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Post your Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark Scores

To everyone who wants a beta key:

Please PM me your email address and you should have your key within 24 hours. We have a limited amount of keys left.
 
Everyone who sent me a pm with email address should get the beta key very soon. I have entered them by myself into the distribution system. Keep me up to date if you received the key or not. It might take a few more hours tho, because we handed them out like mad and there is something like a queue.
 
Dragonforce said:
Everyone who sent me a pm with email address should get the beta key very soon. I have entered them by myself into the distribution system. Keep me up to date if you received the key or not. It might take a few more hours tho, because we handed them out like mad and there is something like a queue.
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Hey man, thanks : ) You're very generous.

Waiting patiently.
 
Yeah bootcamp is the only viable way to play windows game on a Mac unless they were made before like 2004, then maybe you could pull it off in a virtual machine ha.
 
New video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5DKdtjRiSw

This time I was running at 1080p. My framerate increased a ton after I turned depth of field off, so I bumped up the resolution and still have a better framerate than I did before.

So yeah, keep ambient occlusion and depth of field off to help your framerate.
 
ffxiv on late 2009 imac 27 in

So i ran the benchmark on my imac and luckily at high resolution it was right at 1500. on low resolution it scored around 2700. I dont have the exact system specs on me but all the late 2009 imac 27 inch I5s have the same speed cpu and same video.

late 2009 imac 27 inch
core I5, 4 core cpu
radeon mobility 4850hd
4gb ram
windows 7 home premium in classic theme.

Yes these imacs use a mobile GPU. it explaines some of the poor gaming performance on windows through boot camp and why some people cant seem to get catalyst to instal. you have to DL the mobile version. This was done in an attempt to save power I can assume. I will say that the core I7 recommended CPU square enix has listed is not needed at all. my I5 ran at little more than 25% max. it would seem silly that you would need a hyperthreaded quad core to run a game anyway. what would be the real benefit of 8 cores for gaming. ALSO NOTE that with catalyst control center installed... the benchmark ran BETTER with the individual settings in catalyst set to "app specific" or "quality". Lowering the setting through CCC worsened the benchmark. Not to mention on low settings there was some fierce shearing.
 
video issues ffxiv benchmark

remember that if you are using a late 2009 imac with a 4850hd gpu, the bootcamp drivers provided will be very poor. you will likely already have had to google a remedy just to get windows installed on your machine already. if you managed to get up and running with the driver provided PLEASE update the driver through the ATI website. Remember this is a radeon MOBILITY 4850 hd card so If you want the catalyst control center then you have to download the mobile version. after all is said and done, and according to the benchmark, you should be able to run FFXIV on your late 2009 Imac as long as you are using atleast the core I5 with the 4850 card.
 
Download Rivatuner and run D3DOverrider that comes with it. That'll force Vsync on all applications. ATI's CCC software has an option to force Vsync, but as always, it seems to pick and choose which games it wants to work on.
 
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