Originally Posted by
Thorianrage
I pretty much stopped playing rift for awhile now, I stayed subbed even when it went free to play, however the constant performance issues are a pain.
And I constantly tweaked the settings as much as I could, and I used the 20 man raids as the standard bar as its the most controlled situation you can get.
And my system at the time was a I5 3570 k clocked at 4.4 GHZ with 8 GB of 1600 mhz ram and a 7970 GHZ card, and the performance tanked to my liking, anything below 60 FPS to me is outright failure with my rig, and my current gpu is a Nvidia 780 now, it will still tank on that.
My system alone is far more powerful then most peoples out there and it still dropped below 60 FPS for most of the time, I really cant count open world performance, its too random to consider it, I need in combat FPS readings in order to get a measure of it.
Dont get me wrong, in wow in 25 man raids it still drops under 60 fps in combat, and we still give it a damn well critique, but its excuse it has is its a 10 + plus year old engine at its core.
Now FF14, in 24 man raids, crystal tower or sycrus tower, in combat, I never dropped below 60 FPS, and I have it capped at 60, and FF14 at max settings looks better then rift and has far flashier effects.
I like rift, would play it again, it needs to be fixed, content is meaningless to me if it cant run well.