Thanks, guys. (New Benchmark score)

Well, I've done it. Blood, sweat, and tear were shed, and I am now officially completely bereft of my income tax refund. But I've done it. A new power supply, a new graphics card, and they're both installed. Good thing I learned to do it myself, too. I didn't have the cash to pay Best Buy to do it. lol Anyway, I did promise I'd show you guys my benchmark score after I installed the stuff, so here it is. Note, the first time I did the benchmark, I scored poorly running it on medium. Now, running it on high setting, check this out:


http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps1bf45ca9.jpg

Not the prettiest score around, mind, but then again my computer is inferior as a gaming machine. lol Still, this new score makes me SO HAPPY! And I noticed a few new things as well thanks to the new card! Firstly, there are more trees in the Twelveswood than I thought there were! Almost like it's some kind of forest, or something! And the animation is different, as in "they no longer slightly pause after each step" different. :D Oh, and did they just add the effect of giving off bright light to White Mages' spells, or did my card just suck that badly? Well, whichever, I'm a happy camper now. Thanks again for the help, guys!

I actually just recently built myself a new PC. And I couldn't be happier. I call my PC of awe The Professional. Because I can. And because I want too.

I ran the benchmark again rq, this is what I got.

http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/...psf257568a.jpg

Great to hear you got a score you like. My laptop before this wouldn't run the game very well :( so glad I was able to build TP. It wasn't even hard for my first time building a new PC.

Income tax ftw!

Awww glad it all worked out for you skye!! :p
I only scored like....4k on max settings

Happy gaming!

Congratz, Glad to hear everything is running great^^

Your previous card, if i remember right was a HD5450 so most likely a lot of the effects and animations were turned off^^

spec please so i can use it as a benchmark for my computer imma build for ARR

lol, thats pretty similar with my result

I was going to get 2 more vid cards and monitors after taxes... and then it turned out I earned more money than usuall this year and OWED taxes >_< That has like, literally never happened to me. QQ

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Originally Posted by SkyeWindbinder

Well, I've done it. Blood, sweat, and tear were shed, and I am now officially completely bereft of my income tax refund. But I've done it. A new power supply, a new graphics card, and they're both installed. Good thing I learned to do it myself, too. I didn't have the cash to pay Best Buy to do it. lol Anyway, I did promise I'd show you guys my benchmark score after I installed the stuff, so here it is. Note, the first time I did the benchmark, I scored poorly running it on medium. Now, running it on high setting, check this out:
And I noticed a few new things as well thanks to the new card! Firstly, there are more trees in the Twelveswood than I thought there were! Almost like it's some kind of forest, or something! And the animation is different, as in "they no longer slightly pause after each step" different. :D Oh, and did they just add the effect of giving off bright light to White Mages' spells, or did my card just suck that badly? Well, whichever, I'm a happy camper now. Thanks again for the help, guys!

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You should try it out on Maximum Settings as well. There is so much more foliage in the video too. If you set it to Maximum and then take off "Improved Graphical Quality" I think that's what it's called you'll be ok.

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps51665077.jpg


I. Am. READY.

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Originally Posted by neorei

spec please so i can use it as a benchmark for my computer imma build for ARR

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I would love to see the specs aswell!