My Benchmark - Looks abit low?

[Pedrolot]

Hello there,

I have just done a benchmark test on my PC and got the following - looks abit low? I'm trying to get 60fps throughout but im only currently getting 40fps on 3200x1440.


Any help would be appreciated!


FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 15/12/2016 18:34:51
Score: 5059
Average Frame Rate: 39.516
Performance: Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.121 sec
Scene #2 7.939 sec
Scene #3 8.161 sec
Scene #4 6.604 sec
Scene #5 6.163 sec
Scene #6 2.497 sec
Total Loading Time 33.486 sec

DAT:s20161215183451.dat

Screen Size: 3440x1440
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: Highest Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Background Tessellation: High Quality
-Water Tessellation: High Quality
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+: High Quality (DirectX 11 Only)
-Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (10586.th2_release_sec.161024-1825)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
32693.203MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (VRAM 3072 MB) 21.21.0013.7609

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http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV Score: 5059 3440x1440 Maximum DX11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV Score: 5059 3440x1440 Maximum DirectX11 Windowed NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
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http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV 3440x1440 Maximum DirectX11 Score: 5059 Very High
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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Score: 5059 Very High
3440x1440 Maximum DirectX11 Windowed
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
http://sqex.to/ffxiv_bench_eu #FFXIV


My rig also has DDR4 32gb Corsair Dominator Platnum and 980ti SLi mode on.


Thanks.

[Canadane]

I don't think a 980 will give you 60fps at 1440p.
Perhaps if you lowered a lot of your settings off Maximum, some right down the bare minimum.

[Dzian]

turn off windowed mode might help.

system rendering the game and desktop simultaneousy likely eats a good chunk of your power.

prolly find windows does the buffering in windowed mode and not your gpu...

also don't think sli works in windowed mode... but I haven't used sli for years so that may have changed.

[Vurtney]

also don't think sli works in windowed mode... but I haven't used sli for years so that may have changed.

It works in full screen windowed mode.

As to OP i'm running the game at 2560x1440 with 970 sli which should be equivalent to your 980 ti, at frames over 70-80 in crowded cities (best benchmark areas)

But since the resolution you're running at is ultra wide, it skews things a bit. Your results are definitely on the low end of spectrum. I know for certain water tessalation at max is extremely taxing on just 1 card setups. Have you ran any tests outside your native resolution? (for science)

Edit: Did a benchmark for reference with everything maxed out. Your rig is more powerful than mine and should have no problems with the game at your native resolution. Sorry for not being much of a help here but at least you know your rig should be capable for much more.

[Laraul]

I'd like to point out the benchmark results state you are running 3440x1440, not 3200x1440.

I have a single 980 Ti and running the benchmark at 3840x2160 (aka 4k) gives me a slightly higher score.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward Benchmark
Tested on: 7/23/2016 9:32:45 PM
Score: 5211
Average Frame Rate: 40.228
Performance: Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 3840x2160
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum

System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (10586.th2_release_sec.160630-1736)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz
32755.453MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (VRAM 3072 MB) 10.18.0013.6881