How accurate is the benchmark tool?

Hi All,

I ran the benchmark tool last night and scored a score of Extremely High at my setting (laptop high and 1280x960) with about 9000 or so benchmark.

Yet at times, like during Svara's Fall fate I drop to like 12fps with i dunno, about 50 players on screen (seems about that number). Is it just to be expected with that many people on screen?

Can anyone for ex. run this game on Desktop High @ say 1980x1080 res during Svara's Fall, Behemoth or Odin with a constant 60fps?

Cheers,

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Originally Posted by Will01

Hi All,

I ran the benchmark tool last night and scored a score of Extremely High at my setting (laptop high and 1280x960) with about 9000 or so benchmark.

Yet at times, like during Svara's Fall fate I drop to like 12fps with i dunno, about 50 players on screen (seems about that number). Is it just to be expected with that many people on screen?

Can anyone for ex. run this game on Desktop High @ say 1980x1080 res during Svara's Fall, Behemoth or Odin with a constant 60fps?

Cheers,

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The benchmark doesn't benchmark your network connection, only your CPU/GPU.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

The benchmark doesn't benchmark your network connection, only your CPU/GPU.

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Surely, me getting 12 frames per second in busy area's has nothing to do with my network? Thats a hardware issue, if I was getting lag then I could maybe blame my network, but not poor fps.

PS, I have a 60Mb connection, which is a lot better than most connections so I doubt my network is the bottleneck.

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Originally Posted by Will01

Surely, me getting 12 frames per second in busy area's has nothing to do with my network? Thats a hardware issue, if I was getting lag then I could maybe blame my network, but not poor fps.

PS, I have a 60Mb connection, which is a lot better than most connections so I doubt my network is the bottleneck.

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It's not the bandwidth at issue, but the network driver. I have a 50Mbit connection and have only encountered "Frame slowdown" in some congested areas, but that's relatively benign compared to the "approaching the edge of the zone, suddenly frame rate drops and then crashes" that I encountered before updating the display drivers.

Where people are getting crashes, are problems with their network driver's TOE feature, nVidia users are getting crashes on 64bit systems as a result of this lag, which means that there is some resource the game is leaking. I've honestly been trying to find ways of 100% replicating the crashes or network lag and have come up with nothing except EVGA Precision X or MSI Afterburner being at fault -sometimes-. Like if I leave it loaded but never engage the screenshot or video capture, it doesn't crash for hours. But that's the almost same as not having it running. I've been able to capture an entire dungeon run with it running, but youtube seems to have lost it. (I'll upload it again I guess or just make a new one)

I tried to use it yesterday and it immediately crashed FFXIV. So it's not predictable.