Thread: FFXIV 2.0 Graphics Engine Requests

tessellation sounds dirty ^.~

There won't be any DX 11.0 when 2.0 first come out, you know, just like SW:TOR. And I don't really care whatever engine they decide to use, just one that is reasonably optimised and looks decent. Skyrim used a pretty old and open source one that they do some modification, and it's do its job well to sell 7m copies.

Include a benchmark you can run from graphics option menu, it should contain 2-3 stages such as, town simulation, raid simulation, large scale pvp simulation (yeah right!) and deliver separate profiling reports for each scenario and for each of the main rendering stages, so we know that for example, physics calculations are taking 35% average of total rendering time when in a and adjust the configuration accordingly.

Abolish the retarded "PS3 limitations" mentality when it comes to graphics, GUI, etc. As long as gameplay stays untouched there is nothing wrong with both clients having reasonable differences.

Awesome GPU based physics engine (DirectCompute?) and awesome particle effects to go with it, for those with GPUs that support it.

Every graphics related option configurable, and not just on/off. GODDAMIT I want to control my aniso filtering from the game's control panel.

Scale decently over at least 3 cores.

Originally Posted by Kerath

• Real-time Reflections - LL looks like it is floating at times because there are no reflections to anchor it visually in place. The white surf sort of does that but it is too small. Plus real-time reflections would look really nice when the player is running through a stream in Gridania or when fishing in Cortheas

I would love to see this as well- but with how big this area is (granted LL is getting a style change in 2.0) and playing with real-time reflections myself in a few different engines ;x ugh this seems a bit un-realistic for the PS3.

-Currently looks as if their using a strait HDR image to simulate their reflections of some city (LL waters and grid waters currently use same reflection in certain areas)-

But yeah agree'd I would like for them to re-adrress their water reflections in this game even if they can't go realtime simulation.

Witcher 2 is a DX9 game and its visually astonishing.

DX10-11 can wait.

One more thing that would be nice is shadows on everything, with more customization for the graphics so that people can find that sweet spot for their computer.

And a fix for Ambient Occlusion Multisampling 16qsaa (I think that's what it's called.). My computer runs Rift just fine with Ambient Occlusion on, but Final Fantasy XIV's ambient occlusion kills it.

I've also run Multisampling on what Final Fantasy XIV maxes out on better than what Final Fantasy XIV does. >.<