Some benchmarks and performance scaling analysis

I've made a series of CPU/GPU/iGPU benchmarks and how the game performance scales with each component upgrade and so on. You can check the whole thing on:

Source: https://rk.edu.pl/en/final-fantasy-x...nical-support/

If you have any questions feel free to ask :)

If you have a weak CPU you can improve the performance with DXVK.

Download DXVK: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

Unzip it with 7-Zip or something.

Switch into the x64 directory.

Copy the "dxgi.dll" and the "d3d11.dll" into the FF14 game directory. Not the boot directory.

Start the game.

Now the game uses a DirectX 11 to Vulkan warapper and it should run noticably faster. If you get some glitches or the game does not start the delete these dll files.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

If you have a weak CPU you can improve the performance with DXVK.

Download DXVK: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

Unzip it with 7-Zip or something.

Switch into the x64 directory.

Copy the "dxgi.dll" and the "d3d11.dll" into the FF14 game directory. Not the boot directory.

Start the game.

Now the game uses a DirectX 11 to Vulkan warapper and it should run noticably faster. If you get some glitches or the game does not start the delete these dll files.

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Can test this, but going from DX11 MT to DX12/Vulkan would improve things only if there would be a lot of draw calls of which the "main" core had problems scheduling efficiently. DX11 MT still have some overhead on the main core but to avoid this you pretty much need a different engine implementation - will have to test this but cities would likely still be hammered by single core handling all of the world state (lots of people) while some open zones, especially those more complex in structures could see an improvement.

I get godlike stuttering and freezes with DXVK here. Shame since it works great with GW2.

I don't know why.

8086k 5ghz

It works very well for me. I have a Radeon 5700 XT. Maybe it is important which GPU you have.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

It works very well for me. I have a Radeon 5700 XT. Maybe it is important which GPU you have.

Cheers

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Same results with 1070ti and 3080.
Tried both Win 10 and 11.

I just got 3080 Ti. Windows 11 definitely got performance hit compare to RTX 3080 with Win 10. Win 10 with RTX 3080 got 25700, Win 11 with RTX 3080 Ti got 25500. Both with fresh install of Windows. Windows 11 also got all the updates for Ryzen.

Code:

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker Benchmark
Tested on:  11/10/2021 16:23:51
Score: 25566
Average Frame Rate: 179.1382
Minimum Frame Rate: 81
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1        1.094 sec
  Scene #2        2.049 sec
  Scene #3        3.059 sec
  Scene #4        1.393 sec
  Scene #5        0.738 sec
 Total Loading Time        8.333 sec

DAT:s20211110162351.dat

Screen Size: 2560x1440
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: Maximum
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Parallax Occlusion: High
-Tessellation: High
-Glare: Standard
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+: Quality
-Glare: Normal
-Water Refraction: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (ver.10.0.22000 Build 22000)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor           
32696.121MB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti(VRAM 12108 MB)

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How do you benchmark this game?

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Originally Posted by Yvresse

How do you benchmark this game?

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There is a benchmark tool for it.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/

I've tested DXVK and for RTX 3070 it stutters like crazy, for few other systems it doesn't really improve things... as FF14 can already use multiple cores it will be super setup specific (CPU + GPU):

Article: https://rk.edu.pl/en/using-dxvk-on-w...v-performance/

Somewhat beneficial for devs would be option to use Radeon GPU Profiler with this :)

And back to some benchmarking ;) Did a new run for Intel and AMD integrated graphics: https://rk.edu.pl/en/final-fantasy-1...ated-graphics/ while few others are in the works (Apple M1, Intel Arc A380, DXVK re-test on newer version and so on).