Ya, it's hard to gauge its usefulness beyond being a "minimum req check"...and a way to sneak back into Eorzea for a few minutes. :)
Did you notice that massive adamantoise in the Shroud scene, just towering over everything else in the background? That thing dwarfs the Behemoth King and Titan!
Dropping a check on all the LOD options (which is how I would likely run the game anyways), and turning off in-game AA (I force SMAA through my drivers instead), bumps it up another 442 points for me.
After comparing the log files it generated, those changes only yielded a gain of about 3 fps though (from 40 to 43 avg). Yet, when playing the last beta I was able to get some limited Crossfire support going,
and enjoyed 60fps locked (vsync) in almost every instance when I checked FRAPS, with the occasional drops to 54-55fps during extremely taxing scenes. I believe RadeonPro/FRAPS was reporting an avg. FPS of 58 on the
last day we ran a dungeon marathon on Diabolos too. That's a substantial difference from these benchmark results. "Results may vary" indeed!
Also, there's been some recent, possibly good/great news for those of you in the Nvidia camp. Quite a few players reporting some gains in that thread. :D
» Edited on: 2013-08-02 17:09:59