The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

**Gra** · 2010-06-16 04:23

I tried this on my laptop last night. It's an understatement to say I was massively disappointed with a laughable score of 256....that's right....two hundred and fifty six, I didn't miss a digit.

I didn't think it was that low a spec laptop but according to the benchmark score it clearly is. Damn laptop is only just under a year old too...

I'll post a screenshot of the spec later but it's fair to say that if this is a true reflection of my laptops gaming power I'll be building a gaming PC specifically for FFXIV and rigging it up to the spare HDTV upstairs.

**Kryssan** · 2010-06-16 04:51

Further testing:

Spoiler: show

Settings used in above tests:
AA enabled (not app controlled), with Temporal AA, 8x Edge Detect (24 samples)
AAA enabled, Quality, Supersampling
AAmode Quality, Supersample AA
AF enabled (not app controlled), High Quality AF enabled, 16x per pixel samples
Catalyst AI enabled, Advanced mode
Mipmap Hiqh Quality
Geometry Instancing Enabled
Triple Buffering Enabled

Spoiler: show

The exact same settings were used in these tests, with one exception - Catalyst AI is completely disabled.

During the tests with AI enabled, though the scores are similar, the performance was not. Performance was especially hampered during the battle scenes where multiple critters came up on deck, and even more so during the Mithra's shield event with the graph dipping down to nil at several points that lasted for several seconds, with visible stutter on screen.

With AI disabled, playback is smooth to my eyes, with a few instances of graph dipping but instantaneously returning to the normal values.

Edit: Oh yeah, all tests displayed during this post were run on a single GPU card only.

**Skidz** · 2010-06-16 04:54

I feel ya Gra. The best spec'd computer in my household is my year-old Vaio SR, and I scored a 752... ON LOW! I feel gimp as hell when I see other's scores as high as 4000 - 5000 on High....

I think its safe to say I need to get a desktop just for this game

**Wintermute** · 2010-06-16 04:55

Originally Posted by meonline

Thats the old FFXI one isn't it?

Not sure how accurate that is. My computer plays the alpha just fine but according to your list there my score should mean the game wont even run.

I just hope it's more accurate than the XI benchmark. That one told me I shouldn't bother installing the game on my laptop but I could run it just fine.

**Icarian** · 2010-06-16 05:17

I'm getting 1400's in high, thought it would be in the 2500's

Running it on

Q9450 2.66Ghz
4GB DDR3 1333Mhz
HD 4870 X2

Shouldn't it be higher than that? :<

**luciferu** · 2010-06-16 05:19

720p (low)

AMD Athlon II x4 620
ATI HD 4870 1gb pci
4gb RAM

Score: 3187

(2100~ in high 1080p)

**Biiru** · 2010-06-16 05:43

So, there's no way to change the resolution so it fits my monitor on high? I see in the Configuration file there is a resolution setting that is set to 0 but I don't know what to change it to or if I should even change it at all. Guess I could try running it on my HDTV, but I'll have to try later... need sleep!

**Aangeliceus** · 2010-06-16 05:45

My results, after updating to the latest NVIDIA drivers from 6/15/10.

High Def:
http://images.ascension-ffxiv.com/HDFFXIV.png

Low Def:
http://images.ascension-ffxiv.com/SDFFXIV.png

Didn't change any other settings, just driver update yesterday. Otherwise, stock system.

Edit: System has 4GB of RAM.

**blythe** · 2010-06-16 06:00

I was pretty happy with being solidly low-middle of the pack based on the OP's chart, but the official benchmark table concerns me. Guess we won't really be able to tell until beta with the new effects, lighting, etc.

High
http://i45.tinypic.com/2hpiu5g.jpg
Low
http://i50.tinypic.com/1xz1ig.jpg

**Cray** · 2010-06-16 06:22

Kryssan, where did you get that shit on your desktop? Date, cpu load, etc.

I wants.

**Xanthe** · 2010-06-16 06:58

Low

Spoiler: show

High

Spoiler: show

Windows 7 Professional x64
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 @2.83GHz
4GB DDR2 PC2-8500
Sapphire RADEON HD4890 1GB GDDR5

Judging by other peoples' scores and builds the best thing I can do to up performance short of a new processor (and thus motherboard) is more RAM and maybe a 5800 series. Have to say though, watching the benchmark at 1080p on my 52" HDTV was beautiful.

**Jinko** · 2010-06-16 07:05

The leader board is kind of pointless other than a pissing contest now, it would have been nice to leave all the people on the list so people could have a quick reference where about their system may land.

**tri** · 2010-06-16 07:15

Originally Posted by Jollipop

The leader board is kind of pointless other than a pissing contest now, it would have been nice to leave all the people on the list so people could have a quick reference where about their system may land.

Agreed. I wanted to post mine since i didn't see much 470 on the board.

**Skidz** · 2010-06-16 07:41

Holy shit, yeah Kryssan what are you using on your desktop to show that info? I just had a "Mindfuck: When you see it you'll shit bricks" moment while looking at your screenshot.

**shidobu** · 2010-06-16 07:47

Originally Posted by Jollipop

The leader board is kind of pointless other than a pissing contest now, it would have been nice to leave all the people on the list so people could have a quick reference where about their system may land.

I can see your point. Theres a lot of people that actually want these results. What hardware can be pushed to what limits. Im just having fun, iv had no reason to go push my hardwares limit till now. Just to see what she can do. Shes not even a crossfire setup and shes pumping out decent numbers. I really want to see how 2x/3x cards handle this game and would it be worth it to go ahead and get another 5870. I feel its gonna be useless tho because isnt this game gonna cap out @ 30fps like XI?

@ skidz its called Rainmeter or something?

**Skidz** · 2010-06-16 08:04

thanks shidobu, found the website. why the heck have i never heard of this before :/

**shidobu** · 2010-06-16 08:17

Originally Posted by Skidz

thanks shidobu, found the website. why the heck have i never heard of this before :/

lol i played with it. Could never get it to look as pretty as it does for some people. So gave up. Plus my background changes every 3 minutes so. Shit would look out of place & messy.

**Strifey** · 2010-06-16 08:18

High

Spoiler: show

Low

Spoiler: show

8GB RAM
ATI 5870

No overclocking or anything like that.

**SheriffNotic** · 2010-06-16 09:12

Long time lurker, first time poster...

LOW settings

hxxp://i865.photobucket.com/albums/ab217/SheriffNotic/FFXIVBenchmarkResultsLOW.jpg

I'm very confused by my results! People with a core2 duo and gforce 9800 are posting more then 4x my results!

High setting is more like 200. I don't have ANY performance problems running Aion on Med-High settings or FFXI on max. It seems FFXIV is only using 1 core, and it isn't even pushing that to 100%. Is there some sort of application throttling somewhere in windows I'm not familiar with?

It IS pushing GPU to 99%, but isn't the LOW setting the more CPU intensive one?

System
Core 2 Quad
4 GB Ram
gForce G210
Vista-64bit

Any ideas would be great, because I'm stumped.

**Jinko** · 2010-06-16 09:13

Am I right in thinking the Alpha supports dual GPU's cards and sli/crossfire sets ups.

I find it strange that a benchmark wouldn't support this, with any luck they will release a Benchmark 2.0 closer to the launch date.

Oddly my CPU is working harder on the 720p settings 40% than it does on the 1080p 25%. :S

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