Final Fantasy XIV - System requirements

Picked up FF XIV really cheap today but i failed to notice the high system requirements

CPU: Intel Core Duo 2.0 or AMD Athlon X2 2.0
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9600+ 512MB+ or ATI Radeon 2900+ 512MB+

I have the cpu and other requirements, only problem is the gfx card, i've heard about ppl running it anyway on a card like my 9600m gs but is it really okay?

 

download the benchmark and test.

 

Sell it back. For REALS!!! I've owned the game since day one and its STILL in beta. VERY rough around the edges, my friends put more hours into it then me and he says it doesn't get any better. They should have stayed with the FFXI formula. That said if you drop shadows to nothing, you should be able to run it, maybe at 720, my 5870m barely runs it smooth with shadows on medium and everything else on full at 1080.

 

There's a couple of settings in FFXIV that majorly affect your framerate, if u reduce these, the game runs ridiculously faster. Just the way they've coded it I guess, but don't trust the benchmark, it isn't very accurate. Start off with all settings on Low, see what frame rate you have with that, and then 1 by 1 change a setting to max, setting what effect it has on your frames.

 

People play FFXIV??? lolwut?

Seriously, that game is really badly coded and the gameplay is just horrible. You should just try tweaking the setting by playing around them and see what suits the best for you.

 

Shame nobody has anything good to say. I never played it but I really liked the old one. It had so much that WoW did not.

More challenging, more diverse, just had a "feel" to it that WoW could not accomplish.

That said Rift is getting good reviews and feedback, so if you do not want to play WoW maybe look at Rift, but I hear its similar.

I probably wont touch a MMO till Guild Wars 2 and thats if its free to play. No more pay to play games for me.

 

I already ran the benchmark, 1024 points which is (far) below the min-level

I'll just try it tonight, seems ppl play it with 8600m gs ddr2 at 25-35fps. My 9600m gs ddr2 with oc should be a lot faster and combined with my fast cpu i hope to get decent fps at 1280x1024. Shouldn't be that long before i get my m17x up and running anyway.

If anyone wants to share expiriences with simular hardware, please do!

 

You can always reduce the resolution, and like already mentioned drop shadows and some other effects (if the option is available).

 

I agree 100% with this post, FFXI was brilliantly addictive and challenging (Until the ingame economy on my server tanked....), they tried to do too much with this one unfortunately, and made it more streamlined for average gamers. Time limit on level a class, or craft, thats stupid. Also quest difficulty is decided before accepting the challenge, so if no ones on you can still do the quest by yourself..... Kinda defeats the purpose of MMO but I guess it makes sense, I spent plenty of hours in FFXI waiting for parties to start up. Crafting is OVERLY difficult, relying on like 5 different people to get materials is just silly. Please go back to FFXI and ill start playing again.

 

If you're on the fence about this game I stongly suggest you check out bluexephos gameplay review and overview on youtube. It's. A pretty comprehensive walkthrough of the baby zone. The long and the short of it: worst mmo in the history of mmos.

I'm on my ipad otherwise I would post the youtube link.