Dawntrail Benchmark

[EstelleCere]

I'm not sure if there has been a thread made on this yet, but I don't think they ever made an announcement on when they'd release the benchmark right? Does anyone have any predictions as to when you think they might release it? I was around for the Endwalker one but honestly don't really remember much of the timeframe now between release of the benchmark and release of EW

[Neoyoshi]

Hmmm, May is my guess, but that's a guess out of thin air.

[TKMXIV]

It isn't so much of a guess as a hope. But I'd be really happy if it dropped after PAX east or the 14-hour broadcast in April.

[mallleable]

I'm gonna guess it's gonna be available when the graphics update is like 99% done so probably closer to release.

[EstelleCere]

I'm gonna guess it's gonna be available when the graphics update is like 99% done so probably closer to release.

I assumed that too, but I think that for benchmarks it just shows like the cinematic opening to show you how well your pc can run the game and then has the character creator thing there, so they might only need to finish working on the character updated graphics to release the benchmark. But then again I'm not sure

[Nadda]

Given that they've not really given a benchmark I'd say not enough to be significant.
They wouldn't make the mistake they did of 1.0 of bumping up the graphics if it was gonna cause the game to be unplayable for such a large player base.

[Jade_Tyrant]

Does anyone have any predictions as to when you think they might release it? I was around for the Endwalker one but honestly don't really remember much of the timeframe now between release of the benchmark and release of EW

It's potentially optimistic of me, given the graphics update is involved, but their previous pattern for all the past expansions puts the benchmark as releasing within two weeks (before or after) the last normal patch (hotfixes not included) - and it tends to be released on the same day as or shortly after a Live Letter or something similar. Given that today was likely that last patch (unless they plan to give us a 6.59, which would be unexpected), my hopeful estimate is that we're getting it this weekend with the PAX panel.

[Shori]

I just logged in to the forums to enquire exactly this.

As Yoshida has said we may need to upgrade our PCs ahead of the new expansion I would have expected a benchmark by now to get a better understanding how how this will affect my current PC.

[Ath192]

I just logged in to the forums to enquire exactly this.

As Yoshida has said we may need to upgrade our PCs ahead of the new expansion I would have expected a benchmark by now to get a better understanding how how this will affect my current PC.

Nah that would be too logical, instead they released the endwalker benchmark 5 months before release because that one changed nothing in the requirements of the game and therefore was useless.

[ty_taurus]

There's supposed to be another update on the 23rd, right? For PAX East? Unless I'm forgetting something, we have 3 more big pieces of information to drop: The benchmark, the job actions trailer and job changes announcement, and the actual media tour. If so, then this coming information should contain the benchmark. We still don't have a release date, but we do have pretty firm confidence that Dawntrail does launch in Summer. Assuming the latest, and it coming at the end of August, that's still a pretty tight timeframe to have 3 livestreams, let alone more than that.

Currently, I'm assuming the benchmark will be the 23rd and the job actions trailer will come in May--maybe early May? Because that would give a bit more time for the Media Tour to come out maybe by mid or late June depending on when the Dawntrail release date will be. At this point I'd assume the earliest could be mid July, while the latest of course would be late August.