Many thanks for the DX11 client.

[Ladon]

It looks great, except the parallax occlusion mapping is broken on one of the common rock textures. You can see the texture crawling when you get up close to it.

Also surprise feature: the DX11 client correctly supports MFAA for Nvidia Maxwell owners so you can dump the god awful FXAA and use a semi-decent AA solution.

[BelmontSPA]

I am especially enjoying the boost in performance, I have a high end rig i7 4770k oc 4.2 and GTX 980 MAX settings in 1440p and my frames went down in packed places like Mordhona, now after the expa and dx11 it runs so smoothly even in crowded areas like Ishgard...

it is just awesome.

[Magusrex]

Please tell me that's not true. My two main monitors are 1920x1200.... (16:10)

1920x1080 is so 5 years ago....

Looks like it is Eyefinity and DirectX 11

[DreadRabbit]

I have a question for the more tech savvy folks. So I'm using AMD A6-3420M for grahpics card, and I'm pretty sure it was made for Directx11 as that's what my system says it's normally using. With the directx9 client I got roughly 40-32 fps in standard laptop mode (yes I'm on a laptop. Wasn't necessarily made for super high gaming and was built..three years ago now I think?). 60 fps at title. With directx11 and exact same settings I get 20 fps at best in game. Haven't tested it much but now in towns there's lag where I didn't have it before. Is a half fps drop normal?

I don't mind still using directx9, but if directx11 can help the computer perform better it would be preferred.

[Gyson]

I just wish the DX11 client minimized properly when alt-tabbing, instead of going into a windowed mode. For one thing I'm not really fond of my video card working as hard even when the game isn't up on my screen.

[Saerydoth]

I don't mind still using directx9, but if directx11 can help the computer perform better it would be preferred.

Because DX11 doesn't increase performance over DX9. It wasn't designed to. It was designed to increase graphical quality. The same settings now have higher requirements than before, and the max requirements have MUCH higher requirements than before (video card-wise, CPU-wise the requirements are the same). So yes, on integrated graphics like that I would expect worse performance on the same settings.

[DreadRabbit]

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I see then. Well, that's alright. It just means the game will look the same for me as it always has, which is still really pretty. Thank you very much for the swift reply! *remains in my directx9 corner*

[Culfinrandir]

Please tell me that's not true. My two main monitors are 1920x1200.... (16:10)

1920x1080 is so 5 years ago....

I play at 1920*1200 with no issues. As long as the setting is available in your monitors & gpu setup it will be in game.

[Sartori]

I fully agree. There have been points where I am exploring where I have to stop and stare at the texture of the pavement, of all things.

Ran Pharos Sirius and my jaw dropped at the water effects in there now. Truly spectacular.

My frame rate dropped from 120 to 60 FPS with the game cranked up to max, but the texture improvement was absolutely worth that tiny sacrifice. And actually, my video card isn't crying as hard since it was made for DX11 and it can shuffle some of the GPU intensive work over to dedicated hardware bits now. My CPU is running cooler.

you can't tell the difference between 120 fps and 60 fps anyway lol

[excildor]

The eyefinity res are broken, once that's fixed it will be great. Nothing over 1920x1080 is there in full screen. I can run 6016x1080 in borderless windowed but not in full screen.

Crossfire doesn't work if your not in full screen, so I'm stuck with dx9 for now.