Curious on new Graphical Engine

[Nuru]

I'm all for an engine with better scaling. It concerns me what was said in the 1up interview tho. It really does sound liek the PS3 is the base platform for the new engine and the PC will just be an enhanced version of that with the same assets. If that is the case we are probably in for a drop in graphical fidelity for people who are playing at 1920x1080 or greater with everything on.

My machine runs nicely at high everything at 1920x1200 with everything except ambient occlusion on. I know that a 4ghz i7 6gig ram and an ati 5850 would be considered mid to high end now but with the basic gaming system becoming an i5 K series and a new generation of graphics cards comming in 4-6 months that level of performance will be available in a $500 PC.

If anything FFXIV V2.0 engine should be aiming to offer even more than the current one not less. Better scaling for laptops and lower spec machines is a must tho.

Not really what he meant. What he means is they are basing it on the PS3 for it to be able to run the game smoothly, while the High End PC users will be able to play the game with better graphics. This also means that people with lower-end computers will be able to play it too.

Nothing was mentioned that the graphics would be dumbed down, its just that they are optimizing an engine the way it should have been from the start.

[Teth]

Unfortunately that is the technical implication of basing it on the PS3. If you base it on PC you can reduce the lighting detail and texture fidelity when you move to PS3 and use simpler shader effects. If you start at the PS3 you can't magically add more animation frames and higher detail models for the PC version. To go farther than that to make use of high end PC features essentially requires branching your engine and duplicating your base assets and developers even id software with rage don't do that because it is too hard to maintain and keep them in sync.

[Zenaku]

Not really what he meant. What he means is they are basing it on the PS3 for it to be able to run the game smoothly, while the High End PC users will be able to play the game with better graphics. This also means that people with lower-end computers will be able to play it too.

Nothing was mentioned that the graphics would be dumbed down, its just that they are optimizing an engine the way it should have been from the start.

It say that pc and ps3 would look the same but PC can load more players and can see more draw distance i hope it wrong and yoshi-p can give us more info on what he really means.