Stormblood benchmark and benchmark trailerFollow

Are they actually changing anything that you need better hardware to run the game after SB is released?

I do 60 FPS most of the time, though sometimes I do drop down to 40s in certain places.

EDIT: Yeeeah, 1.9GB... I'll pass on that. That would take forever for me to DL.

Edited, Apr 28th 2017 6:40pm by Lyrailis

I'd say the benchmark is mainly for publicity, though SB will certainly bring in another wave of new players who'll genuinely want to use it.

13,263 on max settings at 1920*1080. Which is a bit of an improvement over my HW score. Though, I've completely rebuilt my PC since then.

As a side not, while I was highly pissed to see my 25mbit plan go up in price yet again, my decision to just upgrade to the 200mbit plan was worth it. Hell, Comcast jacked up the price of the 25mbit plan so much that it didn't make sense to not just spend the extra twelve bucks a month. It took less than a minute to download the benchmark.

I wonder if paying Comcast more money would make my internet problem go away.

Perhaps I should change my name to Netflix

I'm also on the 25mbit plan.

How much is it over there, or you just in a rural area? It's about 80$ CDN/month here for 150 down, 10 up. Ya, after having this, I just can't go back. Downloading that file in less than 5mins and most games within 30 mins is definitely worth it.

Oops.

Edited, May 1st 2017 12:11pm by Lyrailis

Whoops I posted that in the wrong thread.

You should. It's amazing. The only problem is that you can never be without your phone, but for most people that's already a reality.





Are you getting your service from actual intergalactic aliens? That is a ludicrous amount of money to be spending especially for such a tiny amount of bandwidth. Also does your connection cut out when it gets cloudy? I'm actually curious. I don't know anyone who has satellite internet. But I'd imagine it'd be weather-dependent.

Is it possible to find this show somewhere else? Hulu perhaps? Amazon Prime? You might look into it. If it's seriously the only reason you're allowing these people to bend you over like that, it's worth looking in to.

Outages aren't really a super common thing here. I don't know where you are so maybe the Comcast infrastructure there is made of baling wire and duct tape, but around here I think I've had 1... maybe 2 outages in the last couple years. And none have lasted longer than a couple hours. Sometimes if there's some really awful storm or something a switch will go down, but that's an extraordinary event.

Oh, hey. A fellow Pennsylvanian. Hello! lol

RE: Callinon:

I think the outages are more something having to do with the fact that we (my workplace) is a business, and I think they have a separate "thing" for businesses. Not sure about that, but I asked the boss's wife once about their stability and she said "maybe once or twice a year" that they have outages... but yet the store itself gets outages a bit more often than that.

That, or the outages are just that much more noticeable, because the credit/debit card machines go through there and when the internet connection goes down, it sucks.

That, and... well, I don't really know if it is Comcast or the Credit/Debit network, lol. So maybe they don't have that many outages. I know a few actually were Comcast (one of them, the modem blew)..

1920 x 1200 score is 15989

3840 x 2160 score is 7085

Everything is on max and all that good stuff.

Mac versions are usually an afterthought to try and rope in a few extra bucks from those people who insist on buying computers from a company that is well-known to scr*w you over on purpose to make every penny they can.

EDIT: This guy pretty much sums up why Apple (as a company) needs to die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsYf_7wPNxY

This guy repairs Apple computers for a living.

Edited, May 2nd 2017 4:50pm by Lyrailis

I know, right? They're right up there with Console manufacturers, trying to make everything proprietary and special so the end-user cannot repair them or take them to a 3rd party repair shop.

See, the PCs I build at home... if a fan goes in it, or a RAM stick, or even the CPU... I can buy just that part and replace it.

But then again, my PCs tend to last well over 5 years, with only needing an occasional part here-and-there. The last time I ever had a major failure in a PC was almost 10 years ago, and it was a PSU and it was my own stupidity that caused its downfall, lol.

This was when bottom-mount PSUs started hitting the scene, and the case I had bought was a bottom-mount. Before, I had only done top-mounts. The case had this convenient little vent on the bottom where you could turn the PSU so that the 2nd vent pointed down to blow the air out of the case or what-not... well I didn't know that this would eventually cause the PSU to overheat a few months later and basically fry the thing, lol.

Now, I mount the PSUs with the vent pointing up towards the rest of the innards so that its exhaust will merge with the rest of the airflow and get blown out the back and top of the PC. Lesson learned, albeit at the cost of about $50.

Other than that, though, other than the occasional case fan wearing out, or needing a new CPU cooler because the old one got clogged, my PCs last for years, because...

A). I don't have a third-party manufacturer purposefully making stuff cheaply so that they break,
B). I can open up a case and make simple repairs like fans,
C). I pick&choose my own parts and I only buy quality brands I know are good.
D). I'm able to open my case anytime I want to get rid of clogs, dust, etc.

Can't understand why people would want to buy a box that you're not even allowed to open. That's a huge "NOPE!" for me. Can't open it = no deal.