It seems to me that they will have a podcast dedicated to the game, which is very cool, although I have no idea how big is that site (first time I've been on it) nor how many people watch them. They might have footage of them interviewing Yoshida from E3 or something tho.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August
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It seems to me that they will have a podcast dedicated to the game, which is very cool, although I have no idea how big is that site (first time I've been on it) nor how many people watch them. They might have footage of them interviewing Yoshida from E3 or something tho.
LowParry
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They were pretty big around the time I believe when SWTOR was approaching launch. So who knows.
Unknown Soldier
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I installed the new Nvidia beta drivers and my benchmark score went up over 200 points and average framerate went up 5 fps higher. Excellent!
What are your PC specs?
Filth
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Thank you for contacting the Square Enix Support Centre.
We are sorry to hear you are having an issue with registering your code.
It seems you have got an EU code as this code can not be register on your US account.
We advise you to contact US support in order to exchange your code with a US one.
Here's the thing. I don't know why when I put in the support ticket it didn't go to a us support. I signed up for the beta and it gave me a eu beta code. I put in a ticket it went to eu support. I'm using us links.
We are sorry to hear you are having an issue with registering your code.
It seems you have got an EU code as this code can not be register on your US account.
We advise you to contact US support in order to exchange your code with a US one.
Here's the thing. I don't know why when I put in the support ticket it didn't go to a us support. I signed up for the beta and it gave me a eu beta code. I put in a ticket it went to eu support. I'm using us links.
Morphine1680
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I installed the new Nvidia beta drivers and my benchmark score went up over 200 points and average framerate went up 5 fps higher. Excellent!
Whats the link for benchmark?
I think he might mean this: http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/en/index.html
Just so you know Morphine1680, a new benchmarkl will be released on Thursday. so you might want to check that one out too.
Morphine1680
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Cool downloading now, thxs
I installed the new Nvidia beta drivers and my benchmark score went up over 200 points and average framerate went up 5 fps higher. Excellent!
Too bad that any driver higher than 314.22 isnt reliable for me. I get the "driver has stopped working error" (using a GTX 460 1GB, it seems like its a common issue for some folks using this card). I would like those 5 extra fps.
Running a 2500k and GTX 680.
Oh man I had that card for a while when it came out and had the exact same issues.
Oh man I had that card for a while when it came out and had the exact same issues.
Yeah. First drivers gave a lot of problems, eventually they finally released a fix , but after the 314 drivers that error came back.
There is.
Morphine1680
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Damn, how did Vilmer_ get 8000? lol
360 controller with prompts and everything, I assume?
Yes, I played beta 3 with a wired 360 controller. Theres a HUD especially suited for controllers. It works great.
Ran the same benchmark earlier today, after installing a Radeon HD 7870 OC.
My score went from 4100 on my 6850, to 5551 on the new card. I'm going to see how hot it runs and then try overclocking it a bit. Its probably unrealistic, but it'd be nice to get the score to 6000.
Heh, probably not possible, unless I installed water cooling, or something like that.
My score went from 4100 on my 6850, to 5551 on the new card. I'm going to see how hot it runs and then try overclocking it a bit. Its probably unrealistic, but it'd be nice to get the score to 6000.
Heh, probably not possible, unless I installed water cooling, or something like that.
Unknown Soldier
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It's back for me.
edit: Looks like Nvidia dominates the top of the charts. As expected of Nvidia.
Goodacre0081
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yes. if im not mistaken you can also specify XboxController or DualShock3 styles
Given how much more nVidia charges, I'd expect to get a little extra performance per CU. To be fair though, they're going like things like, "7800 series, 7900 series" for Radeon cards, and there can actually be quite a bit of vary in those lines. nVidia's cards are being listed a bit closer to the actual precise models. This means that there will both by more nVidia cards to list, and that their averages will be less skewed downward.
Unknown Soldier
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Wow, the new 326.41 driver increased my score by over 200 points too! Dat Nvidia driver magic. Seems like they have been working to optimize their drivers for FFXIV before launch. As expected of Nvidia.
Nice. I'm on an i7-950 and GTX 680 myself. Dat Nehalem has lasted me over 3 years now and it's still cooking along nicely.
