dx11

[Akira]

does anyone not notice any difference between dx9 and 11 or is it just me? i can tell water is different but everything else looks the same to me

[Catwho]

You have to go and manually change the new settings in System Configuration for it to really make a difference. Like, turn on live light reflections, etc.

[Wilksha]

dx11 uses the same assets the dx9 uses for textures so looks of most things will be the same. The difference between the two is that dx11 has better code and tools for better handling of the assets. The change you'll see is in game performance though fps and memory usage. DX9 is very dated and old. FFXI runs on it and that is over a decade old.

[KisaiTenshi]

does anyone not notice any difference between dx9 and 11 or is it just me? i can tell water is different but everything else looks the same to me

#1. Make sure you are running the DX11 client
#2. Make sure you set the detail to Maximum

The first thing you will notice are floor reflections in places like Gridania. What you should be noticing are the HBAO shading. http://www.geforce.com/hardware/tech...lus/technology


And if you do video capture stuff, you'll notice a giant framerate drop if you leverage the videocard encoder. Switching to the CPU(eg Quicksync) encoder is no better.

[Rowyne]

I noticed a difference - I kept crashing to desktop in Ishgard whenever DX11 was turned on. I have a DX11 compatible video card and benchmarked DX11 with no issues. I had a lower score with DX11, but no crashing, so not sure why I just couldn't play with it enabled. I had to go back to DX9, and the game was noticeably easier on my system with no more crashing in Ishgard.

[SecretCrowds]

Try looking at the night sky.

[melflomil]

I noticed a difference - I kept crashing to desktop in Ishgard whenever DX11 was turned on. I have a DX11 compatible video card and benchmarked DX11 with no issues. I had a lower score with DX11, but no crashing, so not sure why I just couldn't play with it enabled. I had to go back to DX9, and the game was noticeably easier on my system with no more crashing in Ishgard.

Same here but my game kept on crashing on the loading screen. I had to go back to dx9

[Waeksyn]

I tried DX11 but found that it significantly lagged out the game on my system. I run an i7 CPU at 3.2G and a Radeon HD 5800 Vid Card. I know that the Video Card was one of the first ones sold to support DX11.

What is the bottleneck? Would I get good DX11 performance with a new Video card or is my CPU holding me back?

[Shiki_Lockhart]

Everything looks better and more detailed. And those lighting effects geez <3

[Evangela]

go inside some building. you can see the better lighting from lamps and etc.