FFXIV Low FPS

poman313

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Oct 19, 2013
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Hello I'm new to these forum and I wanted to know what I can do with my system to improve performance. I have a computer i build awhile ago AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor, MSI 890FXA-GD70 AM3+, RAIDMAX HYBRID 2 RX-730SS 730W, G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB, XFX - Core Edition Radeon HD 7750 2GB DDR3 PCI Express 3.0 now I have never overclocked before so any tips or where to start or should i upgrade some part. I'm running windows 7 64bit and I playing FFXIV and it seems my fps is 15-22 on Max and only 5-6 FPS better on high. Any help would be great.
 

vo_danh

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I'm playing on a 4890 with dual monitor for browsing while I play. A 7750 is about equivalent. I'm on borderless windowed mode. In Revenant's toll theres alot of people and it drops to 22 moving around alot. However i've had no problems doing instance and raiding coil since theres alot less people. This guide is great to tweak settings :

http://ffxivrealm.com/threads/graphics-settings-and-what-they-do.4965/

You'll also gain some fps when it goes to dx11 next year, i believe. I would say this is playable with the tweaks above. If you want higher quality then you'll have to upgrade to play at high and max. ( even though your card will benchmark as 4000-5000 on the ffxiv benchmark which is labeled high or very high I believe ). Your system looks pretty decent so the video card upgrade would be the biggest upgrade since its bottle necking the rest. Usually overclocking only gains you 5-10%, which is not very noticeable and probably equivalent to turning off one of the settings in that guide which is much easier if you're uncomfortable with overclocking.