Someone buy me a new monitor
On the plus side, you should have a hecka good frame rate at the resolution.
As long as my game doesn't lag, and my computer isn't huffing fumes just trying to run it I'm happy. Also, gimme monies for a good 1920x1080 monitor then you can make fun >:O
DavionStriker
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All this has me very excited. I know what I am doing once I get my son down!
Unknown Soldier
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The site accounts for this by showing percentiles if you hover the mouse cursor over the bars. There's also a thin black bar overlaid on the green bar showing the score ranges. And yes as you say, because 7800 and 7900 are reported by family, not by individual model, the range is huge for those thin black bars. It's safe to guess the fastest 7800 and 7900 cards are represented by the extreme high scores (>90% percentile). Note they still lose to Nvidia's cards, the best 7900 is at best as good as the best GTX 680. All the Nvidia cards above GTX 680 are untouchable by AMD anything.
1920x1200 is the way to go for monitors, ideally 2560x1600 but those are far from priced decently.
Oh, I know, but like I said, there's a certain, premium for nVidia cards. For me, the extra performance wasn't worth that premium so. *shrug*
I was just pointing out that there'd be a slightly more, diverse list, up until they hit the top handful of cards, if they went by specific card instead of family.
It doesn't matter if you get an email or not, you just go into the beta forums and download your client.
Morphine1680
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Upgraded drivers and got a better score
Any idea how to improve more? Or should I play on High instead?
Any idea how to improve more? Or should I play on High instead?
Relaxed Muscle
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Take into account that the game seems very CPU dependant, so you may want to look to the CPU too if you want extra frames on XIV.
But I'm on PS3. I guess I'll just let the client stay on my HDD and then enter as normal when Phase 4 starts up?
Unknown Soldier
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Upgraded drivers and got a better score
Any idea how to improve more? Or should I play on High instead?
SLI support isn't in that benchmark. Your score is about right for a GTX 690 with only one of the GPUs actually doing anything.
Not to mention that benchmark doesn't take advantage of multiple GPUs. Doesn't utilize SLI/Crossfire or dual-chip GPUs. Game should soon, like on the OB/retail client, but that benchmark doesn't (neither did phase 3 client).
The day the benchmark was released I got a score of 7400 with a GTX 670 and an i5 3750k (1080 with max settings) but I haven't tried it since the 320+ drivers. I should try that again next time I turn my PC on.
LumpOfCole
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Getting a benchmark score of 8600 with maximum settings (at 1920x1080) is going to be food for fps, right? I'm not sure how it compares with others.
The game does look pretty, if the benchmark is anything to go by!
The game does look pretty, if the benchmark is anything to go by!
Hmm, I don't know then. The current phase 3 client won't work anymore. But it's not like people are receiving emails with new codes or something at the moment.
Morphine1680
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Looks like http://ff14bench.info/benchmark/ is working again
Upgraded drivers and got a better score
Any idea how to improve more? Or should I play on High instead?
There's really something wrong with your system. Is it because the 690 was never optimized for the game, while all the other ones did?
Here's mine:
Score:6403
Average Framerate:52.954
Performance:Very High
Screen Size: 1920x1200
Graphics Presets: Maximum
System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8168.973MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.2049
Driver: 320.49
DavionStriker
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Just scored a 6404 with Beta NVIDIA drivers on an overclocked i5 3770k
Edit: forgot to mention this is on a 660
Edit: forgot to mention this is on a 660
Unknown Soldier
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The GTX 690 is a dual-GPU card, dude. It has 2x GK104 (Kepler) GPUs with similar configuration to single GTX 670s on a single board. Because it's got 2 GPUs, it runs in SLI continuously. The benchmark doesn't support SLI, so his score reflects just a single GPU working while the other is idle. His score is correct, the final game client will properly support SLI and his 690 will actually run at full performance.
Right, that explains it. So the 690 is basically two 670s in one card, what a beast.
Btw, I updated my drivers to the new 326.41, and the score increased from 6403 to 6640 and the average framerate from 52.954 to 54.720.
And as Emitan says, since that benchmark is not very optimized, the new one tomorrow should be even better.
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