List your setup and graphics settingsFollow

I will go 1st.

GPU: 275GTX (slightly OCd from factory)

CPU: i7 920 (stock atm)

RAM: 6GB DDR3 RAM 1600Mhz tight timings

Running the game at:

Resolution: 1080p
Buffer: resolution
AA:
AA gamma correction on (dont think this matters because of the next line)
AA off
AA transparency forced off in nvidia control panel
AF: 16x

Vsync: on w/ triple buffering.
Textures: max texture quality and filtering
Physics: on
Shadows: off

AO: off lol, any1 have this on??
DoF: off

Edited, Sep 6th 2010 2:31am by MaFi0s0

CPU: AMD Phenom II 1055t 2.8GHz
GPU: HIS ATI Radeon 5870 2GB
RAM: 4GB DDR3 Ram

Running Game at:

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Buffer: Resoultion
Multisampling: 2x MSAA
Shadow: Highest
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: High

CPU: Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz (I wish I went with the 4 cores higher clock tbh but good nonetheless)
GPU: Radeon 5770
RAM: 4 GB

Playing the game with little lag (some jittering, barely noticeable) on hi-res 1920X1080 with fairly good settings.

Can someone explain what some of this stuff is... i just copied and pasted a previous posters text...

Resolution: 1360 x 768
Buffer: Resolution (don't know what this is)
Multisampling: 2x MSAA (don't know what this is)
Shadows: Highest
Ambient Occlusion: On (don't know what this is)
Depth of Field: Off (don't know what this is)
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: High (don't know what this is)

Catalyst settings:

AA: Application Controlled (don't know what this is)
AAMode: Adaptive multi sample (don't know what this is)
AF: Application controlled (don't know what this is)
Catalyst AI: High (don't know what this is)
Mipmap detail level: High (don't know what this is)

I turn most stuff to high or 'on' since i'm running a 5870, but it would be nice to understand it a little better.

This is the resolution that FFXIV will render the game at. It is based on a multiple of the screen resolution. If you select 1920x1080 and set this to "half" it will render the game (but not the menus) at half of that resolution. Do not set this to "double" btw. That's full scene supersampling and is really really slow (and unnecessary with FFXIV having MSAA support)



If you need more detailed explanations about the rest of this Wikipedia is your friend.




Multi Sample Anti Aliasing, smooths the edges of objects. Higher settings = smoother edges. Starts to have diminishing returns after 4x



Turns on/off ambient shadows. There are two different types of shadows in FFXIV, the normal hard edged shadows that the "shadow detail" setting affects and ambient occlusion which is completely separate ("Shadow Detail" has no effect on it) This setting will nearly cut your framerate in half and currently has bugs that cause graphics glitches.

This is an example of ambient occlusion





Simulates a camera's depth of field. Distant objects become blurry. Only affects the actual game. In cutscenes Depth of Field is always on.

EDIT: The "cutscene effects" checkbox affects depth of field and (I think) ambient occlusion in cutscenes.



Sets number of samples per pixel for anisotropic filtering.




Determines whether the level of anti aliasing is controlled by the application or is set manually.



Determines whether anti aliasing will anti alias transparency maps. Multi sample AA will not anti alias the edges of transparency maps while adaptive multisample and supersample AA will.

Set AA in your drivers to 4x (not application controlled) and then go to the AA Mode screen and toggle between multi sample and adaptive multi sample. Watch the iron fence in the test scene as you do this. That's what this setting does.




Determines if anisotropic filtering samples per pixel are controlled by the application. That one requires a lot of explanation so just go on Wikipedia. Set it to Application Controlled and then set "Texture Filtering" in FFXIV's config to "Highest"




Turns on/off driver optimizations that may result in rendering results that don't exactly match the Direct3D reference renderer but which are faster. Basically the drivers cheat in order to render the scene faster, but the resulting image may be slightly different than what it "should" be. The only place I have ever seen this cause problems was in Cinebench's Open-GL benchmark. It complained that the drivers were cheating and would not run the benchmark.



Mipmap quality setting. Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. Look up Mip Mapping on Wikipedia for an explanation of what mip mapping does.



Edited, Sep 6th 2010 8:38am by Lobivopis

Just figured that out actually.

It's also a massive pig that cuts your framerate nearly in half. But then ambient occlusion always has a huge framerate cost in any game that includes it. It's basically a simplified version of global illumination.



Edited, Sep 6th 2010 8:29am by Lobivopis

I always turn off DoF and it has nothing to do with performance. It looks great in cutscenes but in the actual game it's just annoying.

