Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Aurelle_Deresnels]

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.

Screenshots suck at conveying the frequency of the problem and getting the right timing, but here's one I took shortly before trying the video route, completely unedited:



Cropped to my character, who is rendered blurry:



For comparison, a similar crop to nearby furniture:



If that's not enough, I can take screenshots off the original high-quality version of the video (it's over 1.7 GB for that length) or fire OBS back up in full lossless mode and take screenshots off the resulting video.

[LucisBlack]

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)

This sounds like one of those "It's not an issue for me, so why is it an issue for others" kind of reply.

Go back and read the previous 21 pages and you'll see different people are having different issues for different reasons. Not everyone has the same hardware, nor does everyone have the same neurology, and that's okay. What isn't okay is dismissing the issues others are having because you yourself aren't perceiving the same thing.

For the record, FSR at 100 is still blurry for some people and FSR at 99 looks too sharp for some. The issue is different settings being added/forced on, and other settings being entirely removed.

[poooman]

for the record, no. ive used fxaa or none this entire time and FSR at 100 is STILL blurry. it just sucks

[MissBianca]

I have it set up with edge smoothing off and FSR 100 right now and its giving me a perfectly crisp unfiltered image. have you made sure your resolution (output resolution not resolution scale) matches your montior resolution?
if that doesnt help do you mind sharing a screenshot? I dont know where the blur could be coming from if its not that.

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

Fear not, the Japanese forums have a 6k thread talking about FSR and DLSS concerns

[Erinellza]

Fear not, the Japanese forums have a 6k thread talking about FSR and DLSS concerns

Thanks for the info, it makes me hopeful.

[gllt]

Bump for visibility because I have none in game

[Wind-Krysvein]

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.

It outright baffles me how the man can spend an entire post talking about people's complaints about housing lighting, yet refuses to so much as mention the issue that is literally making it impossible for people to play the game. I know it's an easier thing to fix and will please more people with way less effort, but... come on.

[LucisBlack]

Bump to mention:

At least we're getting two days of game time added next week (source) . Ten days if you're on Xbox Series X|S lmao.

Xbox was having that many issues eh? Might explain why the issues pointed out in this thread seem to be very low priority at the moment (not even an official mention about them).

[Cherrizini]

I feel like they needed to work on this graphical update more before pushing it to live servers. So many issues, and yeah, the eye strain is very very annoying.