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[StrikeNinja24]

I'd get back into the game if the client didn't absolutely refuse to download every time I tried. Got an error message every single time.

 

[EctoPrime]

i5 750 | 16GB | 750 ti | 1080p

Maximum: 4477
Desktop high: 5176
Desktop standard: 8495
Laptop high: 6774

The machine is bottlenecked by the gpu and probably could gain 20% with something faster.

 

[Plywood]

What in the actual fuck? A 1060 6GB with an Athlon II X4 640?!?!?

babysteps okay :<

 

[Atolm]

Got around 13200 at 1440p @Maximum with a 6700k/1080 combo.

They should add some new type of AA. Even at 1440p there's tons of shimmering on distant objects and foliage. It's a bit annoying.

 

[OsirisBlack]

Ugh. I desperately want to get back in for Red Mage, but my Old Man Reflexes(tm) got me stuck at the storyline Ravana fight in Heavensward and unable to progress.

What server you on? I'm on Excalibur and can pretty much just walk you through heavensward. Main Character godkratos or darthplagueis wise secondary. One of them is always on doing something.

 

[Teletraan1]

Well I can run it but do I want to?

Did they ever fix their absolute trash tier servers/netcode? I had completely unacceptable latency from servers within driving distance. None of the tricks I tried worked, it made it impossible to play in any sort of grouped content as skills that triggered off of other skills would take longer than the already slow GCD to activate. Every other game I have played since has had no issue even on servers across the continent. The fact that there were tricks out there and people paying for VPNs to try and get it working indicate it wasn't only me.

I really liked the game and was really into it but dropped it after encountering the above for my last month. I have played F2P games with less wonky latency.

 

[komaruR]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 4/29/2017 11:53:59 AM
Score: 13004
Average Frame Rate: 87.395
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 11.890 sec
Scene #2 8.529 sec
Scene #3 7.521 sec
Scene #4 10.331 sec
Scene #5 18.516 sec
Scene #6 3.181 sec
Total Loading Time 59.972 sec


Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Maximum

System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
16332.105MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (VRAM 4060 MB)

 

[Sylas]

Well I can run it but do I want to?

Did they ever fix their absolute trash tier servers/netcode? I had completely unacceptable latency from servers within driving distance. None of the tricks I tried worked, it made it impossible to play in any sort of grouped content as skills that triggered off of other skills would take longer than the already slow GCD to activate. Every other game I have played since has had no issue even on servers across the continent. The fact that there were tricks out there and people paying for VPNs to try and get it working indicate it wasn't only me.

I really liked the game and was really into it but dropped it after encountering the above for my last month. I have played F2P games with less wonky latency.

They're relocating data centers for NA mid-May, so if you're on NA servers it'll almost definitely fix things. They've been using a pretty shitty company for them up until this point afaik. EU is getting... something too? I don't really know the details on that but from what I understand it's also being fixed.

 

[Chille]

They're relocating data centers for NA mid-May, so if you're on NA servers it'll almost definitely fix things. They've been using a pretty shitty company for them up until this point afaik. EU is getting... something too? I don't really know the details on that but from what I understand it's also being fixed.

EU moved first, its what the money from the cash shop was used for.

 

[Sylas]

EU moved first, its what the money from the cash shop was used for.

They're still doing something to the EU servers. It might be normal maint? I just know NA is getting 48 hours of downtime and EU/JP are getting 24 hours of downtime soon.

 

[Lazaro]

Benchmark programs made by Japanese developers are awesome.

 

[Kade]

Looks awesome. Unfortunately, the game makes my video card driver crash when I run it in DX11 mode. It runs fine at 1080p maxed out but it'll just crash at random.

 

[Teletraan1]

Thanks for the replies. Interesting to see if it fixes anything. I will give the game another shot after that point to see firsthand.

 

[teiresias]

I got about 15182 with my 6700k and my 1080Ti at 3440x1440 (which is really just rendering 2560x1440 view, but actually choosing 2560x1440 stretched to the screen for some reason).

I turned up some things (turned off LOD for shadows for instance) so it still seems like a good score.

Unfortunately, I never actually finished the storyline of the original release so haven't even touched Heavensward. I doubt I have time to get back into it too. Bleh @ adulting.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

Looks awesome. Unfortunately, the game makes my video card driver crash when I run it in DX11 mode. It runs fine at 1080p maxed out but it'll just crash at random.

