FFXIV Hardware Requirements

[Cooleko]

During the JP alpha someone with an I7 series released SS's of what appeared to be activity across all cores.

They also showed that ff14 consumed very little cpu usage, perhaps 15%
It was very impressive.

found it in another forum

Spoiler: show

Friend just got his 480, and putting up numbers in this bench that surpasses even the dual GPU 5970.. crazy. Can't wait for my 470 to come next week.

Didn't come here to post that though, I thought this had relevance to the thread. From JP Alpha last night:

http://i43.tinypic.com/29ku9gl.jpg

Keep in mind the settings are horribly low for alpha, but that's still a good sign.

[Celeras]

You know, I saw this thread bumped and thought "hmm maybe I should have posted that screen here instead of the benchmark thread".

Good lookin'

[ClassicRed]

http://www.melodiesofdeath.com/classicred/cpu.JPG

That's my load during opening CS ~ only had Alpha client open at the time

OS: Win7 Ult x64
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz
MB: ASUS M3A78-T
RAM: 4GB DDR2
HDD1: 320GB@7200RPM
GPU: Radeon HD 4850 512MB
PSU: RAIDMAX 850W

[Akiyama]

Wow. Not bad. I'm on a HD4850 1GB and Phenom X3 720 2.8GHz.. so granted your processor is a bit better than mine, it's not by leaps and bounds, so.. that seems like it'll be good for me I hope.

[sruon]

Might have been something on my side, wish I had a real program to watch CPU load % on cores.

Maybe another bugreport that needs filled.

[Purrrfect]

Wow. Not bad. I'm on a HD4850 1GB and Phenom X3 720 2.8GHz.. so granted your processor is a bit better than mine, it's not by leaps and bounds, so.. that seems like it'll be good for me I hope.

Well, she didn't say how well it ran, just how much cpu was used.

edit: apologies

[ClassicRed]

Well, he didn't say how well it ran, just how much cpu was used.

She* And everything ran great minus the character creation screen -.-; -- no lags no jumps

[vrumpt]

Any news on how lower specs handled the game?

somewhere along the lines of..

Dual core 2.26 Ghz
Nvidia 9800 gpu 512 MB VRAM
4GB RAM (or 2 even, id be curious to see how that handled)

[Purrrfect]

She* And everything ran great minus the character creation screen -.-; -- no lags no jumps

Good to hear, as I also have a 4870.^^ Though I don't know anything about AMD's current stuff, but I'd imagine I'm a little under yours. Time to plan...

[dejet]

so the GTX260 cant run this game >.>?
got an I7 870 so i could care less about a new CPU. my card is getting old but I really did not want to buy a new one unless I had to.
really did not think with 8GB of ram a i7 and a GTX260 that I would need to do anything to prep for this game... But now im getting scared ; ;

I could nab a 280 but shit thats not that much better for the price.

Any new cards that run 300~400 that are much better then the 260?

[sruon]

I never said 260 couldn't run, in fact I'm not sure what limited me, CPU, GPU or the 30 fps cap making it feel laggish.

I'm actually thinking it was my CPU limiting me.

Definitly going to run more test on next phase.

[dejet]

I never said 260 couldn't run, in fact I'm not sure what limited me, CPU, GPU or the 30 fps cap making it feel laggish.

I'm actually thinking it was my CPU limiting me.

Definitly going to run more test on next phase.

thanks for clearing that much, you really made me second guess myself not upgrading my PC >.<

edit: you mind me asking sruon what OS you run and how much ram you have? as it stands my PC would lag most of the time till I went from 3 GB >8GB. even FFXI would sometimes lag me out because windows 7 (x64) uses 1.5~2GB of ram. That could be it as your CPU is not that bad. It be stressed a hell of a lot more then his I7 but not by that much if it only used ~15% on that players PC

[Khamsin]

Just for the sake of info, I ran the alpha fine but during character creation, it felt like my laptop was chugging a little bit (maybe the clouds?) and the mouse pointer seemed very sluggish. Closing my browser or other stuff didn't seem to make a difference. Not sure if it was my specs or just the alpha being alpha. The game itself was a bit choppy, but didn't seem to work my laptop as much as character creation, and I no longer had mouse issues. Overall, it was very playable once I got into the actual game.

I have (laptop): 4 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, GeForce 8700M GT 256MB, on Vista.

I had no vista/nvidia problems that SE mentioned, and my video card is slightly under their minimum recommended card, and I only have 256MB VRAM instead of 512 as was recommended.

[sruon]

thanks for clearing that much, you really made me second guess myself not upgrading my PC >.<

edit: you mind me asking sruon what OS you run and how much ram you have? as it stands my PC would lag most of the time till I went from 3 GB >8GB. even FFXI would sometimes lag me out because windows 7 (x64) uses 1.5~2GB of ram. That could be it as your CPU is not that bad. It be stressed a hell of a lot more then his I7 but not by that much if it only used ~15% on that players PC

Win XP pro 32 bit with 4 gb of G-skill DDR2.

Not planning to use Win7 for a few months still.

[Pikarya]

During the JP alpha someone with an I7 series released SS's of what appeared to be activity across all cores.

They also showed that ff14 consumed very little cpu usage, perhaps 15%
It was very impressive.

I didn't check the affinity of what cores XIV was using, but it seems single core. I tried turning off Digsby/Steam/everything else to isolate any CPU usage. Oddly though there were times where my 2nd core was getting worked also. Maybe its a possibility the game is threaded for 2 cores but one core supports audio and the other for the rest of the game? (WoW does this, also TF2/L4D2/etc.)

Any news on how lower specs handled the game?

somewhere along the lines of..

Dual core 2.26 Ghz
Nvidia 9800 gpu 512 MB VRAM
4GB RAM (or 2 even, id be curious to see how that handled)

It will run and play, just not smooth sailing.

Win XP pro 32 bit with 4 gb of G-skill DDR2.

Not planning to use Win7 for a few months still.

How come 4GB on x86? Or do you mean you just upgraded RAM & you're going to W7 x64bit?

[sruon]

2x 2GB for dual channel, of course less is used by windows.

[Akiyama]

Just for the sake of info, I ran the alpha fine but during character creation, it felt like my laptop was chugging a little bit (maybe the clouds?) and the mouse pointer seemed very sluggish. Closing my browser or other stuff didn't seem to make a difference. Not sure if it was my specs or just the alpha being alpha. The game itself was a bit choppy, but didn't seem to work my laptop as much as character creation, and I no longer had mouse issues. Overall, it was very playable once I got into the actual game.

I have (laptop): 4 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, GeForce 8700M GT 256MB, on Vista.

I had no vista/nvidia problems that SE mentioned, and my video card is slightly under their minimum recommended card, and I only have 256MB VRAM instead of 512 as was recommended.

Curious if that's due to your specs or if that's just due to it not being calibrated properly with it being Alpha and all.

[Darte]

Hmm I'm curious whether a laptop with a GTS360M and an i7 1.6ghz would be fine or not, its what I'm aiming to get by the end of the year so I'd appreciate any feedback from alpha testers

[Shuichi]

So what's the scoop on the Radeon HD5770? I'm trying not to spend over $200 on a video card.

[Pikarya]

So what's the scoop on the Radeon HD5770? I'm trying not to spend over $200 on a video card.

Benchmark wise, it pulls around at 4870. Obvious features are DX and a few other things. Overall a great card but not the cream of the crop.