Download from: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/index.html
Oh, and obviously we need some pics... so... here's the "Cascadier Uniform"
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| This is probably a good way to get everyone's attention for this briefing... |
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Oh, and also... here's a link to some potential Ascys. Thoughts?
http://imgur.com/a/2TQpl
I'm mainly looking for thoughts between the light haired and dark haired Hyurs, but comments on my Miqote or Lalafell designs would be appreciated too!
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The Miqo'te hair looks the coolest with the way the highlights work... Far as the Hyur, the lighter-on-top style looks more "realistic" (as if blue can be called "realistic), but looking at the pics again, the other way looks kinda cool, too, now.
Got my attention alright =o
Like Zu, I like the way the blue looks on the Miqo'te.
On Hyur, I kinda like the lighter haired version myself, but what do I know about blue hair? D:
Lalascy doesn't have blue hair =o I approve anyways due to being Lalafell!
What GPU do you have on your desktop? 7950? 7970? And how do you like it with your 30 inch? My 7850 is struggling with eyefinity setup, so I'm considering a 7950 upgrade.
I really like the Miqo'te hair colors myself, that's why I tried the same dark blue color on the Hyur version... It's kinda growing on me actually x.x
May have to pay more attention on a few more runs through the benchmark.
I thought the pink/red hair looked cuter on the Lalafell xD Blue just... didn't seem to be right on a Lala!
I'm using the AMD 7970. It can barely handle the 30" 2560x1600 resolution on "high", so I can't run on "maximum" without going below 60FPS. I have to tune some of the less important graphics settings down slightly to get smooth gameplay with a good image.
I tried the 7970 on a 3 monitor eyefinity (lower res) setup as well, but it handles worse than a single 30" monitor and essentially have to step games down to "medium". The bezel between the monitors was what bugged me the most which lead me to the single monitor xD
The 7990 is just xfire on one card, so the 7970 is the current best single-GPU card available from AMD at the moment... and it's almost 18 months old. I didn't think the xfire/SLI investment was worth it yet as many games don't support two GPUs. I think you're better off taking the money and just buying a higher end card, which at the moment is the 7970 Ghz edition. If you get the right card, you can overclock it, but I don't like the idea of overclocking when playing MMOs simply due to how long the gameplay sessions tend to be xD
If you can wait a couple of months, AMD is *supposed* to put out the new HD9000 series in October... If you're planning on running a 30" or with eyefinity, I'd save money and wait for that... the first generation HD9000 still uses the 28nm process though, so it's likely a new generation of 20nm cards will come out in late-2014 or in 2015.
60 FPS for 2560x1600 is pretty good for high settings. I think I had to settle for medium settings running 2700x1600 at 35-45 FPS during phase 3. The full 3240x1920 would have been too much for my system.
I was running my monitors in portrait mode, and the bezels definitely did get to me, so I switched it up and have been trying landscape mode. Bezels are a little less noticeable now (at least for FPS like Bioshock), but I'm anxious to try it with FFXIV.
Another bad thing about Eyefinity with 3 monitors is that there's going to be screen tearing on at least one monitor. Maybe I should've gone with a 30 inch! XD Oh well, I still like the immersion of the setup.
What did you use to screen capture?
For screen capture, I used Greenshot (http://getgreenshot.org/)
Saves directly to JPEG and when playing FFXIV, doesn't hat that second lag whenever you save a screenshot.
How can you get rid of screen tearing in eyefinity? I never got around to figuring that problem out... For the games I was playing, I just got tired of actually having to move my head to see my HP bar xD
I was getting like a 5 sec lag with FFXIV's built-in screen capture :(
The only way I've read to get rid of Eyefinity screen tearing is outputting with all displayport, which at this point means getting an expensive displayport hub, or new video card with 6x displayports. Or we can hope AMD can correct it with drivers.
:o 6x Displayport? Are you running a 3x2 monitor setup Vanh? :O
I got sick of FFXIV's 5 second lag. Zu told me that it was probably due to SE applying optimization stuff to the screenshot to make it look prettier that was causing the lag.
I stopped using the built-in screenshot tool and started using greenshot. It was how I managed to get all the shots of limit breaks xD
6 display port like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129262
But no no no, I'm only running 3x1 (2 dvi, 1 DP). I put up with the screen tearing, and have it setup to occur on my leftmost monitor. Since it's in my peripheral, I don't notice it that much. I used to notice when I was running 3x1 in portrait a lot more since the side monitors were more centered, and in front of me rather than being off to the sides.
I don't take my PC gaming that serious, so I don't really go all out my PC. I only running a 1st gen core i5 with a 1gb 7850, unlike a lot of you AP'ers rocking core i7's. With the exception of FFXI and XIV, I do most of my gaming on PS3, so I don't invest too much on my PC.
It's interesting with FFXIV screen capture lag... since I was nearly convinced it was my setup. I figured it was my slowish CPU and bigger than average resolution that was causing FFXIV to have trouble stitching together a proper screen capture. Fraps worked for me though, but captures are about 12MB a piece X.x. I'll have to keep greenshot in mind, since its open source and free.
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