what was your benchmark compatibility score?

4000-and something.

I ran 2 tests.

One without changing anything.

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...psvbmnjody.jpg

And another with max settings on full screen (which I normally don't run, I prefer windowed).

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...ps0kst82cx.jpg

Seems I won't be able to take it to the full potential with what I have.

*EDIT*

Ran another test after updating my GPU drivers and made a few changes:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 4/27/2015 2:42:35 PM
Score: 5131
Average Frame Rate: 39.787
Performance: Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.964 sec
Scene #2 12.086 sec
Scene #3 6.616 sec
Scene #4 6.257 sec
Scene #5 5.175 sec
Scene #6 2.658 sec
Total Loading Time 35.758 sec

DAT:s20150427144235.dat

Screen Size: 1600x900
Screen Mode: Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: Normal
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Enabled
-Shadow Resolution: Normal - 1024p
-Shadow Cascading: Normal
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

5913. maximum settings.

i'm really glad i upgraded my graphics processor now.

Well I got 5993 with Maximum settings at 2560x1440

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/...pshgoq7cx3.png

and I got 9929 running Maximum at 1920x1080

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/...psrnezbr14.png

Seems my SLI GTX580's are running out of VRAM for the 1440p settings. Still I'm looking to upgrade this year anyway so for the moment I'm quite happy.

P.S with my graphic cards overclocked at 880Mhz / 1765Mhz / 4200Mhz (Core / Shader / Memory) I score about 500 more points on 1440p and 700 on 1080p.

Running on a 2013 Macbook Pro, was fairly choppy

http://i.imgur.com/pG4hSfi.png

Then I toned down the settings quite a bit. It seemed somewhat smooth:

http://i.imgur.com/ZG7quUR.png

Main gaming desktop

http://i.imgur.com/rW0b6VZ.png

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 4981 High
3840x2160 Maximum DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770S CPU @ 3.10GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X

Pretty sure my cpu is the bottleneck here.

Stream Settings http://i.imgur.com/TVPZTOI.png

Full Mode MAX Setting http://i.imgur.com/XBn9msF.png

AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series

4770k@4.2 and 2x970sli
http://i.imgur.com/YBdErRt.png

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 4/27/2015 11:28:28 AM
Score: 10959
Average Frame Rate: 84.689
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.255 sec
Scene #2 4.224 sec
Scene #3 4.252 sec
Scene #4 3.697 sec
Scene #5 3.594 sec
Scene #6 1.455 sec
Total Loading Time 18.479 sec

DAT:s20150427112828.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 8.1 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9600.winblue_r9.150322-1500)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz
32684.297MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 3072 MB) 9.18.0013.5012

The SLI doesn't seem to work at all on my 780s :c

http://i.imgur.com/AqESouA.png

On dx9, both cards are used, on dx11, one card is at 100% while the other is at like 10%.

GTX 460M with laptop (high) is only
http://i.imgur.com/yJLyQXp.jpg

even though it says "standard" but the average fram is only 18.4FPS. I think they really being generous on the words for this test...
I saw there are 770M 980M tests, is there any 960M or 965M?


haha... I just whatever and went test with my fanless ASUS UX305 FHD 8GB laptop
http://i.imgur.com/10B4xJ5.jpg
I guess it's not extremely bad with this MacAir type of thing... (average 15 FPS with lowest possible every option I can find)

Score: 11229
Average Frame Rate: 86.850
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

My set up isn't anything overly fancy (one monitor, one card etc). I'm happy with these results.

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...29733b1c1a.jpg

Like 3000. Good thing I play on the PS4. :)

https://scontent-sin.xx.fbcdn.net/hp...8c&oe=55A06DCD

there's mine ~~ with my future Au`ra :D

http://i.imgur.com/8ynOK2y.png

Ran the benchmark on my Macbook Pro running Windows 8.1:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 4696 High
1920x1080 Standard (Laptop) DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4850HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_na #FFXIV

System
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9600.winblue_r7.150109-2022)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4850HQ CPU @ 2.30GHz
16292.246MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M (VRAM 1985 MB) 9.18.0013.4475

tried it on full screen, got 7759 instead.

this pleases me greatly.

http://i.imgur.com/JQEuPv2.png?1

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Raiya

Aim for the GTX980 instead. Heard the 970 got gimped on the sly.

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Wait how?! I just got a 970 cause it was 200$ cheaper ;-;

Quote:

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Originally Posted by UltimateAoe2

Wait how?! I just got a 970 cause it was 200$ cheaper ;-;

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It's not a big deal. The card has 4GBs of ram. 3.5 of that is fast, the last .5 is slow. It shouldn't matter much for FF14 unless you're playing at an extremely high resolution. I have a 970, and the card handles the game great. My score was 11565.

