Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Wind-Krysvein]

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I'm telling you, the waiting is the worst part.

I can obviously live without playing this game (heck, we all take breaks from it. My longest is 7 months) but the thought of the devs flat-out ignoring this issue and just sweeping it under the rug is causing me no small amount of fear and anxiety. I refuse to let it end this way.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Here we bump again.

Same as before: if you're experiencing these symptoms, post it here and, if possible, make a report of the issue in the Square Enix support center. I'd also advice against "toughing it out" and playing the game regardless of the migraines, headache or general eye strain caused to you. It may have permanent effects on your vision.

[LianaThorne]

If a fix is coming it'll be after EA when they do their usual post-expansion fixes. Probably won't hear anything about it until then but I could always be wrong.

[Toontown]

as an update for anyone on PC.. after lowering my settings to AMD, 99 resolution, and changing the anti-aliasing, much of the blur is gone. the game looks awful and pixelated which i hate, but it's better than the migraines.

the blurring does persist even with these settings when i zoom my camera in/out. like others theorized it's probably baked into the graphics somehow.

i do feel a slight eye strain still when i play but it's nothing compared to the horrific pain i had on the first day. unsure of how i'd feel on long raid hours of the same flashy lights over and over.

unfortunately this fix doesn't work for console players so the issue still needs recognition for those still suffering or unable to play.

[Ceridwenae]

Adding my voice here to say I'm unable to play without my eyes getting super dry yet streaming tears when trying to fight anything. Add in a big old headache coming after the eyes start shrivelling, and I just can't play at all. I do have dry eyes anyway (poor tear ducts are quite dysfunctional), so typically do have blue light reducing stuff in place and eye drops and eye gel, but haven't had this bad a problem with this game before.

I tried this morning again but didn't last long. Read this thread and tried again just now with the adjustments mentioned in this thread, but no dice. Until we have some option that reduces the weird decision to have objects blurring whilst moving and sharpening up when stopping up, I don't think I can play the story or any combat (I can craft, but that gets stopped by the story so there's no point really).

Meh.

EDIT: Just want to add I've noticed threads about the mount tilt causing motion sickness and inability to turn off the glare, which I feel may also be potentially causing eye strain and headaches, etc. I'm hoping these are all bugs which will be tweaked in a swift patch. Feels like some things which should be choices are accidentally in-baked.

[HauntedLasagna]

I'm telling you, the waiting is the worst part.

Agreed. The feeling of not knowing if you are being heard. I could live with it if they came out and said "we see no issue and aren't doing anything". But the silence? Its not a good feeling. Hell, just knowing they have noticed it is an issue would put me at ease a little bit. I'm on some maximum cope right now that they will announce it is an issue when the EA ends and hopefully fix it soon after.

I've played this game off and on for a very long time, I've enjoyed more than I've disliked. I don't want to have to stop playing because my eyes aren't great.

I hope everyone who is unable to play is having a good one. I've taken this time to knock out some of my backlog. Elden Ring DLC is also very tempting..

[Erinellza]

WHEN I STAND STILL:


WHEN I MOVE:

[BeoCat]

It's been mentioned once in this thread and no-one paid any attention so im gonna mention it again. If your image gets blury when you move, you have tcmaa antialising enabled. Disable it or change it to fxaa or whatever.

[HauntedLasagna]

It's been mentioned once in this thread and no-one paid any attention so im gonna mention it again. If your image gets blury when you move, you have tcmaa antialising enabled. Disable it or change it to fxaa or whatever.

ok but what about console players?

[DynnDiablos]

I have noticed on PS5 the graphics update has introduced ghosting around your character when moving the camera which has never been there before. It's very prevalent in FFXVI and FF7R which makes me think with the graphics update FFXIV has now become victim to their crappy TAA implementation. Also, I finally see what you mean regarding eye strain. I did the Paglth'an today and the vibrancy and bright oranges about seared out my retinas.