StunandStab
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I'm keeping my stupid cat girl, my mind is made up. =P
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Beta Phase 3 Impression: Phase 4 August
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Uh... if you're running at 5.5k you're not hitting 60fps consistently. I have a 10k benchmark and my fps dips below 60.
What do those numbers correspond to then? I am not primarily a PC guy, I don't run a lot of benchmarks, and the benchmark itself doesn't tell me. So I don't know what those numbers are supposed to mean. Would you please inform me?
Unknown Soldier
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Why is everyone getting on the roe bandwagon....Go back to your stupid cat girls.
Don't be mad that cat people are so superior to all the other races. It was destiny.
The benchmark is a bit annoying because it only shows the average framerate, which is a useless indicator for how much you drop when you're around 936 other people in town for instance.
The best way to get an idea of your minimum framerate when it's a busy scene is to have FRAPS running and watch it. The scene where they are fighting the coeurls at the beach and the party on chocobos pass by is the one which knocks me down the lowest during the benchmarks.
There are still shadows on Standard, I believe, although they aren't as detailed.
Personally, Standard looks great to me and, given that my PC is several years old and aside from FFXIV no other future PC game interests me, I really have no interest to upgrade for a single game. Sure, it might not look as impressive as High/Maximum, but at least it should run at a decent rate.
The game definitely doesn't look bad at Standard, at least to me. You just don't get a lot of the extra flourishes that come with the higher graphical settings [more detailed grass/shadows/character models, etc.].
They correspond directly to your fps. Basically the higher number, the higher and more consistant frame rate you have.
Relaxed Muscle
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It's just a meassure to able to tell how well the game runs on your PC, 5.500 corresponds to fairly high, which means you can reach 60fps+ on dungeons and such but with lot of things on screen your fps will drop it some occasions below 30fps.
From there you work with settings to get more points until you obtain perfect 60fps.
I'm one of those that don't care slowdown on a MMO if I can make it look good. I mean XI was constantly sub 30fps and I played fine.
LowParry
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How can they be superior if their tails clip through armor. Sheesh.
Shadows are probably still on Standard Desktop settings, but on Standard Laptop shadows are disabled for all players and NPCs other than your character. It is a little disconcerting watching the benchmark test and seeing the whole group of people riding on chocobos while only one person has a shadow.
Unknown Soldier
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There were actually tail holes in all the armor models in 1.x. I don't know why the tail holes were removed in ARR, causing the clipping to occur. I guess Yoshida isn't actually our saviour after all.
Ah, that might be. I never did try the Standard Laptop settings test, so that's a possibility.
Yeah, I can understand that. Not having shadows in a persistent game like this would irk me. Actually, the next time I run the test I should see if the shadows under Standard apply to other characters as well as my own. If I have shadows and no one else does, that would bother me way too much. ~_~
Very much agree. Better to have no shadows at all than to only have them on your character, it's all or none.
I was satisfied turning down the Shadow Resolution to 512 and using the low detail models in shadows, then leaving the Shadow Softening at Strong. Boosted the performance while keeping a decent appearance as far as I was concerned.
Morphine1680
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Is everyone decided on their classes? I played CNJ on phase 3, it was ok but at the end it was getting kinda boring. Thing I liked was that my queue times were less than 5 secs
demosthenes
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On the default high setting which I scored 5.5k on I had 48fps average. On standard which I scored 10.5k on I had average 88 fps.
SoraanTribal
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I'm doing Arcanist first. I already have a 50 CJN/WHM, but Scholar looks far more interesting to play and heal as imo.
Yeah, I will be playing a Gladiator. I have played a tank in every MMO I have played so far, and I see no reason to change that policy. My brother will be playing a Conjurer, so I already have a party lined up. Whenever the two of us used the Duty Finder to get into a Guildhest or dungeon during the beta, we got in literally instantaneously.
The only thing I am undecided about is what class to pursue second.
Lavalamp1138
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I'm starting out as an Arcanist just to try it out and also so Limsa Lominsa can be my starting area. And then when I get to level 15 I'll swap over to Conjurer, which is what I'll use as my primary job.
Morphine1680
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Yes, Amazon sends a code almost on same day
I pre ordered from EB. Should they have given me a code?
Morphine1680
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According to their site, yes. But I dont know how fast they send it. You can always contact them.
I'm honestly not sure. Didn't enjoy Archer very much in Phase 3, but I only got to like level 16 and I really want to be a bard. Eh, it's not a big deal anyways, I'll be leveling up every class to try out the shard classes with the familar names.
Whenever Red Mage happens that will be my main class.
So I just ran through the Standard Settings benchmark and shadows were indeed selected only for your character.
However, I tweaked the settings to included other NPC's and it only decreased my score by 100 or so [7700 instead of 7800]. According to the results, my average frame-rate should be 66, but I'm sure that will lessen in populated areas.
Either way, I'm happy!
However, I tweaked the settings to included other NPC's and it only decreased my score by 100 or so [7700 instead of 7800]. According to the results, my average frame-rate should be 66, but I'm sure that will lessen in populated areas.
Either way, I'm happy!
fluffydelusions
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Silly SE doesn't realize it's 17 days till release and I can't register my code yet =\
Marauder, or at least Paladin. I played as BLM for years in XI and I need a breath of fresh air, so a tank will do. Plus getting a bad tank is the worst thing that can happen in this game since he pulls/decides the enemies order/ETC, so I prefer to have not leave anything to chance.
fluffydelusions
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Ah thanks for the info!
You're very welcome.
MoonLightWave
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Sooo when is phase 4?
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Zabant
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She's annoying, in that she cant settle on an accent. Seems nice though.
How much early access do you get with preorder code?
Jathaine
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I actually didn't see very many with it in phase 3.
LowParry
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That's pretty damn hot. However I would recommend (or maybe it's just the screenshot) working with a more darker base color with some highlights. Makes the light colors go and it just looks damn good.
Jathaine
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No, that's what it supposed to do. After that you actually run the benchmark from the main benchmark menu by clicking Start.
Derp, somehow I missed the Start button.
Morphine1680
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One week
Heck yeah! Dang between this and the new systems I don't know how I'm going to manage my time.
Jathaine
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Hmm, this is the only possible darker base color without changing colors completely.
I kind of like it but I'm not sure if I want her hair to be so dark.
I might either remove the highlights entirely or change the color... or something.
Not sure.
I though it wasn't confirmed. =/
Lavalamp1138
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We'll find out during the live letter on the 8th
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