http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rp1Wryh93s

Self explanatory. Mithras get more boobs too :P

FF14 official benchmark

http://www.finalfantasyxiv.com/media/benchmark/na/index.html

High: 1425, 31804 ms
Low: 2448, 24699 ms

AMD Phenom 9950 (Quad-core @ 3.2GHz)
ATI Radeon 4870 X2
8GB RAM (DDR2-1066)

According to their site, my 2448 on low is just barely enough to run FFXIV. If so, SE is doing something wrong and their programmers should be shot…

One thing Aiya, when you run the benchmark, make sure EVERYTHING else on your computer is closed. First time I ran it, I received a 3400ish score (the you can run it with basic settings score). Closed down a few programs I had open and tried again and I got over 4500 so it seems the benchmark program is highly sensitive to other programs open. Hoping FFXIV won't be the same way.

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @2.66GHz
nVidia GeForce GTS 250
4GB RAM

High: 1425, 31804 ms
Low: 2448, 24699 ms

AMD Phenom 9950 (Quad-core @ 3.2GHz)
ATI Radeon 4870 X2
8GB RAM (DDR2-1066)

According to their site, my 2448 on low is just barely enough to run FFXIV. If so, SE is doing something wrong and their programmers should be shot…Aiya

I think I got around the same. And I have a republic of gamers Acers laptop. Well.. Around the 2448 score. I didn't have anything else open, afaik.

Is everyone with the lower than should be scores using ATI cards? Anyone else with an nVidia done this can post your score?

Is everyone with the lower than should be scores using ATI cards? Anyone else with an nVidia done this can post your score?Xionis

I have a nvidia geForce GTX 260M card.

Low: 2776
High: 1318 (lol)

Intel quad Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
GeForce 8800GT
4Gb ram

I'll need a new G card by september 30 :P . Aiya, the benchmark does not support CrossFire. It does support SLI from some high benching rigs i've heard about, but having CrossFire on will degrade the benchmark performance. If your card is chugging too much, disabling any secondary screen should help. Here some fresh news about the retainer system:

This article has information about retainers and some other things. SteveManly is the translator. Source is Gamewatch.

The beta version of the opening on the boat has seen a makeover since alpha. The lighting and shadowing have been touched up, and a lot of little details have seen improvements, as well. Furthermore, the battle on the boat now includes a tutorial window.

The graphics look much more realistic now that a depth-of-field simulation has been applied, but this requires a lot of processing power, so those with lower-specced computers may want to turn this option off in the config menu. The config menu also has options for the camera angle and movement, the chat filter, and other things.

The main menu, normally hidden, now comes out from the right side of the screen as a vertical sidebar at the touch of a button. Everything in the UI is still draggable by mouse, so players can still customize the screen the way they want.

Adventurers will come in contact with many items they can interact with, and when they approach this items, an exclamation mark will appear at the top of the screen showing that interaction is possible. The player can interact with these locations using commands in the main menu. Additionally, Aetherites have a new function; adventurers can now receive amulets from Aetherites, which can be used to increase the experience bonus during a leve quest.

Starting from the beta test, adventurers can hire retainers from the Drowned Wench pub, the adventurers' starting point, Retainers are NPCs that handle the adventurer's items and sales automatically even while the player is offline. The first retainer can be hired for free, and [each additional one must be paid through the user's subscription. This information that was not available at the time the article was written. -Manly]. When open service begins, the retainer will act as a bazaar when the user is offline. Apparently they are also looking into other uses for this NPC.

There is a female NPC, named Ursley, in the pub who will take adventurers' orders for their retainers. Players can select a race, or have one chosen at random for them. Ursley will introduce retainers to the players one by one and ask the players how they like them. The retainers' outfits are mostly similar to one another, so it's the details that help them stand out: hats, eye-patches, bandanas, hair styles and other small things make up a retainer's fashion sense. Players can ask Ursley to introduce a new retainer to them as many times as they want during the selection process. We didn't get a chance to try out the retainers' functions, but they should do nicely for a bazaar.

When the player has chosen their retainer, they name the character and the contract is complete. Adventurers can call out their retainers with call bells in different parts of the cities.

Okay, so I ran it on my laptop (not much worse than my desktop)

Intel Core2 Extreme X9100 3.06GHz
2x ATI Radeon 4850 (with crossfire off)
4GB RAM (DDR2-1066)

Low: 2489
High: 1374


I still blame SE's shitty programmers…

Pls you should have seen the problems ppl were having in alpha with video cards, and a whole swath of nvidia not supported at all until they fixed it. Beta starts Sat. but moving (pls God) so won't get to start until I get my utilities straightened out at the new house so I won't know anything new for a bit.

My pc is barely at or slightly over the listed specs and played fine. Only trouble has been heavily congested areas but that seems to have been on their side because it got better as SE adjusted stuff without me changing any settings.