Will FFXIV 2.0 graphics engine still have high quality graphics options?

The lighting and shadows are better, and that goes a long way. Moreso than high poly counts if you ask me.

Also something to consider: AMD and NVIDIA will likely be releasing drivers to improve graphical performance in the game once 2.0 goes gold.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

Keep in mind that what we're seein' is a tech demo mock-up. It was confirmed somewhere (I ain't lookin' it up. Do your own research!) that the systems running the tech demo at E3 were kinda low end.

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It was a laptop running the game on "high" settings. That's pretty bad news that a laptop can run it on high.

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Originally Posted by Yucie

Lesser graphics = much more playability.

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So you think it's lesser graphics.

Even if they have lowered the poly counts on the models and environments, they said they will be supporting DX11 after lunch launch. Hopefully they will be supporting hardware tessellation, which will smooth out the hard edges on characters and environments.

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Originally Posted by Kerath

Even if they have lowered the poly counts on the models and environments, they said they will be supporting DX11 after lunch. Hopefully they will be supporting hardware tessellation, which will smooth out the hard edges on characters and environments.

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After lunch

After lunch

lunch


After lunch? 2.0 is coming faster than I thought.

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Originally Posted by Kerath

Even if they have lowered the poly counts on the models and environments, they said they will be supporting DX11 after lunch. Hopefully they will be supporting hardware tessellation, which will smooth out the hard edges on characters and environments.

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Hopefully they will be supporting reduced anistropic load count which will give even more definition to areas of low definition.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

After lunch

After lunch

lunch


After lunch? 2.0 is coming faster than I thought.

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OMG ty so much for this, LOL'd hard IRL

Id take the quality you saw in the 2.0 screenshots with a grain of salt....the game is only 15% optimized for hardware atm, and who knpws exactly what settings were set for the client they were using.....there s a lot of factors to consider. What you saw in the screenshots was not finished product, and i can assure that even the alphas graphics will be inferior to the beta and even the official launch client.

Imo the screenshots were released to show us certain things about the game and potentially, what it may look like. Im positive that the devs or even yoshi-p disnt anticipate people to criticize the quality of the pre alpha screenshots they posted.

On that note, im sure hardware requirements for the 2.0 client wont differ too much from what 1.0's is. But only time will tell.