Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Nabril]

"Real world graphics" aren't comparable to how things are consumed on a screen. They aren't beamed into your eyes from a flat backlit surface.

I hope I don't sound argumentative, I'm just not sure what you're getting at exactly. Do you mind clarifying?

I'm just wondering if other games on the market have great graphics that cause eye strain. Could you try turning down the brightness on your monitors?

[gllt]

I'm just wondering if other games on the market have great graphics that cause eye strain. Could you try turning down the brightness on your monitors?

I've adjusted every setting on a TV and two monitors, on a system level, in game, etc. Some issues are complex. In my case, bloom makes the game hard to look at and discern details even when dimmed. It hurts my eyes for reasons other than just being bright. And it's relative brightness to the rest of the scene, things that glow that is, is way too strong for me. Meaning no matter where I set my brightness, contrast, gamma, whether or not I use HDR, etc my issue persists. An issue that did not used to exist to the degree it does now!

While I really want bloom gone, the contrast ratios in a lot of places and on a lot of effects are overkill in my opinion since DT launch, like when it's raining in Gridania. The rain and wet effects are absurd when combined now.

And if you want an example of something pre-DT good lord why is Holy like that to this day. Believe it or not, I'd like to see the range of the AOE on my healer no matter what role I'm playing but in no way shape or form do I want to see Holy

[Astronis]

Really? Is this every single new game on the market or just Final Fantasy? Do you get eye strain in the real world? There are no sharper graphics than in the real world. It cannot be turned down. Or is it just final fantasy?

Of course I do, that's one reason I've had LASIK done and wear glasses part of the time...real world "graphics" are sharp as a marble without it.

[Fiel_Tana]

Really? Is this every single new game on the market or just Final Fantasy? Do you get eye strain in the real world? There are no sharper graphics than in the real world. It cannot be turned down. Or is it just final fantasy?

For me it's only been FFXIV, it was bad in fights during EW but since the graphics update many places make me dizzy and cause headaches. Combat is now too painful so I've not finished the final fights in the MSQ and cancelled my sub renewal.

Other games played recently:
WoW
BG3
DOS2
and lots of smaller, indy games.

No problem with those games for me, but others may have a different experience.

As for real life, bright sunlight and flashes of light cause similar headaches with me, both of which can be reasonably easily avoided with sunglasses and/or turning away from bright flashes, neither of which work whilst playing this game. As for the blur and bloom causing issues for people, glasses help IRL if things are blurry, but if the things on the screen are blurry (not a vision issue, the graphics themselves are blurred) no glasses can correct that.

[lukacatte]

Adding my voice to this thread since as of 7.3, issues STILL have not been addressed or even acknowledged by SE.

I had to literally stop raiding multiple nights with my raid team on M8S due to severe migraines and nausea from the flashing raid-wide and blinding post-adds transition. This is not the only source of trouble for me either, but just using it as an example.

Due to these issues, I only log in once a week to raid with the team if I can, then I do not play because it causes me so much strain.

[TeemoUlnemo]

I do not drop below 170 fps, I'd rather it was not on at all. It isn't needed by some people.

[Narlaa]

I too had eye strain from the moment i logged on without fiddling with the settings. Even after i changed settings i am still having the same problem. Hopefully squeenix will take notice and implement something.

[Argantaelle]

I have dynamic resolution disabled, but it seems like it's working nonetheless (when I move, everything gets a little bit blurry, but when I stop, the environment is back to normal).

[Hejligan]

I had no idea what was meant here, since I thought the game looked a bit blurry, until I turned on dynamic resolution, and for some weird reason, it made the game look extremely sharpened (shouldn't it be the opposite?), to the point that the game looked worse than when blurry, since it is like the game is sharper than its fidelity should even allow. And then even I, who almost never has considerable eyestrain, felt it coming on like a train. Thankfully I could just turn that off though, but now the game looks a bit blurrier than before 7.0.