After years of teases and trailers, the FFXIV Dawntrail Expansion for Final Fantasy XIV has been given a release date along with a major overhaul on graphics as well as combat. You should mark your calendars because the Expansion will be released on July 2nd, 2024, avoiding competition against the release of Elden Ring’s DLC, Shadow of The Erdtree.
For players on FFXIV PC who want to test out the graphical fidelity of the upcoming expansion, developers release a Final Fantasy XIV “Benchmark Tool” or “Benchmark” for players to gauge whether their PC can run the Expansion and it is thanks to the development team of FF14 that they have released the Final Fantasy XIV “Benchmark” of their latest expansion on April 14th, 2024.
What is FFXIV Benchmark?
For console players who just pursue FFXIV Gil who don’t know the slightest as to what a Final Fantasy XIV “Benchmark Tool” actually is, let me break it down for you. A FFXIV “Benchmark Tool” is a software program released before the main game where players can get to know what sort of performance their current PC rig will display and if they need to tweak some of their hardware to make sure that the game in the future runs smoothly. It stresses the Computer to the same extent as running the game, where you will know what type of framerate you will get.
Square Enix says that this FFXIV “Benchmark Tool” features brand-new in-game areas along with a wide variety of enemies and showcases the exciting additions that will come with the expansion alongside the first graphical overhaul of the game.
This is something to look forward to if you are a die-hard fan of the Final Fantasy series and you own a PC. Be sure that before you want to catch up to the latest upcoming expansion of Final Fantasy 14, be sure to stack up on that FFXIV Gil; that is how you upgrade your weapons, skillsets, and everything you need to stay at the top of the game. No Gil means game over, technically.
System Requirements for FFXIV Dawntrail
With the latest expansion delivering a total overhaul to the UI of the game, it would only make sense that the basic system requirements would have been increased due to significant changes in the character models that focus on their skin texture, eye quality, hair graphics as well as environmental graphics too.
You will need at least a Windows 10 or Windows 11 OS followed by an NVidia RTX 2060 Graphics Card or higher to run the game along with 160 GB Storage present in either HDD or SDD. Your RAM must be 8 GB or higher and an Intel Core-i7 9700 series processor or adjacent is absolutely recommended.
You can play the game in the lowest settings as well, if you do not mind sharp graphical details and just want to focus on the gameplay, but do make sure that it meets the minimum system requirements, otherwise, you will be missing out on a lot of the tweaks that the developers made to the game.