PS3, graphic settings?

[ChasedByAngels]

I find myself wondering if the PS3 version of this game has a graphic setting option. I know, because it's the PS3 it can/should handle all of the game's graphics, but I notice that during FATEs, I receive more lag than not, and I imagine it's because of so many flashy skills being process on the screen at once... But I may be wrong?

[Althire]

Ps3 only has a certain setting for Gfx and you can't change I don't think and it's not as high as they can go some pc's will run it with better settings

[PhiliusFogg]

PS3 cpu is used globaly by military, I too have wondered about graphics etc. IMO no reason for such old skool stuff. Content is good thou, perhaps that was a priority and more will come later. PS3 ca do better thou.

[Jonathan12uiz]

PS3 cannot handle FFXIV full 1080p+ graphics, hence the reason it is set to 720p 30fps.

the only things you can do to combat fate lag is by
- turning off all effects for You, Your Party, and Everyone Else.
- removing the display of Names, HP bars, and flying txt
- turn off display of headgear and sheathed weapons
- and by playing in non crowded fates

if you have the money
- install a SSD into the PS3 to help loading times

That all you can pretty much do. with these settings you are basically removing the amount of stuff the ps3 has to load. I believe character models get first priority, so don't be surprised if you don't see any of the enemies/boss of the fate till they are dead.

I play on PS3 and PC... I prefer to game on my console, so I sacrifice the graphics and few bonuses the PC version gets for my preferences.

[Niwashi]

the only things you can do to combat fate lag is by
- turning off all effects for You, Your Party, and Everyone Else.
- removing the display of Names, HP bars, and flying txt
- turn off display of headgear and sheathed weapons
- and by playing in non crowded fates

I turned off displaying effects. In my case it was because having the whole screen filled with flashing flaming effects was blocking my view of where characters and mobs were and which of them was selected (since with default settings this game is too flashy for good visibility), but it should help with lag issues as well.
I doubt things like turning off display of headgear and sheathed weapons would have an effect, though. For one thing that only affects how your own character is displayed, not anyone else's, and your weapon won't be sheathed during these crowded fates anyway, so the difference is just a single character's helmet.

[Slatervonjager]

PS3 cannot handle FFXIV full 1080p+ graphics, hence the reason it is set to 720p 30fps.

This is false.

PS3 CAN Handle any game at 1080, the only reason why theres is only a handful of games on PS3 that are 1080, is because the difficulty of developing for PS3 makes things to expensive, and it's cheaper to develop at 720, then it is at 1080.

[Jonathan12uiz]

I turned off displaying effects... but it should help with lag issues as well.
I doubt things like turning off display of headgear and sheathed weapons would have an effect, though. For one thing that only affects how your own character is displayed, not anyone else's, and your weapon won't be sheathed during these crowded fates anyway, so the difference is just a single character's helmet.

Are you positive on this? I dont remember seeing bows or lances on the back of characters with my settings off, but i could have just not cared enough to notice, but anything displayed on the screen has to be graphically rendered... so in any sense, turning things off WILL help, whether you may be able to count the actual rendering milisecs... prolly not.

You WILL notice a difference in the mid 40s fates in corethas and n. thanalan... i'm not sure you have experienced this since your 2 characters are around 20

[Jonathan12uiz]

This is false.

don't misunderstand me, i wasn't talking full 1080p games in general, just in the FFXIV instance... from what i gathered from all the beta forum post back when PS3 was introduced into the mix... square wanted the game to run as smoothly as possible on the ps3... so they canned the 1080p 60+fps because of the PS3's lack to render everything correctly at at time. I have a few 1080p games on my ps3, that died actually, but also remember that a lot of the 1080p cutscene goodness in most of those games are pre-rendered movie files... and not to mention some of the "1080p" games are just 720p upscaled.

I'm not docking the ps3 as not capable of many things... nor am I docking it as a non reliable FFXIV platform. i Played to lvl 46 on my main on my PS3 till it died. I only played the PC version for the first part of beta, then switched to ps3 is phase 3 i think.

I'm on pc now because my ps3 is dead, I would link you to the old beta forums, but that is impossible now since they are shut down.

[Althire]

This is false.

Am sorry but here you go again with bigging up the PS3 yes it is a great console but again it will never compare to a gaming PC just bite the bullet and except it and I love the bit about expense stopping them from running 1080p I mean come on games are made for all resolutions the only thing stopping certain resolutions is hardware FACT you can run games on a PC at 5760*1080p and even bigger do you think theses games cost more to produce for high resolution NO the game was made and the hardware allows what ever resolution it is capable of.

Now lets leave this PS3 is the god of games please and start actually talking about what threads are asking.

Althire.

[lineandcolor]

I don't think anyone is saying that PS3 is god of all games, but it can be rather annoying to constantly be told that PCs are better and what you're using just isn't good enough. I'd be annoyed too if people were constantly shoving that own my throat.

Also, can I ask you something? Do you know how long it takes to render graphics like those seen in FFXIV or even movies like Disney and Pixar? A *very* long time, like days worth of rendering for even a few seconds. And you think they wouldn't save money by rendering at a 720? Really? Just because some games have and can be made in higher quality doesn't mean all companies are willing to dish out the time and money it would take to do so. And especially for an MMO that they will constantly be upgrading anyway.