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New Final Fantasy XI Benchmark
Square Enix has released a new version of the Final Fantasy XI benchmark tool. This program will show you if your PC is fit to play this upcoming Final Fantasy MMORPG. The new release of this tool offers a high resolution graphics mode, a new map, and a special demo mode.
Link: http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=3743
Weighing in at 54MB, compared to the old one, I think I'll wait til uni until I download it. :)
According to the description, the graphics should be better, so hopefully that unusual anti-aliasing-type effect on the edge of objects won't be there? The demo should be interesting, too. :)
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Maybe i will run it as a joke.. :) when i get more time however.. :) i will let you all know how crappy my pc is .. ha
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My scores are...
4177 -L
3022 -H
Looks neat.
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And I shall add my specs...
Athlon XP 2100+
GeForce Ti4200
Windows 98 SE
Now why are your scores lower than mine vvalentine?
I blame windows XP
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Nice computer! :wink: 3240-L and somewhere around 2200-H here.
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I got around 3000-L, but that was probably due to the fact that most of the models and stuff weren't even showing up. :P
The demo just brought me back to desktop, but I'm not surprised with a graphics card that doesn't even support overlays.
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i get 1129 L
i'm not gonna even attempt high quality...
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What a bunch of crap i gotta wait 40 minutes for the download to start!? how stale is that.. perhaps its cuz its a sunday.. oh well.. i guess i will just chill :) i will have the worst score on the board.. guarenteed.. almost..
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Low- 3340
High- 2284
Specs:
Athlon XP 2100+ (~1.8 Ghz (@266 FSB))
GeForce Ti4200 (4x)
768MB DDR2100
Via KT333
Maxtor 80 Gb 8Mb buffer ATA133
Windows XP home
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L - 3618
H - 3070
H with 4x AA/8x Aniso - 2848 (Surprised that it only took a small hit)
Specs:
XP2400+
Radeon 9600 Pro
WinXP Pro
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L: 4162
H: 3177
Athlon XP 2400+ (@2.17GHz, 333Mhz FSB)
Geforce Ti4200 (8x)
768MB DDR (@333MHz)
Windows XP Professional
(with some other apps running in the background, couldn't be bothered to shut everything down for a silly demo)
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PFFFT Ambrosia Odyssey :-?
ã‚ã¡ã‚ƒã‚ã¡ã‚ƒã‹ã‚ã„ã„ (http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20030927/ati20.jpg) <--- Super Final Fantasy Computer Lie All Lie <^.^>
A Special Demo Mode (Is it worth downloading)?
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hahahahahahahahaha!!!! :lol: :lol:
That is so stupid looking! Ahhh!!!
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Low Res: 2753
High Res: 1297
Athlon XP 2000
512 DDR
GeForce 4 MX 440 :z
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I downloaded it and looked at it... looks neat... Hi-res looks nice, but they still have some wierd FSAA effect going on in there.
I don't want to run the benchmark now though because I'm encoding a movie, I'm sure it wouldn't be an accurate score.
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damn it wont show anything on my gf2mx all the 3d is greyed, maybe my voodoo 5.... naa
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If you don't want to register or wait in line to download it, here it is... (http://aaronserv.dyndns.org/!!stuff/FFXiB2Setup.exe)
4167-L
3338-H
GeForce4 Ti 4600
Athlon XP 2400+
Windows XP Pro
1536 MB RAM DDR
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Low Res: 2753
High Res: 1297
Athlon XP 2000
512 DDR
GeForce 4 MX 440 :z
How could your score be so low? is it mostly just the videocard that gives you those great numbers? or did i miss something..
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Yeah, that really does seem a little low. But remember, the MX versions of video cards are stripped down...so performance decrease is probably likely. Maybe he had some 4x FSAA on or something. It shouldn't be that low, considering it's a geforce4, though.
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GeForce4 MX is a considerably worse card than a GeForce4 Ti. GeForce4 MX is even worse than a GeForce3. Those scores are about what I'd expect.
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IIRC Geforce4MX's performance is only comparable to a Geforce2 Pro/Ultra...
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3642-L
2198-H
Bleh High didnt do too well :z
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This is my version of the Super Final Fantasy 11 Computer Case...
Here (http://kucoru.dyndns.org/uglyff11-2.jpg) it is!
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TAKE THAT YOU STUPID DWARVEN ELF QUEER THINGIES!!!! DIE!!! sorry i hate them. their too happy looking.
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is that Mr. Bean? LoL at first i thought George Clooney..
