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[Drakonic]

Does the game look better in ultra wide? I’ve been considering ultra wide monitor for some games with beautiful scenery like Death Stranding and Red Dead Redemption 2… but I’m not sure if it’s worth it.

I’m weird and don’t really see much difference between 4K and ray tracing haha. My desktop is good now and I tried testing 4K and ray tracing - the difference is there, of course but it’s not huge. So usually I just game on 1080p. And ray tracing is something I don’t understand at all o.O it needs so much gpu usage and the difference is not huge.

Also kind of off-topic but did anyone play XIV with curved monitor? Is it more immersive ir distracting?
Curved and ultra wide are two technology I’m actually kind of interested in

Curved ultra wide is pretty immersive if you setup a minimal HUD layout. Put a trigger macro in your hotbar to swap between combat mode and immersive mode. In immersive mode, just remove almost all HUD elements, other than the macro that puts you back in combat mode, a mount, and some necessities (like minimap and duty list). Many cutscenes have blackboxes that make you go back to 16:9, but exploring the world is very nice on ultra wide. If you raid you also get what is basically a legal zoomhack too lol.

[Crowzer]

[Endariel]

Not great, not terrible

[Yeol]

Tested on: 7/12/2021 18:05:35
Score: 16578
Average Frame Rate: 115.1922
Minimum Frame Rate: 61
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
Scene #1 1.621 sec
Scene #2 2.772 sec
Scene #3 4.209 sec
Scene #4 1.652 sec
Scene #5 0.848 sec
Total Loading Time 11.102 sec

System
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (ver.10.0.19042 Build 19042)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
65454.457MB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti(VRAM 11049 MB)

[SirFujimoto]

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10850K @ all-core 5Ghz, RTX 3080, 16GB DDR4 3200 (16-18-18-36), 2 TB M.2 SSD, W10 latest build

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

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10850K @ all-core 5Ghz, RTX 3080, 16GB DDR4 3200 (16-18-18-36), 2 TB M.2 SSD, W10 latest build

Why high desktop instead of maximum?

[SirFujimoto]

Why high desktop instead of maximum?

Literally all Maximum does is disable Occlusion Culling and there's no reason to disable it.

Edit - I will rerun the benchmarks as apparently it does change 3 other settings-

Maximum unchecks 'Use low detail models on shadows'

'Screen Space Ambient Occlusion' switches to 'HBAO+: Quality'

Anisotropic Filtering switches to 16x (shouldn't matter at all performance=wise)

[SirFujimoto]

Why high desktop instead of maximum?

https://i.imgur.com/cXgc8LH.jpg



https://i.imgur.com/S4DWcYt.jpeg

Barely any difference from High.

10850K @ all-core 5Ghz, RTX 3080, 16GB DDR4 3200 (16-18-18-36), 2 TB M.2 SSD, W10 latest build

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

https://i.imgur.com/cXgc8LH.jpg



https://i.imgur.com/S4DWcYt.jpeg

Barely any difference from High.

10850K @ all-core 5Ghz, RTX 3080, 16GB DDR4 3200 (16-18-18-36), 2 TB M.2 SSD, W10 latest build

That's what I mean, why not run max when you have those parts lol.

[Rinhi]

That's what I mean, why not run max when you have those parts lol.

why give up free frames for a barely noticeable difference tbh