Hi Res Texture Pack

[Laraul]

I run a fairly mid-high end rig, and FFXIV barely makes use of it's available VRAM, using only 1/4th of the available amount (second line). This is in the Churning Mists, a large open Heavensward area with everything cranked up to max.

I get more like 1.5-2GB of VRAM usage w/ the DX11 client. And my GPU only has 2GB total. I think I had it on the High (Laptop) or the High (Desktop) preset.

These are the stats for the leviathan trial.
https://youtu.be/ul3awW_RlTY



Asking for a high resolution texture pack because it's only using 1/4th of your available VRAM is a selfish thing to ask for. It will not provide a notice increase in visual quality while greatly effecting performance. If you want the game to use more of your 4GB, buy a 4k monitor. That should push VRAM well past 2GB...

[Colorful]

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A selfish thing to ask for? I guess we should all be ashamed for using DX11 and the visual improvements it can being, after all, PS4 users don't have access to it. I'm not suggesting they remove all low resolution textures, just add an option for high resolution textures, like almost every PC game in existence. >_> I don't see how that could be considered selfish, especially since it's a highly requested feature, and many people can make use of it (even mid-end GPUs have started to have 4GB of VRAM now).

[Laraul]

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Considering that we play with the camera zoomed out fairly far, do you think replacing all the textures with "high resolution" ones will result an any noticeable detail difference. Probably not. And regardless it's not going to happen! You got a DX11 update and that wasn't enough. I don't expect adding a high resolution texture option would be either.

The ugliest thing in the game are the shadows when cast over a large area. They look blurry and blocky, and a lot of games suffer from this. They could increase the shadow resolution to 4k or 8k but who knows what kind of effect that would have on performance. It's not that important anyway.

[Arkann]

Considering that we play with the camera zoomed out fairly far, do you think replacing all the textures with "high resolution" ones will result an any noticeable detail difference. Probably not.

I beg to differ. Low resolution vs. medium resolution, fully zoomed out and in flight:

(open in a new tab for the full-size picture)
The difference is even more noticeable where both textures merge.