I'll definitely be playing D3 when it comes out.

I loved D2, looking fwd to D3!

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First time I ran it all I got was sound and black screen and a score of like 200.

I've upgraded my video card to a 1 gig GeForce GTX 460. On low I got 1089 and on high I got 1192.

I don't know that much about computers but I guess I have a bottle neck in my CPU?

I have a Pentium D 3.00 GHz.
4 gig ram
windows 7 64 bit.

Is there anything I can do to boost my score? I currently have a 375 watt PSU, would upgrading that bost my numbers at all? I think my new graphics card asks for a minimum of 500 watts or something.

Yeah unfortunately your CPU is a huge bottle neck. That graphics card should be getting something like 2000-3000 in the benchmark at least.

The Pentium D was a budget dual core CPU. It only has half the cache of a Core 2 Duo and half the front side bus speed.

The good news is that the Pentium D usually uses the socket LGA775, which (i believe) is exactly the same type of socket a lot of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad's use. You should be able to just buy a decent Core 2 Duo/Quad and fit it in.

mine is Q6600 which is use LGA775 quad cpu.

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Don't forget a recent bios update, in some cases the MB won't support the cpu untill you update it.

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Thanks for the info. I looked into getting a new CPU but unfortunately I don't think my mother board will support it. I have a Dell XPS 400 and I don't think Dell has bios for anything more advanced then the D on that MB. I'll probably try to play the game when it comes out. If I have issues I'll just try and build my first PC using the new card I just got. Thanks again for the info.

ah, unfortunately I'd forgotten about BIOS support, and did a quick google, and found on a forum somewhere:



So I guess you can't just buy a Core 2 Duo. Well at least that graphics card can be re-used in basically any computer (providing it has the room inside and a decent enough power supply for it) if you choose to buy a new one later.

damn that suck! well I going to be sometime before I upgrade mine soon lol

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After all the trouble everybody's gone through working on their computers for this, I don't mind the +6 month wait for PS3 release.

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Sad thing is, this is a lot easier than it used to be when trying to get things to run on a 486 33Mhz with 4MB RAM

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I must have been about 7 years old when I was writing my own config.sys and autoexec.bat files for various boot floppies I had to get all my different games working. Different configurations for whether you needed mouse support, or MSCDEX running for CD support, and your HIMEM.sys and stuff.

Good times.

Nothing beats installing ram on a ISA sound card... Good times indeed.

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shit ket I remember himem.sys is a must when going over 512k if I remember right.

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Needs more extended memory

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Set BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5

EDIT: I remember having to figure all this crap out myself back in the day, lol. We didn't have internet. I think I must have spent hours upon hours inside the MSDOS help files.

I hated setting DMA and IRQ's, i dont miss it one bit lol.

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Sound cards weren't so bad once you knew what your jumpers were set to, and learned what your BLASTER setting needed to be.

But, ever try getting a network card working in DOS? Now that's a nightmare if there ever was one. Especially if you wanted to get it going in the eventual Windows 95 too. Every computer wanted it done differently too. Oh and then try getting something like Doom going without a packet driver supplied with your card. You could sort of get it working using the IPX stack in Windows 95 but it was a mess. Starting a packet driver would eat up all your 640k memoery and all of a sudden you're struggling with half a dozen floppies just to get a 2 player Doom going.

I also remember having a huge amount of trouble getting TCP/IP working when there's simply no help files on it, no books explaining it, and we didn't have the luxury of DHCP, or routers. Then a few years later, try combining all this nonsense with a proxy server to get more than one PC onto the internet, because we didn't have NAT back then either.

Oh and we had that blasted BNC cabling everywere, one loose plug and poof the entire network is dead.

Yeah you're right, thank god for modern Plug and Play. Even if I did used to call it Plug and Pray back in the Windows 98 era.

EDIT: Man when I think about it, I must have been a god damn boy genius. I was doing that crap when i was 9.

I remember those days. That was high school for me.

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Wow. I'm glad I didn't and don't have to mess with that, sounds waaaaaaaaaaaay complicated.

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Scored a 660 in Low Res.

I have a AMD Phenom II 945 Quad-Core Processor, 8GB DDR3 and ATI Radeon HD 5450 with 512 MB DDR3 dedicated graphics memory.

I know I should be scoring higher than what I am getting right now, and have heard that ATI's are having trouble with the benchmark at times. I am semi-computer illiterate and would appreciate any help. I have updated my drivers earlier and was able to get the beta client to start downloading.

Hey peeps. I downloaded the benchmark and scored a mighty 600 on low! I wanna play FFXIV on my PC, and I need assistance. I'm not a big PC gamer, so I don't know much about this stuff.

My current setup:

HP computer bought from Costco December 2009
Intel Core 2 quad core processor 2.5GHZ
8GB DDR2 RAM
750GB HD (7200RPM)
ATI radeon HD 4350 graphics card (crappy default card)
Windows 7 (64 bit)

If I upgrade my graphics card to something better like a Geforce GTX 460 or a GeForce GTX 470, can I expect a sigificant improvement in performance? I would have to upgrade my PSU also, because mine is only 300W I believe.

That CPU is ok, a little higher clock than the Q6600, so with an ok last gen graphics card like a 9800GT (or whatever the ATI equivalent is? 4830 / 4850? I'm not good with ATI herp derp.) you could probably hit 2000 on that benchmark. I think you can pick up one of those for only $90.

Grabbing a GTX 460/470/480 might be a bit overkill until you upgrade the CPU and/or the whole PC to an i7. If you buy one now, it'll be future proofed at least for a year or two, but if you don't plan on getting a new PC for a while it seems like a bad idea to splurge out on a super graphics card that will be outdated when you finally make a new PC.

Yeah, you'll need a new PSU too.

Awesome! Thanks for the quick and helpful response, Ket I will look into a last gen card like you suggested. I prefer the cheaper route anyways!

A good irl friend has the same comp as me, with 4GB less RAM and a bit slower processor.

His benchmark score was 310 on low and 112 on high. He was barely able to play the beta on the absolute lowest settings (like me).

Yesterday he installed a GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB card and upgraded his PSU to a 600W ($200 total at Fry's electronics). It increased the benchmark score to 3300 on low and 2200 on high.

I will probably go the same route! I would prefer playing the game on 1920 X 1080 since my monitor runs that resolution and I prefer full screen for gaming. I assume the game will run "ok" at that resolution with a score in the low 2000s. I don't need all the settings cranked.