FFXIV: A Realm Reborn [-' BENCHMARK '-] Post HERE your scores and comments!

At maximum settings, I scored something in the 5000s. Not amazing, but not horrible.

Tweaked more in line with how I'll likely actually play it, I got the following...

Score:6459
Average Framerate:54.618
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1600x900
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Enabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Enabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Disabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Off
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

On an alternate config where I had a few other things turned down, I got 7068. I'll likely stick with the 6459 config above. That's more than good enough for me.

PC specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (running 5 cores @ 3.2Ghz)
Memory: 8GB (4x2048MB) DDR3 12800.
GPU: ATI HD Radeon 5870

1920x1080 Maximum + LOD + LOD Streaming: 5073, 5076
1920x1080 High: 5698
1920x1080 Medium: 7773
1920x1080 Medium - Occlusion Culling: 8082

Overall, my impression is that I'd probably be happy playing at any of the graphics settings, but am pleased to see that I could get over 5000 points after tweaking the Maximum settings a little. I'm sure I'll be even happier once I fund my next PC.

I seem to be CPU-bound when I enable Occlusion Culling, so that actually hurts my performance in complex scenes. The client never goes above 33% usage in the Task Manager, though, so I suspect that the client is only using 2 threads. That leaves my system with unused horsepower, but 2 threads is pretty normal for current games. I think the last project I shipped actually made use of 4 threads on PC, but we tried to be overachievers.

If I were willing to play with fire, I could unlock the CPU to turn off a couple of the cores and overclock the remaining ones... but I'm not keen to do that, anymore than I'm keen to overclock the GPU. It's just not worth it.

Here's my experimentation in a bit more depth:

1920x1080 Maximum: 4760
+Occlusion Culling: 4274
+LOD: 4963, 4958
+LOD Streaming: 4490, 5033, 5029

1920x1080 Maximum + LOD + LOD Streaming: 5073, 5076

1920x1080 High: 5698

1920x1080 Medium: 7773
-Occlusion Culling: 8082

smooth as silk on my desktop and runs choppy on my laptop.
didnt have 1920x1080 so i picked 1920x1200 i should gain a better score on 1080p.

Main PC:
i7 860 @3.4GHZ
8GB dual channel
two 480GTX 1.5GB SLI
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8531/8...a67e7505_b.jpg



Laptop:
i7 2670QM 2.20GHZ turboboost
8GB dual channel
geforce 550m GT 2GB
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8252/8...8f99bdcf_b.jpg

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Faiyez

How do you make the window fit your screen?

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Have to set it to the resolution that your monitor can use.

In my case I had DPI set to 150% and that is what was causing my 1980x1020 to not fit. If you know your monitor supports a resolution and its not fitting, check your DPI

Quote:

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Originally Posted by indira

smooth as silk on my desktop and runs choppy on my laptop.
didnt have 1920x1080 so i picked 1920x1200 i should gain a better score on 1080p.

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Check at the top of the resolution list, 3rd one down. I didnt see it either

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Valandor

I'm curious how much more performance we might gain when nVidia gets their hands on it. :D

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That would probably depend on how much the dev team worked with nVidia beforehand. They're pretty cool people, and like to help developers maximize the performance of their cards when approached.

nVidia has a major competitor, though, which shall remain nameless, and was not so helpful in my last project's attempt to get help. This competitor had a tendency to let emails fall into black holes, and tended to respond to technical questions about performance problems with "Can you send us an executable? Here, try this beta driver." We were actually pretty scared about that. o.O` I hope they were just giving us the cold shoulder because we weren't well known for our PC offerings and that they would give S|E more attention.

Test run at 4.2ghz not sure why it shows 3.3

580 stock.

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/5...2c0989c516.jpg

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:22/02/2013 01:29:42
Score:7065
Average Framerate:58.580
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
3989.926MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580(VRAM 3227 MB) 9.18.0013.0697

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My score:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:2/21/2013 6:56:11 PM
Score:2736
Average Framerate:21.724
Performance:Fairly High
-Capable of running the game on default settings. Consider switching to a higher resolution depending on performance.

Screen Size: 1600x900
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Enabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Enabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Enabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
8169.168MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M (VRAM 4050 MB) 9.18.0013.1090

As I'm on a laptop, 1600x900 is my screen's highest resolution. Still, getting a passable fps, score, and performance on maximum settings, I couldn't do that with 1.0. Call me impressed.

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/2...trahdffxiv.png

UltraHD screenshot

Now where can I get one of those UltraHD monitors at a good price? ;)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by SinisterJoint

Have to set it to the resolution that your monitor can use.

In my case I had DPI set to 150% and that is what was causing my 1980x1020 to not fit. If you know your monitor supports a resolution and its not fitting, check your DPI

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I hope they fix that. I hope that you can swap between full sen and windowed without having to shut down in the real game.