Surface Pro 3

I thought I would give the benchmark a try on my Surface Pro 3 only to find out that my surface hates this game or this game hates the resolution of the surface. Windowed Default resolution on high laptop Dx9 got me 1727 but I switched to my max resolution full screen it was so bad I didn't even go past second scene. I tried 1920x1080 standard laptop and it is still not as good and I have black borders around the benchmark like it is in a picture frame. Dx11 doesn't seem to help much either. Got a 1074 with 1920x1080 dx11 standard laptop.

1) Specifications of your Surface Pro. Most people get the maximum ones, some get the 500$.
2) Was it plugged into your Power Supply? Most laptops will not utilize the full CPU power without your Power Supply.

Go with custom settings and kill off all superfluous things like shadows and reflections, get rid of all that stuff to improve performance. If it still doesn't run well that's too bad because Surface tablets seem awesome, it would be very cool playing this game on one.

It is the $999 version and yea it was plugged in.

I was also only testing on my surface to see if it was a viable option when I was away from home. My desktop got me a 4841 on Max 1920x1080 DX11.

Going to guess it was:
"128GB and 256GB/Intel i5 version:
4th generation Intel Core i5-4300U 1.90 GHz (with Turbo Boost Technology up to 2.9GHz) with Intel HD Graphics 4400"

Esp. the Intel HD 4400, this does not provide sufficient hardware to run FFXIV even at decent settings. If anything, it might've had a change with the 8GB Model.
Play around with the settings in the Benchmark, otherwise, it's probably wise to save up for a laptop instead if you plan to play away.

Other option is to just use RDC/Teamviewer to connect to your Desktop at home. But, that's stilll............eh.

I decided to try this on my Surface Pro 2. Same hardware as SP3. Mine is the one with 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../bench_sp2.jpg

What do you think guys? Are these going to be playable settings? :D

Try lower the resolution to 1280 or 1024, and using different setting (Max will not work for integerated GPU), like standard(Laptop). There is one benchmarked it in the forum on surface pro 3 and have good result though.

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Originally Posted by Fantasy9

I thought I would give the benchmark a try on my Surface Pro 3 only to find out that my surface hates this game or this game hates the resolution of the surface. Windowed Default resolution on high laptop Dx9 got me 1727 but I switched to my max resolution full screen it was so bad I didn't even go past second scene. I tried 1920x1080 standard laptop and it is still not as good and I have black borders around the benchmark like it is in a picture frame. Dx11 doesn't seem to help much either. Got a 1074 with 1920x1080 dx11 standard laptop.

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Do you actually plan on playing FF14 on your Surface Pro? If not, and you're just testing it for shits, don't need to fret over benchmarks, it's not even finalized and probably not optimized either. Just give it 2 months and try out the real thing :P

Tablets are not made for gaming. You said you spent $1k on it? Why not just invest that 1k into a computer?

The problem is the integrated GPU, they aren't designed for high end gaming because all the resources are shared with the rest of the system. CPU manufacturers started reserving CPU and memory resources for graphics simply so laptop manufacturers could make them without a dedicated card, to save power, cost and weight. They were never designed to run games, but as they got more powerful they were able to run some lower end games well.

The increased cost of the SP3 is due to the fact they have to fit so many powerful components in such a small area and is really only useful if you have to carry it around all the time, for less than the SP3 (i5 model) I have a 17" laptop with a 4th gen i7 cpu and an Nvidia Geforce GTX 765M I just can't weigh the cost of the SP3, you pay more can do less and get much less.

I play FFXIV on my Surface Pro 3 - its the i5 version

It plays ok for about 10-15 minutes and then the fan start going, throttling kicks in and it gets really choppy.

But for gathering, or TT it actually isn't that bad. I probably farmed 100k MGP off of the Imperial using my Surface.

I know a i7 version can run it from what I seen on this video I found. Here.