Heavensward benchmark next month; no DX11?

[SummerSkye]

What are the differences between DX9 and DX11 pertaining to this game?

[Vespar]

What are the differences between DX9 and DX11 pertaining to this game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRqW3qlYYfE

Someone posted this from the Tokyo fanfest a while ago. DX11 comparison video starts @4:56
The basic jist of it is that the DX11 will have better texture rendering, shading and lighting effects.

[Raeletta]

The current DX 9 bench is, last I checked, missing optimisations that the main game has since been patched for. So even if the new DX 11 one isn't ready, the DX 9 is still a benchmark, and useful at that.

Plus, the DX 11 benchmark should theoretically run better than 9 on any machine supporting it, they didn't seem to make any drastic changes, like adding twice the effects or anything, and DX11 is more efficient.

[Craiger]

Think many of you are making the DX11 thing to be bigger than it actually is... I doubt there will be a huge difference, and I don't think a computer that runs FFXIV on DX9 fine, wouldn't run it on DX11 fine too.

Someone with more knowledge could correct me if I'm wrong though

EDIT: Btw, I'm not saying there can't be a pretty big difference, but I doubt there will be a huge difference coming to a game in an expansion...

[Wildsprite]

Think many of you are making the DX11 thing to be bigger than it actually is... I doubt there will be a huge difference, and I don't think a computer that runs FFXIV on DX9 fine, wouldn't run it on DX11 fine too.

Someone with more knowledge could correct me if I'm wrong though

EDIT: Btw, I'm not saying there can't be a pretty big difference, but I doubt there will be a huge difference coming to a game in an expansion...

perhaps you need an explaination
on windows vista and above DX9 is emulated using the latest DirectX available to it which on windows vista and 7 is directx11 and windows 8/8.1 is directx11.2 and DX11 does things in hardware that DX9 has a hard time doing in software.
if your system can handle directx11 you should get at the very least a minimal but noticable performance gain if they programmed it correctly.
tl;dr DX11 is a fairly big leap from DX9

should enough people leap to windows 10 and they take advantage of DX12 you will see a graphics performance(frames per second) increase but most wont see much of a graphics increase(dots per inch) because DX12 changes how the CPU and GPU communicate allowing more of the CPU cores to talk to the GPU at the same time

[Fuma]

The benchmark was suppose to be today I thought, where was it delayed until?

[Viridiana]

The benchmark was suppose to be today I thought, where was it delayed until?

Benchmark has always been slated as April time frame.

[Izsha]

Au Ra char options is the real draw for a great many people. Not seeing new water effects.

[Kietsu]

I'm legitimately curious as to how the game looks in DX11. Videos can't really do that justice.
But really I just want to try out the Au Ra creation. Did we get confirmation that the new LB3 showcase would make it in as well?

[Galliano]

Description of a benchmark (wikipedia)

In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard tests and trials against it. The term 'benchmark' is also mostly utilized for the purposes of elaborately-designed benchmarking programs themselves.

Benchmarking is usually associated with assessing performance characteristics of computer hardware, for example, the floating point operation performance of a CPU, but there are circumstances when the technique is also applicable to software. Software benchmarks are, for example, run against compilers or database management systems.

Benchmarks provide a method of comparing the performance of various subsystems across different chip/system architectures.