Forced Upscaling is Personally Unplayable - Literally

[Aurelle_Deresnels]

Oh, yeah.

Try this:




Set your 3D Resolution Scaling bar to 99 instead of 100.

It'll be even more noticeable if you open the images on new tabs, even more noticeable if you do it in your own game, and evern more noticeable if you play in 1440p or 4K, since I'm playing at 1080p
Why is this happening? I have no idea, but don't kill your AA for the sake of some weird scaling issue.

Hope this helps someone!

I tried that and I remember it looking pretty off to me, but I didn't really investigate the details at the time. Perhaps I'll give it another go and see if I can identify what issue I had with 99% scaling.

[DiaDeem]

I tried that and I remember it looking pretty off to me, but I didn't really investigate the details at the time. Perhaps I'll give it another go and see if I can identify what issue I had with 99% scaling.

It is weird alright. I don't think this is intended, though I know FSR1 to be kinda trash at its job. Most games use FSR2, but that would require XIV to upgrade its API to DX12 (Which apparently Yoshi-P mentioned at some point??)

Someone above mentioned a checkbox to turn off upscaling, but I can't find it. Waiting on their response...

[Aurelle_Deresnels]

It is weird alright. I don't think this is intended, though I know FSR1 to be kinda trash at its job. Most games use FSR2, but that would require XIV to upgrade its API to DX12 (Which apparently Yoshi-P mentioned at some point??)

Someone above mentioned a checkbox to turn off upscaling, but I can't find it. Waiting on their response...

I gave 99% resolution another go, and I think I know what the issue is - the oversharpening effect messes with our shape perception, going "oh, oh, important edge here!" too much. I definitely noticed weird edges a lot, and it slows me down with shape-related mechanics like following the footprints in Ktisis Hyperborea. Which is, unfortunately, also unplayable for me, since rapid shape perception for complex shapes is a huge part of decoding animation tells.

And to make matters worse, it isn't even entirely stopping my system from blurring out; it just makes that less likely. :| Turning off anti-aliasing entirely makes the blurring less likely still, at the cost of even worse edges.