The OFFICIAL FFXIV Benchmark & Beta Performance Thread

[bluefan]

Someone on the beta forums was talking about playing the game across 3 monitors with a resolution of 5040x1050 using dual 5770 graphics cards. So I'm assuming it works.

Music to my errr, eyes.

[Jamison]

Trying to help a friend figure out the cause for his low scores. His laptop has an i7 Q720, 4 gigs ram, and the GeForce GTS 360M. Other benches in the first post with this processor are scoring about 2000+ on high, while he's scoring just over 1000. The benches from the first post are using the ATI 5870M video card, which from what I can research online should only have about a 10% performance advantage vs his 360M.

Apart from drivers, any suggestions on what might be the bottleneck? Or might this just be another case of the FFXIV benchmark not being particularly accurate?

Appreciate the help!

[Celeras]

I know character creation/select screen was 60fps capped, but I'm getting a little concerned the game may stay 30fps/capped and not allow sli/crossfire in the end. figured it woulda been changed for beta. I know nothing about programing, but these changes would seem rather significant to code or w/e it would take to implement

It already does allow SLI, though that 30FPS cap better fucking go.

[Lazysmurf]

ok i finally got mine to run but i'm very disappointed with the results for my laptop.

High: 2056

Low: 3532

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870, 1GB GDDR5 Video Memory
8GB DDR3
Intel Core i7 720QM(1.6GHz)
1T at 7200rpm

i'm a sad panda......

[Khalil]

Just ran the test on high settings;

http://img0.uploadhouse.com/fileuplo...bca74a37a8.png

Also, that's an OC'd 5870 from Sapphire; 875/1250 are the clocks.

[Izzy]

You think you know how to work a computer is probably closer to what you really mean.

What's the equivalent of asking for your IRL achievement that would allow you to even remotely act like you know what the fuck YOU'RE talking about?

[jmc]

Cost efficiency. But if you have the money and want to spend $100.00 more instead of putting it towards something that is up to you. I am just telling you the better price.

Newegg:
i-5 750 2.66GHz Quad Core $199.00

Waste of money. Same price as AMD's 6 core. Go with the 1055T if you want to be efficient with your money, or pony up and pay the extra $100.00 for the 1090T.

If you have a microcenter near you, you can pick up a i7 for $199 and that would be your best bet.

[firion]

Is anyone getting good scores (3000 or above) with a AMD CPU?

[Ezek]

Is anyone getting good scores (3000 or above) with a AMD CPU?

Yep.

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/985/521421.jpg

Sig has my rig info. Picked up an aftermarket cooler a few days ago and was able to OC my 965 to 3.9ghz @ 1.43 volts 100% stable after 12 hours of Prime95.

edit: inb4 lolWindowsXP

[Akiyama]

No lol'ing here. I have XP too. xD

[Zenshio]

I have a 5870, scored almost 5000 on the HQ score, and 6000 on the LQ score.

The game ran like shit for me. It would run smooth, then constantly lag for 5 seconds, then run smooth, etc. The same thing happened on my other PC that scored around 3000 HQ. SE really needs to work on the client.

What Izzy said. I tried it on both Multisample at 8 and 2. AO and DoF were both on. The game would go smooth then out of nowhere hickup and drop to like 5 FPS then shoot back again. Was very weird. Never noticed this happening in Alpha.

I think I have the same problem with my Radeon 5970, with 10.6 drivers. I switched back to 10.4 after the test because 10.6 seems to have some issues with multi gpu setups so I'll have to see tomorrow if anything changed. This was mostly happening when I was running outdoors in town as well in La Noscea. CS was smooth and indoors seemed to have much less hickups too. I tried both with and without AO and DoF and nothing changed. Never had this happening in alpha too. Well, I'll investigate further tuesday. >.<

[Izzy]

I switched back yesterday too. The 10.6 drivers are full of fail.

[Vimes]

[...] my choice is between those 3:

- AMD Phenom II X4 965

- AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

- Intel Core i5-750

[...]

Radeon HD5870
4GB DDR3-1333
Windows 7 64bit

Opinions?

If within your budget, get the i5. Good setup.

Don't listen to Gethse

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"If you want the better gaming chip, you want Lynnfield."

[Celeras]

If within your budget, get the i5. Good setup.

Don't listen to Gethse

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"If you want the better gaming chip, you want Lynnfield."

There are other things to consider, like the fact that i5s/7s are on a dead socket and their motherboards will never see a new CPU made for it.. whereas you have future upgrade options on AM3 boards. Or the fact that i5/7 motherboards are typically $100+ more than AMD boards to begin with, for a chip the performs within 5% of newer hexacores in gaming and lag behind in real multithreaded applications where 6 cores are king.

Don't make decisions for people, give them the information to make it themselves.

[Kenpachii]

Ok. I'm just going to post here in an attempt to quell some concerns people are having. I'm running a dual core 3.2ghz with an 8800 GT and I scored jus at 2000 on the 720p benchmark settings. While according to SE the game shouldn't really even be playable I ran the beta at 720p with max multisampling and high shadow quality (looks gorgeous) and hovered close to 30 fps the entire time with only the occasional dip near like the guild leve areas where there were over a hundred people massed around.

The benchmark does not seem completely accurate and I can only imagine the games code will be optimized further.

[Vimes]

There are other things to consider [...]

Don't make decisions for people, give them the information to make it themselves.

Sure, you're absolutely right Celeras.

I guess I just got a little ticked off at seeing the i5 750 labeled as a "waste of money", while it's actually a great chip at great value (not denying that AMD has great price/performance chips, on the contrary).

[Fanfon]

edit: wrong thread.

[Podginator]

--- Added: 7/12/2010 ---

- On certain AMD (ATI) graphics cards, the FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version may appear to run slow.
- On certain NVIDIA graphics cards, characters may not display correctly.

explains the slow down for some.

[Squeaky]

--- Added: 7/12/2010 ---

- On certain AMD (ATI) graphics cards, the FINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Version may appear to run slow.
- On certain NVIDIA graphics cards, characters may not display correctly.

explains the slow down for some.

I have a NVidia 9600gt and character disappear for me. Good to see this is a known bug.

[bolitas]

I had the same issue with my 5970, it ran smothly but i had some pretty bad lag spikes every once in a while...