i've been using a processor for the past 10 years that is now the minimum requirements for FFXIV. as of the graphics update in Dawntrail, I'm getting 30 FPS in cities and basically never hitting the 144 mark for my display anymore. would love to see this guide updated.

While things are slow for our small team here, we do definitely intend to bring a round of updates to this guide in the not-too-distant future!

The preliminary requirements for the next expansion have been announced yesterday. It seems this article will need to be updated when it releases in summer next year.

When the update rolls out and folks can do real-world benchmarking with their hardware in it, we'll use that data to update this guide.

Runs pretty well, build is close to superb tier, 9600k, 3060, 32 gb ddr4 3000, 1440p.

Please update this guide for Endwalker, the benchmark tool is going to be released tomorrow.

While it would certainly be good to update the info in this guide to reflect the new release, according to this site, the minimum and recommended requirements won't be changing (which makes some sense, as the expansion is coming to steady hardware platforms like PS4 and PS5 as well)---so our charts and other resources in this article would not be changing either.

The problem is the guide isn’t even updated to Shadowbringers

That's correct. I was just highlighting that the official specs haven't changed from what is listed in the guide, and offering a theory as to why that is still the case.

i have a rtx2080 ti and a AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 8-core 3.7ghz (y ik not the best for now xd)
Ram 32 gb and i can play it 90-100 fps in 4k :o

That's not too surprising! As stated at the top of this page, the chart in this article was last updated in mid-August 2018. The tiers of our main chart (which is kept consistently up-to-date) should definitely be able to provide somewhat better performance than what is currently listed here.

Can I run ff14 on the fair recommended build?

Yes, you can. It might not get to 60 FPS at 1080p with max settings, but should be able to provide a smooth experience with the settings turned down.

Hey, you might want to update this for Shadowbringers now that the benchmark is out because I can't rely on your Stormblood recommendations as much as I want to.

Yes, we will likely do an update that is relevant to the current version of the game in the future. But as we're trying to square away a larger site redesign before doing extensive content updates, I can't give you any kind of definite estimate on when that might be available. In the meantime, a combination of the info in the article above and our (always up-to-date) general gaming PC build chart should still provide a reasonably reliable way to assemble a PC for FF XIV.

"Final Fantasy XIV is built on Square Enix's Crystal Tools engine, the
same engine used for Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Quest X."

You guys might want to look into this. The Crystal Tools was used in FFXIV ver 1.0 but I'm certain they're using a different engine for 2.0 and up.

Sort of, yes. The production for ARR used effectively a hybrid of a then scaled down version of Luminous Studio and existing Crystal Tools engine, which was their first WIP for the Luminous Engine proper. They couldn't use the engine in full mainly as it was still in development at the time and also partly because of the different requirements for XIV vs XV (namely, the multiplayer aspect). First official use of what became Luminous Engine was for Final Fantasy XV.

As to why I called it Crystal Tools at the top of the article, Square Enix themselves haven't adjusted the title of game engine from Crystal Tools in press media packs, that's part of why I inclined to stick with that in the article itself. Honestly though, with some of the improvements they made in Stormblood I'm more inclined to believe that they're trying to bring their engine closer to the main branch of Luminous.

Hope that explains things a bit more!

Thanks for pointing that out!