UI updates and Graphics adjustments-

[Zhronne]

They could incorporate some of the new stuff they programmed for the X360 version. Water, texture filtering and the fake bump-mapping are all much better in the X360 version, not forgetting that in the character select screen you're in widescreen (if you have a widescreen display of course)

[Reiterpallasch]

I think we should start a fund to get Dazusu glasses, since I'm pretty sure all but the blindest of the blind can see a mother @#$%ing mountain that is more than 200 feet in front of them.

lol @ the reasons he doesn't want this though. People like him are likely the reason we'll never get such improvements in the first place.

[wish12oz]

I like that my thread is being bumped again!

[Zhronne]

let's bump it again then!

[Teraniku]

While I agree about the clipping plane, let's go all out and have them update the DirectX Wrapper that the game runs under. While I would prefer either a DirectX 10 or 11 update just upping it to 9 would solve a lot of issues with newer graphics cards and would allow for shiny water on PC and XBox.

[Midorikaze]

While I agree about the clipping plane, let's go all out and have them update the DirectX Wrapper that the game runs under. While I would prefer either a DirectX 10 or 11 update just upping it to 9 would solve a lot of issues with newer graphics cards and would allow for shiny water on PC and XBox.

Yes, yes thank you, I tire of staring at clear jello (La Theine), or black tar (Port Bastok says hi) XD

[Laraul]

While I agree about the clipping plane, let's go all out and have them update the DirectX Wrapper that the game runs under. While I would prefer either a DirectX 10 or 11 update just upping it to 9 would solve a lot of issues with newer graphics cards and would allow for shiny water on PC and XBox.

What issues with newer graphic cards? Who has graphic issues with this game? Why would think that D3D8 prevents the game from having "shiny water" already?

[Camiie]

What issues with newer graphic cards? Who has graphic issues with this game? Why would think that D3D8 prevents the game from having "shiny water" already?

Every now and then newer cards will have issues with the game. The Geforce 660 series did recently. New drivers sometimes don't support outdated games well, and you can't always dial back to older versions. Also, some graphic effects like those involving more realistic water, simply aren't supported under older versions of DirectX.

[Alhanelem]

The clipping limit is for aesthetic effect.

It is a performance setting- just not one anyone really needs to turn down anymore.

The only problem with using tools to push back the clipping plane is it also pushes back the fog. And in some areas at least, the fog is therefor visual effect, not just to mask detail loss in the distance.

[wildsprite]

some are saying DX10 support would be a bad idea, actually windows XP which is the only currently supported version of windows that doesn't support DX10, and it loses official support in April unless MS does something to change this, once XP is nolonger supported DX10 nolonger seems like a bad idea, till then I say atleast give us full DX9c support and hey if you really want to why not give us DX10 support as an option for systems that can handle it