Lots of technical difficulties.Follow

We'd be able to help more with your computer specs. But based on your mention of mobility graphics card, I'd wager to say laptop...

Sadly getting a decent score on the benchmark doesn't mean it will play on your system. This is on the site for the benchmark




I'm trying to scope out the specs you gave me and having a hard time in finding any information on the processor. One thing to try is roll back to a previous version of drivers for your graphic card as having the updated version is not always best. Can also try turning down all the settings to the lowest possible settings.

Edit: Found Card listed in spec's

Edited, Feb 23rd 2014 11:08pm by SillyHawk

Thanks Filth. I thought that might be the case.
Maybe I'll give FFXI a go.
One last question before I let you go: Does it run ok on the PS3? I'm happy to buy it again if it'll run ok. I've got a PS3.

Edited, Feb 24th 2014 12:17am by RedSunset

That's your best option unless you're planning on getting a PS4. Last I heard you could upgrade from PS3 to PS4 so that seems to be the cheapest and quickest way to play. It plays best on PC with PS4 and PS3 not too far behind and the cost matches performance.

You might try the suggestion above about the drivers. I know with FFXI I couldn't play the game unless I custom modified my graphics drivers. It's a possibility that your laptop would perform better.

Yea I almost doubled my frame rate with the new ati drivers.
Make sure Catalyst Control Center setting are right and high performance for the game when plugged in especially if you have switchable graphics.

Well he said he updated the drivers, but there may be an issue where a modified driver would work. You don't get them directly from AMD or nVidia.

An old laptop I used to use for XI had a feature where it would switch between integrated graphics(CPU) to a dedicated GPU whenever it loaded games. When you load POL launcher the integrated graphics would handle it, but it would switch to the GPU when you clicked the 'play' button. For whatever reason, this caused the game to lose fullscreen and POL would crash before even getting to the title screen. The only workaround was to force the laptop to switch to the dedicated GPU before loading in from POL and it required modifying the drivers(and subsequently voiding the warranty ).

Anyway, there may be some specifically modded drivers available that will remedy the issue. Search specifically using 'FFXIV FPS sound problem' and include the model of your laptop. If you can find out what driver your sound is using that might help too.