The Benchmark Thread

[KentaRawr!]

ARGH this is why I hate PC gaming. Why won't you play with my chipset it's all lonely ;_;

We can be PS3 buddies.

[Mirage]

ARGH this is why I hate PC gaming. Why won't you play with my chipset it's all lonely ;_;

It's pretty much because you haven't got a PC made for gaming...

[Baloki]

ATI HD 3870 X2 512MB DDR3
Intel DuelCore E2180 @2GHZ
4GB RAM
Win 7 Pro x64

[Dignified Pauper]

How do you find your benchmark. I know last night, it was running very choppy for me.

[Loony BoB]

At the end of the video sequence it takes you to a screen similar to that which Baloki posted. If you have it on loop, the screen will only be around for about a minute or so before the video starts again.

[Dignified Pauper]

what, a video sequence?!

also, are the servers down?

[Baloki]

DP, you need to download the benchmark program listed in the FAQ thread. Also my benchmark ran smoothly and didn't seem to drop a frame so I don't understand the low score, also I got a slightly higher score running the high-res version :/ I suspect it's the lack of crossfire support in the windowed benchmark that's the issue :/

[Dignified Pauper]

hmmm, i am downloading it now! WEE!

edit:

also, are the servers down currently?

Scored a 291 on my laptop, will have to try again on my PC.

[Miriel]

Beta won't work on vmware fusion. In fact, it's not even working via bootcamp/Windows 7, but I don't know if that's an issue specifically with mac & bootcamp since it seems like a lot of Windows users are getting the exact same error I am.

I'm also going to attempt to get it to work on Parallels because booting back and forth between the two OS is super annoying, and if it's possible to get it running virtually on Mac OS, that would be ideal.

[Bunny]

2044 on the max resolution; 2750 on the lowest available resolution. The first one might not be entirely accurate depending on how much active downloads affect the speed at which the scenes load.

Edit: Just ran the highest resolution video with the downloads shut off and got slightly higher results (about 2150 or so). The ms decreased significantly though (from 100k to 19k).

[Mirage]

Speaking of, this benchmark is running as a demo on like every computer on display in Tokyo, and most of them aren't even outperforming my PC with a two year old 8800 GT in it.

[Dignified Pauper]

looks like i won't be playing since it's not working for me, i'll have to play the ps3 version. BOO

[Miriel]

Benchmark runs beautifully, but the Beta client WILL NOT WORK.

So much hatred for Square rising up right now. With so many people unable to get the client to work, even people who were fine with alpha, I have to believe the problem is with the client and not with my computer. And they're doing squat to address the issue. :/ I guess they have enough people testing beta that it really doesn't matter if a couple hundred people can't get it to work.

[Old Manus]

I got a measly 270

Ah well, at least that'll save me a few hundred quid on subscription fees. It looked better than the score it gave me, the framerate wasn't too far behind normal, I think that if it could run in fullscreen and I tweaked my graphics card settings I could make it more passable. Not getting my hopes up though, back to Football Manager to suck the very being from my wilting body :manus:

[Loony BoB]

Football Manager is pretty demanding on a desktop these days as it is - well, if you play the 3D version, anyway. I remember when I upgraded to Windows 7 it just wouldn't play in 3D mode smoothly for a while so I switched to 2D and never looked back for months. Finally decided to check things out again and my players in 3D surprised me with how extreme they were - all of them were either massive well-built 6'4" players or tiny skinny 5'6" players (basically fullbacks and wingers!). It was weird.