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It's bean. And ~5 minutes of work.
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the FFXI database page gave my GF4 MX 49.83 percent :erm:
so i plan on buying a new video card soon
im thinkin a GeForce 4 Ti 4800.
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H = 2047
L = 3002
Suddenly I feel my super-duper top of the range laptop is getting old now...
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Athlon XP 2400+
512 DDR
Geforce4 Ti4600
3198
2473
how are you guys scoring so high? how can i make my pc faster?
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Hmm... What board are you using? What vid card drivers? I think you should be getting better scores...
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44.03 drivers and windows 98 are the reason for my scores. I would blame some bogus drivers and windows xp on your low scores in windows xp. It's always xp.
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I got perfectly acceptable scores in Windows XP. Plus its about 10 times more reliable than 98 in my experience.... Not that 98 is particularly bad.
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XP isn't my preference, but it works ok. I've always had the worst luck with it, though. I'll admit that other post was a stab at XP, but in my experience I stand by my statements.
But in the end all versions of windows eventually screw up.
Darkness: are you on agp8x?
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My server:
(http://aaronserv.dyndns.org/!!stuff/qhimm/uptime.png)
Not screwed up for a long time there :P And not acting like its about to.
Darkness: are you on agp8x?
Well I'm not, and I still got way better scores than him even though we have similar hardware...
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blah my computer has been on for lets look........ 8 hours! so there! i win! actually though i haven't had trouble with XP on my new computer.... 8)
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Well even though AGP8x doesn't change much for speed in my case (and yours, as you have told me), it may somehow affect Darkness. I don't think he listed his video card brand. As for me, I have the MSI Ti4200 VTD8X. Now, when I run the benchmark when I turn it to AGP4x, I get like 100 points lower than normal. So I'm not sure why exactly they say that Agp 8x is so much faster (http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_agp8x.html) if when we can test it out on our computers and find somewhat no difference. So maybe he doesn't have his card properly set up.
As for your 50 day server, that's pretty cool. I haven't had an actual server crash that was windows related for at least 5 weeks now. The only time my server ever went down was the 3-second power outage my area had, so that shouldn't count. :)
But by "But in the end all versions of windows eventually screw up" I meant that eventually it gets to the point where you absolutely must reinstall windows. That doesn't happen much on servers, but on computers that you are always using it gets to be a problem. Slowly but surely. Servers don't count, cheater :P
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Mine would be like 80 days, if that silly Blaster worm didn't cause it to reset :P I installed the patch, but didn't want to restart when I installed it because it would reset the counter :P
And as long as your careful what you install and so on, your Windows installation can last a long time.
Anyway, AGP8X is definately a lot faster, but the GeForce4 Ti series of cards was released before AGP8X was around. They aren't fast enough to spill much into the extra bandwidth that AGP8X gives you. You would notice more difference between 4X and 8X if you were running, say, a FX5900 or R9800.
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I love Windows XP.. I have dealt with DOS - XP now and i must say that XP is really great.. The firs tinstallation i did was a fresh install and it sucked because i had no drivers for basically anything, but ever since that day it has been working great.. I always thought exactly what you said Rubicant that you have to eventually re-install windows.. and with XP i seriously doubt that.. That does not necesairly have to be an issue.. XP takes much better care of things seemingly when compared to my 98 experience.. I reinstalled my OS like once a year.. I have been running XP for a long time now and havent had to re-install yet..
My little POS box has been up for 9 days some hours.. I never used to be able to do that.. EVER.. I have mem turbo.. and i think that helps a lot when things get rough on my 256 MB of RAM.. My friend swears by win2k but i think XP is just as good.. to me its basically the same options .. but you can dress up XP to look nicer.. (which i dont cuz i dont have the extra resources)
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Nice... upgrading my motherboard drivers took the low-res bench from 3240 up to 3900! :wicked:
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nuh uh... i have the BEST comp
L- 1110
H - 648
beat that!!! ahaha that comes from my 4 yr old comp... and not moding it (besides a little extra memory)
Windows Xp....
cant even remeber the other stuff
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3155 -H
4269 -L
This is in Windows XP. A slight improvement...not by much...
I got around 2500-H in winxp before I installed my motherboard's drivers. So I'd suggest anyone who's getting lower-than-nominal scores with this benchmark, try doing that.
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Nice... upgrading my motherboard drivers took the low-res bench from 3240 up to 3900! :wicked:
what was the old mobo that you had?
btw. with my Athlon XP 2000 w/ 512 ddr , which GFX card should i get
GF 4 Ti 42 46 or 48 ?
