Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

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Hatorade

A nice asshole.
8,635
7,503
shh i wanna login at 2am before all the people who are raging at having to download a 1 gig patch

off to bed now see you guys in 8 hours when the servers will meltdown, we shall all eat pizza rolls in our underwear on skype
Mmm pizza rolls, haven't had those in forever. Also looking for spare preorder code, trading alpha code to war of the vikings if interested.
 

Utnayan

F16 patrolling Rajaah until he plays DS3
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shh i wanna login at 2am before all the people who are raging at having to download a 1 gig patch

off to bed now see you guys in 8 hours when the servers will meltdown, we shall all eat pizza rolls in our underwear on skype
Is this what the LGBTers do? We will fit right in!
 

mkopec

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So judging from all these benchmarks, this game seems to be CPU bound, like any other mmo, really. so the better the CPU you have the better the benches. This is why everyone with an i7 I scoring mad benches.
 

Vandyn

Blackwing Lair Raider
3,656
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So judging from all these benchmarks, this game seems to be CPU bound, like any other mmo, really. so the better the CPU you have the better the benches. This is why everyone with an i7 I scoring mad benches.
I agree. I'm only running an i3 and I start slowing down on all high. Probably will be close to these setting, which everything looks pretty good anyway:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:8/23/2013 7:57:23 PM
Score:5268
Average Framerate:42.886
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Real-time Reflections : Normal
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing) : Off
-Transparent Lighting Quality : High
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Self : Display
-Other NPCs : Display
Shadow Quality
-Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD) : Enabled
-Shadow Resolution : Normal - 1024p
-Shadow Cascading : Best
-Shadow Softening : Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering : x16
Movement Physics
-Self : Full
-Other NPCs : Full
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Disabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Disabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Strong
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130708-1532)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz
8159.141MB
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series(VRAM 4095 MB) 8.17.0010.1236
 

Cinge

Ahn'Qiraj Raider
7,358
2,429
Hell I use a 5850 and a i7 first generation(I think, its a i7 -920) and I still get 6kish iirc on that benchmark. Their engine is really good.
 

Byr

Potato del Grande
3,901
5,591
man i hope i can make a char right away on gilgamesh.
if you want to make a character on one of the popular servers, you need to be up at 2am pst and ready to go. They will be locked quickly and who knows for how long.
 

Malakriss

Golden Baronet of the Realm
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I can confirm that I was able to make two level 1s within the last 30 minutes of p4 (for the +5 CP rings). Presumably character creation will not be locked at the start.
 

xzi

Mouthbreather
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6,763
Wellp, time to go to bed and wake up for launch. I'm going to try to get on Gilgamesh.. maybe I won't have that shitty error for 4 hours this time.

See you bitches in game!
 

Vandyn

Blackwing Lair Raider
3,656
1,382
Not that I'm going to be up at 5am, but how good does everyone feel that there will be no hiccups that are going to screw people over from getting in?