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 Leviathan.Hastefeet
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By Leviathan.Hastefeet 2010-07-25 20:08:53
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Phoenix.Oumura said:
I wish I could post the myriad of SS I have but alas, I'm paranoid about breaking the NDA/losing access. >_> I love playing too much.

do it you wont
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By Phoenix.Oumura 2010-07-25 20:12:12
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Lakshmi.Sidi said:

I'm hoping the benchmark overexaggerates things...

because I just bought a brand new laptop
windows 7 64bit home premium
intel core i7 820 @ 1.73GHz
8.00 gigs ram
and
mobility radeon HD 5730 1gig graphics card...

unfortunatley at 1920x1080 I only get an 871 score and at the 1280x720 I get a 1880 score... which is "playable" according to the benchmarks website, but not exactly good.. >_<;;;
I have virtually the same specs. Only difference is I'm still running on 4GB RAM. As long as you turn off Ambient Occlusion it'll run beautifully. The ONLY time I ever lag out is where there's an obscene amount of people on screen. Mostly happens in camps where all the retards AFK throughout the entire beta test. (As to why...is beyond me.)
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By Lakshmi.Sidi 2010-07-25 20:16:56
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Phoenix.Oumura said:
Lakshmi.Sidi said:

I'm hoping the benchmark overexaggerates things...

because I just bought a brand new laptop
windows 7 64bit home premium
intel core i7 820 @ 1.73GHz
8.00 gigs ram
and
mobility radeon HD 5730 1gig graphics card...

unfortunatley at 1920x1080 I only get an 871 score and at the 1280x720 I get a 1880 score... which is "playable" according to the benchmarks website, but not exactly good.. >_<;;;
I have virtually the same specs. Only difference is I'm still running on 4GB RAM. As long as you turn off Ambient Occlusion it'll run beautifully. The ONLY time I ever lag out is where there's an obscene amount of people on screen. Mostly happens in camps where all the retards AFK throughout the entire beta test. (As to why...is beyond me.)

Did you run benchmark? Wondering what your score was on that... since you seem to run fine on actual beta thats encouraging (which is why I think beenchmark is underscoring... least I hope so, because I just spent a shitton of money on this comp, specifically for this game XD)
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By Ramuh.Tousou 2010-07-25 20:17:02
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Phoenix.Oumura said:
I wish I could post the myriad of SS I have but alas, I'm paranoid about breaking the NDA/losing access. >_> I love playing too much.
Make an anon account with a proxy and post them?(After the required editing, of course) <3
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By Lakshmi.Sidi 2010-07-25 20:21:12
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Ramuh.Tousou said:
Phoenix.Oumura said:
I wish I could post the myriad of SS I have but alas, I'm paranoid about breaking the NDA/losing access. >_> I love playing too much.
Make an anon account with a proxy and post them?(After the required editing, of course) <3

Send to a friend who sends to a friend who edits who sends to this threads poster, and posts them for ya :P (or well just edit yourself and send to him who'll then post <.<)
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By Phoenix.Oumura 2010-07-25 20:22:20
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Lakshmi.Sidi said:
Phoenix.Oumura said:
Lakshmi.Sidi said:

I'm hoping the benchmark overexaggerates things...

because I just bought a brand new laptop
windows 7 64bit home premium
intel core i7 820 @ 1.73GHz
8.00 gigs ram
and
mobility radeon HD 5730 1gig graphics card...

unfortunatley at 1920x1080 I only get an 871 score and at the 1280x720 I get a 1880 score... which is "playable" according to the benchmarks website, but not exactly good.. >_<;;;
I have virtually the same specs. Only difference is I'm still running on 4GB RAM. As long as you turn off Ambient Occlusion it'll run beautifully. The ONLY time I ever lag out is where there's an obscene amount of people on screen. Mostly happens in camps where all the retards AFK throughout the entire beta test. (As to why...is beyond me.)

