Official PC Benchmark Released for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

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Square-Enix has just released the new official benchmark software for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Wonder how well FFXIV will play on your computer? Go to the benchmark website, download the software, and find out! The website also includes instructions on how to download and launch the benchmark software.

The software uses actual maps and characters and assigns your computer a score based on how well it runs through the software’s contents. Under 1,000 means your computer cannot play FFXIV, whereas over 9,000 7,000 means that your computer can easily handle the highest settings of the game.

Based on previous info from the development team, if your computer could handle FFXIV 1.0, it should also be able to run FFXIV: ARR. But I’m sure people will still rest easier knowing for certain!

Got 3,400 on the default setting, 2,400 when I increased the resolution a bit. Not bad for a HP laptop.

I scored 6,199 with all the settings turned up to max, so I'm feeling pretty good about that.

Over 9000 with all settings at max, but on 1280x720 resolution. Once I bump that up to 1920x1080 resolution, it goes down to around 6,000. The benchmark just makes me want this so badly - my body is ready!

Yeah, for clarity my score of 6,199 was running at 1600 x 1024. If I bumped it up to 1920 x 1200, I fell drastically to mid 4,000s range with everything on max.

Max Settings, Resolution @ 1280x720: 5768
High Settings, Resolution @ 1920x1080: 4028

I am happy with this though with my tax return might buy a new, better GPU.

1600x1000 (my screen res is 1680x1050) at max settings gave me 4,400 or something, which it said is 'High' and should run everything at max settings. There were no problems with the benchmark, very fluid, so I'm pretty happy. Danielle with a similar PC to mine got it running at a higher resolution and it gave her 4,300 or so.

I ran the benchmark with the default settings on a 3.5-year-old laptop and received a 1700 score. If even that's capable of running the game, I think most people here are ok. :p

My screen res is max 1600x900 (*might* get a new monitor :p ) so my results are all with 1280x720.

My Medium score - 8225
My High score - 5483
My Extreme score - 3604

System: (3+ year old Dell Studio XPS which ran XI and 1.0 just fine)

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz
8183.117MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240(VRAM 494 MB) 8.15.0011.8627

I will be changing my power supply to 650 to accommodate switching my 240 card to a 560. Will this be a great improvement?

Here's mine:

Screen Size: 1280x720
Medium
Score:10787
Average Framerate:94.722
Performance:Extremely High

High
Score:7316
Average Framerate:60.574
Performance:Extremely High

Maximum
Score:5526
Average Framerate:45.770
Performance:Very High

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Medium
Score:6299
Average Framerate:51.337
Performance:Very High

High
Score:3980
Average Framerate:31.799
Performance:High

Maximum
Score:3012
Average Framerate:24.121
Performance:Fairly High

System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
12248.945MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.0697

And yes Lumos, you will notice a world of difference. I have a Dell computer myself that I upgraded, so I know your pain with the power supply (had to upgrade to a Corsair TX750), took me like 3 hours trying to cram it in the tower and hook everything up. On another note anyone else notice how the CPU doesn't really get used in this benchmark. Mine never spiked above 20% and for the most part stayed in the 11-15% range.

3600 at max settings, 1920x1080. 4200 with medium shadows and medium ambient occlusion. I feel pretty all right about that as well.

Ultimate Settings got me 3545 at 1900x1200 and I didn't actually notice any stuttering. I'll probably put it on High, just because I got 5000 with it.

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Originally Posted by nirojan

Maximum
Score:3012
Average Framerate:24.121
Performance:Fairly High

System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
12248.945MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.0697

On another note anyone else notice how the CPU doesn't really get used in this benchmark. Mine never spiked above 20% and for the most part stayed in the 11-15% range.

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There's something wrong with this picture... You should be getting at least double the score with those specs, make sure you turn on occlusion culling (not sure why this isn't on by default, nor why you can even turn it off).

You'll also find the i7's aren't really utilized by games as well as an i5, neither is the 12GB of RAM. But by no means should it make your performance any lower.

yeah man. I got a higher score on a GTX460 1GB and C2Q at 3.2GHz. Honestly though, just turning down graphics a tiny bit, I become CPU-limited.

Unless, of course, GTX650 is a mobile GPU with shared RAM.

Waiting for nirojan to come in and say "Oh, I forgot to add a 1 at the start of all those numbers, silly me!" :D

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Unless, of course, GTX650 is a mobile GPU with shared RAM.

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That's true, if it's a mobile one then that would explain it. With my scores I'm running an i5 @ 3.0Ghz, 8GB DDR3 RAM and a GTX580.

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Originally Posted by Rostum

make sure you turn on occlusion culling (not sure why this isn't on by default, nor why you can even turn it off).

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How exactly do I turn this on? Been looking online and all I see is Minecraft sites.

