The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

**TStupified** · 2010-09-09 13:23

Meh, celebrated too soon with the GTX460. Max AA raises my FPS for most situations, but holy shit when it's raining I have like 30-40 FPS in La Noscea even when no one is around. Also GPU usage shoots up to 99%. ._.

**shaddix** · 2010-09-09 14:02

Originally Posted by Ferr

what about the new beta drivers, did you try them?

didn't try, I'm on 258.96

**TStupified** · 2010-09-09 15:41

By the way how normal is it for the game to constantly have my GPU in 99% usage? And if it's not how it should be (because it is), is it indicating that there's some component bottlenecking my system or something? Currently grinding in La Noscea and I've been at 99% usage for the whole time I've been logged to the game. Temps have been under 65 celsius, currently running at steady 61c.

**shaddix** · 2010-09-09 15:55

It's just FF14. I'm hoping they fix it within the first 6 months ._.;
Here is Celeras' post on nvidia forums about it: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=177353

**TStupified** · 2010-09-09 16:02

Originally Posted by shaddix

It's just FF14. I'm hoping they fix it within the first 6 months ._.;
Here is Celeras' post on nvidia forums about it: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=177353

Wow holy shit, hadn't seen that before. So it really is a heavy game at the moment, a freaking heavy one indeed. Perhaps I should be just thankful that my card actually runs this shit with relatively high settings.

Talking about poor optimization huh..

Now to actually wonder what'll happen to our GPU temps at situations where like 40 peeps are meleeing/casting and doing all various stuff around a massive NM.

**shaddix** · 2010-09-09 16:14

My solution is to just run 1440x1050(I use 4:3 CRT :D). That way I am cpu bottlenecked and gpu doesn't ever get higher than 60% utilization. Used to I would have to run with no AA at all, but seems now I can run 16x with barely any increase in gpu usage. Whenever I switch to 1920x1080 and play on the TV I underclock my 460 from 890 to 700ish.

**Kylewhataru** · 2010-09-09 16:56

Originally Posted by Gentaro

That happens if you buy a card with 2 GPUs :3 Better 1 5870 now and another when its necessary.

Only "better" because of lazy ass developers like SE, there's no reason these moron devs can't develop around multi GPU solutions.

**ufo** · 2010-09-09 17:31

I think the 99% gpu usage thing has to do with trees and shrubbery, especially with AA. It tries to smooth the edges of every individual branch of trees and bushes

**Pikarya** · 2010-09-09 17:48

Originally Posted by Kylewhataru

Only "better" because of lazy ass developers like SE, there's no reason these moron devs can't develop around multi GPU solutions.

SE doesn't have "Developers" anymore. They hire Chinese freelancers to pick up the tab.

**alfiio** · 2010-09-09 19:01

Originally Posted by TStupified

Wow holy shit, hadn't seen that before. So it really is a heavy game at the moment, a freaking heavy one indeed. Perhaps I should be just thankful that my card actually runs this shit with relatively high settings.

Talking about poor optimization huh..

Now to actually wonder what'll happen to our GPU temps at situations where like 40 peeps are meleeing/casting and doing all various stuff around a massive NM.

(The following is via my experience with a GTX460)

They get better. It has something to do with something going on in light-load situations. In heavy load situations GPU usage actually lowers to normal levels and temperature falls. In town and at outposts and other player-busy areas, my GPU usage lowers and thus temp lowers. Naturally, framerate too.

It only seems to get crazy hot and hit 99% when you're framecapped in a light-load situation. So even though there is a cap in place, something is still running unchecked.

I think.

Also, going from no AA to max AA seemed to help temps a bit too (in addition to a slightly better framerate, laugh.), because it seems to give the card something else to do other than do whatever it is that drives it straight to 99% usage.

Honestly this whole thing is so bizarro world I don't even know what to think any more.

**Celeras** · 2010-09-09 19:23

Originally Posted by shaddix

It's just FF14. I'm hoping they fix it within the first 6 months ._.;
Here is Celeras' post on nvidia forums about it: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=177353

Just keep in mind that even though I posted it there, it's most likely out of nVidias hands and square on the back of.. square.

