Benchmark is telling us something...

It's unfortunate that a lot of people need to upgrade their PC's for Stormblood, but this is also a bit of a wake up call since if you need to upgrade for this you'll need to for more modern games as well. Good thing I rebuilt my system a few months back.

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

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It's certainly a better investment than buying a whole PS4...

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Buy a ps4 :p
That's the impression I'm getting since it old CPUs are going to struggle so much

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No thanks, I'm not goin to wait for "ps4 limitations"

My 3 year old rig passed the SB benchmark with flying colors ... but I'm still going to upgrade :)

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Originally Posted by St0rmchild

No thanks, I'm not goin to wait for "ps4 limitations"

My 3 year old rig passed the SB benchmark with flying colors ... but I'm still going to upgrade :)

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Same. Will most likely upgrade my ram, cpu, and mobo this fall.

My computer is kinda dated but its still got enough muscle to pass for extremely high so not that bad I think.

Anything over 7k is icing on the cake. Take a look at the graph they provided

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchm...n=na_benchmark

It's at the bottom, it has 3 negative, under 1k, 1k-1499, 1.5k-1999, with only under 1k being considered unplayable.

2 middle rating 2k-2499 and 2.5k-3499 which suggest it can be played at standard setting

And finally 3 top tier rankoing, 3.5k-4999, 5k-6999 and 7k+ which all state the game is easily playable with said specs.

So even though you might have a 5k rating and feel inadequate towards someone who scored 12k, don't, your rig is fine.

Outside of the graphics card I got early in the year most of my stuff is a few years old and I still managed to get a little over 10k on the benchmark,if you're struggling to reach high then it's time for a upgrade.

And here I thought PC was the master race....

*flame shields up!

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Originally Posted by dragonseth07

It's certainly a better investment than buying a whole PS4...

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Not necessarily, if they're going to struggle running 4.0 there is a huge possibility that anything new is likely going to be pushing their system to the breaking point. Also if you have a laptop you can't really upgrade the cpu as easily as you could as desktop, and if you're going to throw a new cpu into your rig, a new i7 you'll still be sitting at roughly 300-400 for it. Could get a later gen ya, but that's not something I would do.

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Originally Posted by Jetstream_Fox

Not necessarily, if they're going to struggle running 4.0 there is a huge possibility that anything new is likely going to be pushing their system to the breaking point. Also if you have a laptop you can't really upgrade the cpu as easily as you could as desktop, and if you're going to throw a new cpu into your rig, a new i7 you'll still be sitting at roughly 300-400 for it. Could get a later gen ya, but that's not something I would do.

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Yeah I'm with this too. I know you're just talking about CPU's here but I think with everyone that found out they needed to upgrade wouldn't need just a new a new CPU. They would need a graphics card, in which a decent one would run you about 200-400 dollars. If the machines are REALLY old, then they might need to get a new motherboard, new ram, etc. I spent about 1500 dollars building the computer I have right now and that was a little under 3 years ago. If it got to that point, I'd personally recommend just getting a PS4 if you don't care playing the game with high end hardware.