Its optional otherwise, they lose big fan baseQuote:
Originally Posted by Edli
Any news on DX11 version?
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06-23-2014, 07:07 PMAltimis
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06-23-2014, 10:16 PMShiobanIt came up during E3 as far as I recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter
Internal discussions on the implementation of higher resolution and or various uncompressed textures, was up for debate. They said it was still in the basic mathematical stages at the moment (i.e. "Do we have enough memory on your average DX11 card for this?" -
07-11-2014, 05:30 AMGieff
Other games have much higher resolution textures and seem to fit it into gpu memory just fine. Often those games have much larger maps (since FFXIV zones load individually anyway). Also, I'm assuming (at least hoping) the original game assets created are already a much higher resolution and aren't compressed, and were subsequently downsized and compressed to fit into the PC, PS4, and PS3 versions respectively. I don't see the harm in including a hi-res texture pack if they already have the assets, especially since players can just NOT USE IT if their respective GPU can't handle it. PC gaming and graphics are about options for the end user that scale appropriately with their individual hardware's capabilities. Right now the entire game has been reported to use at most 800MB or so of VRAM...a ton of mid-range and higher cards out there have 2+GB, so there's plenty of room to increase texture sizes and lose that nasty normal map compression for quite a few PC players.
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07-11-2014, 05:31 AMGieff
I think graphic improvements will also be much much easier after they finally declare "end of life" for the PS3 version. It's the reason the game is stuck with zone loading, terrible dithery checkered "alpha" blending, limited hair styles, physics, and a slew of other compromises. I apologize to those playing on the PS3, but meeting that system's 8 year old hardware is severely limiting this game's visual and even gameplay potential.
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07-11-2014, 05:43 AMWolf_GangMost DX9 games are programmed in D3D11.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerberon
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07-11-2014, 05:58 AMPurplenum
How about an OpenGL client?
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07-11-2014, 06:06 AMSaccharinWhile newer versions of DX add more 'graphical features' they aren't always backwards compatible. DX11 was rewritten to be more efficient and therefore works differently than DX 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf_Gang
Why. DX9 works well as it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Purplenum
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07-11-2014, 06:36 AMShiobanNot really worth the effort when DirectX works across almost any platform (Even a PS3/4 can use it with a little tweaking).Quote:
Originally Posted by Purplenum
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07-11-2014, 06:53 AMGieff
I've been eagerly awaiting any news on this DX11 update, since even before version 2.0 was released. If anyone following this thread hears any more news on it, it would be excellent to let us all know! It would also be awesome if Nvidia helped implement their HBAO+ (much higher quality than the strange small-radius implementation of AO they're using now, and possibly actually more efficient for modern GPUs), as well as TXAA 2x and 4x as alternative Anti-aliasing methods. I'd be ecstatic if they were considering any additional AA options in the future as well, most notably SMAA 1x, 2sx, 2tx, and 4x variations; maybe even MSAA with alpha (as seen in CryEngine3) as it's possible with deferred rendering under DX11. Physically based rendering would be incredible for this game too but my wishlist is already pretty long here :P
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07-11-2014, 09:11 AMShiobanHardware Based AA is a given, even if it's not implemented it can be forced on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gieff