Post your Rig and the settings you play on guys`

[Vix]

THx.
Also thought I would post a SS of the benchmark results.



As you can see, the CPU doesn't even come close to being the bottle neck. ITs the GTX 460's.
Notice how GPU2 seems to hover around 95% and GPU1 hovers around 85%.

At this time, I don't see any value in overclocking my CPU. Ill wait a couple more generations for Nvidea or ATI to get their act together and actually produce something that is an improvement over its predecessor. I really am bitter that the GTX570 offers little improvement over the GTX480. And the almighty Radeon 6900 series is pretty lame considering its supposed to be the latest and greatest. Seriously WTF, what happened to things doubling every generation?.

Also,
I turned off windows Aero, and saw no improvement. I find it highly suspicious that a 3k jump in benchmark was acheived from something so minimal. Of the three tests I did back to back, this was the lowest score. The highest was 4556.

note:
The CPU-Z proc speed shows it at a 1.6ghz, that is just due to the Intel turbo boost that throttled it down after the benchmark. During the benchmark the multiplier fluctuated between 34 and 36(3.4-3.6ghz)

[Reika]

Man.... guess i shoulda stuck with NVidia cards after all lol.. damn my desire to try out the competition!!!

[Isaaru]

Seriously WTF, what happened to things doubling every generation?.

Technology doubles every few years, not every generation.

[Loth]

GTX 480 and GTX 570 are kind of the same series, the GTX 480 is the first iteration of the chip running the GF100, while the GTX 570 uses a redesigned chip in the form of the GF110.

[Vix]

~touche

but seriously, we aren't seeing a major improvement over the 300/400/500 series.
The last big jump was between the 9k series and the 200 series.(and those 9800 can still hold their years later).
Much like Intels monster core-2 duo chips. Beastly chips that have had more staying power than anything since the 486dx chips.

[Dubont]

Manufacturer:
Gateway
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory:
4096MB RAM
Hard Drive:
640 GB
Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS
Monitor:
Sound Card:
Speakers (Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221)
Speakers/Headphones:
Keyboard:
USB Root Hub
Mouse:
USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface:
Trackpad
Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.101026-1503)

No AA
Draw quality: 10
Background: 4
Shadow detail: high.
Texture quality: high
Texture filter: high.

[Reika]

It is all a conspiracy to get you to spend unnecessary money for very minor improvements. DO NOT GIVE IN!

[Vix]

......From there you run the "Ge-Force Sli Profile Tool" and export the txt file. The text file you export is now a clean one with no changes to it. Open the text and put and find the FFXIV profile. Replace all the values under it with these

Setting ID_0x0076e164 = 0x00000009
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x000240f5
Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x10930f46 = 0x00000089
Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x02506405
Setting ID_0x10ecdb82 = 0x00040000

save and import. You should get no errors on the import. It should work fine after that. Well a lot better than before. The thing about SLI is it will work in windowed mode also! Unlike Xfire. However it does run a little better in Fullscreen mode.

Worked great! Much thanks!
An instant 800 point jump!

Physx set to GPU:

Physx set to CPU:


I noticed about a 10% average increase in CPU usage with physx allocated to it, yet only a 20pt increase in score. So no real difference. I don't think there's really anything more I can do to increase the score. Outside of new GPU's. For fun Ill overclock the rig one more time and see if that does anything.

Bottom line:
The SLI fix you gave me worked surprisingly nice! Cant wait to see if your tips on activating 3d will work! Ill send you a PM if I need help with that in a few days

[PepperMint]

The game is capped at 60fps

The game is capped at whatever vertical refresh rate you have. In your case prolly a 60Hz monitor. In some cases, like mine, a 120Hz monitor could get you a capped 120fps.

+Nvidia panal and ATI cat both have options to force off V-Sync, can't get it to work, but some say they have.

[Diraco]

The game is capped at whatever vertical refresh rate you have. In your case prolly a 60Hz monitor. In some cases, like mine, a 120Hz monitor could get you a capped 120fps.

+Nvidia panal and ATI cat both have options to force off V-Sync, can't get it to work, but some say they have.

Sure about that? In the closed beta, they started with a 30fps cap, but people complained loudly so they removed the cap. Then they started complaining that their GPUs were overheating(!), so they added a 60fps cap. As far as I noticed, it's still 60. I use a CRT set to 90Hz, and it was capping out at 60 as of 2 months ago or so, last time I bothered to run fraps.