Final Fantasy XIV news

[dataDave]

Argh! Noooooooo!!! I want it!!!!111

[Largo]

i got in the beta, but the download is just bs, XI had terrible patch delivery too, and this looks no better, of course it could be because everyone and their dog is hammering the servers tyring to download.

I get about 0kbs to 5, and thats for about 2 seconds before it drops to 0 again, also how do i shut off the gdanm music

At this point in time i really cant be bothered to download

[Number45]

Apparently if you quit and start again each time it gets bad it kick starts the download speeds. Also, you can't kill the music through the client, but if you have W7 you can mute applications from the built in mixer.

[Largo]

Ahh yeah i forgot W7 can do that, thanks

[Number45]

http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/demos/FFXIVBenchmark.zip

Benchmark tool. Going to run it when I get home tonight.

I might give the alpha another go tonight as well. Going to try and get a SIXAXIS working on W7 64-bit.

[mikewl]

i got in the beta, but the download is just bs, XI had terrible patch delivery too, and this looks no better, of course it could be because everyone and their dog is hammering the servers tyring to download.

I get about 0kbs to 5, and thats for about 2 seconds before it drops to 0 again, also how do i shut off the gdanm music

At this point in time i really cant be bothered to download

When you download it do you get any remote connections, these are what gives you a faster download, if your getting zero connections then its likely you need to open some ports on your router, I had to do this and it made a big difference, 5kb to a steady 30-50kb/s, also a couple hours after the beta had ended for the day I found the d/l speed improved to about 300kb/s, must have been after everyone had logged off.

[mikewl]

Looking forward to trying some more tonight, its annoying I can't really talk about any specifics yet.

[mikewl]

http://download.nvidia.com/downloads...VBenchmark.zip

Benchmark tool. Going to run it when I get home tonight.

I might give the alpha another go tonight as well. Going to try and get a SIXAXIS working on W7 64-bit.

Cheers for that, just ran the benchmark and scored 2830 with Load Time 17080 ms.

Interestingly the benchmark ran a fair bit smoother to when playing the Alpha.

[Rep]

Scores (whatever they mean) for both resolution settings, both are a lot choppier then I would have expected.

[mikewl]

I retried mine through my tv on 1080p and it hit the frame rate pretty hard, the score was about 1800.

[Number45]

1080p


720p


I'd normally run at 1680*1050 in fullscreen, so somewhere between the two.

[abigsmurf]

crashes before it starts on my system

*edit*

working now

4162 @ 720p

[mikewl]

This video shows the updated battle system which will be implemented for Beta test which will likely start mid July.



It looks like quite a nice improvement, if you've played the Alpha you will notice how much faster paced this video looks, i'm looking forward to trying this.

[mikewl]

Here's the new trailer



Tripple screen 3D setup, hmm tempting.

[Number45]

No joy getting the SIXAXIS setup in Windows and I'm not sure I can be bothered trying to play the game with the mouse/keyboard controls in their current state.