The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[Cahlum]

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Cahlum/Specs.jpg

kk thanks for the advice alecrast

[Purrrfect]

Oh man ._. This only reinforces my decision to probably play on PS3 for a while ~ Altho I haven't had terrible issue's with lag playing Alpha

Spoiler: show

Low ~
http://www.melodiesofdeath.com/classicred/low.jpg

High~
http://www.melodiesofdeath.com/classicred/high.jpg

ATI 4850~

Really thought I was doing good computer wise D: *snuffles*

Picked cat model D:~

Hmmm. I was thinking about picking up that cpu for now and going to the 6core next year. That is the black edition right? Really should be overclocking those, that's the reason they exist.

[akiraokami]

Well for the sake of testing I took out the graphic card from my old computer and put into my new computer (also since I don't have 10 posts i'm not gonna bother posting the picture, since links aren't checked anyway)

But to summarize:
new PC (C2D E7500 2.93GHz GeForce GT240)
Low: 1769
High: 980
old PC (AMD 64 3800+ 2GHz GeForce 8800GTX)
Low: 1652
High: 1485

Not truly surprised by this since the 8800 is a better card, but I was surprised that at low the old PC had nearly the same scores despite being a crappy old processor, so I took out the 8800 and put into my new PC, I did not run the high test since my monitor doesn't support 1920 resolution anyway, so I only redid the low test, but.

New PC only difference being 8800GTX over GT240
Low: 2582

Hurray, i finally meet the minimum requirements... ... ... whoopdedoo?

[Valient]

In case this hasn't been answered already. To fix the d3dx9_41.dll missing error go
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displayLang=en

This will update DX run time libraries with what ever you're missing.

Alternative would be
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displayLang=en

For the June 2010 DirectX runtime library update. Should include all updates prior.

[Satyr]

I just spent 2 days trying to fix my computer after trying to OC it
It was a mess and one problem after another, anyway I think I will hold off OC any more than I already have, plus I saw a lot more increase in preformance OCing my GPU and that was as simple as using afterburner, not dealing with BIOS, dos prompt and floppy disks. happy I got it working tonight so I can play in the alpha.

[el_tio]

nvidia geforce 9300m gs 512mb
4 gb ram
core 2 duo 2.0 ghz

176 benchmark.

Feels bad, man

[Valient]

2007 AMD system I build with an ATI 4770 card I put in after the 8600 GTX died. Low settings, monitor isn't big enough for the High.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/9446/lows.jpg

Looks doable. Looking forward to an upgrade.

[ClassicRed]

Hmmm. I was thinking about picking up that cpu for now and going to the 6core next year. That is the black edition right? Really should be overclocking those, that's the reason they exist.

Ya black ~ If I trusted myself more I'd totally OC it D: but alas I dont ~

[Vuitton]

So, the highest marks I see are 4000-5000 right now, which is kind of daunting since they all have nice processors and graphics cards. What kind of monster rig is supposed to reach the 7000-8000 range?

I want to build a new PC but if the current gear out there can't even get us to 6K I may wait until after release to upgrade... No sense in unloading $$$ for something that can't even play the game at the highest settings yet.

[orinthia]

Got it to finally work on my bro's ~1 year old pc I put together for him. Uses an amd phenomII x3 720, ati 4850 1gb, 4gb ram, and vista ultimate x64 sp2+full updates. Everything is stock, no overclocks or modifications, CCC has all app defaults, aero in vista is disabled.

I used the newest catalyst drivers, 10.6 released yesterday, and it installed extremely smoothly. Previously it had 10.4 and the benchmark would crash. Hope his other games don't screw up lol.
Low - 3075
High - 1853

Spoiler: show

Low
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23.../720pscore.jpg

High
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...1080pscore.jpg

[Rysa]

On High:

Spoiler: show

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...drake/high.png

GPU= 5850 Stock

[alecrast]

On High:

GPU= 5850 Stock

Someone else in this thread shows 51xx on HIGH settings with their 5850 using 922MHz Core clock and 1300MHz memory clock. The 5850s are known to have a great amount of headroom for overclocking, not that I suspect you'll actually need to do so. I think SE's numbers are a bit skewed at the moment, given this is their first benchmark. I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers get revised lower in the future (or we get a new/revised benchmark to better match the performance chart).

[Gulkeeva]

So, the highest marks I see are 4000-5000 right now, which is kind of daunting since they all have nice processors and graphics cards. What kind of monster rig is supposed to reach the 7000-8000 range?

I want to build a new PC but if the current gear out there can't even get us to 6K I may wait until after release to upgrade... No sense in unloading $$$ for something that can't even play the game at the highest settings yet.

Liquid nitro cooled overclocked to 5-6Ghz+ 4/6 core cpu with a 5870/gtx 285 oc'ed cooled with water/liquid nitro overclocked (with a third party program that goes far beyond the limits)
win7 with ai/water cooled oc'ed ram DD3 2133mhz+

you'll be sure to get near or over 8000 with that

[SamanosukeShiva]

yeah and the rig probably will last a week lol

[Absolutely Virtue]

This is making me rage a bit. Just bought a new laptop about a month or so ago. Nothing amazing or anything, because I'm not that picky. Just wanted something I could play in the living room so the wife would stop bitching about me spending so much time in front of my desktop. Spent about $1,500. Wasn't expecting results like this, and frankly I'm just confused. This was on Low:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...arksmaller.png

There was no noticeable slowdown or stuttering at all. In fact it looks great. Just a shit score. I confuse.

[alecrast]

This is making me rage a bit. Just bought a new laptop about a month or so ago. Nothing amazing or anything, because I'm not that picky. Just wanted something I could play in the living room so the wife would stop bitching about me spending so much time in front of my desktop. Spent about $1,500. Wasn't expecting results like this, and frankly I'm just confused. This was on Low:

There was no noticeable slowdown or stuttering at all. In fact it looks great. Just a shit score. I confuse.

I wouldn't put too much faith in the performance numbers SE put up. This is their first shot at a benchmark utility; SE may give us a new benchmark down the road that maps to those numbers more accurately or they might just decide to revise the numbers themselves. Or it might be that everything beyond a certain number is just superfluous.

Don't forget that you'll also get a performance boost by running in fullscreen versus windowed mode, which wasn't an option for the benchmark.

[Gulkeeva]

Laptops really aren't made for gaming... people should know that by now, unless you pay ALOT for a laptop (like in the $2000-2500+ ranges) to get a comparable benchmark a desktop PC can do for around $1500.

[Omniyoji]

Gulk's super high end PC post got me curious if anyone's run this on an XP machine... if anyone still has one >_> lol

[Soap]

Updated to 10.6 catalyst drivers, and made a huge jump on my high score. My 5850 can now match 5870 users on older drivers.

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6...ark201006u.jpg

[Hyan]

Seems that it only affected 5800 series, 'cause I didn't see improvement for my 5770 =/.