Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Ceridwenae]

Welp, I'll be damned. I almost missed this little bit from Yoshi-P's latest post:

It has been a joy to watch you all play, each in your own unique way, but we’ve become aware of several issues that may have proven a hinderance to your overall experience. For that, I sincerely apologize. We’ve already announced on the Lodestone that a number of these issues are presently under investigation, but rest assured we will be doing everything in our power to address them as quickly as possible. You can expect a follow-up announcement as soon as fixes are ready for implementation.

I'm probably just becoming delusional, but is this what I think it might be? It's impossible to tell due to his almost politician-level vague manner of speech, but with any luck this is proof that the devs might actually be working on a solution. Here's hoping.

If you haven't sent a support ticket about this eye strain issue yet, please do so at your earliest convenience. The more people we get to voice their problems, the more manpower they'll (hopefully) assign to deal with the issue.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...19d46241037cb6

Although initially addressing housing interior brightness, it goes on to explain some of the problems about lighting in general. It might, er, shed some light on some issues we've been experiencing in this thread, and the proposed fix may help some of us here. In short, there is indeed a cause for some hope here.

[Rekujin]

DLSS and FSR both have blur, the only option in-game is to make it 99 render scale with FSR but then it creates way too much sharpness. Give us the option to not use either, and before people say "but FSR with 100% means it's not enabled" this is not true, FSR still for some reason has blur, when it shouldn't at 100%.

The only viable option right now if you're using Nvidia is to enable DLSS, then add Game Filter through Nvidia Experience (ALT+f3) and use the Sharpen filter, set this to 20%. Don't use Sharpen+ this is an FPS hog.

[gllt]

I want to see all the current accessibility issues addressed whether they affect me directly or not

Glare, scaling, mount banking, colorblind options on consoles and options on consoles in general..

I also have never liked the font used for certain parts of the HUD like the exp bar but I've just suffered with its poor readability for ages because the info isn't that important hah

[gllt]

Bump, this is unacceptable to let the game remain like this.

Edit: reminder that for me specifically the glare makes the game unplayable because it hurts my eyes, as do the shiny wet effects.

[MissBianca]

I feel like people have missed that the solution to one of these problems was already posted in here a while ago. if you want the image quality to be the same as it was before set the upscaler to FSR, set the resolution scale to 100, and set the edge smoothing to either FXAA or none. the issue here isn't FSR, its the new TSCMAA edge smoothing.
This will produce results identical to before the graphics update.

The devs definitely could have explained these new options better but you should at least try experimenting with the edge smoothing options before posting about how the game is unplayable
(still wish glare wasnt forced on)

[HauntedLasagna]

The devs definitely could have explained these new options better but you should at least try experimenting with the edge smoothing options before posting about how the game is unplayable

Ok that's all well and good for pc players but what about xbox, ps4, and ps5 players? we can't change ANY of those settings. What about the glare setting being REMOVED with no reason as to why? What about the PC players who HAVE done those changes people are suggesting and still having issues? If you have any insights on how to fix the issues on console or turn glare off on pc, please chime us all in.

[Aurelle_Deresnels]

I feel like people have missed that the solution to one of these problems was already posted in here a while ago. if you want the image quality to be the same as it was before set the upscaler to FSR, set the resolution scale to 100, and set the edge smoothing to either FXAA or none. the issue here isn't FSR, its the new TSCMAA edge smoothing.
This will produce results identical to before the graphics update.

The devs definitely could have explained these new options better but you should at least try experimenting with the edge smoothing options before posting about how the game is unplayable
(still wish glare wasnt forced on)

I tried that and it didn't work. In fact, I literally posted my own thread with a demonstration video showing that those settings still produce blurring.

[MissBianca]

I dont know if its just been destroyed by youtube's compression but i just cant see the blurring you are talking about. I can see some breakup of edges but i'm pretty sure that's just the compression artifacts. do you think you can share an screenshot of the game in motion? I'm asking because unless we can communicate what the actual problem is there isn't much the devs can do to fix it.

[Erinellza]

I dont know if its just been destroyed by youtube's compression but i just cant see the blurring you are talking about. I can see some breakup of edges but i'm pretty sure that's just the compression artifacts. do you think you can share an screenshot of the game in motion? I'm asking because unless we can communicate what the actual problem is there isn't much the devs can do to fix it.

Link to an older post.
Link to mine.

[MissBianca]

in your pictures you are using TSCMAA. the post i was replying to was from someone claiming to have blurring issues despite not using TSCMAA.