Logged in with my info on his laptop,took a screen cap below and cropped it.Now I'm well aware of spec of the game and his machine,but he wants to see other people's opinions written down lol
He has a laptop with an i7-3630QM,8gb 1600mhz memory,2gb GeForce GT 650m,1440x900 res screen.
Using the FFXIV recommended settings from Lodestone as
Windowed mode
1280x720
2x MSAA
Standard Drawing Quality 8
Background Drawing Quality 3
Shadow Detail Lowest
AO : Off
Depth of Field : On
Tezture Quality and filtering both Standard
Now I know FFXIV generally doesnt play well anyways (some random lag,etc) but we had to cap his game at 30fps because it was getting around 40-45 and would nose dive when the fail accessing kicked in
Edit: we tried AA off completely and it was a more stable 45-50 fps,but he wont play it without AA of some sort,even at the sake of preformance (once 2.0 comes out even)