Did you run benchmark? Wondering what your score was on that... since you seem to run fine on actual beta thats encouraging (which is why I think beenchmark is underscoring... least I hope so, because I just spent a shitton of money on this comp, specifically for this game XD)
Benchmark scores were misleading. I got about 1800-1900 on Low because I obviously cant run it on High because of the monitor, lol. I run it fullscreen at native resolution with x4 sampling and shadows on High. Its not the absolute best in the world but it still looks/plays absolutely fantastic.

:EDIT:
Christ, you guys are desperate for pics, huh? >_>;
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By Lakshmi.Sidi 2010-07-25 20:23:56
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Phoenix.Oumura said:
Lakshmi.Sidi said:
Phoenix.Oumura said:
Lakshmi.Sidi said:

I'm hoping the benchmark overexaggerates things...

because I just bought a brand new laptop
windows 7 64bit home premium
intel core i7 820 @ 1.73GHz
8.00 gigs ram
and
mobility radeon HD 5730 1gig graphics card...

unfortunatley at 1920x1080 I only get an 871 score and at the 1280x720 I get a 1880 score... which is "playable" according to the benchmarks website, but not exactly good.. >_<;;;
I have virtually the same specs. Only difference is I'm still running on 4GB RAM. As long as you turn off Ambient Occlusion it'll run beautifully. The ONLY time I ever lag out is where there's an obscene amount of people on screen. Mostly happens in camps where all the retards AFK throughout the entire beta test. (As to why...is beyond me.)

Did you run benchmark? Wondering what your score was on that... since you seem to run fine on actual beta thats encouraging (which is why I think beenchmark is underscoring... least I hope so, because I just spent a shitton of money on this comp, specifically for this game XD)
Benchmark scores were misleading. I got about 1800-1900 on Low because I obviously cant run it on High because of the monitor, lol. I run it fullscreen at native resolution with x4 sampling and shadows on High. Its not the absolute best in the world but it still looks/plays absolutely fantastic.

:EDIT:
Christ, you guys are desperate for pics, huh? >_>;

Thats exactttttly what I was hoping to hear <3 xD


<.< pics are gooooooooooood! imagine NOT being able to look at it and having to wait two and a half more months! T___T
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By Fenrir.Jumeya 2010-07-25 20:30:20
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There are problems with the Radeon cards and are strongly not recommended at this time all over the Beta Tester Site.

There are driver issues, so your laptop might basically be running without the support of your vid card.

Hope there's a fix for it before release since a lot of people use ATI cards.
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By Asura.Kowen 2010-07-25 20:30:44
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Lakshmi.Sidi said:
Thats exactttttly what I was hoping to hear <3 xD


<.< pics are gooooooooooood! imagine NOT being able to look at it and having to wait two and a half more months! T___T

Frankly, you're not really missing much. :( When the servers manage to stay up (which isn't often), they're super laggy and error prone.


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By Phoenix.Oumura 2010-07-25 20:33:53
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Fenrir.Jumeya said:
There are problems with the Radeon cards and are strongly not recommended at this time all over the Beta Tester Site.

There are driver issues, so your laptop might basically be running without the support of your vid card.

Hope there's a fix for it before release since a lot of people use ATI cards.
I use ATI and I haven't had any problems since about a week ago. As for the drivers, just check frequently to make sure they're up to date.
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By Zekko 2010-07-25 20:37:21
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Lakshmi.Sidi said:
because I just bought a brand new laptop

There's your problem. Laptops SUCK for playing games. Should bought a Desktop
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By Fenrir.Estidecon 2010-07-25 20:37:33
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Phoenix.Oumura said:
Fenrir.Jumeya said:
There are problems with the Radeon cards and are strongly not recommended at this time all over the Beta Tester Site.

There are driver issues, so your laptop might basically be running without the support of your vid card.

Hope there's a fix for it before release since a lot of people use ATI cards.
I use ATI and I haven't had any problems since about a week ago. As for the drivers, just check frequently to make sure they're up to date.

