Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Wind-Krysvein]

I'm in PS5.

Good heavens, someone help this man!

I know its a bit pessimistic but the response from the SC feels like it is just a blanket response they give to everything.

It does certainly have that feel of "stock response" to it, doesn't it? Still, even if it was a stock response, that still wouldn't necessarily mean they're not researching the issue.

Maybe I'm becoming a little too optimistic, but my biggest fear at this point isn't even that they'll ignore the issue. I'm more afraid that they'll just implement some half-solution that works for the majority of people, but not for me personally, and in the end I'd still have to stop playing. Here's hoping this doesn't happen.

[Maxilor]

My main complaint as someone going through ARR again is while the graphics look great, and it feels like the game essentially got 'Remastered'...some of the lighting on cutscenes just seems way too bright.

It's like characters constantly have spotlights on them, I'm guessing this will be fixed later and it's just a symptom of porting the old cutscenes with the new lighting and models.

[Daralii]

My main complaint as someone going through ARR again is while the graphics look great, and it feels like the game essentially got 'Remastered'...some of the lighting on cutscenes just seems way too bright.

It's like characters constantly have spotlights on them, I'm guessing this will be fixed later and it's just a symptom of porting the old cutscenes with the new lighting and models.

They also changed where the light sources are, so places or scenes that might have been in shadow or well lit before are now the opposite.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Bump. If the issue was any less serious, I wouldn't be doing this so often.

[Rustic11]

edit: this may be incorrect and i have to swallow my own words. FSR at 100 and aa off doesn't seem to differ from the config file trick. I don't know what's real anymore, it's all placebo now Still bad menu design that they don't have a off option for the scaler.

Luckily i found a way to (at least seemingly) fully disable dlss/fsr with just the games config file, so i'm happily playing without constant blurring. (i don't know if details about that kind of stuff is permitted to talk about here.)

Signed up just to add to this, because i'm so happy to see i wasn't the only person to be bothered by the dlss/fsr problem, and not being able to turn them off.
Also tired of seeing the misinformation about what settings "disable them", because none do.

[Renii]

Luckily i found a way to (at least seemingly) fully disable dlss/fsr with just the games config file, so i'm happily playing without constant blurring. (i don't know if details about that kind of stuff is permitted to talk about here.)

Signed up just to add to this, because i'm so happy to see i wasn't the only person to be bothered by the dlss/fsr problem, and not being able to turn them off.
Also tired of seeing the misinformation about what settings "disable them", because none do.

IDK if it's allowed, but i would kill for whatever knowledge you seem to have about the config file.

[Rustic11]

IDK if it's allowed, but i would kill for whatever knowledge you seem to have about the config file.

edit: this may be incorrect and i have to swallow my own words. FSR at 100 and aa off doesn't seem to differ from the config file trick. I don't know what's real anymore, it's all placebo now :P Still bad menu design that they don't have a off option for the scaler.

Well, i wouldn't know...but if there just so happens to be something called "GraphicsRezoUpscaleType" there, and if you set it to 2, along with "AntiAliasing_DX11" to 0 that should do something.
Just spitballing here though.
edit: also setting the file to read-only is usually required. Just don't touch the graphics settings afterwards in-game.

[Guasta_Ryets]

That one gives me horrible ...

In the second post to this I have a something that might help, I forgot to include certain important combination settings earlier. I know it's annoying but it might work if you can replicate what I do. Worth a shot if you're still up to it since mine worked and my computer is not special

I started on the lowest settings, ...

Sorry, just to be clear it was a suggestion not a "this will 100% fix everyone's problem" or anything like that. I'm with the other people saying SE needs to address this, but we all need to pinpoint which settings exactly and explicitly cause the discomfort and pain (or just the annoyance for some people like myself). Understand that it will be different for some people, and also that it may be a combination of settings that cause the issues. But it's not every single setting. So what I was suggesting, to be more clear, is to turn all the graphical settings to lowest, and then 1 by 1, alter every single setting and play the game, FF14, to try and discern which settings, from all the settings, and which combinations of them too, hurt your eyes specifically and list them here in this thread. Some already have but not everyone has as some are still just presenting vague guesses and ideas or what their painful experience has been.

And I feel for all those anecdotes too, those are all extremely important too so don't stop giving those either--to all who read this. (but I also understand now from posts in this thread that console players have... like ... no control over the settings they can change... what the actual ... SE??) But... anyway for everyone on PC, please take the time to go through your settings and figure out exactly what it is that causes you discomfort.

Luckily i found a way to ...

That's great that you were able to fix your issues in the settings with the configuration files. But as for the disabling the settings, in the settings, the essential effect of the DLSS definitely can be turned off in settings heh, it just takes a bit of understanding, and so I will now give a quick description to everyone who wants to try my method to get the game to run with 6.58's style of graphics, and the details matter -- Here's what I run:

[gllt]

I'm not resubbing unless this gets fixed. I genuinely cannot play the game like this, even in limited amounts. It's mind boggling that this was tested and released to the public.