**Siya** · 2010-09-09 20:31

New system everything running stock, kinda pleased with the results. I had a file transfer running in the background, so it could of been slightly higher maybe

i7 930
5870
6GB of ram
High score: 4587

Spoiler: show

**Meyor** · 2010-09-10 00:13

Do you guys think that it would make any difference at all running the game from a ssd? I have about 40gb on one that I could use for ffxiv at release, but I have doubts about it making the game run any better. I am pretty happy with my game experience right now so I am not too worried about it but I have the space, may as well use it. So, 40gb be enough after a few years of updates and expansions? And would there be any benefit running from ssd drive? Drive is a Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60gb if it matters, just have win7, office, and several little programs running on it now.

**Amele** · 2010-09-10 01:27

Originally Posted by Katlan

Ya but changing it to Crysis settings gives better performance. It was tested both ways

I had to use the crysis profile to get past my artificial 40% load ceiling. I'm still not seeing 90%+ but it might be time to actually open the throttle up a little if adding AA is actually boosting performance...

**shaddix** · 2010-09-10 07:39

Originally Posted by Meyor

Do you guys think that it would make any difference at all running the game from a ssd? I have about 40gb on one that I could use for ffxiv at release, but I have doubts about it making the game run any better. I am pretty happy with my game experience right now so I am not too worried about it but I have the space, may as well use it. So, 40gb be enough after a few years of updates and expansions? And would there be any benefit running from ssd drive? Drive is a Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60gb if it matters, just have win7, office, and several little programs running on it now.

It helps with load times in 14. If you have an nvidia card with that stuttering issue in towns and near crystals it will remedy that as well.
I don't think it's necessary though, I used a mechanical drive and then switched to an SSD and 14 is not one of the things that I shit a brick over. Load times seem to be decreased by a lot though when there is no server lag.

**Ferr** · 2010-09-10 09:33

well, it eradicated your stutter, thats something. I wonder how the stuttering can be nvidia drivers? when I have stutter my HDD goes mad, atleast in the city, and if you dont have stutter with the SSD, seems more like hard drive issues, although its stupid that this game should require a SSD to play..

**Jamison** · 2010-09-10 09:59

Originally Posted by Ferr

well, it eradicated your stutter, thats something. I wonder how the stuttering can be nvidia drivers? when I have stutter my HDD goes mad, atleast in the city, and if you dont have stutter with the SSD, seems more like hard drive issues, although its stupid that this game should require a SSD to play..

I'm a little confused by this as well. I'm on an ATI Radeon 5850, and am pretty sure the stuttering I get is the same as everyone else complains about. I'm also using a WD 7200rpm caviar black (mentioned specifically by someone else who had the stutter). I was planning on getting an SSD late this year when the new models come out, and while it's nice to know that will probably take care of the problem, I'm still quite surprised that it is happening in the first place.

**Egon** · 2010-09-10 10:09

Personally, I think an SSD has the biggest impact on preformance. I play with a sempy OCed to 3.25 and only 1 5770 and the game runs great. I can hit 60FPS in caves and near walls, and hit 20-25 in towns. My SSD is an 80gig intel.

**shaddix** · 2010-09-10 10:15

The stuttering I am talking about, is very bad. For example, I would teleport to aetheryte crystal in LL, then as I walk towards the bar to get a leve the game will freeze for .5-1 second, then unfreeze for about .5 seconds, then freeze again for .5 seconds. It would do that 6 or 7 times. It did the same thing approaching bearded rock, except only perhaps 3 to 4 times. This stuttering coincides with lots of HDD activity... and this:
http://imgur.com/WZtdL.jpg

It's for that reason, I am inclined to believe the earlier post that switching to ATI solved the problem, it's also possible a fix can be had by using a different driver version, as I know some people on nvidia do not have this stuttering issue. My SSD did fix it for me, I still get the spikes in HDD activity, however it doesn't freeze for half a second, eight times in a row.

**Boyiee** · 2010-09-10 10:35

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../FF14Bench.png

I can get it higher ofcourse, probably can top the leaderboard if I mess around a little bit, disable one of my monitors, background apps etc.

This is on high of course. Single GTX480 SC @ stock.

As far as beta, I'm running on SSD's in RAID0, however the benchmark and ff beta are on my 10,000rpm HDD. Currently everything runs great, with just the usual beta issues.

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