They still had problems with the 5700 series last I checked, but ya, they do say they're working on it and had plenty of people report issues being fixed with many models
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By Phoenix.Oumura 2010-07-25 20:58:58
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The only small problem is that I still get the occasional screen tearing when moving the camera around. It used to be horrific before but I've noticed a huge decline in it recently. In some cases I don't even notice it unless I actually look for it.
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By Lakshmi.Sidi 2010-07-25 21:21:25
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Zekko said:
Lakshmi.Sidi said:
because I just bought a brand new laptop

There's your problem. Laptops SUCK for playing games. Should bought a Desktop

I know. Unfortunately, I need a laptop for school and ***-- besides, the type of player I am, I play moving around all over the place. Play in airport, take into kitchen while cook food, play between classes. I utilize its portability to the extremes.

Not going to spend a shitton of money to build a desktop that I'll use the 10% of the time I'm actually sitting at a desk, and then even more money for a new laptop to perform to the degree I need it for school (solidworks and autocad needed)


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By Lakshmi.Sidi 2010-07-25 21:26:07
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Fenrir.Estidecon said:
Phoenix.Oumura said:
Fenrir.Jumeya said:
There are problems with the Radeon cards and are strongly not recommended at this time all over the Beta Tester Site.

There are driver issues, so your laptop might basically be running without the support of your vid card.

Hope there's a fix for it before release since a lot of people use ATI cards.
I use ATI and I haven't had any problems since about a week ago. As for the drivers, just check frequently to make sure they're up to date.

They still had problems with the 5700 series last I checked, but ya, they do say they're working on it and had plenty of people report issues being fixed with many models

I couldn't even get my benchmark to run for a week, but after spending 4 days nonstop diagnosing and studiously trying to fix the problem I got it...

my comp wasn't updated to the proper directx and catalyst and drivers needed for the graphics card to work properly... and despite reinstaling them all 4x each, still was having issues (until I manually copied over some files from the syswow64 folder to the system32 folder, then reran catalyst) which FINALLY let me run the stupid benchmark... so I still forsee other issues... but a lot of the issues ppl may be experiencing could be related to what I was going through... I don't know... x_______x;;;;; but that was a pain and really hope its good and won't mess up again when game comes out... :X

(my nvidea on old comp worked perfectly fine w/o any errors... making me wary of this ati)
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-07-25 22:01:02
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Oumura if the screenshots were to happen to fall into the email address:

giantmarshmallow@gmail.com

then I'm sure a strapping young fellow would edit and post them for you.
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By Sylph.Belmonth 2010-07-25 22:18:12
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I'm puzzled, I ran the benchmark before and got a 5982 score and I ran it today for shits and giggles and got 1978? /puzzled
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By Siren.Enternius 2010-07-25 22:19:01
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Simply put, the beta benchmark is not to be taken literally. It's just to give you a relative general idea.
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By Asura.Kowen 2010-07-26 09:53:10
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Shiva.Flionheart said:
Oumura if the screenshots were to happen to fall into the email address:

giantmarshmallow@gmail.com

then I'm sure a strapping young fellow would edit and post them for you.

Flion, I sent you an email. I would've PM'd you here but the link's hidden. >.>
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-07-26 14:44:00
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Some tanking footage for you folks.

Low numbers. of people. I think a gladiator, Marauder, Thaumaturge and Conjurer.

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By Ifrit.Elmodfz 2010-07-26 15:18:15
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So many things! I really know very little about this game.

The elvaan males are very attractive lol, one reminded me of Johnny Depp somehow lol. The Mithra's still enjoy minimal clothing it would seem lol. And the tashes on the tarus are amusing.

That leech looks like a Tribble from the original star trek just with a face and ears, so cute lol.

Do you have to pick a first and 2nd name?

Those bazaar characters, I guess that saves on you having a mule? Whats the actual Auction house like if it has one? Or is it all shop based/characters selling wares?

