The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[Lucavi]

Hmm.. not seeing it. Damn I'm such a rookie with windows 7...

[Katlan]

Hmm.. not seeing it. Damn I'm such a rookie with windows 7...

its under appearance and settings, its just the menu thing. go to where u select ur desktop and u should see a row of Aero options, and under that is Basic options

[Lucavi]

So just hitting one of those classic options increases the framerate of the benchmark?

[Katlan]

yep, Aero just makes menu's and stuff rly fancy

[Celeras]

So just hitting one of those classic options increases the framerate of the benchmark?

If it does, your specs are weak enough that you shouldn't be running Aero anyway. High end systems won't notice any difference, low end systems should have it off regardless.

[Cjskater]

If it does, your specs are weak enough that you shouldn't be running Aero anyway. High end systems won't notice any difference, low end systems should have it off regardless.

My specs are weak? >_>

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no, they aren't

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showp...&postcount=338

Also if you notice the load time comment: I went from 21k to 11k just by disabling Aero. There is definitely something going on with it and it has nothing to do with specs.

[Destinye]

If it does, your specs are weak enough that you shouldn't be running Aero anyway. High end systems won't notice any difference, low end systems should have it off regardless.

Heh I have everything cranked up and I never really tooled with this "Overclocking" and Win 7 options so I thought it was just..the normal appearance lol, no slow downs or anything.

Guess I should try pushing my hardware harder.

[Celeras]

My specs are weak? >_>

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no, they aren't

Not trying to get into this, but yeah.. a GTS 250 is relatively weak by current gaming standards. It's a rebrand of the 9800, which is a G92 chip, which started with the 8800. That's old architecture.

Just trying to say that while older hardware may notice an increase by turning off Aero, it's because its rather resource heavy and can put some minor stress on weak systems. Modern systems won't notice a difference.

[Kryssan]

If it does, your specs are weak enough that you shouldn't be running Aero anyway. High end systems won't notice any difference, low end systems should have it off regardless.

My specs are weak? >_>

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no, they aren't

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showp...&postcount=338

Also if you notice the load time comment: I went from 21k to 11k just by disabling Aero. There is definitely something going on with it and it has nothing to do with specs.

Um, I'm going with Celeras on this one.

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http://www.aethernavale.net/Media/im...f14-noaero.jpg

No discernible difference. Aero's so minimal that it shouldn't affect anything on a high end system.

[Cjskater]

Not trying to get into this, but yeah.. a GTS 250 is relatively weak by current gaming standards. It's a rebrand of the 9800, which is a G92 chip, which started with the 8800. That's old architecture.

Just trying to say that while older hardware may notice an increase by turning off Aero, it's because its rather resource heavy and can put some minor stress on weak systems. Modern systems won't notice a difference.

Well then by relation you should also turn off Aero. I'm currently sitting right under on you low chart.

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Also complete ignorance if you think a GTS250 can't handle Aero. Gaining 300 points on low shows it's not a problem with the 20mb of vram Aero uses.

[Celeras]

Well then by relation you should also turn off Aero. I'm currently sitting right under on you low chart.

On low, which is a CPU benchmark where GPU is irrelevant.. and my CPU is old. Run on high, I'm probably 80% or so faster.. and my GPU load is typically in the 60%'s because my CPU is that weak

But I did turn off Aero, no difference.

[Zeno]

Oddly enough i ran this on low and high, and I actually got a better score on high settings.

Low was 845
High was 1007

Build is P4 3.0 Ghz
GTS250 1GB
2GB RAM

I personally have played alpha and it's definitely playable at this point with my setup. I did have to upgrade the video card to play it though. Previously used 6600 GT 512MB. So we'll see in the future once beta is out if it continues to still be playable.

Wow, thats kinda weird...
I have AMD athlon II x2 @ 3.0ghz
4GB RAm
1GB GTS 250

and I usually get around 2000+ on low end
and i say about 1900- high end...

I tried alpha with my set up and its really choppy inside LL but beautiful outside. Plus, it didnt help that I was listening to music + IM chatting, and trollin here. lol.

[Cjskater]

On low, which is a CPU benchmark where GPU is irrelevant.. and my CPU is old. Run on high, I'm probably 80% or so faster.. and my GPU load is typically in the 60%'s because my CPU is that weak

thatsthepoint.jpg

I shouldn't gain 300 points just by turning it off.

If you care to know the rest:
Samsung F1 320GB + F3 1TB (for I assume load time, definitely not slow HDDs)
64bit Vista Ultimate
4GB DDR2-800
197.45 drivers (going to try the new whqls now, would use .15 betas but they fucking ruin my Just Cause performance)

[Celeras]

/facepalm

Aero is also using some CPU and Physical memory, don't know why you think it's all on the GPU. This should be pretty obvious if you're getting a performance increase by disabling it..

People are just trying to help you, don't be so argumentative.

[Katlan]

id assume that even on high end rigs turning off Aero will still show a diff, just the better the system the less of an improvement u will see

[Heatsink]

Anybody think that the scales of performance are for the low settings instead of the high settings? Would make much more sense.

The scale for the FFXI benchmark was using low scores, I'd imagine they did the same for XIV. ( google: benchmark site: playonline.com )

[Kryssan]

Data scatter doesn't show anything to me. With or without Aero, the data points of multiple runs (settings the same just running with or without Aero) show the average around 4650 for me with crossfire enabled. Data scatter is from 4605~4787. Crossfire disabled settings puts it around 4990. Data scatter is from 4977~5022.


If it is having an effect, its too insignificant for me to notice. However, from what we've seen by other people with higher CPUs, specifically the 980X vs the spread of us with 920s/930s, CPU has a higher than average effect, even more so on lower grade settings. Aero will take some system resources so in a lower system I would presume it to have an affect, but for the spread of higher score systems on the leaderboard charts, I doubt you'll be seeing anything in the data scatter. Try it, see what happens.

[Celeras]

My score has actually been exactly the same all 3 times I've ran this on high, one of which was with Aero disabled.

[LD]

We're quibbling over minutiae at this point.

The people who are unhappy with their scores will just have to hope that the retail has lower requirements, has a lot of graphical options to lower, or both.

[Koeta]

High:
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8633/29936672.jpg
Low:
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2683/12684983.jpg