Freyar

I've been doing a fair amount of location shots.

The devs are pretty concerned about data-mining on the PC version, so.. like Phase 4, they are trying to hold off on distributing it as best as possible.

Despite the strange limitation for NA users, it looks like the system doesn't stop you from at least attempting to register your pre-order code. (I didn't actually use my code as I didn't want to get it stuck or anything.)

I absolutely love my Core I7-3770k. Just moving to a modern architecture from the older Q9550 CPU was amazing in it's own right. Clock-speed difference was only 200Mhz per core, but all in all, architecture is what it's at right now.

I intend to at least dabble in PvP where and when it's available.

Perhaps it isn't only his choice? (I'm not familiar with his position in his FC or anything, just stating that perhaps publicly not everything is known.) If it was just one or two, I'd not be as concerned about capacity.

That's a decent card. I run a 670 myself. Can't say I like TigerDirect, but everyone has their own stories with them (both good and bad.) 3GB of RAM is a good thing. While most games won't push over 2GB, you'll be set in the future (especially if texture replacements start showing up.)

I've been using either FRAPS, or (with the full client) Steam.

Servers can lock, and I'm betting that they will when 4chan, NeoGAF, Reddit, RPC, and a few other groups all try to join the same one.

Just a question btw, Why is your FC on Gilgamesh if you are so opposed to being on Gilgamesh? He's concerned about how populated the server will be. Major communities all seem to be electing the SAME server.

Thanks for the MSI, I think that answered my question. My CPU was running at 50% and my GPU was slamming 98%+ the entire time the benchmark was running. I suppose that is an easy view of where my bottleneck is. I may wait till I can afford a gen4 intell chip (which would include a MoBo upgrade being needed) for the processor.) Right now I am scoring 4k on the benchmark(with everything running in the background at that.(at max settings) One thing to note is that while everyone who is into benchmarking is running at "maximum" pre-sets, that doesn't mean we'll all be playing at maximum presets. For example, I'll turn on Occlusion Culling and disable FXAA (FXAA mainly for taste, I hate it's blur behavior), as well as turning on LOD (because it's far enough to not be an issue) to also boost performance a little.

Wow... yikes. I figured Gilgamesh was going to have queues during the first free month and possibly onward, but if SE does a population lock, that's going to suck for a lot of people who were planning to play on Gilgamesh after Open Beta/Early Access. They locked character creation on Legacy servers and whatnot early on, so it isn't impossible for them to do so, especially with three (or four, if you include a FFXI players group joining Gilgamesh) major groups joining one server.

660's are the "good deal" at the moment on nVidia's side.

Things like that will always happen, even the other legacy RP server still has some negative impacts from people. But when you turn around and KNOW that two groups that have a fairly anti-rp stance are heading towards the non-legacy server chosen for RP, well.. it'll be much worse.

Both Reddit AND 4chan chose Gilgamesh? Not only will that server lock instant, it'll be hell for RPers there.