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    A Quick Players Guide to FFXIV at 1up.com 

    by
    Kimiko
    Published on 09-30-2010 02:17 AM
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    With the release of Final Fantasy XIV's regular addition coming tomorrow, the good folks over at 1up.com have released a quick primer for new players getting into the game. It's a quick, concise guide covering the basics on nations/classes, Guildleves, leveling, and much more. I would certainly encourage everyone who's about to take the plunge into the world to check it out!

    Final Fantasy XIV: New Player's Guide at 1up.com ...

    FFXIV Signature Generator 

    by
    Calaelen
    Published on 09-27-2010 05:52 PM

    There is a new signature generator out there with some nice features to display your progress in Final Fantasy 14. The image is updated every 24h with the datas from your official FFXIV Playersite Datapage. (you can see my profile here).



    No registration is required. Just type in your full character name and your server name and choose one of the designs. You get three codes to include your signature at different places like forums, emails, etc.
    • BB-Code (Forum)
    • HTML-Link
    • Direct Link to the image


    What do you think about it?

    Problems with Downloading? 

    by
    Maiev
    Published on 09-02-2010 01:16 PM
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    Reading twitter, I found that quite a few people are having problems with even getting started, so here's a few tips that I've found :O!

    Problems with Obtaining a Code

    Well, its server congestion, but at least you are loading a page that matters to you!

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    Beta Client Performance 

    by
    alecrast
    Published on 08-26-2010 10:40 PM
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    I finally managed to sit down and get a little time to benchmark the actual client rather than relying on the official FFXIV benchmark for performance numbers. The numbers for the beta client were obtained by running the same 12 minute course, starting at the Adventurer's Guild in Limsa Lominsa, running down through and past Bearded Rock, and then doubling back. As I obviously can't trace my steps exactly and cannot control other variables such as the number of players along the path at any given time, there's a small margin of error involved. CPU usage was tracked at the logical processor level via the native performance monitor built into Windows 7. GPU usage and framerate were obtained via MSI Afterburner. For all tests, the Sapphire 5870 was set to 850MHz core and 1200MHz memory to approximate a reference 5870 as closely as possible.

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