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We are currently working with the manufacturers to add support for these features by the launch of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn.

Plain as day on the Benchmark website. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/ Plus, the benchmark is run in windowed mode with no access to fullscreen.

Edited, Feb 23rd 2013 2:49am by DevilFruit

The driver is up-to-date, and the computer is less than a month old. :<

Edited, Feb 23rd 2013 3:01am by Lollerfell

-repeated...

Edited, Feb 23rd 2013 3:24am by nchon59

Ran it twice at different resolutions, very happy with the results:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:2/23/2013 1:25:50 AM
Score:10799
Average Framerate:103.484
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1280x720
Graphics Presets: Maximum

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:2/23/2013 1:31:43 AM
Score:7847
Average Framerate:67.826
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Graphics Presets: Maximum

I got an extra thousand points turning off "Improve Overal Graphical Quality" without a big change to what the benchmark looked like. Bumped me up to 5349 on 1920 x 1080 with Max settings.

I ran it on their default setup just to see:



That was fun

That's one thing Yoshi-P said that I wrote in my piece, they're dedicated to making the game always at the top of the MMO market graphically. This implies that they will be updating the graphics as new hardware can handle it, so it should always be gorgeous. What impresses me is how good it looks even at lower settings.

I'm so excited for this! Hope it turns out as good as we all hope!

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:2/23/2013 11:51:51 AM
Score:7066
Average Framerate:59.893
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1200
Graphics Presets: Maximum

System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8138.922MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.1396

Running in bootcamp Windows 8 on my 2012 imac

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:2/23/2013 11:42:31 AM
Score:5382
Average Framerate:43.901
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1200
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Disabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 8 Enterprise N 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130108-1504)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz
8130.668MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX(VRAM 4045 MB) 9.18.0013.0637

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Website http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com
(C) 2010-2013 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

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Looks like a software/OS issue rather than hardware. While you're right that your graphics hardware is kind of weak, it isn't THAT weak.

Try running the benchmark again after a fresh reboot, and kill programs running in the background as much as you can.

For people like my brother and I who wont be using "beastmode rigs", what range of score should we settle on? I have been adjusting everything to get the highest game resolution and score a "Standard".

Is "Standard" what we should be looking to get? Should we be trying to end up with a "Slightly High" or "High" instead?

Here's a good piece that I found on how to improve your benchmark score while still maintaining fairly high settings at 1920x1080. With it, I jumped from a score of 3600 (high) to a score of 5200 (very high).

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/190bqi/optimizing_your_ffxiv_20_experience_performance/

Edited, Feb 24th 2013 4:00pm by Kaelanis

Whoops! It's fixed now.

Server 2012 (fresh install) / 1920x1200 / Maximum settings (no tweaks) 7316
CPU overclock / no GPU overclock other than factory. A bit of advise for anyone running Server 2012 - Set min processor speed to 50% or higher and set power plan to high performance / Processor Scheduling - Programs

Went from 4733 to 7316 which is silly, almost double score something odd is going on.
5-10% gain may be normal but 30-40% is not.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:2/24/2013 8:54:54 PM
Score:7316
Average Framerate:61.576
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1200
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Smooth edges. (Anti-aliasing) : Enabled
-Increase transparent lighting quality. : Enabled
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Use low-detail models on shadows to increase performance. (LOD) : Disabled
-Display : All
-Shadow Resolution : High: 2048 pixels
-Shadow Cascading : High
-Shadow Softening : High
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : High
-Anisotropic Filtering : High
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows Server 2012 Standard 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130108-1504)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
32652.926MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680(VRAM 4095 MB) 9.18.0013.1407

Benchmark results do not provide any guarantee FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn will run on your system.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Website http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com
(C) 2010-2013 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

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Edited, Feb 24th 2013 9:01pm by Levish