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Post your Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark Scores

Dragonforce said:
Basically what he said is correct. Let me add a few things:

1 - We would like to attract most of the FFXI players, that's why you see familiar character designs, so veterans feel "at home". However, quite a lot of people will stay with FFXI because they spent so much time there that they just "can't" leave that easily (e.g. like 2 years raw playing time with an active account for 8 years)

Added: Like he said, it will be for the hardcore and casual players.

2 - Keeping the name shouldn't be possible, as you have to enter a first and second name for all characters. Nothing from FFXI will carry over, but maybe there will be some ingame item that will show that you have played FFXI before. Nothing that would give you an advantage though. Maybe its just a ring with zero stats which you could sport around that says "Hey look, I played FFXI" or a piece of furniture :)

3 - FFXI servers will be kept alive as long as enough people play. We just added content and the level cap will be raised incrementally up to level 99, so there should be lots of excitement for everyone.
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Thanks Dagonforce. Like I said sorry the dumb question, but I am still very green on all of the Final Fantasy Online information. The only MMOs I have played were WoW and Guild Wars.

For the business model question I was looking to see if SE was playing on modifying the current business model, game cost + subscription fee. Since Turbine seems to be making money with their free to play model, I was curious how other developers feel about that model or moving to something similar.
 
wow I thought I was getting low numbers. Thinking about going back to a MBP and curious how the 320m and 330m are handling things. It definitely seems that FFXIV is much more based on the GPU.

On my M11x
C2D SU7300 1.3Ghz OC'd to 1.6Ghz
nvidia 335m
4gb
720p option

I got a 1300. I'm a little disappointed in the i7/330m. Going to do some more browsing on how well some other games run. Hope this info helps determine that FFXIV must be GPU bound.. at least through the benchmark...
 

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It has been stated that the benchmark was taken in Final Fantasy 14's early production days, and that it's not very efficient. About the only good thing the benchmark is for is comparing different gpus to one another, as the benchmark seems to have enough accuracy for comparisons.
 
Well, its official.

Release date is September 30th 2010 for Windows, early March 2011 for PS3.

Minimum system required:


Operating System
Windows® XP SP3 1
Windows® Vista 32-bit / 64-bit SP2 2
Windows® 7 32-bit / 64-bit 2

CPU
Intel® Core™2 Duo (2.0GHz)
AMD Athlon™ X2 (2.0GHz)

RAM
Windows® XP: 1.5GB or higher
Windows® Vista / Windows® 7: 2GB or higher

HDD/SSD Space
Installation: 15GB or more
Download: Space on the hard drive where My Documents is located should be 6GB or more

Graphics Card
512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 series or higher
512MB ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series or higher

Sound Card
DirectSound® compatible sound card (DirectX® 9.0c or higher)

Internet Connection
Broadband Internet connection or higher

Screen Resolution
1280 x 720 or higher; 32-bit or higher

DirectX®
DirectX® 9.0c

Others
Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad
 
I just want to see the new battle system in action. The alpha battle system was slow and irritating.

Really though, this is pretty pathetic. We haven't even started the beta testing yet, we only tested 1 city and 1 area in the alpha. So if the game comes out with bugs, which it will, do not blame the testers, because we really had nothing to test.


I will see how the beta runs on my imac before I decide to purchase this or just hold off and wait and just continue with 11.
 
totally not my kind of game. actually I hate all japanese RPG games except zelda (and thats barely an RPG). i could care less about performance, seems like another crysis hype situation coming along.
 
pavelbure said:
Really though, this is pretty pathetic. We haven't even started the beta testing yet, we only tested 1 city and 1 area in the alpha. So if the game comes out with bugs, which it will, do not blame the testers, because we really had nothing to test.
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We have a LOT of internal testers sitting on this 24/7 ;)
 
Has anyone tried running the benchmark with Crossover Games? FFXI runs in it, so I figure there might be a chance. I'd do it myself, but my iMac is pretty old at this point and I'm still waiting for the next iMac revision, so it'd be awesome if someone could do a quick check. If it works reliably in Crossover, I'd rather do that than run Windows 7.

Thanks in advance.
 
Meicyn said:
Has anyone tried running the benchmark with Crossover Games? FFXI runs in it, so I figure there might be a chance. I'd do it myself, but my iMac is pretty old at this point and I'm still waiting for the next iMac revision, so it'd be awesome if someone could do a quick check. If it works reliably in Crossover, I'd rather do that than run Windows 7.

Thanks in advance.
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Don't even bother with it, if your Mac doesn't have a 512MB GPU...
 
Running Windows 7 on my Core 2 Duo 20" iMac....370 score.

Looks like I'm waiting until the PS3 version comes out =(
 
About 1880 in low res on a 3.2 Octo mac pro with 8800, at high res its about 1100. Could those numbers really be right? However, I am running it on Windows XP SP2...

At least it appears to be playable at the minimum specs. I wonder if upgrading to 7 will have any changes? (I have Windows 7, just been too lazy to install it haha).
 
Dragonforce said:
Don't even bother with it, if your Mac doesn't have a 512MB GPU...
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This isn't necessarily specific to FFxiv, but I'm wondering what kind of hit one takes if they have to run windows applications using Parallels instead of Bootcamp.

I've tried to Google around a bit about this but with not much luck since Bootcamp is clearly the much better option. But, since bootcamp is not an option for me...don't ask...I'm curious how bad it will be having to run both OSs at the same time.

Basically I'm thinking I'll be around 2 years behind the gaming curve at least (that is, on a brand new laptop system, I can expect to only really play games that were new and top of the line at least 2 years ago).
 
Could anyone with access to the beta please install the most recent version and report back on how well / bad the game performs on the 2010 MBP with 256 MB and 512 MB GPU ? People with 13" MBPs feel free to try it as well if you have access.

Much appreciated.
 
Don't know what information is allowed to be said about FFXIV alpha/beta, but from what I've seen (in person) of my contact playing it, game runs ok/slightly chuggy on a 2008 Penryn 15" MBP. (I don't remember resolution but it was windowed)

Supposedly not that optimized yet but it looks nice.

I'll have it installed onto my MBP in sig and see how it works, next time I visit.
 
Oh well, I'm going to try it on my MBP as well, even though I swore that I will never ever set up Bootcamp on it. Currently downloading as we speak.

Will also report back later.
 
I hope the ati card issue gets fixed for the beta really quickly. The beta runs terrible on my imac because of that.
 
I just set up Windows 7 + the most recent nVidia drivers (ForceWare 258.96) in anticipation of the next beta round starting tomorrow. Hopefully it will work on the i5 MBP :(
 
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