--Benchmark Guide--

[ZombieKilla]

Ok, I have a GeForce 4 and it doesn't really look that great to me. Are there some settings that I need to change or what? I don't really know much about computers. I jus tbought the card because I wanted to play Star Wars Galaxies but now I want to play FFXI Online.

[KamuroIshigami]

Some comparison....

Well, I did a benchmark on three computers, one of them is mine and two of them are my friends, the scores and stats:

Score: 2989
Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
1GB of RAM
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
NVidia GeForce 3 - 64 MB Video Ram
170 GB HD Space (3 drives)

Score: 2851
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
512 MB RAM
Windows 2000 Professional (Japanese)
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 640 (?) - 128 MB Video RAM
380 GB HD Space (2 drives)

*I know it is a GeForce 4 MX, just forgot the number.

Score: 5125
Pentium 4 2.6 GHz
512 MB RAM
Windows XP Home Edition
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 - 128 MB Video RAM
360 GB HD Space (2 drives)

Well, we concluded the video card makes all the difference, your CPU and System RAM be damned.

[XanKnight]

I've ran the benchmark and I keep getting an error that says "Err Code= 2000." Any idea what's wrong?

[Kaiketsu]

Well thats what i got also lol so you can run it no worries thats what its supose to say

[XanKnight]

Alright, I've gotten the benchmark to work on my better computer and these are the specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 GHZ

512 MB SDRAM

Windows 98 SE

All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500 64 MB

SCORE: 4074

How much would my score improve if I ran the bench with a GeForce 4 Ti4200?

What about a GeForce 4 Ti4200 on Windows XP?

[Slade]

Whhaaaa??? 4074??? That's a pretty good score compared to your computer specs...not bad!
And if you switch your card to GeForce Ti 4200 the score would surely increase. And you should get windows xp too. Not sure if it helps on playing the game but I sure like xp more than 98 lol. You could get more RAM also..that would help too.
But on a score of 4074 you would still be able to play the game on a pretty good resolution.

[XanKnight]

Personally, I prefer playing with 98, but so many people said XP is better for FF XI, so I might as well install it.

[iczelion74]

Where in the hell on the page is the download link I searched all over for it and could never find it?

Ah I found it

http://www.playonline.com/ff11win/wina2.html

[iczelion74]

Originally posted by XanKnight
Alright, I've gotten the benchmark to work on my better computer and these are the specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 GHZ

512 MB SDRAM

Windows 98 SE

All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500 64 MB

SCORE: 4074

How much would my score improve if I ran the bench with a GeForce 4 Ti4200?

What about a GeForce 4 Ti4200 on Windows XP?

Thats funny My work machine is a P4 2.0 ghz with 512mb Ram and a Radeon 7500 and it only got 2799, I was just messing around, its not the mahcine Ill play the game on, at home I have a Athlon 1700+ with a 9700 pro and a P III 1gig with a geforce II GTS and I want to run the test on both those systems. I wonder why my work system got lower than yours then since the actual mhz is higher?

[Penance]

I got a score of 3300/3000 so hopefully I will not have much problems ^^

[iczelion74]

OK, I just tested my home systems and are the results....

Main Rig:
Athlon 1700 XP +
512 MB PC 2100
Radeon 9700 PRO
Score = 5123

Secondary System:
Pentium III 1.0 Ghz
512 MB PC 133
Geforece 2 GTS 32mb
Score = 1899

I see from some post abpve people with processors that are over a whole ghz faster than mine getting almost 1000 points less on the test because of an old video card...this game definilty relies more on the card than the proc/memory.

[Casval]

I guess I'll add my computer to this little gathering of information as well
computer specs:
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz
512MB PC2100 DDR Ram
Geforce2 GTS-V 32MB DDR
WinXP
I got around 2300 with this setup with normal settings, but after a bit of tweaking, overclocking, and a few benchmark runs later, I got to 3034

my video card is holding me back from going much further, and I'll be purchasing a new video card at about the same time FFXI comes to NA, most likely the new card will be an ATI Radeon 8500le 64MB card, which should get me to around 4500 or so with a bit of overclocking

[Trapezius]

I would just like to post something humorous:

I have an old computer:
66Mhz
16MB RAM
don't have a Video Card
14 years old (approx)

I got it to get to 1 point!!

a full 1 point!

[Tenkei]

Stats:
AMD Athlon XP 1100
HDD (1) 40 Gig (15 gigs free)
HDD (2) 20 Gig (3 gigs or so free)
512 MB DDR RAM
Radeon 9500 Pro

[Iserion]

I got a 3244 on the benchmark with my new video card (GeForce4 TI 4200

w00t i got 3550 with a G4 MX 440 (with aim & IE running)