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btw. with my Athlon XP 2000 w/ 512 ddr , which GFX card should i get GF 4 Ti 42 46 or 48 ?
Get whichever one you are willing to pay for. You may also want to consider one of the high-end ATi cards, such as the Radeon 9800, because AFAIK all the GF4's have window problems with ff7pc in direct3d mode. But it's your decision.
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There are Window problems with FF7, but they are easily fixed with Rivatuner... And GF4Ti are way cheaper than something like a Radeon 9800.
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what was the old mobo that you had?
I didn't upgrade the motherboard... just the drivers. I've had the computer for a year and hadn't updated those mobo/chipset drivers... it's an enormous performance boost now that I have.
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bah i'm too lazy... just save enough for an alienware set )
(ooooo shiny blue one...)
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rofl... those overpriced junk heaps :)
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rofl... those overpriced junk heaps :)
Overpriced i think you nailed it.. but junkheaps.. LoL thats a bit much.. while they are overpriced they are great machines.. just something you could probably throw together for much cheaper..
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yeah... but i want the casing )
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damn it wont show anything on my gf2mx all the 3d is greyed, maybe my voodoo 5.... naa
Hmm....don't be too quick to count out the V5. Ironically, one of the previous versions of the FFXI demo actually ran on my V5, but required Geometry Assist (in Win9x of course).
I don't know how much has changed between that version and this one, but like Caddberry, I'll be downloading and running for the sake of being funny.
No, I DON'T expect my V5 to score anything in comparison to what you get with your newer hardware. I mean, it IS 3 year old hardware. I just wanna see if it runs at all. :P
And as long as your careful what you install and so on, your Windows installation can last a long time.
Indeed. The last time I had to re-install Windows on this machine, was like 2-3 years ago.....and this is Win98SE. So far, I still don't have anything serious messed up.
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Doh! Spelling errors.....but not anymore. :D
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Waha! I actually smoked you guys:
4984-L
3442-H
In regards to the Alienware casing--I personally find it weird. If you've ever actually seen one of those alien head cases up close, it has this indescribably weird plastic feel (at least the one I saw at the local Tech Expo did). It looks a lot cheesier in real life (since there's no fancy lighting or Photoshop retouching--unlike the pictures on Alienware's site.)
And as far as Windows life expectancy goes, My Win2K Pro machine has been rock stable ever since I got it 3+ years ago. My Win98SE box has lasted for 5 years, but the 3D card driver temporarily futzed up at the 3 year point. A simple restore fixed that--didn't even lose anything. Now a fan in that machine's died, but that's not exactly related to Windows... =P
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Geez Dude! What video card you got???
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An ATI Radeon 9600 (not pro.) They're pretty cheap--roughly $110 (U.S.) most places. I got mine for about $90. I hear they're pretty overclockable, too, although I haven't really needed to so far.
I have no idea what results I'd get with current drivers. My theory is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So I'm still using old 6.14.xxx ones.
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Oh yeah..you can have your windows OS on your computer for years at a time. But slowly and surely, it will get to the point where it is a total suckage to start windows. I guess I'm really picky about my windows installations. Usually when there is some petty screw-up, like a few seconds of extra loading time in windows that shouldn't be there, it's time to reinstall. It's not like reinstalling windows is a bad thing. All you do is deltree the windows directory, and run setup again. No biggie. There is nothing better than a fresh installation of windows. Can I get an amen?
The longest period where I've not reloaded has been 2 months, and the reason why I even reinstalled was because my USB drivers totally fucked themselves, and I couldn't get USB-dependant devices to work properly. I didn't do anything at all; windows chose to screw itself up.
As for my current installation of XP, I am seriously pissed at it. FF7pc screws up once and I have to restart. Now it won't stop bothering me to scandisk my HD. It won't stop doing it. So now, it bugs me about scanning at startup no matter what, and I have about 15 extra seconds sitting there like a jackass at the "welcome" screen. I won't let XP take advantage me. They can't make me scan if I don't want to.
*Flashes his XP Corporate cd in the light*
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Well, yeah, that's just entropy at work. It's certainly not going to be limited to just Windows. Although my 98 machine actually has been relatively free from that. Boot time is actually about 10 seconds faster than when I first set it up (thanks--I assume--mainly to better drivers) and shut down speed is reasonable.
My Win2K has always had dinosaur boot times (5 minutes) but that's mostly a RAM issue. Overall software stability has always been...stable.