EDIT: This is the card that I bought:http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-2...s=evga+GTX+650

I don't know why the benchmark shows it as 4GB when it's advertised as 2. Btw, Battlefield 3 and Crysis run great on it.

In the FFXIV benchmark's settings.

No it's not a mobile card, but it turns out the 650's not that great. Will look into an upgrade down the road now that I know more about Nvidia cards (Anything with a x50 is considered an "entry level card", the 6 at the front merely shows what generation of GTX line it is). Probably should have looked this up before buying :(

For now, I'll be playing at...:onoes: a lower resolution :G:whimper:

GTX *60 are usually the appliciable generation's mid-level card. while *70 and *80 are the mid-high and high end cards.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

GTX *60 are usually the appliciable generation's mid-level card. while *70 and *80 are the mid-high and high end cards.

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Yeah. For example your 460 is still better than my 650, even though it's two generations behind and 1GB less:
http://www.hwcompare.com/13824/gefor...tx-650-ti-2gb/

Now I know :grumble:

GTX 460 was considered a really good bang for your buck card when it was released, as well as having about a 15% factory overclock with a better cooling solution. It's why I bought it :). It was the current generation's 8800GT :p.

Just so you know, huge amounts of VRAM do not translate to performance very well. It is just an upper limit on how high quality textures you can put on the video card without having to ask the CPU for additional data from system RAM. The performance difference between 1 and 2 GB VRAM is 0% for all games that use less than 1 GB VRAM. I don't think FF14 offers high enough resolution textures for the game to require a lot more than 1 GB RAM, but that could change.

Actually, when the servers go back up again, I'll load GPU-Z and check exactly how much it uses.

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Yeah. The game uses like 600 MB VRAM for me, with stuff on maximum. I have an idle use of 200 MB VRAM, and this increase to 800 when I'm in the middle of an area with a ton of characters.

Question:

My computer gets quite a bit louder when running the game. (I only play this game, no other game; XI in the past but I don't recall it doing the same with XI) Fans somewhere bump up with the extra (CPU use I assume) running XIV. Honestly I don't know what specifically gets louder.

I've gotten used to this but wishing it wouldn't. I'm sure it's probably fine, but it makes me feel like its working a lot harder. It did this with 1.0 and I hoped maybe it wouldn't with their new engine, but it does.

When I make my hardware change from a GeForce GTS240 to a EVGA GTX 560, are the newer generation cards (going from 200 series to 500) quieter? I will also be upgrading the PS from 350 to 650 (biggest I could get that was the exact same size physically - might be overkill but better than not enough). Any input as to whether my computer may be quieter or seem to "not be working as hard"? Is there a chance that much newer hardware alone won't be as loud?

It's your fans. Specifically your CPU fan and GPU fan. Games always make your components work harder. If they didn't, the games would probably not be playable. The components generate more heat while working harder, so there needs to be more cooling going on. FF11 does not utilize graphics cards very well, so none of them really speed up from that game. It is normal in more or less every game, though.

New components will still work as hard as they can to give you the best possible performance in the game, though. New video cards might be just as loud as your old one, it depends on what sort of fans are being used. Small, radial fans are often more easily noticable than larger fans. You should probably go for a video card model that is advertised as "not as loud as the competitors" if you are sensitive to that sort of noise.

Got 4,911 on 1920x1080 Maximum. Happy with that. Had a lot of other programs running at the same time and also had a blu ray paused plus the PC had been on for like 48 hours straight so I imagine on a fresh restart with little else running it should bump into the 5,000s at least.

Now I want the game though. :(

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:3/8/2013 11:31:20 AM
Score:8766
Average Framerate:74.910
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Everything on max and resolution: 1920x1080 score: 8702... PS: the game looks so friggin beautiful and awesome

--EDIT-- I just noticed i had Perfect world + Guild Wars 2 running on the background when i benchmarked xD

Can you post the specs of your computer, mini ninja?

Forgot to mention mine was with 1920x 1080 resolution. Looking forward to playing.

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Originally Posted by Roogle

Can you post the specs of your computer, mini ninja?

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Nvidia Geforce GTX670
AMD FX-4170 Quad-core (4.20GHz)
8GB RAM

As what i can remember (( obviously im not home, so i cant check the rest of 'em ))

3 Months later...

I am finally getting around to this with my PC.

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
AMD FX(tm)-4170 Quad-Core Processor 4.2GHz
8139.504MB
Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC 2 GB DDR5




FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:6/7/2013 10:21:31 PM
Score:4504
Average Framerate:36.448
Performance:High



It performs on 1920x1080 Max well enough, but I will more than likely play on 1600x900 High. Gotta be able to do multiple things at once on the computer, ya know.


FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:6/7/2013 10:41:57 PM
Score:6348
Average Framerate:51.624
Performance:Very High

Apparently between phase 3 and 4 of beta they will release a new benchmark that will also have the finalized character creation process, that you can save / import / export character templates to use. :D