If you're using an AMD card (r9 390/280 or something like that) then you'll need to update your drivers.

There was also something about a specific gfx card/cpu combo making it crash as well.

I think it was Nvidia GFX card/AMD processor that caused that.

But if you have an AMD card try updating drivers first.

 

[kromeo]

Score: 15495
Average Frame Rate: 107.326
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.881 sec
Scene #2 2.627 sec
Scene #3 2.102 sec
Scene #4 3.000 sec
Scene #5 5.294 sec
Scene #6 1.082 sec
Total Loading Time 15.987 sec

This was with TitanXP and a 5820K, no overclocks. fps dropped down into the low 50s in the flying part

 

[Arkeband]

Looks awesome. Unfortunately, the game makes my video card driver crash when I run it in DX11 mode. It runs fine at 1080p maxed out but it'll just crash at random.

Overlays can also trigger it, try to get rid of things like Rainmeter, mouse/keyboard services, and other stuff running in the background.

 

[Momentary]

I have an old Square Enix account that had a security token. Since then I've upgraded my phone, laptop, and desktop.... I don't have my emergency password lol. I'm screwed. Maybe it's a sign that I shouldn't jump back into this game.

 

[FinalAres]

I have an old Square Enix account that had a security token. Since then I've upgraded my phone, laptop, and desktop.... I don't have my emergency password lol. I'm screwed. Maybe it's a sign that I shouldn't jump back into this game.

Just talk to their chat support. I had a similar problem, it's all fine.

 

[Kudo]

i5 750 | 16GB | 750 ti | 1080p

Maximum: 4477
Desktop high: 5176
Desktop standard: 8495
Laptop high: 6774

The machine is bottlenecked by the gpu and probably could gain 20% with something faster.

I had GTX 780 and i5-750 then upgraded only CPU to i7-6700K, no noticeable performance upgrade.
I think this game runs pretty heavy on GPU and CPU usage spikes in crowded scenes.

 

[Zeta Oni]

Just ran the benchmark on a Surface Pro 4 i5

Got it to run surprisingly well (3990), to the point I'm considering downloading and trying the full game, as I really wasn't expecting that.

 

[JoeyJungle]

I'd get back into the game if the client didn't absolutely refuse to download every time I tried. Got an error message every single time.

I dunno why this problem still exists, it's totally fucked. Good news though is that the stuff you download before the error message still gets saved, so if you baby it and relaunch the app every ~20 minutes you'll download it eventually.

I got around it using a VPN (downloaded with no errors, ipvanish is my fav. ipvanish and private internet access are the fastest VPN providers, coupon SAVE20NOW gets you 20% off any ipvanish subscription). I think before that I also tried changing DNS settings and the errors became less frequent but still occurred at least once an hour.

 

[Squishy3]

Well I can run it but do I want to?

Did they ever fix their absolute trash tier servers/netcode? I had completely unacceptable latency from servers within driving distance. None of the tricks I tried worked, it made it impossible to play in any sort of grouped content as skills that triggered off of other skills would take longer than the already slow GCD to activate. Every other game I have played since has had no issue even on servers across the continent. The fact that there were tricks out there and people paying for VPNs to try and get it working indicate it wasn't only me.

I really liked the game and was really into it but dropped it after encountering the above for my last month. I have played F2P games with less wonky latency.

You could've been getting screwed by the level 3 node that was always getting congested for a large amount of users and would cause unplayable latency, which was completely out of the hands of Square-Enix, and is probably something that partially informed their decision to move the servers, people went through the rigamarole of contacting SE, only to be told to contact the ISP, who told the user that it was level 3's fault and the solution would be to use something like mudfish. (pay as you use VPN that would let you take a different route to the servers and since XIV's an MMO it barely uses any data as it's just sending inputs.)

They're still doing something to the EU servers. It might be normal maint? I just know NA is getting 48 hours of downtime and EU/JP are getting 24 hours of downtime soon.

NA's getting 48 hours to move the servers, EU's probably getting 24 to expand/improve because they'll probably make the changes they need to make to prepare for the inventory expansion.

Q28: There was an announcement regarding inventory slot expansion, but we would like to know which inventory (inventory/Armoury chest) is being increased and by how much!

