bottleneck performance?

[Ooshima]

Bloomfield was quite weak and didn't overclock that well. I'm using a 6 core sandy bridge that I have clock at 4.6Ghz, which was quite a jump from previous generation. Newer generations CPUs only had around 10% increments in performance and didn't overclock any better.

I plan to upgrade to Skylake in the fall.

Skylake doesn't even provide that much difference from 4790K. Unless you are referring to Skylake-E (since you are on Sandy Bridge-E), maybe that's worth it.

[Shura]

Damn it!! That goes against every fiber of my gamer being!!

I intentionally have a cheap ass cpu (G3258) with a decent gpu (R9 270X) and FF14 has to be the ONE game that throws the curveball at me

If you don't mind me asking, have you run the Heavensward Benchmark and if so what score did you get? Thanks. Trying to build a budget gaming build for my GF to play FFXIV on and was wondering how the G3258 performs.

[GenJoe]

If you don't mind me asking, have you run the Heavensward Benchmark and if so what score did you get? Thanks. Trying to build a budget gaming build for my GF to play FFXIV on and was wondering how the G3258 performs.

Well, I don't have the benchmark software, but it's really not that bad in terms of performance, I run my PC a lot heavier than the average person. Dual monitors, a source of media (netflix/youtube/kodi) FF14, Chrome with about 6-7 tabs open at any time.. Then sometimes even WoW running simultaneously alongside FF14, it still gets playable frame rates (low settings everything)

20fps average with similar fashioned screenshot taken in Mor Dhona at Desktop (High) Settings. Note this is while running youtube on the other monitor, it does dip down to teens, sometimes spikes up to mid 20s

The only performance issue I can feel is that UI responds slowly, i.e. opening up inventory takes a second or two, running just the FF14 resolves the issue though.

It should be good enough to run the game maybe only trouble would be running frontlines, I did have trouble there previously with sprites not loading but I didn't try running without all the clutter, that probably would've fixed it..

I did do T5 without any issue, CT raids worked fine also.


Really though, I have run the game in a somewhat playable manner on my old Core 2 Quad rig with Radeon 5570 low profile card So you should have a field day with anything better than that as long as your girl friend isn't too picky about having Ultra crisp graphics

Funny little tidbit, I'm usually the first one to load content out of anybody I know (typically ~3 seconds) due to having a SSD and it's just really funny seeing my friend running his i5 and dual gpu crossfire lagging behind me when we go places

P.S. SS is taken on Jenova, typically less people hanging around Mor Dhona than other servers I imagine, but still crowded (quick headcount shows about 80 people, very roughly counted)
P.P.S. I didn't realize there was a Maximum graphics settings, that gives me ~13fps.

[Laraul]

ARGHS! Here let me show you how what my system load is while in Mor Dhona. I have Two 12 core Xeon processors... this shows the problem very well...



Thread 2 or the second core of the first processor (aka core #4 or 24) has hit a 100% usage. The CPU thread executor on both processors is also at a 100%. Total average CPU usage though reads only 20%.

Open Hardware Monitor for me doesn't accurately show my processor usage. I.E. this is what I see w/ OHM. Not that CPU core #2 on processor 2 shows to be at 50%. This is misleading since every core is capable of executing two threads! Despite this average CPU usage is at 20% just like the first readout.



This readout does not tell me the full story! I suggest perhaps you should rely on something other than Open Hardware Monitor!

[GenJoe]

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Damn impressive rig droooool
But umm I don't think you can realistically expect any game to be optimized for 12 cores I'm happy to see quad core optimization and even that's rare..
Hopefully DX11 helps with the optimization for you guys.

[einzele]

@Laraul: umm an i5 doesnt have hyperthread, so whats shown on ohm is accurate enough for i5

[KarstenS]

I've never had a problem running Borderless on Windows 8.1. o_o, is there seriously a difference?

Fullscreen is very smooth for me. Window and borderless Window not. Running Win7 borderless Window was a good option. But since Win8 not anymre.

[Ooshima]

Damn impressive rig droooool
But umm I don't think you can realistically expect any game to be optimized for 12 cores I'm happy to see quad core optimization and even that's rare..
Hopefully DX11 helps with the optimization for you guys.

Not going to. This game isn't CPU intensive, doesn't make use of hyper-threading. For this game you are better off with a high clock speed i5-4690K than a 12-core Xeon. Even my 6-core i7-5820K overclocked lose out to my i7-4790K @ 4.8GHz.

[einzele]

Not going to. This game isn't CPU intensive, doesn't make use of hyper-threading. For this game you are better off with a high clock speed i5-4690K than a 12-core Xeon. Even my 6-core i7-5820K overclocked lose out to my i7-4790K @ 4.8GHz.

Gonna be a beast in dx12 time though

[Raist]

Would be interesting to see a comparison of scores on some of these rigs from running a "winsat mem" test in an Admin CMD prompt.