CAN WE PLEASE FIX THE HAIR IN THE GAME

SOLVED FOR ME, PAGE 3


This is a picture of the most zoomed in you can get on your character and it is STILL showing the low quality hair model, this should only be at max zoomed out levels.

https://i.imgur.com/dozOmyU.png

It is impossible to see the new high definition hair on some hair cuts unless you are in the aesthetician, a cutscene or you pin the camera against a wall.

THIS IS OBJECTIVELY WORSE THAN BEFORE. PLEASE FIX.

This is hideous.

https://i.imgur.com/zUBtjOx.png

Are you using DLSS or FSR with dynamic resolution on? If so I would try turning it off. With FSR I would put the scaling bar at 99. It feels like it is an issue I remember having back with the original benchmark and messing around with DLSS.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

Are you using DLSS or FSR with dynamic resolution on? If so I would try turning it off. With FSR I would put the scaling bar at 99. It feels like it is an issue I remember having back with the original benchmark and messing around with DLSS.

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No I have a 4090 running with no DLSR and FSR at max graphics. It is so irritating I'm jumping around haircuts that make me less depressed.

Literally, no custom nothing, just maximum and FSR at 100%, 99% doesn't make a difference on the hair, just tried, this is not a graphics setting issue.

I would test your settings first like mentioned above by Amenara.

Try using the preset for Standard and check, then set it to Maximum and see if the hair looks the same. (Max turns off DLSS completely I think)

Edit: Didn't see your post before I made mine, but turning 3D Resolution Scale to 99 should make the picture ultra sharp, at 100 it will blur.

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Originally Posted by Ath192

No I have a 4090 running with no DLSR and FSR at max graphics. It is so irritating I'm jumping around haircuts that make me less depressed.

Literally, no custom nothing, just maximum and FSR at 100%, 99% doesn't make a difference on the hair, just tried, this is not a graphics setting issue.

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It seems like your GPU isn't wanting to load the hair texture for some reason then. Try doing a post in the bug report forum and seeing if anyone else has had the issue or has more solutions I guess.

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Originally Posted by Cat_Girl

I would test your settings first like mentioned above by Amenara.

Try using the preset for Standard and check, then set it to Maximum and see if the hair looks the same. (Max turns off DLSS completely I think)

Edit: Didn't see your post before I made mine, but turning 3D Resolution Scale to 99 should make the picture ultra sharp, at 100 it will blur.

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that's all fine and well but it will not change the hair model. It is literally a game issue on their end and not ours. I invite you to try the same with a female miqo and several hair styles, this being one of the worst.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

It seems like your GPU isn't wanting to load the hair texture for some reason then. Try doing a post in the bug report forum and seeing if anyone else has had the issue or has more solutions I guess.

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Have you tried it? you should so you can see for yourself.

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Originally Posted by Ath192

Have you tried it? you should so you can see for yourself.

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Don't have a miqo but I will make one to test out the hairstyles when I get off work tonight. I have a 7900XTX so it might not occur on my GPU.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

Don't have a miqo but I will make one to test out the hairstyles when I get off work tonight. I have a 7900XTX so it might not occur on my GPU.

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It will do it on your GPU too. It's been designed this way. Much to my disappointment. But I will wait eagerly your results here. Like I said, I can get the HD hair texture just fine if I pin my character against a wall and force a super heavy zoom in.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

Don't have a miqo but I will make one to test out the hairstyles when I get off work tonight. I have a 7900XTX so it might not occur on my GPU.

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This is your hair at a random zoom level:

https://i.imgur.com/zF0Y4pt.png

This is my hair at the same zoom level:

https://i.imgur.com/XpTv1gc.png

And this is my hair at an OBSCENE zoom level:

https://i.imgur.com/kmAMOcG.jpg

Whatever blur or transition they put in our hair is so bad in this hair style you can see some of it is still HD, and the rest went blurry.

Maybe people playing in a 15 inch laptop and medium settings may not notice this but some of us play on a TV or bigger monitor and it is awful.

https://i.imgur.com/YihGBb2.png

It looks fine in character creator, the same in-game:

https://i.postimg.cc/pybJGdzh/ffxiv-...102300-738.png

I guess you know the solution, change to my hairstyle ;)

I kid, but seriously I would post it to the bug report forum too to see if anyone else is having the problem or knows of a fix.

