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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: Benchmark ARR Test Released & Other Videos
SBFord
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Square Enix is on a roll today with the release of several new videos for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Fans can get a look at Exploration, how Gamepads will work and take a Tour of Eorzea. Also spotted by our forumites is a new ARR Benchmark to see if your machine is up to par.
Check out the full list of videos in several different languages on the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn YouTube channel.
Lastly, be sure to head to the Letter from the Producer LIVE event to be held at 2:00 pm PST (5:00 pm EST) today!
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The game looks great and I hear feels great. The video that shows the differences between PC and PS3 also showcase the new cities, which look simply awesome. Though if I recall correctly, the PS3 version isn't fully optimized as of yet.
Also, the Letter From the Producer Live takes place at 2 AM PST / 5 AM EST today. I made the same mistake in my original post, but quickly rectified it about five minutes thereafter of posting.
Something I don't understand with ARR. If the issues with FF XIV were mostly gameplay and UI, why so much effort into a graphics upgrade?
the original game engine was horribad performancewise. they've made the game look BETTER and vastly improved performance. My current system, the one i played ff14 with original chug along on medium setting but with more that 10 people onscreen is was bad. With the NEW ff14 benchmark my system did great --
Score:5354
Average Framerate:53.797
Performance:Very High -Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.
System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130104-1431)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
8189.473MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470(VRAM 4049 MB) 9.18.0013.1090
Good info, thanks!
Thinking logically, the pool of those who bought Collector's Edition may stretch beyond what they were prepared to test in beta phase one. Besides from that, I don't know why one would reward someone who gave up on a game simply because it had some dark days. Also, the "legacy" members also had to buy the box, in addition to paying for 12+ months of subscription fees (as a great deal of legacy members did).
Aside from that, they gave -everyone- a fair warning of well over a year in what comes with being a legacy member; they also thanked everyone who stayed with them every time there was a letter for a long time and said that such dedication would not go unnoticed beyond legacy rewards. It's really one's own fault for not paying even the slightest attention since there was a year to just buy three months of game time and see how the game progressed, or even support the company that was vastly improving their game and intended to remake it entirely.
I played the original beta and bought the collectors edition, yet I stayed to support them. If they rewarded all early adopters (beyond giving them 2.0 for free as well as a free trial period), what rewards will I get for both buying the CE, being legacy AND staying with them through thick and thin? The answer is that I'm a mature adult, and I don't expect to be spoon fed or have a sense of entitlement for something I did two years ago. I bought the CE and I got what I paid for (in addition to almost a year of free play time). Legacy members got Legacy, and are getting what they paid for in addition to the extra benefits that they said were going to be forthcoming.
I doubt if peopl hadnt "gave up on" and left the game speaking clearly with their money, that SE wouldve bothered putting forth the effort and time to redo the game from scratch. I commend you and those like you who could put up with and continue to pay for the mess that FF 14 was though, maybe Ill see you in the FF14 that shouldve been, soon!
I imagine with legs so short its hard to walk any other way!
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That's a fair point you have. Though the ratings by both critics and players alone had tarnished the game's reputation, and this its growth, enough. If it was a vie to save Final Fantasy's reputation (at least in terms of online versions), then they might've gone through with it in any case. The fact they gave 12 months of free time, with there not being enough people on even then, would seem to lean in the direction that plans were being made to salvage the game regardless.
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You act as though being a Collector's Edition owner and paying 3 months worth of subs during the required time-frame (many months, which they announced numerous times) are somehow mutually exclusive. They're not.
To put it another way, many people who are Legacy Members are also Collector's Edition owners. There are even many who pre-ordered the game.
To put it yet another way, your complaint has absolutely no basis.
Developers do not give players enough credit. And maybe even players don't give players enough credit. - Ragnar Tørnquist
Heh..
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Score:7083
Average Framerate:59.832
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Screen Size: 1920x1200
Graphics Presets: Maximum
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Ill take it
5533 at maximum settings and 1920 resolution,
8727 at maximum and the normal resolution
Agreed, this game suffered some of the worst performance issues of any MMO Ive played, it took my high end gaming PC and just crippled it. The performance was so bad that the first time I logged in I was literally in shock. No matter what you did, say turning the graphics and resolution down to it;s lowerst level, it had no bearing on performance, it was still a choppy unplayable mess. There was something severly broken with the rendering engine.
It performed so horribly in all areas I couldnt play it for more than a couple minutes without gettnig a headache. HOw this game shipped with such a broken graphics engine is a mystery.
It's not really a graphics upgrade; it's more about changes to the engine.
Visual fidelity arguably DECREASED across the board; most notably the shadowing and environmental lighting. Texture and animation quality shifted as well. The only increase in quality is the UI.. which isn't a graphical quality element.
The new engine has drastically different AND overblown lighting effects, which changes the overall image, for the worse IMO. Shadows appear to be worse and have flickering issues. (But hey, at least the game actually has environmental shadows now, the original version didn't.) Texture quality is lower. Animations might be as well (but it's hard to tell when the camera is moving around so wildly, judging this based on the alpha).
Basically, it's an engine designed to run on lower spec machines, which it does now. Unfortunately, that comes at the cost of the fidelity the game previously had. They try to hide that with the overblown lighting effects, like most console games are doing nowadays because the hardware is SEVEN YEARS OLD.
Why are they still releasing this game for the PS3 is beyond me.
FWIW, my score is 7716. i7-3770K, GTX 670. 1080p at max settings.
Rerunning with occlusion culling ON, because that is NOT a graphical option, that is a rendering option which should be enabled AT ALL TIMES unless there is a specific reason for it to be off. Rendering objects behind objects when they are not visible is a COMPLETE waste of processing power; it boggles my mind why it turns off when increasing the preset quality.
I also don't see SSAO active at all, unless it's extremely subtle and doesn't affect grass and most other objects.
Edit: Re-ran:
Score:7987
Average Framerate:68.052
Going again with FRAPS to see just how low it dips with people on screen, but it feels around 30. Still suffers heavily when more than 10 people are on screen; could've worked around that with DX11 features, but nope, have to support an extremely old platform so it's stuck with DX9.
Edit2: Yup. Dropping down to low 30's, high 20's when in the grass scenes with a bunch of people. Nothing's changed in that aspect from the last engine.