Hello everyone, I am looking for some beta testers that can help assist with testing a new project that I am working on for FFXI. This project is aimed to help boost the performance of FFXI under certain conditions. (Detailed below.)
The idea behind this project is to help laptop users (mainly) get a better playing experience out of the game due to issues with technologies such as Nvidia Optimus or AMD Switchable Graphics. Because of this, I am looking for a specific set of requirements from the people that wish to beta test this.
Eventually, the project will be open to everyone but I want to get an idea if this is going to be worth investing more time into to assist people with this or if this is not going to help enough people and to scrap the idea.
The following conditions are what I am looking for with beta testers:
- Laptop Users
- Windows 10 (8.1 may suffice if its kept up to date and has the issues listed below.)
- Must have a switchable graphics setup. (Nvidia or AMD chip installed, usually a mobile version.)
- Must have Ashita or willing to use it for this test. (This will not work with Windower.)
Here is a description of what I mean by what I am looking for.
I recently purchased an MSI GE72VR 7RF Apache Pro laptop. The laptop specs are:
- Windows 10 Pro (Version does not matter for this.)
- Intel Core i7-7700HQ
- 16.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR4 RAM @ 3200MHz
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (3GB) GDDR5 (Pascal) DX12
Due to the hardware and Windows 10 requirement, FFXI refuses to actually use the dedicated graphics because Nvidia Optimus sucks. It does not pick up d3d8 games properly and thus the entire game is handled via the CPU using a poorly implemented version of Direct3D8 on Windows 10. It is basically an emulated API at this point. With this brand new laptop, I am lucky to get even 10fps in game.
With this project I am working on, I am able to port the game to Direct3D9 and make the game run fully on the dedicated graphics chip boosting the performance by over 100%. I get the full 30fps (60fps if set, or 100+ if uncapped). The game is now fully playable on the laptop without issue.
I want to see if this can help others that have this same or similar issue(s).
Feel free to contact me here via pm or on Discord if you meet the above criteria and wish to help beta test this project.
My Discord name is:
atom0s#3826