DirectX 11 footage

[Shioban]

DirectX is supported by both NVIDIA and AMD. It is a Microsoft graphical engine.

It's not an engine, you're confusing terminology.

DirectX is an API, essentially like a library that you can reference from or pull bits and pieces from.

It essentially houses various libraries of things you can pull from for; Sounds/Graphics/General Processing

Pretty sure they have said all along they would not be increasing texture resolutions for dx11. Unfortunately. But if thats what anyone was expecting SE has said that was never the plan.

They never said it would go hand-in-hand, but that they were simply looking into whether it was feasible or not.

Is DX11 gonna make the armor like back when the game first came out?

The armour hasn't changed much.

Texture were compressed, metallic surfaces don't use the same shader (often) anymore.

The actual form of the gear is exactly the same.

The lighting system used in ARR isn't as "Aggressive/Strong", that's why you don't get quite as much detail as you did in 1.0, the normal/bump mapping doesn't' come out quite as strongly as it did before.
This is also partially due to the textures being compressed more-so than before in some areas.

1.0's lighting system in some ways was arguable more realistic, it was also inherently flawed, buggy and in most places looked down-right terrible.
However for ARR to replicate that using the current system would be incredibly intensive on most computers.

[Pinkie_Pie]

Is DX11 gonna make the armor like back when the game first came out?

[Parodine]

Actually Yoshi himself stated in a live letter that DX11 wouldn't be that much of a noticeable difference from DX9, that main difference would be with the water.

I hear you, but I also saw noticable differences in wood paneling and the stone walkways in Ul'Dah from the video. I figured it won't be like 'omg!' quality, but it'll be a nice 'oh hey, pretty' when its here.

[ShadowVolt]

Actually Yoshi himself stated in a live letter that DX11 wouldn't be that much of a noticeable difference from DX9, that main difference would be with the water.

There quite a few differences besides water...tessellation, better lighting ect. just pay attention to the video closer its hard to notice some because of the quality of the video. Speaking of the video has anyone come across a higher quality one?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I'm more concerned about how much of a performance boost I'll get from this.

[Katsaria]

I want a performance boost. It irritates me that I have a GPU that crushes this game and it the title still isn't optimized for my card.

[polyhedral]

We *should* see a boost. If not, they've done something different than other companies in the past...

I'm not even top tier gpu, but my 960 cuda cores beg for usage.

[Jynx]

I really do hope in the future they decide to release the high resolution textures for those of us who can make use of them. I get the compression for memory limitatons on consols and older systems but come on.

[Amiantos]

I want a performance boost. It irritates me that I have a GPU that crushes this game and it the title still isn't optimized for my card.

I know that feeling. I can run MGS Ground Zeroes at 4k with all at max and get about 40-45 fps yet here I'm stuck at 1440p for this and it struggles to get into the 80's a lot of times.

[Postcards]

I'm concerned about the client using Nvidia GameWorks. This has crippled AMD videocard users in the past with other games.