I don't think Ambient Occlusion will become a usable setting until the next generation of video cards comes out. Calculating how every pixel in a scene is affected by surrounding geometry is just a huge amount of calculations.

Edited, Sep 6th 2010 8:44am by Lobivopis

Texture filtering does not control anisotropic filtering from my experience, that is why I forced 16xAF.

If yours does, great, means mine must've been broken.

I just did a bit of an upgrade today cause no AA sucks.

One thing I noticed is that just like FFXI, the game is CPU bound when you are in cities, even if you are GPU bound elsewhere.
With no OCs I get roughly 40-70% usage on GPU/CPU but when OCd such as below. I get 80% CPU usage at crystals(around other people). and 99% GPU usage when no1 is around. The card upgrade also did not prevent my framerate dropping in limsa limosa which would drop to a stuttery 19 before the CPU OC.

My guess is no matter the GPU setup, the game will run very slow in crowded areas if your CPU isnt very fast.

My setup now:

GPU: 5870 (slightly OCd 490/1275)

CPU: i7 920 (4Ghz HT off) This was a previous OC I had disabled.

RAM: 6GB DDR3 RAM 1600Mhz tight timings

Running the game at:

Resolution: 1080p
Buffer: resolution
AA:
AA multisampling, box
AA 2x
AF: 16x
ATI AI: Standard.

Vsync: on w/ triple buffering.
Textures: max texture quality and filtering
Physics: on
Shadows: highest

AO: off.
DoF: on


Yea only with AO on.


Edited, Sep 7th 2010 11:21am by MaFi0s0

Edited, Sep 7th 2010 11:22am by MaFi0s0

Screen tear? try turning on v sync in video cards settings

I get this same thing when using Full Screen (1920 x 1200), displayed on my 52" LCD HDTV. However, when I switch to Windowed mode (1920 x 1200), even if using the same display, it goes away.

Edited, Sep 7th 2010 12:29pm by LordMethos

why are we not sharing our fps? keeping our fps a secret makes this thread pointless

I can't believe some of you guys are turning Depth of Field off and you guys have awesome machines :P It loses so much realism without it. My specs blow and i still leave it on because it makes things in the distance look way more real and at the proper distance.

I am pretty sure there was a post about this already.

Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64bit (build 7600)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (4 cores)
4 gigs ddr2
DirectX Version DirectX 11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
1920 x 1080

Most things turned off except textures...gotta have high textures :)

I average about 30 FPS around a lot of people. I am in the camp of this discussion to have higher FPS. I need a minimum 30 FPS, based on many discussions that I have seen on video games, and I don't mind having things turned down until I upgrade. It may not look as realistic, but I am also not going to settle for choppy frame gameplay.

i7-x980
12 gig 2006 DDR3
GTX 480
Sata 2 SSD

1600x900, Shadow High, 8xQ MSAA, Resolution Buffer, Ambient Occlusion, Hardware Mouse, Texture High, TFilter Highest

Get on average 40-45 fps.

[Edit]
Forgot to mention.. Asus VG236H (1080p) monitor.

Depth of field turned on make it look like you are walking through a bubble in clear jello. Game is far better with it off. YMMV

Edited, Oct 13th 2010 7:43pm by JamesX

i7 950 3.2 ghz
6gb DDR3 ram
465 gtx OC'd
asus sabertooth X58
windows 7 home prem

30-40 fps in towns, 60 fps outside
1920x1080
2x msaa
background at 5
general at 7
everything else highest
dof off
AO off

was kinda surprised that so many people have DoF off. Is there a reason for that? I always thought it looked better on since those things that are far away on screen don't look very good, the bluring actually hides that and makes it look better. IMO.

Using Emiya template:

CPU: i7 990X @ 3.47GHz – Overclocked @ 4.52GHz
GPU: GTX 480 SC x 2 SLI + GeForce 9800 GT for Physx
RAM: Corsair Dominator 12GB
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64x


FFXIVconfig.exe

Video Settings Tab

Devices: \\.\DISPLAY1
Display Mode: Windowed
Windows Size: 1280x720
Multisampling: 8xQ MSAA
General Drawing Quality: 10 (Highest)
Background Drawing Quality: 5 (High)
Shadow Detail: Highest

Graphics Tab

Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: On
Disable Cutscene Effects: Off
Enable Hardware Mouse Cursor: On
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Highest

In Game Settings

Physics: On
Shadows: On
Extended Drawing: On
Profanity: Off
Dust Effect: On

Edited, Apr 16th 2011 3:44pm by HamtarotheHam

all the following is stock (at the moment >:D)

