If you click on the little expansion button under the video my comments give you the details on what my settings were. If you want specifics on what settings I used or what the game looked like for me (play the vid full screen max res) here have one of my youtube vids. To say that FFXIV is not properly graphically optimized may be the understatement of the year. Meanwhile the game actually runs better if you turn anti aliasing on and many different graphical settings that can massively lower your graphics quality give little to no boost to fps.
In town? Lots of players around? Maybe even some environmental effects like rain or a thunderstorm (which looks epic in this game) my fps was more like 15-20. I never went near max settings and played it with 8gig DDR2 1066, a gtx 460 1gig, and a intel Q6600 quad and would get normally 30-60 fps when out in about in small groups. Macintosh, or simply Mac, is a line of personal computers built and sold by Apple Inc. 'Dude I will tell you straight up, if the specs of your macbook match the specs that guy posted in your linked article the game will be one hair short of unplayable.
I had to set the buffer resolution to 1/2 to get a tolerable frame rate.'Īny help with what that means would be grand. Another choice quotes i've found ' I played the open beta on a mid-2008 MacBook Pro (nVidia 8600M). Said: ' Here is what was giving me a little hope, perhaps you guys are able to see if he is spouting nonsense or not.
