Stormblood Benchmark Scores.

[Eifahlwyn]

Score 3525 (High)
366.66 load time

Well the load times are still painfully long but I'm surprised by the score. I vividly remember FF14 being almost unplayable on my PC several years ago which is why I moved to PS3/PS4. They must have improved optimization since the end of ARR.

[Sprinks]

7610- Extremely High on my laptop

Not too shabby, I think~

[MaethusXion]

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!

All indications I'm seeing suggest that they're dropping DirectX 9 support in Stormblood, so you'll have to do DirectX 11. It does seem they've optimized it a bit since Heavensward, though.

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'

[Sarynth]

Decided to test it on a pc I built in 2009 in preparation for FFXIV 1.0. Tweaked a few settings here and there to mimic my current settings in FFXIV.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 4/28/2017 3:39:06 PM
Score: 4945
Average Frame Rate: 36.346
Performance: High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform well, even at higher resolutions.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 15.300 sec
Scene #2 12.628 sec
Scene #3 10.713 sec
Scene #4 14.465 sec
Scene #5 26.448 sec
Scene #6 5.310 sec
Total Loading Time 84.868 sec

DAT:s20170428153906.dat

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Disabled
-Occlusion Culling: Enabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Enabled
-Real-time Reflections: High
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: Low
-Background Tessellation: Standard Quality
-Water Tessellation: Standard Quality
-Glare: Standard
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Enabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x8
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Disabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Off
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Disabled

System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_ldr.170307-1800)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
8191.223MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (VRAM 1989 MB)

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[Jkap_Goat]

I got high maximum, but I play the game on low settings, working with 4GB of RAM right now on my desktop ( going to upgrade soon) running a GTX 960 2GB ddr5

[Zumi]

I think I need to replace my video card gtx 970 is showing its age. Which is why I get a lower score. Probably need to get a 1080 ti, or wait till the next gen of graphics cards comes out.

[LadySaeko]

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 4/28/2017 12:13:45 PM
Score: 21138
Average Frame Rate: 151.403
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.051 sec
Scene #2 2.676 sec
Scene #3 2.055 sec
Scene #4 2.959 sec
Scene #5 5.184 sec
Scene #6 1.110 sec
Total Loading Time 16.037 sec

[KarstenS]

You can change it. A lot of the posted ones are maximum.

To get compareable results, this is the way to go.

[Jaksu]

Tested on: 28/04/2017 23:10:59
Score: 15496
Average Frame Rate: 106.270
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.789 sec
Scene #2 2.464 sec
Scene #3 2.009 sec
Scene #4 2.740 sec
Scene #5 4.914 sec
Scene #6 1.153 sec
Total Loading Time 15.071 sec

Running on 2560x1080 21:9 144hz monitor so lost some score as the game is running in the background on full resolution even if it has blackbars on cutscenes. GTX 1080, 6700k and 16gb DDR4.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Testing the effects of settings, going from Maximum preset to about as minimum as possible, I gained an extra 1140 points...

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

Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Wet Surface Effects: Enabled
-Occlusion Culling: Enabled
-LOD on Distant Objects: Enabled
-Real-time Reflections: Off
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): Off
-Transparent Lighting Quality: Normal
-Grass Quality: Off
-Background Tessellation: Standard Quality
-Water Tessellation: Standard Quality
-Glare: Off
Shadows
-Self: Hide
-Other NPCs: Hide
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Shadows: Enabled
-Shadow Resolution: Low - 512p
-Shadow Cascading: Off
-Shadow Softening: Weak
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering: Bilinear
-Anisotropic Filtering: x4
Movement Physics
-Self: Off
-Other NPCs: Off
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Disabled
-Radial Blur: Disabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Off
-Glare: Off
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled