FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark - Exploration Now Available!

[DakAttack]

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You still running SLI Dak?

Nope, SLI was such a drag. I'm running a GTX 670 at the moment. The processor and RAM are older, but stronk enough for the time being.

[Aeni]

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Sweet. My GPU is only a couple of years old so I don't have a reason for upgrading it ... just yet. SE worked magic because even on medium settings, the game still looked far better than some newer MMOs at higher settings (lol @ Rift)

[Malacite]

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Yeah Terra can suck a fat one.

[Aeni]

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I took the High Settings and disabled Ambient Occlusion to see how much of an impact it would have on the game. It surprised me to5 find out that ... it does little (well, admittedly, I did go from low to off) 4970 vs 5107, or about 130 points gained on performance. At that point, a net gain of 3% in performance for just disabling one graphical effect doesn't seem to be worth losing whatever quality (You know, I can't even tell) I might keep it off unless I start to find artifacts during beta, only because I don't see any difference in quality, and I see very little in performance increase.

I don't think I'm going to run the game on Max settings, only because I like to play the game, have the browser up in the background, and maybe be on Vent/Mumble ... my rig isn't capable of putting out killer graphics at an acceptable framerate, so I'll be content with "High" graphical settings (1600 x 900)

[Malacite]

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Yeah I'd rather not overheat my GPU, I'm gonna run it on High settings which I'm perfectly happy with for now. I'll max it out when I get my new rig.

[Aeni]

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Yeah I'd rather not overheat my GPU, I'm gonna run it on High settings which I'm perfectly happy with for now. I'll max it out when I get my new rig.

You know what's odd was, after I did the above, I further boosted AF to med (from low) and got an even higher score ... and then I turned off Depth of Field and it went up even higher. By combining higher AF and disabling DoF, I got sharper visuals and a more realistic looking scenery. That's going to be the first thing I am submitting for the beta on day 1. I realize DoF was suppose to be taxing, but it shouldn't be taxing AND crappier.

[Malacite]

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AF?

[Aeni]

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AF?

Anistropic Filtering

[Malacite]

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Ah. I'll fiddle with the settings during beta to see what I like, but I'm pretty comfy in running it on high.

No need for Max anyway until I get a better PC & a monitor that actually supports 1080p. Well, this one DOES have an HDMI slot but the max res on it is 1680x1050.

[GosamerWings]

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Well, I feel like I've gone back in time to when I had my crappy pc with my low benchmark score that I had for FF11 (what a coincidence that I scored low on this one as well XD). But at any rate, I guess I'm excited. Just I ono I'm a little apprehensive considering how things went before. I think I'll wait and see how everything shapes up before I go upgrading my pc for a better experience.

[Balfree]

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Nearly 5000 on maximum ;D

[Jarre]

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I get the following:-

Medium 1680x1050 (my monitor res)4144 (High)
High 1680x1050 - 2715 "Fairly high"

Looking at the benchmark the detail difference between medium and high wern't that noticable and I would enjoy the game at medium no problem and it wouldn't stutter at serious dense npc/pc locations. so its playable on my old system quite well.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:01/03/2013 17:04:04
Score:4144
Average Framerate:34.206
Performance:High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1680x1050
Graphics Presets: Medium
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Disabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Enabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Enabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Disabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Disabled
-Grass Quality : Low
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Enabled
-Display : Personal and Environmental
-Shadow Resolution : Mid: 1024 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : Normal
-Shadow Softening : Low
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Medium
-Anisotropic Filtering : Low
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Disabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display Own
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Off
-Glare : Low
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Disabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
5118.539MB
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (VRAM 2796 MB) 9.18.0013.0697

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

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[Aeni]

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For some reason, the settings in benchmark and the effects produced are not anything like what the settings in-game and the effects it produced. Either they've made last minute changes to the graphic engines or they've really butchered the graphic quality to accomodate more players.

On high with AF pushed upwards, I was expecting a somewhat "nice" looking game, and instead I got effects on crafting (e.g., using an ability) where the light effect, that "burst", would look like utter shit (something you'd find in a PS2 game no less)

I'll put in a beta bug report, if indeed it is a bug, about this.

[arkaine23]

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C'mon now.... Someone out there, somewhere has got to have gotten over 9000!!!!!

In the 7K range myself, HQ 1680x1050.

[Nandito]

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I can't recall where, but apparently someone managed to break 20k -- probably on the lowest settings with overclocked-everything, but still impressive.