In addition to the return of the "World of Warcraft" national server in the near future, another veteran MMORPG game "Final Fantasy 14" also ushered in the 7.0 version of the "Golden Legacy" update, and the new version of the foreign server has been launched, and the national server will be launched next month if there is no accident, in the 7.0 version, this game that has been in operation for many years ushered in its first screen upgrade.
The Final Fantasy 14 development team aimed to improve the overall quality of the graphics, bringing players higher resolution textures and shadows, as well as improved textures. At the same time, the development team also emphasized that the overall look and feel of players will be retained, which means that this upgrade will not change the game's visual style, but will make it better on the basis of the original.
Therefore, in the new version, the equipment on the player's body has been depicted in great detail, and the decoration on the armor is more obvious and three-dimensional. The surface of the armor adds a battle-hardened feel. As can be seen from the different reflections produced by metals and gemstones, the development team has made a further distinction between different materials.
If you want to know how your platform will perform in Final Fantasy 14: Legacy of Gold, you don't need to actually try it out, because Square Enix has already launched a new benchmark program for this game, which uses actual maps and playable characters to rate the player's computer, as well as a character creation tool, and the new version of the full-screen aesthetic enhancement, texture and shadow quality enhancements, and material quality enhancements are also reflected in this benchmark program.
Like the previous version of Benchmark, Final Fantasy 14: Legacy of Gold also has 4 Graphic Settings, in fact, you can change the presets in Graphic Setting 1, which still has the highest image quality, high (desktop), high (laptop), standard (desktop), standard (laptop), and standard (laptop) five levels to choose from, and the resolution is modified in Display Setting.
The new Benchmark program supports NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR, which means that the 7.0 version of the game will also support these two super-resolution technologies, DLSS is optional without gear, FSR has a slider to choose the zoom ratio, which can be adjusted from 50% to 100%, making it 100% is no scaling, and you can also choose when FSR is turned on, you can choose to always turn on, turn on when the frame rate is lower than 60fps, or turn on when the frame rate is lower than 30fps, However, actual measurements show that except for 4K resolution, there is no need to turn on superresolution.
游戏Screen
Test platform with instructions
《最终幻想14：黄金的遗产》硬件需求测试平台采用Core i9-14900K处理器，配上DDR5-7200 16GB*2内存套装。 而测试所用的显卡则包括有RTX 3060 12GB、RTX 4060、RTX 4060 Ti、RTX 4070、RTX 4070 SUPER、RTX 4070 Ti、RTX 4070 Ti SUPER、RTX 4080、RTX 4080 SUPER、RTX 4090以及RX 6600、RX 7600、RX 6750 GRE 12GB、RX 7700、RX 7800、RX 7900 GRE、RX 7900 XT、RX 7900 XTX还有ARC A770 16GB、ARC A750，具体产品可见上表。
The test uses the official Benchmark program of Final Fantasy 14: Legacy of Gold, although the demand for version 7.0 has increased compared to the previous version, but the overall demand is still not high, the official recommended configuration is a Core i7-9700 processor, 16GB of RAM, RTX 2060 or RX 5600XT and above graphics cards, all of the above graphics cards are pulled to the highest image quality settings to run is not a problem.
Some of the graphics cards used for testing:
影驰RTX 4080 SUPER金属大师OC
影驰 RTX 4070 A SUPER星曜 OC
盈通RX 7800 XT 樱瞳bride
Shadow Run RTX 4060 Metal Master
The demand for graphics cards has increased significantly compared to the previous version
One of the main goals of Final Fantasy 14: Legacy of Gold was to improve the overall image quality, bringing higher resolution textures and shadows, as well as improving the texture of the materials. This will inevitably increase the performance requirements of the graphics card, and we used the RTX 4060 to compare the results of the two official benchmarks of Final Fantasy 14: Legacy of Gold and Final Fantasy 14: The End of the Dawn Moon.
As you can see, the average frame rate of the 7.0 version of the benchmark is significantly lower than that of the previous version, with about 30% drops at 1080p, 2K, and 4K resolutions, and the performance requirements for graphics cards are significantly higher.
Graphics card requirements testing
1080p
Although the demand for graphics cards has increased in the new version, even the highest image quality at 1080p resolution does not put much pressure on the participating graphics cards, and the frame rate is basically very high, and the lowest RX 6600 can achieve an average frame rate of 97fps.
1440p
Raising the resolution to the 2K level,In fact, the pressure on the graphics card of these two generations is not very great,RTX 3060 12GBThe graphics card with a large share can still maintain an average frame rate of 70fps,There are also ARC A750 and RX 7600 at the same level,And the average frame rate of RX 6600 is only 57fps,But it's really not a big problem。
2160p
However, once the resolution reaches the 4K level, the demand for the graphics card has suddenly increased a lot, and the RTX 4070 or RX 7800 level graphics card is needed to meet the average frame rate of 60fps, and the cards with lower performance than them can basically only rely on DLSS or FSR to increase the frame rate, although it is okay to lower the image quality, but the effect of DLSS and FSR at 4K resolution is better than the image quality.
In addition, we can see from the test results that the game is significantly more N-biased, which can be seen from the RX 7900XTX's frame rate of only the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, of course, the Benchmark interface has a clear NVIDIA GeForce RTX logo, which shows its inclination the moment the Benchmark is opened.
DLSS and FSR in a nutshell
Since DLSS does not have a level to choose from, and FSR is a direct pull zoom level, there are too many options, so we only use the RTX 3060 12GB to try how much performance improvement DLSS and FSR can bring after turning on, since the frame rate of 1080p and 2K is very high, it makes no sense to turn it on, so we only test it at 4K resolution.
During the test, the FSR was directly pulled to 50%, both DLSS and FSR were turned on all the time, and if the dynamic mode was automatically turned on below 60fps, the frame rate would stabilize around 60. After turning on DLSS, the average frame rate will be directly increased from 35fps to 67fps, which should be the performance mode in terms of the increase range, and the frame rate will be increased to 72fps if the FSR is 50%, which shows that the super-resolution technology has a very large performance improvement for these mainstream graphics cards at 4K resolution.
summary
"Final Fantasy 14" is an MMORPG with a history of more than 10 years after all, although "Golden Legacy" has indeed increased its demand for hardware, and the average frame rate has decreased by 30% compared with the previous version, but even if the demand increases, it is not a big problem for the current graphics card, even the mainstream graphics cards of the previous generation such as RTX 3060 12GB or RX 6600 can run an average of 100fps at 1080p resolution. 2K resolution is not very stressful for these graphics cards, most of the graphics cards have a frame rate of more than 60fps, the lowest RX 6600 also has 57fps, and it is surprising that Intel's ARC A750 performs better than RTX 3060 12GB and RX 6600.
As for the 4K resolution, the pressure on the graphics card is much greater, and it takes RTX 4070 or RX 7800XT to meet the average 60fps needs, but the new version supports DLSS and FSR, which can use super-resolution technology to greatly reduce the pressure on the graphics card, so that the mainstream graphics card can run the same, and it can be set to start when the frame rate is lower than 60fps, so as to reduce the loss of image quality as much as possible, while ensuring the smoothness of the picture.