Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

If you turn off most animations and graphics features, almost anything i3/16gb ram/4gb vram or better will be fine.

If everything in game is maxed and 1080p, I’d go with twice or triple that power wise.

11 is very old and finicky so there are no guarantees sadly.

FFXI is CPU Heavy and more specifically Single-Core CPU Heavy.
At the risk of Foot-In-Mouth, programs like dgvoodoo allow older DirectX games to utilize your GPU More for rendering instead of placing it all on the GPU if I’m understanding correctly. But even so, you will always lag in high traffic areas no matter what you do unless you have either a very old CPU or one that has a system of very powerful singular cores.

I believe Crysis 3 was famous for having the same problem? So if your rig can run that game without issue, it should blow through FFXI literally everywhere but will likely crawl on anything more modern. There’s actually a vid on YouTube where a person threw an absolute monster PC at it and couldn’t get above 10 FPS on the thing. It’s pretty sad really.

My Rig’s pretty capable but my FPS still drops into the upper 20s around the Ambu NPC and damn-near halts on Mireu forcing me to turn off most all things like Josia just said.

It’d be wonderful if SE could fix it so the game utilizes multiple cores so we can move past this damn quirk but I’m not sure how doable that is? Simple fix? Or full-blown rework of the game.

Edit:
Not too long ago, I asked what exactly it would take to experience a 0-FPS Loss in FFXI and basically it just can’t be done without something of a retro-build.

I bought a good desktop for that time and so far, it never let me down. (Late 2017)

During same time i switched twice my laptop though, and was never satisfied (also spent like 4 to 5 times more in those laptops compared to this desktop).

Intel i5 7400 7th gen, GTX 1050Ti, 1TB, 8Gb DDR4 hyperx, 500W 80 Plus

Not bad,

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 3.6 GHz
RTX 2070 Super
32GB Ram Corsair Vangeance DDR4
AX-370 MB
1TB SSD
4TB HDD
850W PSU and lots of RGB Glowy goodness :P

Can run Shadows of the Tomb Raider on 4K all Ultra at 36-60
FPS (it doesn’t like the main town) but can’t handle super crowded areas in this game a shame really :(

I am looking for a quick 101 guide in learning how LUA works (LUA for dummies).
TIA

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/54410/a-gearswap-academia/1/

XI will never be changed to utilize multiple cores effectively, the amount of work is colossal. There's nothing special about 'old cpus' that let it maintain framerate either, the same spikes in load would cause fps drops on any cpu.

Any ryzen build with a GTX 1050 or better should have no problem playing 6 characters, provided 5 are lower settings. If you want all of them to be 1080p or higher, you're going to need a high end GPU and dgvoodoo.

Anyone else haveing issues with abyssea today. Had a small update when i logged in one of my other characters and the names for atmas have changed

For example the atma of apocalypse is now called "Fire and flames" for me for some reason

When i expended a stone i got this message


And when i killed the Frog Heqet this happened

Pretty sure that's not his KI and i checked before i entered I already had that KI which is why i knew i only needed Heqet's. I checked my KI's afterwards and it shows it as it's normal name "Doffed Poroggo Hat"

Edit: when i tried to pop Cirien-Croin i got this

Well there will be another server maintenance tomorrow, and this pic shows clearly why, and clearly how their spaghetti code works.

They messed KI reward from return to delkfutt, tried to fix it and broke abyssea rewards...

Thanks :)

I haven't verified this but someone told me Thud= possible pulse weapon. Could anyone confirm this?

There is always the terminal chest that can drop even Omen body on the runs when people just rush to it.

Its not that trivial determining what chest dropped what.

This is amazing...

Looks like they hardcoded stuff that changes and they need to manually update things that are hardcoded..

Wtf

Omg spaghetti code all over again.
All of this to "fix" the Orchestrion KI thing in Kam'lanaut's BC? lmao

Thud means, “very high chance of one piece of gear/weapon“
And loud thud means “very high chance of multiple weapons/gear pieces.“

Had plenty of bad luck runs with thud and no gear, or loud thud and only one piece of gear and a lot of items etc. But it’s rare.

None of them mean pulse weapons or omen bodies, those are just rare chances to load in the second you get a thud or loud thud

So you can technically stop as soon as you get a thud if the goal is purely omen bodies.

Is there still an addon/plugin that helps with cells in Salvage? Used to have one that will drop them after using them

Is this stated somewhere? because in my experience I've gotten a shitty 119 piece from each "Thud" and only ever see decent things from "Loud Thuds". More in line with what Pantafernando is saying. I think the "chance" of loot is really just the gold chest being a "Loud Thud" in the situations you're seeing good drops from a normal "Thud".

Imo "Loud Thud" or kathwak.

I don't agree with that either. As far as I'm concerned if an omen body came from a thud it was really that the chest itself was the loud thud proc

Yea thats exactly what I said.

I just go for loud thuds or 2x normal thuds.

Aye, I meant I didn't agree with the other guy either

why the hell would you 6 box?

Because a party can be formed with 6 max.

If it allowed 8, he would octabox instead

Sup

When Mireu pops, do the unity shell call it "Mireu" or just ???.

Im thinking in building an addon to alert when he pops by reading chat log. My server just gave up beating him. It never go over 200 kills for like 1 or 2 months already.

Its clear trusts just arent being enough. Gonna have to make a proper party with mules to actually fight it

Anyway to get the init file to load a specific LUA on only 1 character and not the rest.

Want AutoCOR to be loaded only on my Corsair mule and not the rest of them.

Autoexec plugin

<register event="login_yourcharname">lua etc</register>

Come to a better server then.

I think we are on a 17k kill streak atm.

Is it correct that you can only equip one ambuscade cape from each slot of inventory, wardrobe 1 and wardrobe 2? and there is no other way to equip more than that due to same name issue?

I have 4 capes and I'm pretty sure they did it this way to sell wardrobe 3-4.

Gearswap.

Have it say what the cape is, like:

gear.Camulus.MeleeTP = {name="Camulus's Mantle", augments = "'Accuracy +20, Attack +20', 'STR+20', 'Accuracy+10', 'Damage Taken -5%', 'Store TP+10'}
gear.Camulus.ShootingTP = {name="Camulus's Mantle", augments = "'R.Acc +20, R.Att+20', 'AGI+20', 'R.Acc +10', 'Damage Taken -5%', 'Store TP+10%'}

(Disclaimer, I do not have my .lua loaded up to verify the augments are named accurate)

Then, for your gear swaps, instead of naming it back="Camulus's Mantle", name it back=gear.Camulus.MeleeTP or whatever the cape you want to equip it with.

if you do //gearswap export while having the cape equipped, and look for your export folder, it tells you exactly how the augments are for gearswap.

I have all of my WAR capes, COR capes, BLU capes in their respective Wardrobes (aka all my WAR capes are in Wardrobe 2).

same here, it differentiates in vanilla as well