eyes anyways), only things I do though is turn off ambient occlusion (chugs the card) and turn off depth of field (gives me a headache). Maybe try either of those settings.
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Final Fantasy 7
My computer runs it at max with little to no issues(outside of the well known issues) and my wfies alienware runs it faily well but you have to turn off quite a few settings(Shes got an MX17 Dual 512 SLI Enabled Cards, Lolcure2duo and only 4Gigs of ram - but it still looks great and runs 'well enough' as long as you mess with the system settings enough. I assume the ful retail version will have better scaling anyways.
i have an overclocked to 3.2 quad core 2 nvidia 8800GTX's 756mb SLI cards with 4 gig ram i dont have issues as bad as Age of Conan on launch but it gets to the point where its like my guy cant keep up with itself. It looks awesome and its not laggy to the point i wont play it but i hope they refine some of the graphics before release cause i dont think my computer is bad enough to warrant upgrades to play this game besides maybe windows 7 with some more ram if i choose to. I play Starcraft 2 at Ultra settings with no hiccups at all hopefully square enix can pull that off for the rest of us this game would own then.
The game actually runs pretty good on 1920x1080 fullscreen resolution on an i7 920 2.7GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 9800GT. Much better than the official benchmark led me to believe. As a matter of fact, I barely got a passing mark on the benchmark but I'm playing this game in fullscreen with 4xAA and max textures without any serious slowdowns.
The point is, don't listen to the benchmark. Try the game yourself and play with the settings, although it's a pain as you can't do it ingame.
I'm not sure what could be the problem. Your processor and graphics card seem like more than enough. It's possible that the RAM might be an issue, especially if you're using a 32 bit OS, which last I checked only devoted 2g to games. Would be a bit offputting to many gamers if they had to switch Operating Systems to 64 bit just to play this game, but really that is bound to happen eventually.
I'm running with an I3450 @ 3gzh and an 8800gt both at factory speeds. Those are both worse than what you have. Only difference is I'm using Windows 7 64 bit and have 6 gig of ddr3.
No problems on this end with performance. Maybe you just have weird configuration settings or something. I noticed when I set my game to the maximum antialising it got choppy. I'm running at the second lowest and everything still looks totally amazing (with all other effects turned on)
might be the ambient occlusion i've got a q6600 4gb ram and xfx 4890 black and with ambient occlusion on the game is chuggy but runs great with it off
my laptop is vista 64 bit 4 gigs 800 mhz ddr2, 3 ghz e8400 intel core 2 duo, dual nvidia 8800 gtx mobile cards in sli 700 gigs of 7200 rpm hard drive, i run fine with high textures set shadows lower because thats the fatal flaw of my vid cards, lower shader capacity then the new models like 460 and 470. also i found for my 17 inch display 1280 x 800 is a much better fitting and looking res then some of the larger options, consequently turning down the res a bit took enough load off the gpus to speed up frame rate by alot. i also turned off occlusion, couldnt see any improvement in picture with it on, but sure noticed a framerate boost with it off.
While it may sound strange and not make sense I've heard people got significant increase in performance (as much as double fps) by changing the priority of FF14 from Low (for some reason FF14 defaults to Low priority) to Normal or Above Normal.
Heres a question though, how much RAM does this game need? Will upgrading from 4GB to 8GB give a significant performance increase?
It runs pretty good outside of the main cities but inside it gets laggy as hell good thing I'm upgrading to Core i7 GTX 470 sli rig if I wanna play this game on Max settings
I have a different graphics card but the occlusion lighting was causing me to have a lot of choppyness. Once I turned it off it ran great. everything else is set to max.
im currently running on
3.2gig quad core phenom black edition
8gig dd2 ram
gtx 460 gfx card.
From my experiance last night for a couple of hours with everthing on high or highest i was actually suprised on how well it actually ran tobe on honest, didnt seem to get any lag what so ever in the city or when out and about and it was well populated.
How do we turn this off? It has a checkbox on the side, shall we select it or not?
And how do we change the priority of the game on the cpu like someone posted above?
I have a Core2Duo E8200 @ 2,6ghz with 4GB ram DDR2 and a GTX 260 OC edition and I cant get above 15 fps. I play on 1920x1080 since less than that gets blurry but all else is pretty much down, even shadows are off. Any sugestions? My OS is Win7 64bit
Ambient Occlusion I heard isn't quite optomized/bugged as of right now from what i've heard. Try turning it off, it should give you a huge increase in fps.
Graphic configuration is in:
programfiles/sqaureenix/ffxiv/ffxivconfig.exe
You are pretty much in the same boat. My CPU is a bit better but I have same video card and I get same FPS you get. Hope they fix this soon.