CPU: i7-950
GPU: 2x HD 6970 (crossfired)
MOBO: intel DX58SO
RAM: 4gb 1333mhz crucial
HDD: 7200rpm somerandomhdd
PSU: antec cp-1000
case: antec 1200 (giant case with 6 fans. with this setup cold air blows out)
cpu fan: arctic extreme 2

im planning on overclocking this as far as i can, and also plan to invest into a 2560x1080 resolution screen (there a bit pricey) and i may ad a 10k rpm HDD just to cut down load times. and before anyone says anything i know i need more ram to overclock i just havent got it yet.

this rig is pretty beast im not going to lie. its not the best, i can get better parts but regarding FF14 i can run the game on max settings with no trouble, although my current screen can only go to 1680x1050 so my GPU's arent even maxed out yet.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

as a side question, my monitor is a 21" 1680x1050 resolution, would i get a better picture if i plugged my comp into my TV's HDMI port, which my tv is 37" 1920x1080 resolution?



Edited, Apr 16th 2011 5:56pm by Keysofgaruda

GPU: HD 4850 (Hyperdrive OCd)

CPU: Phenom II X6 1090T (Stock)

RAM: 8GB DDR3 @1066Mhz

For everything else.. I'm running the game windowed at 1600x900 with 2xMSAA
Game settings:
General drawing quality: 8
Background drawing quality: 5
Shadow detail: low
Ambient occlusion: off
Depth of field: on
Disable cutscene effects: off
Hardware mouse cursor: on
Texture quality: high
Texture filtering: highest

GPU settings:
AA: Application (Box filter)
AF: Application
Catalyst AI: standard
Mipmap detail level: high quality
Wait for vertical refresh: off, unless application specifies
AAA: Performance
Triple buffering: enabled

Although the GPU is pretty old.. it runs fairly well under these settings.. only lags at times when there are many people fighting in the screen..

CPU: AMD Phenom 6 core 1100t
GPU: Sapphire HD6770 ~ CCC running at standard settings.
RAM: 8GB Ram

Running Game at:
Resolution Size: 1920 x 1080
Display: Full Screen
Multisampling: 2x MSAA
General Drawing Quality: 8
Background Drawing Quality: 4
Shadow: Lowest
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: High
30FPS
Shadows: off
Dust: on
Physics: on

Runs very stable.

2 full windows 7 reinstalls to fix that stupid directX & FFxiv.exe crashing probliems (finaly figured out how to fix it)

Also Ran it on:
CPU: AMD Phenom 6 core 1100t
GPU: AMD HD4450
RAM: 8GB Ram
&
CPU: AMD Phenom 4 core 955
GPU: AMD HD5450 & Sapphire HD6450
RAM: 8GB Ram

Edited, Jan 10th 2012 4:56am by prymortal69

Wow Necro-post! Still interesting though, fun to see how people's rigs have evolved in a year.

CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 645 Propus ~ OC'd to 3.4ghz
GPU: GIGABYTE Radeon HD 5770 1GB (128bit fail)
RAM: 4GB Ram DDR3

Running Game at:
Resolution Size: 1680x1050
Display: Full Screen
Multisampling: OFF (forced to 2x via CCC)
General Drawing Quality: 7
Background Drawing Quality: Standard (4 ?)
Shadow: Standard
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Texture Quality: Standard
Texture Filtering: Standard
30FPS
Shadows: on
Dust: off
Physics: on
Extended Drawing: on

The game runs very stable. The only drawback I can see is that the system takes roughly 5 minutes to load all the necessary textures into memory. During this time I get excessively choppy frame rates, which would make the game unplayable if things didn't smooth out after loading.

CPU: AMD Phenom 6 core 1100t
GPU: Sapphire HD6770 ~ CCC running at standard settings.
RAM: 8GB Ram

Running Game at:
Resolution Size: 1920 x 1080
Display: Full Screen
Multisampling: 2x MSAA
General Drawing Quality: 8
Background Drawing Quality: 4
Shadow: Lowest
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: High
30FPS
Shadows: off
Dust: on
Physics: on

Runs very stable. Let me re-do this Its just killed my PC! lol
GA880gm-usb3 + Sapphire HD6770 + bad h/d + FF14.exe = semi dead motherboard.

With my setup, still can't run everything at max.

I don't get it, if Diablo III can run on your mom's E-Machine... then why the hell does a $2200 dollar computer unable to run FFXIV at max...

Poor coding a possibility?

You hit that nail on the head. It's fairly well known the graphics engine of this game is horribly optimized and is why they're building a new one from essentially scratch for ver2.0.