Heavensward benchmark next month; no DX11?

[Welsper59]

Benchmark = A program which measures the game's graphic performance on your machine
Demo = showcasing features and game's aspects
If it ends up this "benchmark" has not the DX11 client then don't call it a benchmark. We already have one with the DX9 client, we don't need to download huge files to see only some cutscenes and the Au Ra. It's pointless. What we want is to see the actual performance of the DX11. To see any gains or losses and the new graphic settings. That would be more useful. I will wait to see if Yoshida will say anything about this matter in the upcoming Live Letter.

Just as an FYI, benchmarks can serve additional purposes such as being a preview of content, "showcasing features and game's aspects". Even without the DX11, it's still a benchmark though, no matter what you folks might think it is lol. Pointless for those of us that know we can run the game fine on DX9, but a benchmarks release is for the people to test the intended setup and preview the game.

If they don't have DX11 ready, then just don't download it. I guarantee they will update it to DX11 when it's ready, if that were the case. What's the big deal? Why is that so Earth-shattering of an idea to accept as a potential? I mean, I hope DX11 will be ready in time, but if not... oh well?

[Wildsprite]

Microsoft have stated that Users of 7/8 (Even pirated) will get a 1 year window to upgrade to Win10 for free. So they're unlikely to bother porting it down. They very much want to drop support for the older OSes, considering how stubborn people are to move on from 7. (I'm one of them).

yes and whether the FFXIV team decides to make use of DX12 or not really depends on how big of a leap of users upgrade to 10. I'll say this as one of those using the technical preview I can say if they keep going like they have been things are looking like the upgrade from 7 will be well worth it. but we shall see.

[Raeletta]

yes and whether the FFXIV team decides to make use of DX12 or not really depends on how big of a leap of users upgrade to 10.

... Either I utterly blanked., or you edited it when I refreshed to post and the quote-chang carried over x-x.

[Wildsprite]

... Either I utterly blanked., or you edited it when I refreshed to post and the quote-chang carried over x-x.

I edited it, I tend to do this in these forums due to the stupid text limitations.

[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...

[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.

[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

[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?