A few hopesFollow

From the recent live video it looks like they are doing a great job with the overall graphics and the draw distance seems to quite impressive. I hope a few things happen....


a.) That the graphics shown in the recent video are not above the standard (beefed up) and running on a super machine (that none of us will ever own) for the sole purpose of getting us excited and showing the "best side" of FFXIV.

b.) Square enix gives us, the player, the ability to set the draw distance as we'd like. If want to set it so far out that my computer catches fire, shouldn't I have that option? In all seriousness that will probably never happen but if FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 were any indicator they will likely set the "maximum draw distance" relatively short when many of us might have rigs that allow it to be much greater.

c.) That there is great geographic diversity. Again, judging from the videos it seems they have already outdone ALL of FFXIV's diversity in what we've been shown so far. I just hope that it isn't like a comedy movie trailer for in which all of the funniest moments have already been shown...

d.) I hope if Square charges a monthly fee (which i'm positive they will out of necessity) the fans give the game a fair chance and realize that $14 a month really isn't much if the game is actually decent. $14 a month is a few cups of a coffee I could go without, a Netflix account that I might could cancel for awhile, or possibly affordable by saving all of my coin change.

e.) Lastly, I hope the graphics shown will translate nicely to my 55" LCD tv which I run all my PC games on...



Edited, Apr 22nd 2013 4:52pm by electromagnet83

The benchmark running at MAX POWAA looks really nice.

As far as draw distance goes, yeah I'd bet on there being a limit, but only because the slider for it can only go so far, y'know? There has to be a limit because programs can't have infinitely-many possible values for a setting.

As for the big screen.. the game's clearly in HD. I'd be betting on 720p though rather than 1080p, but who knows.

Hmm, I don't think you really need to upgrade. I'm pretty sure 4k running on max is more than enough to play without much frame skipping. I mean, if you were planning to update the graphics card regardless then go for it, but I wouldn't do it because you're only getting a 4k on max. It should run pretty near to perfect.

My big hope is that the game doesn't suffer from the awful screen tearing it did in 1.0. I can still remember whenever I'd be running, I'd get a screen tear right over my character. Completely fine if I'm not moving or even moving slow, but at full speed it always teared.... and I was running a 2.0 gb ATI card at the time (which was like cutting edge 3 years ago lol). So hopefully that's fixed for me.

The bottleneck for my system is the processor, not the video card. I suspect it's that way for a lot of people.

I am running a phenom quad core 3.2 ghz processor, 16gb of ram and a geforce gtx 470 and a SSD. I am pretty confident this game is not going to run well on max settings unless the user can benchmark a score of like 6000+. My graphics card is likely the cause of the low score and am curious if upgrading it to say, a 660 TI with 3gb of ram will give s significant boost. Most of us, including myself, will likely need to run the game on lower settings it seems (if the benchmark is accurate)....something I just can't let happen after seeing the most recent video from Square-Enix.

It could also be that my card is in an HTPC I built that surprisingly has JUST Enough room to fit a graphics card. I've ran programs to make sure my temps weren't out of control and everything seems to be fine. Maybe my 3 year old 470 has just finally met it's match....

470s run pretty hot. My 670 runs at least 20 degrees (Celsius) cooler under heavy load than the 470 did at idle.

That's one of the things I love about Nvida...the settings available on the GPU itself. For XIV there was a ton of tearing an oddly no Vsync option. Geforce cards allow you to set options like vsync, anti-aliasing, and anisotropic filtering all from the Nvidia settings menu. Or you can leave them set to "allow program to decide." In cases like you're describing these are great options to have

Here's a link at the bottom to top performing video cards. I remember in 1.0 I ran the benchmark on my laptop. I think it came in at 2500 at 1080P and the game ran fine (if a little warm). I'm pretty sure you're going to be more than fine, as 4k isn't really that low of a score. My deskop has an ATI 6950 (which is technically lower than yours on the chart), but scores a 5500 at 1080p maximum settings. (I have a different processor and memory setup though so it is what it is). I'm sure you'll see some performance "testimonials" once P3/P4 starts up. I've seen conflicting information on whether or not the NDA drops in P3 or in P4. But there are plenty of "legacy" and "technically legacy" players here I'm sure that will be able to weigh in then.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html



Edited, Apr 22nd 2013 5:02pm by desmar

Same, even though I have a 25 inch 3D monitor for my FFXIV PC. I got too used to Playing on my 60". If the 3D is fun, I might just play switch. Is it just me, or does anyone else love playing with 720p maxed. I feel like the chat windows and icons were too small in 1.x. That was untill I could alter font size. Our ability bar still looks too small on 1080p. If we can enlarge it, I'd be thrilled.