FFXI Vana'diel Bench 3 Challenge!

[Sepuku]

Mainboard : Asus P5E
Chipsatz : Intel X38
Prozessor : Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3000 MHz
Physikalischer Speicher : 2048 MB (2 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM )
Grafikkarte : Nvidia Corp NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Festplatte : SAMSUNG (500 GB)
Festplatte : WDC (320 GB)
DVD-Rom Laufwerk : TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203P
DVD-Rom Laufwerk : TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203P
DVD-Rom Laufwerk : ELBY DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
Monitortyp : Samsung SyncMaster - 19 inchs
Netzwerkkarte : Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Ltd) Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Betriebssystem : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c (Oktober 2007)

High
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Low
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[buttson]

cpu: P4 3.2gigazerts
vid: nvidia 7600 GTS, AGP 8x
ram: 2 gigs, speed is whatever my mobo caps at, i ferget
mb: asus P4P800-E deluxe
os: Win XP pro SP2
gfx driver: forceware 169.21

high: 5012
low: 6964

higher than I expected! built this rig over 2 years ago with mostly top-end stuff and it has served me well. i had a 6800 ultra up until a month ago - it was starting to flake out so i had to replace it. being limited by APG meant no upgrades (just replacements), but at least it was cheap!

fwiw, i usually play FFXI in a 1028x764 window with no super-sampling, nothing special turned on. It's 30 fps in everything but towns, campaign/besieged, and random splurges of activity.

i'm thinking y'all might want to add your graphics driver info too.

man I can't wait to buy a new comp. i'm thinking alienware. so tired of piecing together boxes by hand and all the hassles that come with it.

Was it just me or did anyone else see glimpses of 60fps FFXI in the benchmark? Oh how a man can dream.

aye, I went above 30 fps several times in low-qual mode, and hit 50+ a few times as well. man would that be nice if they unlocked it.

[Izzy]

Was it just me or did anyone else see glimpses of 60fps FFXI in the benchmark? Oh how a man can dream.

aye, I went above 30 fps several times in low-qual mode, and hit 50+ a few times as well. man would that be nice if they unlocked it.

Did you see what happened when it went over 30fps? The characters and everything started moving in fast motion haha. I'm so disgusted with the port of the game.

[Lordwafik]

I didn't see them moving in fast motion, I saw them moving at the the same speed they should, just with extra frames in the animation :((((

[kayn]

AMD Athalon 64 x2 Dual Core 4600+ (2.4Ghz)
2Gb of Ram

Windows XP Professional

GeForce 8800GT 512 Mb

Low ~9000

High - 7319

[Izzy]

I didn't see them moving in fast motion, I saw them moving at the the same speed they should, just with extra frames in the animation (((

Really? Mine started running really fast like NIN AF1 to flee speed.

[spooky]

Where was this thread and the other one two weeks ago JUST before I ordered by new PC? :((

New PC has:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz Processor
Corsair 4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Gfx Card
Western Digital Caviar 500GB Hard Drive
XP Pro 64-bit.

Will post scores when it arrives on the 5th of July!

[Mojo]

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
eVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT
Crucial Ballistix 2 GB (2x 1 GB) 1066 DDR2 (PC2 8500)
Dell 1920x1200
Windows XP Home Edition

9806-H
11591-L

[Vodou]

Pentium 830 (dual, 3.0 ghz) ~~~seriously CPU limited
Ram 2 gig (533)
Nvidia 8800 GT 512MB
Windows XP
Asus P5ND2 Sli Deluxe

High = 5632

Looking at the other scores make me cry!!

[iobane]

I didn't see them moving in fast motion, I saw them moving at the the same speed they should, just with extra frames in the animation (((

Really? Mine started running really fast like NIN AF1 to flee speed.

I'm still looking for that ss I have of windower saying 45 or 54 fps in aery.

[TeancumMemsochet]

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+/1.83 GHz
Mem: 1.5 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6200/256 Mb
OS: XP SP2

Test 1: 2193
Test 2: 2087

[Reality]

8800 GTX @ 600/1500/2000 (GPU/Shader/Memory)
Rest of system is in sig~
9483-H

177.39 Forceware Drivers

(Should post drivers so people can compare them, as we've seen before... depending on which driver you're using it can make a large difference in this game)

[Valor]

I thought it would be interesting to post a non video carded system for comparison, lol.