A28: We received comments that the Armoury chest and inventory could not be expanded due to PS3 limitations, but the two are separate issues. When players move areas or go into instances, all item data is being moved along with the character, so if we were to add additional item slots without much thought, the amount of data being transferred could become ridiculous, network usage would skyrocket, and servers could go down.

With this in mind, in Patch 4.0 we will implement the first inventory expansion, take a look at the state of the servers, then prepare for additional expansions.

The Armoury chest will receive 10 extra slots for each category of equipment, while the item inventory will be increased by 40 slots.

* During the stream we showed off images of the updated UI.

I am also discussing with our server programmer Kasuga whether we can utilize other methods to efficiently increase inventory space.

 

[JoeyJungle]

Score: 11403
Average Frame Rate: 76.211
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.743 sec
Scene #2 2.335 sec
Scene #3 1.885 sec
Scene #4 2.496 sec
Scene #5 4.704 sec
Scene #6 0.952 sec
Total Loading Time 14.116 sec

System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (14393.rs1_release_sec.170327-1835)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
16340.809MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (VRAM 6103 MB)

What's weird is it shows the stock speed for my CPU, it's actually overclocked to 4.4GHZ. I guess they just have descriptors they pull when they identify the part?

edit: after reading through the thread, really glad I got an SSD finally. Some people have 40+ seconds of loading time, the 850evo is so dandy for games like this that have constant loads.

 

[show me your skeleton]

man watching this makes me want to get back into this.

Spoiler

i'll just get the art book instead

 

[Kudo]

Enabled very little clocks on my GTX 1070, Avg FPS was 67 before and with +100 to core and +150 to mem I got Avg 70, with score around 10584.

Was just curious to see if I can get it to run stable 60 at launch and I guess it shouldn't be any problem with this score.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

13k score (at 1080p + maximum preset) on my new and shiny PC.

For reference I was getting like 5k-6k on past benchmarks on my last PC (1080p + custom preset (a mix of medium and high)

I think I'm ready to go back to the game, I might be able to finish HS content before Stormblood.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 4/29/2017 10:55:55 PM
Score: 10843
Average Frame Rate: 73.912
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 22.679 sec
Scene #2 11.628 sec
Scene #3 9.935 sec
Scene #4 15.803 sec
Scene #5 23.392 sec
Scene #6 3.255 sec
Total Loading Time 86.694 sec

System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
8149.703MB
Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (VRAM 8140 MB)

Tried it at 1370ghz, now to see if 1360 will be close on the framerate. Fans getting high to keep the card temp below 70. These extra clocks don't seem to matter much.

Edit: Nearly the same score at 1360MHz, yeah, I'll stick to that with quieter fans and less watts.

Tested on: 4/29/2017 11:19:33 PM
Score: 10829
Average Frame Rate: 73.836
Performance: Extremely High

 

[Renesis]

Score: 12435
Average Frame Rate: 84.109
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.914 sec
Scene #2 2.529 sec
Scene #3 2.015 sec
Scene #4 2.892 sec
Scene #5 5.144 sec
Scene #6 1.159 sec
Total Loading Time 15.654 sec

System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
16351.137MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (VRAM 4059 MB

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[AgeEighty]

I kinda wanna hop back in, but then again, I haven't even beat vanilla yet. Might be too overwhelming.

Parts of Stormblood will be available without playing through Heavensward, I believe.

 

[KainXVIII]

Getting around 10k of points, but not impressed by graphics, bring on FFXV benchmark on pc &#128512;

 

[ISee]

Getting around 10k of points, but not impressed by graphics, bring on FFXV benchmark on pc &#128512;

It looks good for a game that started on PS3 and it holds up well compared to other MMOs, imo.

 

[KainXVIII]

It looks good for a game that started on PS3 and it holds up well compared to other MMOs, imo.

Well, maybe its so, i rarely play any MMORPG more than a hour.

 

[Korezo]

9672 DX11@ 4k Max

i7 2600k, 980Ti

But it doesn't even tell me the FPS..

 

[Qvoth]

average fps is shown when you save the score

 

[Ploid 3.0]

It looks good for a game that started on PS3 and it holds up well compared to other MMOs, imo.