The internet did kind of blow up on it. But for what it's worth, and for FF14, the card is great.

16024 DX11 :X

DX9 Score

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...dfed9ed5d1.png

DX11 Score

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...759279b0bc.png

Looks like I'll be fine.

Since I play using 1680X1050 Resolution here is my score for DX11

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/acci...90f7dbc071.png

Quote:

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Originally Posted by SecretCrowds

http://i.imgur.com/K9UQrb9.png

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How is this even remotely possible? People with a 760 setup are getting less.

Got 3770k + 7950 @ 1GHz and I'm getting 6355. Seems to be very inconsistent, and somewhat in favour of Nvidia.

If I downclock my card to 850MHz I get 5551, which should be more comparable to stock 660/670/760 setups.

Hi All,

I always thought Yoshi P was touting that DX11 would result in *better* performance (and more bells & whistles / graphical enhancements) than DX9?

Or was I mistaken?

Ran the benchmark and my DX9 score is much higher than the DX11 score.

(Silly side question: Am I supposed to download DX11 separately or something?)

Thanks for the help!

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 27/04/2015 18:13:17
Score: 9712
Average Frame Rate: 74.448
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 5.038 sec
Scene #2 17.363 sec
Scene #3 8.486 sec
Scene #4 6.334 sec
Scene #5 6.468 sec
Scene #6 4.352 sec
Total Loading Time 48.042 sec

DAT:s20150427181317.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 8 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.150316-1542)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
16333.156MB
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (VRAM 3072 MB) 8.17.0010.1280

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn (Windows version) and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward (Windows version) will run on your system.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Official Website http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/
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Full Results
FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 9712 Extremely High
1920x1080 Maximum DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV

A little disappointed since i have a top of the range r9 290X, saphire edition factory OC version.
But with the Nvidia logo on the benchmark itself i can only imagine they got more of a hands on than AMD did, hopefully AMD cards will get better with it over time.
Also bare in mind my drivers are quite out of date due to the version of windows im running, which wont allow me to update to the latest or windows 8.1 (Waiting for windows 10.)
And my CPU is not overclocked either.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Kiara

snip

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I'm also getting only a fourth of my DX9 score on DX11, using basically the same quality levels on each.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 27/04/2015 20:02:38
Score: 10226
Average Frame Rate: 78.598
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.483 sec
Scene #2 5.251 sec
Scene #3 4.026 sec
Scene #4 3.753 sec
Scene #5 3.546 sec
Scene #6 1.780 sec
Total Loading Time 19.840 sec

DAT:s20150427200238.dat

Screen Size: 2560x1440
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Kiara

Hi All,

I always thought Yoshi P was touting that DX11 would result in *better* performance (and more bells & whistles / graphical enhancements) than DX9?

Or was I mistaken?

Ran the benchmark and my DX9 score is much higher than the DX11 score.

(Silly side question: Am I supposed to download DX11 separately or something?)

Thanks for the help!

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Well my score shot up by 2000 when using the DX9 renderer. DX11 score is 11565. It's not out of line for the DX9 renderer to have better performance than the DX11 renderer. It's an older API, and drivers for it are mature. The DX11 features in the benchmark are really just "more bells & whistles", as you said. You don't have to download anything extra.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Lexxuk

http://www.okay.me.uk/12k.png

That's at 1080 res

http://www.okay.me.uk/native.png

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Okay this must be a **** joke

System expect :

I7 4790k 4.0 Ghz
Evga GTX 980 SC
SSD Samsung PRO 850 256GB.
Asus Maximus Ranger VII
Drivers updated.

And im getting between 55-57 fps with 7k score? meanwhile some people with a Celeron D and a GT 5200 are getting over 80 fps on 1080p...

http://i.imgur.com/pl1kdKD.png

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Zephyr-Umbra

A little disappointed since i have a top of the range r9 290X, saphire edition factory OC version.
But with the Nvidia logo on the benchmark itself i can only imagine they got more of a hands on than AMD did, hopefully AMD cards will get better with it over time.
Also bare in mind my drivers are quite out of date due to the version of windows im running, which wont allow me to update to the latest or windows 8.1 (Waiting for windows 10.)
And my CPU is not overclocked either.

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This certainly seems to be the case. People with comparable Nvidia cards are getting better scores.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by LunaSnowfield

Okay this must be a **** joke

System expect :

I7 4790k 4.0 Ghz
Evga GTX 980 SC
SSD Samsung PRO 850 256GB.
Asus Maximus Ranger VII
Drivers updated.