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Originally Posted by Cat_Girl

It looks fine in character creator, the same in-game:

https://i.postimg.cc/pybJGdzh/ffxiv-...102300-738.png

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do me a favor, in game take the same screenshot as zoomed in as you can without bringing the camera up a wall. And post it here. The CC is fine, it is right at the threshhold of that effect so it will show up just fine there. It's almost as if they tested all the hairstyles at the CC level and then left a wildly inconsistent quality control over how it looks past that.

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Originally Posted by Amenara

I guess you know the solution, change to my hairstyle ;)

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No kidding... but it sucks to lose several hairstyles to that. And moreover, what an inconsistent experience, I might make a bug report, but they tend to lurk in this side of the forums too. Last time I submitted rain literally falling inside a building they said it was working as intended so my hopes aren't high.

OP have you tried disabling LOD? use low-detail models on distant objects
IDK if you have it on for performance reasons- but it should disable this phenomenon entirely

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Originally Posted by Ath192

do me a favor, in game take the same screenshot as zoomed in as you can without bringing the camera up a wall. And post it here. The CC is fine, it is right at the threshhold of that effect so it will show up just fine there. It's almost as if they tested all the hairstyles at the CC level and then left a wildly inconsistent quality control over how it looks past that.



No kidding... but it sucks to lose several hairstyles to that. And moreover, what an inconsistent experience, I might make a bug report, but they tend to lurk in this side of the forums too. Last time I submitted rain literally falling inside a building they said it was working as intended so my hopes aren't high.

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https://i.postimg.cc/FR0yf42h/ffxiv-...104013-421.png

That is fully zoomed in, I tried to see if I could trigger the same blur effect, I couldn't seem to get any at any level of zoom, but did notice GPU spiked to 100% at a certain zoom point and the camera would stutter for a moment, like it was trying to load/do something, when I zoomed a tad more out, it went back to normal.

Yeah this is something that I noticed with the benchmark and my friend didn't have the same issue. We have similar enough hardware specs, and the same settings so i have NO clue what causes it. X_X

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Originally Posted by Cat_Girl

https://i.postimg.cc/FR0yf42h/ffxiv-...104013-421.png

That is fully zoomed in, I tried to see if I could trigger the same blur effect, I couldn't seem to get any at any level of zoom, but did notice GPU spiked to 100% at a certain zoom point and the camera would stutter for a moment, like it was trying to load/do something, when I zoomed a tad more out, it went back to normal.

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I will definitely give you that looks better than mine, but it's not LOD, and changing the graphics settings is doing little for me. I do notice that is a seeker of the sun. I would have to test it on one of those.

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Originally Posted by Ath192

I will definitely give you that looks better than mine, but it's not LOD, and changing the graphics settings is doing little for me. I do notice that is a seeker of the sun. I would have to test it on one of those.

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It's an issue on every race and hair for me.
https://i.imgur.com/Wvo2UEh.png
https://i.imgur.com/DHmqlPc.png

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Originally Posted by Cat_Girl

(Max turns off DLSS completely I think)

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I wish this were the case, but it's not lol. I'm using the "maximum" preset, and it still forces FSR or DLSS on (whichever you've selected), regardless of dynamic resolution settings.

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Originally Posted by Turnintino

I wish this were the case, but it's not lol. I'm using the "maximum" preset, and it still forces FSR or DLSS on (whichever you've selected), regardless of dynamic resolution settings.

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I found the problem, but I would rather post this in shame being wrong than not helping anyone and staying quiet.

At some point, and god knows why, in the NVIDIA control panel I had a NEGATIVE LOD BIAS set to CLAMP. I've had this game installed for years on my PC without an issue and this was the only setting marked differently for this game specifically. No doubt at some point I followed a guide and changing this setting solved something. What it solved I can no longer tell you, but it stands to reason that people experiencing this issue may have done the same, and have just forgotten this setting solved something in the past.

Change the NEGATIVE LOD BIAS from CLAMP to ALLOW (Global Setting) and restart the game. I am sorry I was wrong. And It was related to LOD, just not in game, it was in the Control Panel for NVIDIA.

https://i.imgur.com/3cNE4gK.png

This is how the character looks now, while not crystal clear on the hair its livable now.

https://i.imgur.com/nZCPArD.png

Thank you to those who contributed. And hope it helps someone.

^ You're my hero ToT

No mention of GPU drivers anywhere. Update your GPU drivers in addition to changing clamp to allow.