Stormblood Benchmark Scores.

[Reinha]

Welp... Is there a way to try DirectX 9 or is that option going to be removed in Stormblood?

The swimming and diving parts were amazing!

Edit:

DX11 is recommended (64bit Required for DX11), but DX9 is available as well (32b/64b versions listed). Just seems that its optimized for DX11

EDIT:
Scroll down to the very bottom and click 'Windows'

Thanks for the info. I don't know anything about the differences between the 9 and 11 versions except that the game seems to run better on 9. It may change in Stormblood so I'll try both again.

Here are my results with maximum settings, for maximum pain. I'm surprised it's considered playable because the frame rates were absolutely terrible.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 29/04/2017 01:02:47
Score: 1299
Average Frame Rate: 8.110
Performance: Low
-Capable of running the game, but will experience considerable slowdown. Adjusting settings is unlikely to improve performance.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 17.518 sec
Scene #2 15.201 sec
Scene #3 11.850 sec
Scene #4 16.278 sec
Scene #5 29.069 sec
Scene #6 8.758 sec
Total Loading Time 98.678 sec

DAT:s20170429010247.dat

Screen Size: 1280x720
Screen Mode: Windowed
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
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
-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
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bittinen (6.1, koontiversio 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
8191.117MB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 (VRAM 3020 MB)

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Score: 1299 Low
1280x720 Maximum DirectX11 Windowed
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545
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