--Benchmark Guide--

[Miles]

I get a 3200 on my PC, and the game looks absolutly incredible. The bench's kinda shadey. If you run past 3000 with a good vid card, then itll be a great experience.

[mokalikawoo]

Even if you get 5000+ marks, running the game in high resolution with bump mapping etc drags the frame rate wayyyyy down in crowded areas (i.e. towns - Jeuno AH :sweat: and PT heavy areas with people casting spells etc coupled with sand storm weather effects). If you have XP, I'd run with at least 512mb RAM to avoid slight stuttering/lag in populated areas.
BTW I get 6000+ marks on my super overclocked system You'll probably need a high spec PC from next year to play the game 100% smoothly with all the trimmings set on :dead:

[Trapezius]

Mokalikawoo:

I have a score of 5478 and in a full alliance with everyone doing spells at the same time and weather effects there is no lag for me, even with maximum resolution and graphics. I have a hard time believing that you get lag since your computer is faster then mine. If you get lag and I don't...then maybe you lied on your score.

[mokalikawoo]

Hmm well here's a screenie of my benchmark right now (I get a couple more points without bg progs running).. proof's always good



There's a directx frame rate counter at www.fraps.com.. In game at full settings graphically intense areas will drop down to about 10-15 fps with a maximum fps of 30.
I don't mind sacrificing picture quality a bit for a constant frame rate.. its just my preference.

[Trapezius]

you just made it to 6000 didn't you? heheh

[Darien Lightsta]

I don't understand it...

System Specs:

Pentium 4 1.8ghz
512mb DDR2700
GeForce3 Ti200
Sound Blaster Audigy X-Gamer
80gb Hard Drive 7200rpm

And the highest score I get is 2,882. What's up with that? People with lower end systems and lower end video cards are scoring higher than me! And yes, all my video card drivers are updated... any suggestions?

[StudioAJ]

first of all you have a 1.8 ghz processor, you won't have an excellent motherboard if you bought it with a processor like this, i'm guessing, next i'm finding your ti200, geforce 3, it's becoming a dated card, but you do get over 2,000, i wouldn't worry about it and just enjoy ffxi ^_~

[Kusanagi]

benchmark

heheheh i got a score of 51851! woohoo!

[Kusanagi]

Re: benchmark

Originally posted by Kusanagi
heheheh i got a score of 51851! woohoo!

oops added an extra "1" should be "5185" *slaps himself with a trout*

[Trapezius]

I got 5844, heheh

[KamuroIshigami]

Benchmark Update.

Originally, I did the benchmark on three machines, we upgraded two of them with new video cards. Here are the improvement differences with the respective computers.

Score: 2989 --> 3769
Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
1GB of RAM
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
NVidia GeForce 3 - 64 MB Video Ram --> Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 - 128 MB Video RAM
170 GB HD Space (3 drives)

Score: 2851 --> 4682
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
512 MB RAM
Windows 2000 Professional (Japanese)
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 640 - 128 MB Video RAM --> Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4800 - 128 MB Video RAM
380 GB HD Space (2 drives)

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)

Apparently, Operating system also makes a difference of about 500 points. XP handles better than Win2K apparently.

[Naruto]

mokalikawoo WoW that's good
what kind of computer do you have??

[sparxx]

hmh, got 3598 with my ATI 9000
I guess that's a fairly good score..

[yuna544]

^_^ 5500 ^_^

[Auron(DE)]

Ah, a bit behind you, Yuna . 5309

Intel 4 2,6 Ghz
512 DDR-Ram
160 GB HDD
ATI Radeon 9600 TX 128 MB
Windows XP