Apple Macbook
CPU: Intel Core 2 2.16 ghz
Graphics Card: Onboard Intel 945
RAM: 2 GB DDR2
OS: Windows XP Professional SP3 via Bootcamp

Scores: 2829-H 4280-L

This is just a plain xp install via bootcamp and with no tweaking done to the OS or drivers.

[Izzy]

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+/1.83 GHz
Mem: 1.5 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6200/256 Mb
OS: XP SP2

Test 1: 2193
Test 2: 2087

Oh man I'm so sorry Q_Q

[ozulus]

CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz
GPU: Mobility Radeon X700
RAM: 2GB DDR2 533 MHz
MB: 915PM chipset (HP Pavillion dv4285EA)
OS: Windows Vista SP1
Catalyst 8.6

3762-H
5378-L

And just because I was curious i ran it on my old desktop PC. I had already played FFXI on it sometime ago, wasn't that bad, but funny thing is that it had similar results to TeancumMemsochet on Low-res.

CPU: Pentium III 1GHz
GPU: Geforce 4 Ti4200
RAM: 1GB PC133 SDRAM
MB: Asus CUV4X
OS: Windows XP SP3
Forceware 93.71

1597-H
2109-L

[Rhealana]

MSI P35 Platinum
Q9450 Quad Core, normal clock
XFX 8800GTS, normal clock
4GB RAM
XP SP2
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM SATA

H: 9008

I'll screw around with overclocking later.

EDIT:

8800GTS OC'd to 600mhz proc/900mhz mem+stock CPU yielded H:9098. Definitely not a video card bottleneck.

Q9450 OC'd to 3.0ghz+stock GPU yielded H:9228. Watching CPU load on my G15 keyboard, it was pegged at 90-100% quite a bit. I'm guessing you dual core folks with the 3.6-4.0ghz OCs are seeing the best performance.

Q9450 OC'd to 3.2ghz (400mhz fsb) + 600/900 8800GTS = 9628H

Oh, all tests are on NVidia's 175.63 drivers

[Naash]

2. The benchmark stops and exits right when it finishes, giving you no time to really write down your benchmark total. I want you to take the total from when the screen fades to black at the very end. The final scene it benchmarks is a bunch of Taru doing /confused while airships fly overhead and confetti drops.

You don't need to wait before it fades to black.
If you put the benchmark demo in Loop mode, the final number will stay on screen as the next demo starts.

(got this knowledge from trying too many times to run FFXI on shitty laptops... )

[Mabubeezareel]

CPU: Intel P4 2.8ghz
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS (AGP)
RAM: 1gb Kingston DDR400 (PC3200)
Mobo: ASUS P4P800
OS: XP Pro SP2

Score: 3332-H

It's a pretty old rig (most components are 4+ years old now), and while I thought my score would be higher, it does run the game rather decently. I run it with most settings high (2048x2048 background, smooth environmental animation, uncompressed textures, mip mapping = 6), but do need to turn shadows off full time and weather effects during heavy rain/dust/wind storms. I get 29fps in almost all areas until about 5-10 PCs are on-screen, then I drop down to the low 20s. Dynamis and Whitegate AH bring down into the teens/high single digits though.

On a side note, WoTG zones rape my FPs by about 10 for no apparent reason. Battalia-S and Sauromuge-S seem to be the main culprits. Even with myself as the only PC onscreen, nowhere near any Campaign battles, no NPCs, and no special weather affects, I dip down to like 19-20 FPS. Doesn't make any sense to me.

[Snowknight26]

Wait, what? I didn't know it was up for debate whether FFXI is more CPU than GPU intensive.

And seriously, if you're going to test for either of those, don't use the highest settings because then you won't know what the bottleneck is.

[Izzy]

Wait, what? I didn't know it was up for debate whether FFXI is more CPU than GPU intensive.

And seriously, if you're going to test for either of those, don't use the highest settings because then you won't know what the bottleneck is.

Thanks for your useful post. Everyone knows FFXI is more CPU dependent.