I really don't know about your XP issues. I'm actually one of the very few who was lucky enough to have FF7 work right of the box in XP. Anachronox, though, is a different story. So are old DOS games, which bites because I'm a nostalgia freak. Shut down takes longer the more my hard drive fills up, but I can live with that.
Anyway, I still primarily use my Win2K machine, though (which took a lot of work to get FF7 running.)
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- XP doesn't usually have to scan if you are using an NTFS hard drive, due to NTFS's self-correcting nature. You can't do this and keep your 98 installation, though. I've only had it scan my NTFS drive after a crash once, and it did it all the time back when I had Win98 and FAT32 still around.
- You can kill the "Welcome" screen... I certainly did.
- 2 months? My XP installation has crashed maybe once or twice since I reinstalled it back in June, and the only reason I reinstalled then was because I got a new motherboard. I can run BootVis to make the boot fast again (not that I ever have to wait for it to boot... I hardly ever shut it down, just use Hibernate) and the system runs fine as long as you watch your background apps and so on. There really is no reason for it to degrade over time if you take care of it.
- Of course, I will have to say, Windows 2000/XP seem to be way better at lasting a long time than Windows 95/98 were.
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5235 - L
3663 - H
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man tekwiz! what card do you have???!?!?!
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what card should i get.
im trying to stay within the 150-200$ price range tops.
and i am running a athlon XP 2000 with 512DDR, so i dont
need a card that my processor cant take full advantage of.
$153 - RADEON 9600 Pro Ultra
$157 - RADEON 9600 Pro Ultimate
$120 - RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB
$109 - RADEON 9600 Pro 128MB
$129 - GeForce4 TI 4800
$159 - GeForce4 TI 4600
$170 - GeForce4 TI 4600 8x AGP
$126 - GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128MB
$125 - GeForce FX 5600 256MB
$110 - GeForce FX 5600 128MB
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WHAT? $125 for Geforce fx 5600?!?!? I paid 215 for mine like a month ago... Wtf? Damn prices drop fast....
[Edit] YAY!!! After a year and like 4 months I finally reach 100 posts! Thats a milestone for me!!!
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Sorry to bump this semi old topic but my scores are:
3529 - Hi
4449 - Lo
Geforce 4 ti 4200 (4X)
Amd Athlon Xp 2600
512mb DDR 333
TBH I think the Hi score might be wrong but I cba to rerun the test since the music drove me nuts
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well if u're bumping:
2533 low
2127 high
Point of vieuw GF 4 ti 4680 (4200 with 8x agp) running on 4x agp
AMD athlon XP 1600+ (running @ 1410 MHz)
512 MB SDRAM i think :s
damn my scores are low :(:(:(:(
there ust be something seriously wrong with my system :/
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Lol i finally got a new grphics card to test this benchmark with, and im not impressed the slightest with it.
They were right when they said Geforce FX range suxs in DX9 and it shows.
H-3849
L-4831
SETUP:
P4 2.6Ghz 533 FSB
1024Mb DDR400 Dual channeled Corsair Platinum DDRRAM
Shuttle A60RS Mobo i645 chipset
Abit SILURO with OTES Geforce FX 5900 128M Ram (chip 400mhz, memory 800mhz)
I think im using detonator 44.03 or something
Windows XP, can anyone help me improve this drab score?
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That's a decent score....for a Geforce FX
Oops...nevermind..didn't realize it was a 5900. Those are pretty damn good :-?
If you haven't already, try installing the windows drivers that came with your motherboard. You know...AGP...and other stuff. I used to get shite scores with my Ti4200 before I did that. After I did, my scores were pretty up there. I suggest you do the same.
But your scores are already way way higher than mine...so I wouldn't be complaining much at all if I had your card :P
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4877-L
3984-H
Windows XP Home Edition SP1
P4 2,6 GHz
512 MB DDR-RAM
Medion Radeon 9600 TX 128 MB (9800-Chip, full DX9-support @ 9500/Pro-Speed)
* Some drivers are not up-to-date.
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quote on myself:
5235 - L
3663 - H
--- old score
New score:
5297 - L
3702 - H
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ o/c'ed to 2300MHz with 200MHz FSB
2 sticks of 256MB PC 3200 Dual Channel
ATi R8500 299/275 Core/mem
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Thought I'd update my scores with new gfx card.
L - 5905
H - 5364
Radeon 9700Pro
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The benchmark actually runs -MUCH- slower than the actual game itself (with max settings) on my computer.
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i would like to see how 7000+ scores looks like 8)