What do mobs drop in this game? And whats the highest level people have got to so far?

How does it differ to FFXI in terms of equipping gear, holding items (max inventory?), casting spells etc?

Also can you explain more about the jobs and crafting etc? I really don't understand how all that works and it would be nice to know before this game comes out lol.

This taken from Play.com:

The Armoury System: Change classes by simply equipping a different weapon or tool. Spend an hour hunting bounties as a gladiator. Spend another baking in the kitchens as a culinarian. Develop your character however you wish: anyway, anytime, anywhere.

I just dont get it lol. How does that work??

Also if anyone is wanting to know whats in the collectors edition:

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/15693250/Final-Fantasy-XIV-Limited-Collector-Edition/Product.html
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By Ricco 2010-07-26 15:36:19
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Shiva.Flionheart said:
Lakshmi.Jaerik said:
Recently dumped a boatload of cash from our company buyout into a new computer. Scored a 6057 on the benchmark, but never tried it with my older one.

Is that a decent score? They don't seem to have provided any measuring stick, and I never read the previous e-peen comparison threads.

That's incredibly good in comparison to everyone else.

Also XIV just had a huge performance boost apparently.

Scores go something like this atm:

0-1000 = Unplayable
1000-1500 = Low - Medium quality
1500-2000 = Medium - high quality
2000-2500 = High quality
2500-3000 = Very high quality

Of course you could push it higher if you could handle a bit of lag, but those scores - quality numbers are assuming you want to play with no lag at all.


Highest I have scored on the benchmark is 780 pc is 3 years old. That being said I can play the beta just fine I think the benchmark is just a bunch of bs :P
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By Midgardsormr.Renala 2010-07-26 15:38:05
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Ifrit.Elmodfz said:
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Do you have to pick a first and 2nd name?

Those bazaar characters, I guess that saves on you having a mule? Whats the actual Auction house like if it has one? Or is it all shop based/characters selling wares?

What do mobs drop in this game? And whats the highest level people have got to so far?

How does it differ to FFXI in terms of equipping gear, holding items (max inventory?), casting spells etc?

Also can you explain more about the jobs and crafting etc? I really don't understand how all that works and it would be nice to know before this game comes out lol.


I'll awnser what I can/what I've gotten from here.

Yes, your character will be name1 name 2. (Bob friend? Idk, an example)

Bazaar characters will be like your own personal NPC. From what I caught one per character made, so more characters = more bazaars? -Unsure about that- There IS an AH, but its not active on beta.

...And thats... All I know. I'll find more out soon when I talk to a couple people.
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By Asura.Kowen 2010-07-31 17:20:49
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I unlocked the level 30 guildleves and most of them have new monsters types. Cassiopeia Hollow is a really pretty area too.



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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-07-31 17:22:24
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Ok, i've taken a few days off from lurking forums etc. I've got some screenshots I need to edit, and will upload tonight. They're not of the highest quality, but new is new :D
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By Asura.Kowen 2010-08-01 19:11:58
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Ran into this guy today...

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By Asura.Valentino 2010-08-02 19:06:41
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Is there a level cap on the beta so far?? What is the highest level yall have seen??
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-08-10 10:38:15
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Asura.Valentino said:
Is there a level cap on the beta so far?? What is the highest level yall have seen??

30 ^^
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By Ifrit.Darkanaseur 2010-08-10 10:43:12
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Ifrit.Elmodfz said:
The Mithra's still enjoy minimal clothing it would seem lol.

Had a lot of fun purchasing new under wear =^^=
Ricco said:


Highest I have scored on the benchmark is 780 pc is 3 years old. That being said I can play the beta just fine I think the benchmark is just a bunch of bs :P

It is, mine scored lower than that and I can run it albeit with some FPS jumps.
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2010-08-10 10:47:30
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Gears :D

You have 22 equipment slots now.
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