Thread: My Three Main Wishes for 7.0 Graphical Update

Originally Posted by Larirawiel

Reshade is post processing. It cannot fix the damage, which is already done by the engine.


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I really wish some users got off their high horse about community mods and reshade, they are great at patching some holes but the graphics update has the chance to at a fundamental level rework key systems that no mount of reshade can fix. So when I saw people being like oh my reshade settings do this… they do not… trust me. You could have artists or graphics teams tell you it can’t but they’ll be in their denial brain. Also it would be a good thing if it goes further beyond because then modders can then take their work even further… sounds like a win win to me.

I'm personally hoping for some kind of texture update on older gear. I use the second tier Alexander raid gear for my tank, and I really like it, but looking at it close up it's easy to see how bad the texturing has held up. You can almost count the individual pixels on some parts.

Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

+1 to everything you said.

Personally I’d just like hair that doesn’t look like yarn close up, but that might just fall under the textures category. lol

Hair defined is your friend, HD hair textures.

Originally Posted by Iyrnthota

I'm personally hoping for some kind of texture update on older gear. I use the second tier Alexander raid gear for my tank, and I really like it, but looking at it close up it's easy to see how bad the texturing has held up. You can almost count the individual pixels on some parts.

All gear is being done eventually, they basically said 7.0 gear is done obviously but select gear or most popular glams are being looked at. NPCs and gear will be updated each patch likely as they get converted over. It seems annoying they haven’t kept their higher quality assets because you could easily have kept the higher quality and downscaled it at the time.

DLSS/FSR implementation if possible.

Originally Posted by Ayche

DLSS/FSR implementation if possible.

Definitely a possibility and would add longevity to multiple specs of hardware. They added dynamic resolution scaling already but if they can implement this that would be interesting. Forspoken added FSR to luminous so with 14s engine being a custom offshoot maybe it’s a possibility down the line then again it might not happen because even FF16 only has 2 flat out performance or graphics modes.

Originally Posted by Ayche

DLSS/FSR implementation if possible.

I highly doubt, that DLSS/FSR will make the game better. DLSS/FSR are upscalers. Upscalers are nice if the game is limited by the GPU. But in MMOs this is almost never the case. MMOs are usually CPU bound. In this case, DLSS/FSR will not improve the framerate.


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Originally Posted by Larirawiel

I highly doubt, that DLSS/FSR will make the game better. DLSS/FSR are upscalers. Upscalers are nice if the game is limited by the GPU. But in MMOs this is almost never the case. MMOs are usually CPU bound. In this case, DLSS/FSR will not improve the framerate.


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Both are temporal image reconstruction tools, so they will also act as temporal anti-aliasers. They would produce superior image quality compared to FXAA.

My only hope for the graphics update is that my seven year old PC can handle it! I'm saving for a new PC, but with other financial priorities in life it's slow progress and I may not have saved enough by the time the update appears.

Originally Posted by Carin-Eri

My only hope for the graphics update is that my seven year old PC can handle it! I'm saving for a new PC, but with other financial priorities in life it's slow progress and I may not have saved enough by the time the update appears.

I'm thinking of getting anew PC this year mine is at the 4 year mark and I too think this may impact my game performance.