@SquareEnix: Kickstarter campaign to get a graphic upgrade?

[Shirai]

What are the issues you're experiencing?
And besides W10, what hardware are you running it on?

[Zeargi]

What are the issues you're experiencing?
And besides W10, what hardware are you running it on?

I was finally able to figure out what the problem was after combing through pages and pages of internet forums. The Resolution for the game wasn't the same as the monitor and that was stopping the Direct3D thing from starting.

[Dekusuta]

Just speculating, can they just keep all the assets and upgrade it to be at least DX11 compatible? I think the game's mostly missing the nicer shaders. The geometry is largely still OK.

[Alhanelem]

Just speculating, can they just keep all the assets and upgrade it to be at least DX11 compatible? I think the game's mostly missing the nicer shaders. The geometry is largely still OK.

I don't think the game would gain anything from any directx 11 functions. It would result in increased rendering performance, but that's not the reason the game runs slow on modern PCs.

In short, it would take a lot more than simply "supporting" directx 11 to gain any benefit from it, they'd have to do the work to implement new graphical features. Which they should do but probably won't. =\

[Catmato]

Just speculating, can they just keep all the assets and upgrade it to be at least DX11 compatible? I think the game's mostly missing the nicer shaders. The geometry is largely still OK.

I'm no programmer, but wouldn't this require rewriting large parts of the game engine?

[Alhanelem]

I'm no programmer, but wouldn't this require rewriting large parts of the game engine?

well the rendering engine specifically but yes, there would be a pretty large amount of work involved- particularly to actually gain anything from having it.

[Catmato]

I'd say getting the game to run properly at 60 fps without slowdown on a modern system would be a huge benefit, but that's just my opinion.

[Cesil]

Wow, two years and no reply o.O

Anyway I know a lot of work would be involved to update the game...

I guess it comes down to SE thinking it's worth it ^^ Although I've a feeling they are hoping on that cell phone game to work (ick...) personally I'd prefer a PC update, especially since they're dropping the consoles. Iirc they said they update the game with some old ps2 kit or something? Ugh

[Raydeus]

Wow, two years and no reply o.O

Anyway I know a lot of work would be involved to update the game...

I guess it comes down to SE thinking it's worth it ^^ Although I've a feeling they are hoping on that cell phone game to work (ick...) personally I'd prefer a PC update, especially since they're dropping the consoles. Iirc they said they update the game with some old ps2 kit or something? Ugh

They can't really invest on anything until they see what happens to sub numbers after they drop console support. If the subs remain stable or even increase with the small PC changes we can expect all sorts of quality of life and system improvements to happen. But if subs drop we'll probably only get small updates until the game dies. Either way whatever happens next for XI is completely in the hands of the players.

[Ramur]

They should add the full vanadil area with new graphics the content+storys to FFXIV as addon, create own servers for PLAYING STYLE round trip based like FFXI this is the important thing.
they should be preserved, the battle system this is important and unique.
^°°^