Can we please have 60FPS and increased draw distance in the PC version?

[Byrth]

As explained above, their system could already handle 15 FPS (it just generates fewer frames for animations). They didn't have to change anything. The issue they were addressing was the slow-down between 16 and 30 FPS that some console users experienced. 25 FPS or so was fine, because that's just a little slower and they could still beat the minigame. 20 FPS? Now their minigame is 33% slower than everyone else's and they maybe don't get enough rod twitches to win.

[Dragoy]

They actually reverted the FPS-limit reduction during the renovation of the system, but it was indeed limited to 15 for a while before that.

[Pixela]

FFXI 60fps video (use chrome browser)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uguYIVrXU

[Raydeus]

Maybe one day.

Raydeus's Hoping skill raises .1 points.

[Alhanelem]

If fishing was capped at 15FPS then it would be obvious, the framerate would cut in half every time you whipped out a fishing rod, which it doesn't. My understanding from reading on the subject is that they unhooked a lot of the core processes from screen FPS and run them on an internal timer now instead.

I think the change was reverted when they implemented the updated fishing system. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong)

[BobbinT]

I support this idea.

Btw, what's fishing system?

[Alhanelem]

It has these arrows that appear on screen, and instead of holding down the arrow keys / dpad you only have to tap them at the right times.

[Dragoy]

FFXI 60fps video (use chrome browser)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uguYIVrXU

That does not mean the game is running 60 FPS. ^^;

(And no, I will not use the Chrome browser. °—°)

I think the change was reverted when they implemented the updated fishing system. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong)

As I already mentioned before, yes, they indeed did revert it at that time.


I personally don't see the fuss about 60 FPS (puns not intended), and it probably would mean quite a lot of work for them to implement such a change for this game (as others have hinted as well).

I don't think it will happen at least any time soon, but time will tell. ^^

[Raydeus]

That does not mean the game is running 60 FPS. ^^;

Yes it does.

[Raydeus]

The why is that your graphics card is probably optimized for DirectX 10 or 11, and this game is DirectX 8 or 9, which is now run in emulation, instead of natively on the graphics cards, so performance is worse than on a properly optimized card. This game also strains the CPU more than the GPU.

Yeah, it's DX8 (used to be 7 I think) and is extremely heavily dependent on your CPU speed. Not to mention it doesn't seem to have multicore support either, so yeah... even if you have a good graphics card it will make little difference. A DX9 client upgrade would do so much for the game I can only hope they will actually do it once they drop the PS2 support for good (if the game survives that long that is.)


PS > It really annoys me because a client upgrade would cost only a fraction of all the money they completely wasted while developing and re-developing WoWclone XIV.