And im getting between 55-57 fps with 7k score?

http://i.imgur.com/pl1kdKD.png

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Idk, the benchmark seems unreliable, or someone's cheating uknowingly or knowingly for all I know. My friend with a 770 got a 8k score, so you should be above that.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Imoye

How is this even remotely possible? People with a 760 setup are getting less.

Got 3770k + 7950 @ 1GHz and I'm getting 6355. Seems to be very inconsistent, and somewhat in favour of Nvidia.

If I downclock my card to 850MHz I get 5551, which should be more comparable to stock 660/670/760 setups.

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Seems to be in favor of Nvidia indeed. Probably optimized better for it

Quote:

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Originally Posted by LunaSnowfield

Okay this must be a **** joke

System expect :

I7 4790k 4.0 Ghz
Evga GTX 980 SC
SSD Samsung PRO 850 256GB.
Asus Maximus Ranger VII
Drivers updated.

And im getting between 55-57 fps with 7k score? meanwhile some people with a Celeron D and a GT 5200 are getting over 80 fps on 1080p...

http://i.imgur.com/pl1kdKD.png

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From what I seen from other 980 users, you should be getting 12000+ easy. Yours is the lowest one I've seen by far

I did a test this morning on DX9 maximum 1280 results for an 8k score, then found the resolution setting and changed it to 1600 for the DX11 test on maximum and got a 5600ish. Nvidia GTX 750 Ti. I'll retest DX9 at 1600 when I get home from work.

GPU: GTX 970 G1 Gaming Edition
CPU: AMD FX-8350 8 core, 4.0GHz

The details:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 4/27/2015 1:31:37 PM
Score: 9913
Average Frame Rate: 80.626
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.595 sec
Scene #2 6.573 sec
Scene #3 5.652 sec
Scene #4 4.837 sec
Scene #5 4.594 sec
Scene #6 1.877 sec
Total Loading Time 25.132 sec

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.150316-1654)
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
8141.500MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 3072 MB) 9.18.0013.4788

http://i.imgur.com/EYaMCDh.jpg

Quote:

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Originally Posted by LunaSnowfield

And im getting between 55-57 fps with 7k score? meanwhile some people with a Celeron D and a GT 5200 are getting over 80 fps on 1080p...

http://i.imgur.com/pl1kdKD.png

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To me the first thing that look very odd with your result is the graph. Just go take a look at anyone else here and you should be able to notice that they sort of go up and down "normally" for lack of a better word. Yours on the other-hand is just straight up top or bottom, and to me instantly looks like major stuttering or the GPU is being throttled (and in turn reducing it's speed) then going full bought and then back to nothing. I wouldn't say this is an issue with the benchmark being unreliable more that something seems off with your setup either in temps/power or drivers. Either way you have a bad score for a 980 (good PC specs) and a very strange performance graph.

Oh please don't take this a negative post it's just with what your saying and what shown it looks like somethings just not right.

http://i.imgur.com/pj07Bpr.png

Quote:

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Originally Posted by LunaSnowfield

Okay this must be a **** joke

System expect :

I7 4790k 4.0 Ghz
Evga GTX 980 SC
SSD Samsung PRO 850 256GB.
Asus Maximus Ranger VII
Drivers updated.

And im getting between 55-57 fps with 7k score? meanwhile some people with a Celeron D and a GT 5200 are getting over 80 fps on 1080p...

http://i.imgur.com/pl1kdKD.png

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Looks a bit low... But you're using custom settings so can't really compare properly.
How much RAM? RAM speed?

You might want to check your GPU temperatures while running this as well. Graph indicates lots of throttling which could mean that the GPU runs too hot.
Could try to downclock to stock settings as you have a factory OC card and the OC might not be stable with drivers newer than it was designed for.

I'm honestly very surprised I managed to get this high of a number, compared to what the 970 users are getting. This is with a very outdated driver too (2013 driver build)
http://i.imgur.com/WWCnOcx.png

Hopefully this'll encourage other 700 builds not to immediately upgrade... pretty content with this tbh.

Other info:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 4/27/2015 2:11:47 PM
Score: 8145
Average Frame Rate: 63.289
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.454 sec
Scene #2 10.161 sec
Scene #3 5.745 sec
Scene #4 5.493 sec
Scene #5 5.111 sec
Scene #6 2.490 sec
Total Loading Time 31.457 sec

DAT:s20150427141147.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Disabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Disabled
-Real-time Reflections: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Disabled

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...psnmspedn0.png

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 27/04/2015 20:10:46
Score: 13971
Average Frame Rate: 108.699
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 0.979 sec
Scene #2 4.664 sec
Scene #3 3.634 sec
Scene #4 3.612 sec
Scene #5 3.520 sec
Scene #6 1.501 sec
Total Loading Time 17.910 sec