Can we please have more options to lower graphics settings?

[Ueki_Kosuke]

Yes, but it doesn't make sense that people who could play the game at minimum 30fps in the past no longer can get at least that.

When updating an MMO it's important to keep it accessible, even if the requirements have changed.

Also the laptop that they have can run the ShB benchmark and get a Standard rating on medium settings - they get workable FPS there, but certain raids prevent them from performing well.




That means something is not going right in the game itself and perhaps being able to turn off the identified problems would help.

My computer is personally fine, I could probably stand to upgrade my 1060 at some point but I'm not the one having issues here.

Hold up you have a GTX 1060? How are you even getting 15 fps lmao. Even with low settings. There's definetly something wrong with the setup. Not the game tho.

[xxvaynxx]

Hold up you have a GTX 1060? How are you even getting 15 fps lmao. Even with low settings. There's definetly something wrong with the setup. Not the game tho.

I HIGHLY doubt he has a 1060 if he's getting that. My laptop has a 1060 and I got extremely high for the SHB benchmark with everything turned the highest possibly setting.

[tdb]

When updating an MMO it's important to keep it accessible, even if the requirements have changed.

At some point though maintaining the lower settings will become more trouble than it's worth. They may require different shaders and code paths which will need to be kept up to date with everything else and tested. That doesn't come for free, so at some point it's necessary to just drop them and bump up the system requirements. At the moment the game's minimum requirement is a GPU which was released six years ago as a lower mid-range model; it has equivalent power to a high-end GPU from 11 years ago and today's low-end discrete GPUs can achieve the same performance.

Also the laptop that they have can run the ShB benchmark and get a Standard rating on medium settings - they get workable FPS there, but certain raids prevent them from performing well.

Isn't that screenshot from Stormblood benchmark though? I think Shadowbringers introduced some new and more expensive rendering techniques.

Not really, Benchmarks are designed as a WORST CASE SCENARIO, they're designed to test and thus they stress the machine to the limit of its capabilities of running the software. That's why its called a "Benchmark" and not a "Software that will show you what you MIGHT get"

That's not some kind of universal rule for benchmarks. Particularly for an MMO it's difficult for the benchmark to account for all the other players.

Hold up you have a GTX 1060? How are you even getting 15 fps lmao. Even with low settings. There's definetly something wrong with the setup. Not the game tho.

The OP has a GTX 1060 and is able to run the game without much issues. OP's friend gets 15 fps with hardware that hasn't been mentioned yet, though I strongly suspect an integrated GPU.

[Halivel]

Hold up you have a GTX 1060? How are you even getting 15 fps lmao. Even with low settings. There's definetly something wrong with the setup. Not the game tho.

It's not OP who has issues with FPS but their friend.


On a topic: I would welcome such a change honestly if it's possible, but wonder if there is anything what they can reduce even more than recent lowest settings give in the first place. Did your main tank consider a possibilty of upgrading their specs? It costs money of course, but no one says that they need to buy a top-1 details. Could buy something still fairly old, but enough to run the game on somewhat decent level. If it's still too much, maybe consider to switch to console version. Even regular PS4 does it fine.

Sadly, when it come to games, and MMOs specifically, you going to deal with the fact that sometimes you need to upgrade your system. Because if the game is that bad for your Tank atm, it probably means that their PC is 7+ y.o.