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AA as it exists in the benchmark(at least in the 'creation' version) is only FXAA. It's a minor increase that has a very minor impact on performance based on the hardware you have. Switching this off will give only a very minor drop in quality and even smaller increase in performance.

For comparison sake here are the scores for my secondary rig:

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:8/2/2013 8:29:23 PM
Score:6748
Average Framerate:56.161
Performance:Very High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform exceptionally well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Real-time Reflections : High
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing) : FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality : High
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Self : Display
-Other NPCs : Display
Shadow Quality
-Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD) : Disabled
-Shadow Resolution : High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading : Best
-Shadow Softening : Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering : x16
Movement Physics
-Self : Full
-Other NPCs : Full
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Strong
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
8189.555MB
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series(VRAM 4095 MB) 8.17.0010.1191

Hahahahaha that is hilarious

Nvm figured it out.

It's really nice cause I'm one of those people that can spend hours making my character look the way I want.


Edited, Aug 3rd 2013 10:31am by HaibaneRenmei

For those with nvidia cards, try the 314.22 WHQL drivers. They give you better scores than the latest drivers (9000 vs 8400 for me).

So they must've done some optimization between the last benchmark and now. I'm pretty sure I just squeaked in over 7000 before... and now...

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:8/4/2013 7:17:49 PM
Score:9089
Average Framerate:79.678
Performance:Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
-Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. : Enabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Disabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD) : Disabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Real-time Reflections : High
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing) : FXAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality : High
-Grass Quality : High
Shadows
-Self : Display
-Other NPCs : Display
Shadow Quality
-Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD) : Disabled
-Shadow Resolution : High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading : Best
-Shadow Softening : Strong
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering : x16
Movement Physics
-Self : Full
-Other NPCs : Full
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Enabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Strong
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.130318-1533)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
8190.492MB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670(VRAM 4042 MB) 9.18.0013.2018

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on: 8/3/2013 10:51:49 AM
Score: 11339
Average Framerate: 103.181
Performance: Extremely High
- Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Maximum
General
- Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality: Enabled
- Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling): Disabled
- Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD): Disabled
- Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming): Disabled
- Real-time Reflections: High
- Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): FXAA
- Transparent Lighting Quality: High
- Grass Quality: High
Shadows
- Self: Display
- Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
- Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD): Disabled
- Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
- Shadow Cascading: Best
- Shadow Softening: Strong
Texture Detail
- Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
- Anisotropic Filtering: x16
Movement Physics
- Self: Full
- Other NPCs: Full
Effects
- Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening): Enabled
- Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur): Enabled
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: Strong
- Glare: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
- Enable depth of field.: Enabled

System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz - 8GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

I suppose so. You sure know how to make me sad about the good things in life. THANKS FILTH. But maybe there's a chance we'll have the best of both worlds? And I'm not prepared enough to run both benchmarks at the same time.

I had my girlfriend run the game on her laptop and it scored pretty well. So I'm excited. (She also has a PS3 now to play it too.) THIS BETTER BE FOR REAL!

You should be happy that this game doesn't require the power it once did. Do you remember the original, original benchmark? I had a monumental score on that with a pair of GTX 480s. Granted SLI wasn't supported, but I used the second GPU solely for AA. That translated into barely being able to maintain 30 FPS in congested areas. Now people with middle of the road GPUs can run at higher than usual settings and high resolution. That should make you happy.



Not really. Hear me out...



Now I understand that it's just a rough guideline, but people are expected to use this as a tool to understand how well their hardware will perform when actually running the software. It doesn't make sense to me(nor should it to anyone) that the exact same setups are scoring higher unless SE expects that hardware to perform better than they initially thought it would. There could be several explanations for this or there could be none. It's possible that the benchmark is about as useful(read: useless) as the benchmark for 1.0 was.

I'd like to trust that they're doing everything in their power to get it right this time. The only options I see here are that they overshot their mark and the benchmark was too demanding or they nerfed the graphics down so that the same hardware would get better performance. Given the obvious differences between the world exploration and character creation versions of the benchmark, it seems much more likely to be the latter.

That said, none of this really matters to me if they can produce a Final Fantasy with the story and gameplay we all expect know they're capable of. If it's fun to play, I don't care if it looks 8-bit.

FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Official Benchmark (Character Creation)
Tested on:8/6/2013 1:46:58 PM
Score:4800
Average Framerate:42.948
Performance:High
-Easily capable of running the game. Should perform well, even at higher resolutions.

Screen Size: 1920x1080
Screen Mode: Full Screen
Graphics Presets: Standard (Desktop)
General
-Enable HDR rendering and improve overall graphic quality. : Disabled
-Disable rendering of objects when not visible. (Occlusion Culling) : Enabled
-Use low-detail models on distant objects. (LOD) : Enabled
-Cache LOD data only when necessary. (LOD Streaming) : Disabled
-Real-time Reflections : Off
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing) : Off
-Transparent Lighting Quality : Normal
-Grass Quality : Low
Shadows
-Self : Display
-Other NPCs : Hide
Shadow Quality
-Use low-detail models on shadows. (LOD) : Enabled
-Shadow Resolution : Normal - 1024p
-Shadow Cascading : Normal
-Shadow Softening : Weak
Texture Detail
-Texture Filtering : Trilinear
-Anisotropic Filtering : x4
Movement Physics
-Self : Full
-Other NPCs : Simple
Effects
-Naturally darken the edges of the screen. (Limb Darkening) : Disabled
-Blur the graphics around an object in motion. (Radial Blur) : Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion : Off
-Glare : Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Enable depth of field. : Enabled

System:
Windows Vistaâ„¢ Home Basic (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.130308-1436)
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor
4094.172MB
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (VRAM 2797 MB) 9.18.0013.2049


I think its time for some upgrades :( What do you guys suggest?

What would you suggest i look to get?

If anyone is feeling generous enough, could I ask someone to build me a decent computer, in the $1000-1500 range? can either post it in here or just PM me a link to what you have for ideas. Thats one area I am not very fluent on is building computers and matching stuff together. Don't need any monitors.