The Benchmark Thread

[Suvious]

That video makes the the EXP cap actually sound like a legitimately decent idea o_O when I first heard about it I was fairly "No way, marketing hax" but now it seems legitimately appropriate. The retail release is September 30th right?

[Loony BoB]

Yup, 30th. And with a voice like that, you can make anything sound like a good idea. Not saying it's bad, but dude, what a great voice to have. It reminds me of the Viridian Dynamics commercials on Better Off Ted. Which are great.

[Suvious]

Reminds me of the Old Spice commercials xD Look at your game, now look at mine, now back at yours, and back at mine - unfortunately, your game isn't mine.

I scored 2128 with my system, they need whacked out machines to play that game. ^.-

[Loony BoB]

I'm not 100% sure, but if you turn down the settings that might run the game okay. What graphics card do you have? That seems to be by far the important piece of equipment for FFXIV.

[Aerith's Knight]

I got a 2060 on HIGH with a Quad core and a Geforce 9800 GTX

But I think this entire benchmark seems stupid. It never even used more than 40% of any of my processors, and barely 30% of my RAM. Is my card that much of a bottleneck?

[Loony BoB]

That's a 2 year old 512MB card, yeah? In which case yeah, it will be a bit of a bottleneck. I think if you upgraded that card then you'd get a much better experience out of the game, but don't quote me on that - I'm not an expert on other components and you haven't specified anything but the card you're using (quad core is a bit vague - do you know the processor model or the amount/type of RAM you have, etc).

[Suvious]

My graphics card is a GTS 250, it's not that old... probably a year or so...

[Aerith's Knight]

That's a 2 year old 512MB card, yeah? In which case yeah, it will be a bit of a bottleneck. I think if you upgraded that card then you'd get a much better experience out of the game, but don't quote me on that - I'm not an expert on other components and you haven't specified anything but the card you're using (quad core is a bit vague - do you know the processor model or the amount/type of RAM you have, etc).

Well, yeah, it's a two-year old PC. Quad Core 2.66 gig, 4 gig RAM, Geforce 9800GTX.

Upgrading is expensive as hell though.

[Loony BoB]

I'd say the graphics card is the only thing holding you back. Look for a GTX 460 1GB if you're feeling spendy, I've got one and it plays the game great. If you can't afford that, have a look around for 1GB cards and see what you can find that'll do the business.

[kotora]

2144 on high. Running on an E8400 clocked at 3.8 ghz with a 9800GTX+.

[Aerith's Knight]

I'd say the graphics card is the only thing holding you back. Look for a GTX 460 1GB if you're feeling spendy, I've got one and it plays the game great.

I saw that one. It was on sale for like 300.

Wait.. you think I have 300 euros? xD

I'm a freaking student living in an apartment. I'm barely able to afford my gf, let alone food.

[Carl the Llama]

you might try the ATI Radeon HD 5570 1024MB GDDR3 SILENT PCI-Express Graphics Card not that expensive at the price of £63.99... not sure how much that is in Euros but still relatively cheap.

[Aerith's Knight]

That's less than 100 euros. That is cheap.

[Loony BoB]

Possibly for a reason. Only scores a 2051 on XIV according to this link.

300 euros? Ouch. Hmm. That's about £250, yeah? Okay, you're being ripped off. The best GTX 460 you can get is the Gigabyte 1GB, and that's less than 300 euros, surely?. You can get a 768MB GTX 460 for less than £120 over here, too, so that's what... 140 or so euros? Not a bad price for a good card.

EDIT: Useful link for assessing just where a graphics card stands in relation to the minimum spec... but keep in mind that some cards have variations, of course, such as the 512MB/768MB/1GB/2GB or DDR3 / DDR5 etc.

[kotora]

Might wanna wait for the new 6xxx series from AMD which will probably cause a price drop for the existing 5xxx series.