Author Topic: New Final Fantasy XI Benchmark (Read 22601 times)

akira · « **Reply #25 on:** 2003-10-05 01:55:51 »

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.

Jedimark · « **Reply #26 on:** 2003-10-06 14:46:02 »

H = 2047
L = 3002

Suddenly I feel my super-duper top of the range laptop is getting old now...

Darkness · « **Reply #27 on:** 2003-10-06 22:18:11 »

Athlon XP 2400+
512 DDR
Geforce4 Ti4600

3198
2473

how are you guys scoring so high? how can i make my pc faster?

Aaron · « **Reply #28 on:** 2003-10-06 22:36:27 »

Hmm... What board are you using? What vid card drivers? I think you should be getting better scores...

Rubicant_II · « **Reply #29 on:** 2003-10-06 22:54:51 »

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.

Aaron · « **Reply #30 on:** 2003-10-06 23:02:38 »

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.

Rubicant_II · « **Reply #31 on:** 2003-10-06 23:38:54 »

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?

Aaron · « **Reply #32 on:** 2003-10-07 00:25:53 »

My server:

Not screwed up for a long time there

And not acting like its about to.

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Darkness: are you on agp8x?

Well I'm not, and I still got way better scores than him even though we have similar hardware...

Rubicant? · « **Reply #33 on:** 2003-10-07 00:41:55 »

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....

Rubicant_II · « **Reply #34 on:** 2003-10-07 04:20:43 »

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 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

Aaron · « **Reply #35 on:** 2003-10-07 04:39:45 »

Mine would be like 80 days, if that silly Blaster worm didn't cause it to reset

I installed the patch, but didn't want to restart when I installed it because it would reset the counter

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.

Caddberry · « **Reply #36 on:** 2003-10-07 21:08:02 »

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)

Galadyn · « **Reply #37 on:** 2003-10-09 23:57:28 »

Nice... upgrading my motherboard drivers took the low-res bench from 3240 up to 3900! :wicked:

Lieron · « **Reply #38 on:** 2003-10-10 01:40:29 »

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

Rubicant_II · « **Reply #39 on:** 2003-10-10 02:57:00 »

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.

akira · « **Reply #40 on:** 2003-10-10 06:34:27 »

Quote from: Galadyn

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 ?

Rubicant_II · « **Reply #41 on:** 2003-10-10 07:00:06 »

Quote from: akira

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.

Aaron · « **Reply #42 on:** 2003-10-10 12:57:19 »

There are Window problems with FF7, but they are easily fixed with Rivatuner... And GF4Ti are way cheaper than something like a Radeon 9800.

Galadyn · « **Reply #43 on:** 2003-10-10 22:05:37 »

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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.

Lieron · « **Reply #44 on:** 2003-10-11 07:12:02 »

bah i'm too lazy... just save enough for an alienware set )

(ooooo shiny blue one...)

Galadyn · « **Reply #45 on:** 2003-10-11 13:00:35 »

rofl... those overpriced junk heaps

Caddberry · « **Reply #46 on:** 2003-10-11 14:07:35 »

Quote from: Galadyn

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..

Lieron · « **Reply #47 on:** 2003-10-11 18:16:59 »

yeah... but i want the casing )

Goku7 · « **Reply #48 on:** 2003-10-11 22:48:52 »

Quote from: The Skillster

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.

Quote from: Aaron

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.

Srethron Askvelhtnod · « **Reply #49 on:** 2003-10-13 01:25:46 »

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

Author Topic: New Final Fantasy XI Benchmark (Read 22601 times)

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