Benchmark is telling us something...

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Originally Posted by Stitches1974

I've done just that and it didn't end well. Why I spread it now and why you see some aftermarket coolers with a thin square off paste on them and not a dot.

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I've never had an issue. Do it this way on servers all the time. Just have to make sure you have enough on there so it actually spreads.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

I've never had an issue. Do it this way on servers all the time. Just have to make sure you have enough on there so it actually spreads.

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I applied enough and it didn't spread evenly. Large amount on one side and less on the other. Current computer I built has been running w/o issues, with OC for almost 3 years by spreading it myself.

I run with pretty much everything maxed currently and used my same current game settings for the benchmark. Only thing not uber is my resolution (1600x900) since my monitor is kinda old and was never a top of the line gaming monitor to begin with.

So I ran the benchmark myself and I got this result:

https://s12.postimg.org/g62vhv7yl/sb_bm_score.jpg

Now it says the score is "extremely high"... but I have no idea what the score compares to. Is there some sort of breakdown somewhere I can read that kinda gives more info on what the score actually means?

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Originally Posted by Stitches1974

I applied enough and it didn't spread evenly. Large amount on one side and less on the other. Current computer I built has been running w/o issues, with OC for almost 3 years by spreading it myself.

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I've had mine OC'd for years as well, and i just did the dot :P

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Originally Posted by Nicodemus_Mercy

I run with pretty much everything maxed currently and used my same current game settings for the benchmark. Only thing not uber is my resolution (1600x900) since my monitor is kinda old and was never a top of the line gaming monitor to begin with.

So I ran the benchmark myself and I got this result:

https://s12.postimg.org/g62vhv7yl/sb_bm_score.jpg

Now it says the score is "extremely high"... but I have no idea what the score compares to. Is there some sort of breakdown somewhere I can read that kinda gives more info on what the score actually means?

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anything over 7000 is good to play at a high framerate on current settings. Its on the benchmark site, if you scroll down.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

anything over 7000 is good to play at a high framerate on current settings. Its on the benchmark site, if you scroll down.

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Ah ok ty. I have to admit I didn't read the entire site. I'll go back and do just that!

It wont even let me change to DirectX11, I guess I have to quit when Stormblood comes out... (Windows 7)

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Originally Posted by DiscoDuck

It wont even let me change to DirectX11, I guess I have to quit when Stormblood comes out... (Windows 7)

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There is no option to change it.

The benchmark is telling me to drown Lalas.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qeKned_d_8...0/evil_adp.png

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

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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My video card is a 750ti that was showing its age, had it for a good 3 years, I'm content with upgrading 'cause I can't even play Nier and when FFXV comes to PC I got no chance of playing it on high with my current build.

The benchmark is telling me that the DX11 client still thinks that multi-AMD GPU setups can die in a hole. Cold and alone. DX11 client had me paying out unemployment for my 2nd 7950 in the past and now I'm stuck in the same situation with my 2nd 390 now...

*sad face*

I mean, I'm only just south of 9000 on my score.

I got a 4841 score but w/e I play on PS4 anyways.

My system is around 4 years old, I7 2600K w/ 8gb ram (I had 16 until a stick died a year back) but I've kept up on my GPU with a 1070 8gb.

It's apparent that XIV is GPU reliant, more than CPU or even ram, I scored 14.9k on the benchmark with everything at max @ 1080p.

Edit: I couldn't seem to embed the image of the benchmark for reference, so here's a link to the image.

http://imgur.com/a/2EgIK

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Originally Posted by Shyle

My system is around 4 years old, I7 2600K w/ 8gb ram (I had 16 until a stick died a year back) but I've kept up on my GPU with a 1070 8gb.

It's apparent that XIV is GPU reliant, more than CPU or even ram, I scored 14.9k on the benchmark with everything at max @ 1080p.

Edit: I couldn't seem to embed the image of the benchmark for reference, so here's a link to the image.

http://imgur.com/a/2EgIK

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Your URL shows its the dektop high preset, not the maximum preset. Overclocking my CPU just 100 mhz got me an extra 400 points on the benchmark. There is quite a bit of CPU usage in game.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Your URL shows its the dektop high preset, not the maximum preset.

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Yes, but also if you go into the settings everything is maxxed, with no LoD.

Here's the info from the saved data text:
Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: High (Desktop)
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Enabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Maximum
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
-Glare: Standard
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Enabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x8
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: Standard
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (14393.rs1_release_sec.170327-1835)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8166.980MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (VRAM 8119 MB)


Edit: Just ran the benchmark with maximum preset, only difference was that Occlusion was turned off, here's the image of that score, I took a 600 pt hit from occlusion:

http://imgur.com/a/CgToz

think people are flipping the fack out >.> I got 4700 ish with my current rig at 1080p and max settings. This means i can still play at the same "comfort" I can atm 30+ fps at 1080p, it is a far cry from "unplayable". Do not get me wrong i do plan on some upgrades but now I don't feel it is a "necessity" it will be something i wanna do (probably going r5 then a gpu later on)