DirectX 11 footage

[SekhmetM]

Honestly, this game needs better textures badly. Many textures are pathetic and atrocious. If this game could be modded like games on Nexus, then FFXIV could become a great looking game. Console needs to stop holding back the PC players. They need to let PC upgrade graphics as PCs allow.

[Lucem]

I'm concerned about the client using Nvidia GameWorks.

Personally I'm a tad worried about the DX11 client's reliance on nVidia's Gameworks and how it will affect AMD cards.

Me too. Big names in the gaming industry have spoken out against Gameworks (John Kloetzli - Firaxis, Bart Wronski & Michal Drobot - Ubisoft Montreal, Timothy Lottes *an ex-nVidia employee*- Epic, Johan Andersson - DICE) and there is flat out proof that the platform favours Nvidia cards because AMD are unable to access the source.

Because of how minimal these changes look, I think it won't be much of a problem. However I would be a lot more comfortable with them choosing an open platform to allow myself and the other 40% of the GPU market to get the most out of their systems in this game for the foreseeable future.

[Kiara1]

I'm looking forward to it!

[Xienzato]

Silly question, but will the PS4 get any enhancements? Or is it just for PC?

[Zyrusticae]

Me too. Big names in the gaming industry have spoken out against Gameworks (John Kloetzli - Firaxis, Bart Wronski & Michal Drobot - Ubisoft Montreal, Timothy Lottes *an ex-nVidia employee*- Epic, Johan Andersson - DICE) and there is flat out proof that the platform favours Nvidia cards because AMD are unable to access the source.

Because of how minimal these changes look, I think it won't be much of a problem. However I would be a lot more comfortable with them choosing an open platform to allow myself and the other 40% of the GPU market to get the most out of their systems in this game for the foreseeable future.

This is a lie. AMD has full access to game code. They are literally making up excuses.

Nvidia’s Cebenoyan responded directly to this during our conversation: “I’ve heard that before from AMD and it’s a little mysterious to me. We don’t and we never have restricted anyone from getting access as part of our agreements. Not with Watch Dogs and not with any other titles. Our agreements focus on interesting things we’re going to do together to improve the experience for all PC gamers and of course for Nvidia customers. We don’t have anything in there restricting anyone from accessing source code or binaries. Developers are free to give builds out to whoever they want. It’s their product.”

Seeking some clarification, I asked if perhaps AMD’s concern was that they’re not allowed to see the game’s source code. Cebenoyan says that a game’s source code isn’t necessary to perform driver optimization. “Thousands of games get released, but we don’t need to look at that source code,” he says. “Most developers don’t give you the source code. You don’t need source code of the game itself to do optimization for those games. AMD’s been saying for awhile that without access to the source code it’s impossible to optimize. That’s crazy.”

It's amazing how often this lie keeps getting repeated over and over again, despite being debunked MONTHS ago. Shows you how little critical thought people put into these statements.

[Xoriam]

Silly question, but will the PS4 get any enhancements? Or is it just for PC?

PS4 has DX11 compatible hardware, but I'm pretty sure it's running on OpenGL since directx is a windows API.
It's a possibility you guys will be seeing some of the same features as the DX11 client, since OpenGL can do things in a diffrent way but similar.

[Galliano]

I want to know when the game is going to look like this.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Half past never. That UI looks pretty awful.

[Gralna]

I want to know when the game is going to look like this.

that is a concept UI, added on top of a still image of 2.0 while still in testing phase. Closest chance you ever have to getting a UI similar to that, is if they ever allow player made UI's to be added to game.

[Galliano]

that is a concept UI, added on top of a still image of 2.0 while still in testing phase. Closest chance you ever have to getting a UI similar to that, is if they ever allow player made UI's to be added to game.

Half past never. That UI looks pretty awful.

I didn't mean the UI, I meant the shading and lighting.