The only other mmorpg that looks better graphically is Black Desert to me. When you disable the HUD it even goes into a Skyrim DoF picture mode. It looks so good, runs good too. So pretty. It's more of a mmo arpg though (good for me).

 

[Joqu]

The only other mmorpg that looks better graphically is Black Desert to me. When you disable the HUD it even goes into a Skyrim DoF picture mode. It looks so good, runs good too. So pretty. It's more of a mmo arpg though (good for me).

It could really use some decent anti-alliasing options though

 

[mike6467]

This seems to be as good a place to ask as any.

Are you required to have beaten the main game (or god forbid the main game + Heavensword) to play this one?

 

[kromeo]

This seems to be as good a place to ask as any.

Are you required to have beaten the main game (or god forbid the main game + Heavensword) to play this one?

You needed to have completed the main story to get to heavensward stuff so i would think so

 

[JoeyJungle]

This seems to be as good a place to ask as any.

Are you required to have beaten the main game (or god forbid the main game + Heavensword) to play this one?

You needed to have completed the main story to get to heavensward stuff so i would think so

They were talking about having an item that jumps you straight to level 60 and lets you start the expansion content immediately, I dunno what came of that though.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

It could really use some decent anti-alliasing options though

Yeah, and if I remember correctly, it doesn't handle supersampling well. I just remember fighting with its scaling problems. It puts 1080p in a 4:3 square or something if I use full screen.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Wait a minute...

Red mage are coming to FFXIV ?

 

[gryvan]

Wait a minute...

Red mage are coming to FFXIV ?

Yes

 

[GuitarGuruu]

I'd get back into the game if the client didn't absolutely refuse to download every time I tried. Got an error message every single time.

Have you tried downloading with a VPN? That's what I had to do to get it to download for whatever reason.

 

[Momentary]

Just talk to their chat support. I had a similar problem, it's all fine.

Cool. I'll be gone for work for three weeks so when I get back I'll treat myself to some FFXIV goodness.

 

[JoeyJungle]

Yeah, and if I remember correctly, it doesn't handle supersampling well. I just remember fighting with its scaling problems. It puts 1080p in a 4:3 square or something if I use full screen.

Could be your video card aspect ratio settings. I had this problem for months with my old AMD card before I finally realized it was a AMD control panel option. Here's what it looks like on Nvidia (don't have AMD anymore) http://i.imgur.com/w6Kaj0g.png

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Could be your video card aspect ratio settings. I had this problem for months with my old AMD card before I finally realized it was a AMD control panel option. Here's what it looks like on Nvidia (don't have AMD anymore) http://i.imgur.com/w6Kaj0g.png

I'm sure I tried it before, but clicked it over just now and it works. Thanks, and it looks like this now http://imgur.com/a/rNSlI I remember turning everything on and off in this menu. Heck I should have tried it while it was off, maybe a Black Desert update fixed it recently.

Fake Edit: Ok it works even without it now. They did fix it. I should have tried it before saying that. Wonder how good the supersampling works now. It'll probably murder the framerate though.

 

[SpiderJerusalem]

What server you on? I'm on Excalibur and can pretty much just walk you through heavensward. Main Character godkratos or darthplagueis wise secondary. One of them is always on doing something.

Woo Excalibur

 

[Celcius]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 4/30/2017 11:26:08 PM
Score: 12077
Average Frame Rate: 82.456
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.378 sec
Scene #2 1.929 sec
Scene #3 1.518 sec
Scene #4 2.092 sec
Scene #5 3.730 sec
Scene #6 0.817 sec
Total Loading Time 11.467 sec

Intel Core i7 7700K @ 4.7ghz
Asus Maximus IX Hero
16GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 3200mhz 14-14-14-34-2T
1TB Samsung 960 Pro
Evga GTX 780 Ti @ +150 core / +150 mem

 

[Chessr]

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood Benchmark
Tested on: 01/05/2017 13:48:28
Score: 13988
Average Frame Rate: 98.157
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 2.313 sec
Scene #2 3.118 sec
Scene #3 2.404 sec
Scene #4 3.141 sec
Scene #5 6.013 sec
Scene #6 1.445 sec
Total Loading Time 18.436 sec

Score: 13988 Extremely High
1920x1080 Maximum DirectX11 Full Screen
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

thats ok i guess my cpu is oc to 4.5 ghz.