FFXI is an emulation?

[Voulrath]

I hear that the FFXI engine for PC is actually just an emulation of the PS2 port so it requires more CPU power than graphics card power. Is this true?

[Pergo]

i don't know much about computers but i switched from my labtop to my pc last night.

my labtop has 2.0 Ghz processor with a current graphics card

my pc has a 3.2ghz process with an old graphics card

my labtop tends to run at 28.9 fps but still feels slow
on my pc last night i noticed that most of the time i was running at 15fps and it was still going faster than my labtop does.

i'm not sure if this means anything but i thought i'd throw that out there

[Khamsin]

i don't know much about computers but i switched from my labtop to my pc last night.

my labtop has 2.0 Ghz processor with a current graphics card

my pc has a 3.2ghz process with an old graphics card

my labtop tends to run at 28.9 fps but still feels slow
on my pc last night i noticed that most of the time i was running at 15fps and it was still going faster than my labtop does.

i'm not sure if this means anything but i thought i'd throw that out there

Do you have a cold?

[Epical]

Not sure about the former, but the latter is certainly true.

[Pergo]

lol i know i phrased that retardly... i just thought it was interesting that 10-15fps ran smoother than the other. oh well

[chesh]

lol i know i phrased that retardly... i just thought it was interesting that 10-15fps ran smoother than the other. oh well

The phrasing was fine, the spelling of "laptop" was certainly interesting though.

[Chupunpupun]

I hear that the FFXI engine for PC is actually just an emulation of the PS2 port so it requires more CPU power than graphics card power. Is this true?

Heitai is my bestest friend.

[Voulrath]

I hear that the FFXI engine for PC is actually just an emulation of the PS2 port so it requires more CPU power than graphics card power. Is this true?

Heitai is my bestest friend.

Ebay character.

[Tajin]

Not sure about the former, but the latter is certainly true.

what he said and:
The better processor (read: faster) you have, the better it will run, on standard settings, i dont know how much of RAM it really uses, since ive played at 512 and 1GB and seems more or less the same.

[Demosthenes]

Real life is an emulation?

[VZX]

A CPU bound process doesn't necessarily implies an emulated process

[Elesirdur]

A CPU bound process doesn't necessarily implies an emulated process

It just implies that the PS2's graphics architecture is so unmanageable that the PC port of FFXI relies so heavy on CPU processing because existing code base could not be made to work with PC VPUs.

*Goes back to playing FFXII*

[Sonomaa]

FFXI is forced mostly through CPU, even though its technically not an "emulation" most systems that do what it does are considered that

[Rishi]

PS2 offers more direct graphics hardware access than older PCs do. That's why instead of tossing complex (multi-pass) effects at the videocard to achieve stuff you'd normally need specialised vertex/pixel shaders for, they have to be calculated on the CPU - it's completely for the sake of PC compatibility.

It's not an emulation, it's not an indication of fallacy of the PS2, it's a porting issue.