New Benchmark UpdateFollow

Full screen support and other fixes.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/

Cool thanks for the heads up. I am downloading it now to test it.

Since they setup fullscreen support, does that mean SLI support as well? I don't have SLI, but I have a friend who does.

Well i am sitting in 2.2k in high fullscreen 1920-1080 so i am ok with that.

SLI is still not supported.

For the lulz I ran the new benchmark on my media center system, which is 6 years old and has an nVidia 8400 GS in it (cheapest card I could get with an HDMI out.) I think it's an AMD Athlon x2 with 4 GB of RAM. (Hey, six years ago that was a decent system.)

I scored a whopping 485 on it with the warning message of "Insufficient" on medium HD settings. It looked worse than the videos of un-optimized PS3. I think it was getting 2 FPS.

So I dropped it down to 1024x768 and turned off EVERYTHING in the settings. No shadows, no effects at all, not even any kind of quality grass. (You can turn that off, amusingly enough.) Hit 635 this time, but it's still officially "insufficient."

TL;DR: SE's minimum required specs are pretty accurate. An 8800 would probably make a big difference here.

Edited, Mar 14th 2013 5:56pm by catwho

SLI is not yet supported, or so the benchmark page says.

I imagine that, just like they're working with Sony on get the PS3 version ironed out, they've got a small team from nVidia and from AMD getting paid an outrageous consulting fee to work with them on making XIV look its best on those cards, too. SLI and Crossfire support will eventually be part of that.

3383 @ 1920x1080 max settings on my old rig. In the middle of modding my case for my new rig so won't be able to try it with all my new toys for a week or two.

Finally, the full screen version, woot!

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Exploration)
Tested on:3/18/2013 8:06:30 AM
Score:8768
Average Framerate:75.628
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

SpoilerScreen Size: 1680x1050
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Custom
General
-Improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-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) : Disabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Disabled
-Effects While in Motion : Display All
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : High
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
8140.004MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.1407

For me, it depends on if I can alt+tab. If it doesn't crash the application, Fullscreen for me. If it's like 1.0, then... I guess I'll be doing the borderless windowed mode as well.