DX 11 : D

Huh. Looks like DirectX 11 won't be doing jack for me.

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Originally Posted by Purplenum

I hate to think that so many people are deluded when it comes this sort of stuff. Any and all revisions of DirectX are garbage in comparison to OpenGL.

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aren't they pretty much the same?

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Originally Posted by Axidrain

aren't they pretty much the same?

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no opengl is more powerful and is used on everything from phones, consoles, and pc and it can run on any OS as DirectX works only on windows

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Originally Posted by Axidrain

aren't they pretty much the same?

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Essentially, but DirectX isn't supported by all platforms like OpenGL is. People have also found that OpenGL is much faster, plus it's open source and constantly being improved upon.

The OpenGL/Direct3D debate died a long time ago. They are simply APIs. One can not be said to be better than the other. Direct3D is limited to Microsoft software and systems.

Proper implementation of Hardware Anti-aliasing such as MSAA and CSAA. FXAA is awful because of how blurry it makes the image.

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Originally Posted by Billzey

I can't believe Yoshi is saying we can't tell that things use very low texture resolutions. Are you kidding me? You can literally see the pixels in almost every piece of armor... They look absolutely horrible.

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Exactly this.

My initial hope of DX11 was improving the overall texture quality among other improvements and getting rid of the many many many many many jaggies in objects like Armour and Weapons e.t.c

(Might have to open image in new tab to see full-size)

http://puu.sh/77ZtS.png

There's no way this should stand in what todays games are capable of, hell I'm not expecting Crysis 3 level of graphics but these kind of visuals were suitable for a low-end PS3 game... oh what am I saying, FFXIV is being limited to what the PS3 is capable of...

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Originally Posted by Skyl1n3

http://puu.sh/77ZtS.png

There's no way this should stand in what todays games are capable of, hell I'm not expecting Crysis 3 level of graphics but these kind of visuals were suitable for a low-end PS3 game... oh what am I saying, FFXIV is being limited to what the PS3 is capable of...

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You regularly play the game from this view point or are you nit picking?

By the way I think the texture in the background looks uglier than your armor in that picture. Gray and dull. Though I assume that was the intention artistically. Lot of things in the world just look ugly.

yeah they really need to do something about that. the equipment and clothes designs look wayyy to pixellated. And i think this has something to do with the ps3 stupidly low video RAM

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Originally Posted by Billzey

I can't believe Yoshi is saying we can't tell that things use very low texture resolutions. Are you kidding me? You can literally see the pixels in almost every piece of armor... They look absolutely horrible.

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Yeah, I'm not really sure where he got that thought.

My enthusiasm for DX11 dropped significantly when he said we weren't getting a high resolution texture pack - not even an option to turn on in the graphic settings (which would be really easy).