Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[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

[Rueby]

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

You know? When I was a sprout and was tanking and I didn't know how to turn off char effects I pleaded with the healer to stop using that skill because my eyes were hurting because it was essentially repeated flashes. It's so bad, I'm not sure how it didn't get upgraded to something better after all these years...I feel like they're obsessed with slapping PURE white on literally every 'flashy' skill, which is awful in dark settings in the game or night time...like thanks for the flashbang.

[gllt]

The amount of people I know who don't like Holy is absurdly high and I'm shocked Square hasn't toned it down yet. It's like really common to dislike getting flashbanged by WHM.

I think because you can turn effects off, they just shrug at us.
But not only is it good to see my range of my healer's AOE when I'm the healer or the tank, or even the dps, but this is the AOE famous for applying stun! Another reason I want to keep track of what it's hitting and how many times it hits!

Why can't:

They tone down Holy
Let me turn off just Holy
Let me turn on floor indicators like NPCs have in Fates and the overworld for certain moves or party members
Etc

Squaaaaareeeeeeeee whhhyyyyyyyyyy

[Larirawiel]

The game has two problems:

1. The pixel jittering is very bad. But it is necessary for TAA-based mechanisms like DLSS or TSCMAA. I do not know, what went wrong in FF14. But there is room for improvement. The pixel jittering is also the reason why you never see antialiasing in cutscenes. Because they disabled it. -.-

2. DLSS is very blurry. The suboptimal pixel jittering may be the reason for it. But the DLSS presets are also not very good. Preset E is much better than Preset C.


I have made a thread how to replace the AA mechanisms with maybe better ones like FSR 3.1. But the thread is gone. -.-



Cheers

[DynnDiablos]

One thing I've noticed is that everything looks really soft in the background, like they've implemented an extreme depth of field (at least on PS5). Even playing in 4K mode without any type of dynamic resolution, there is a softness to the world I can't quite explain. I think it has to do with the lighting too that kind of gives everything this hazy ambience.

[Rabblerabble]

I haven't been getting eye strains and head aches, I have noticed a lot of jittery lines in the overworld on both ps5 and PC. Strange shadow rendering in several places in Shaaloani, but it is not game destroying for me.

I am hopeful they continue to tweak the new lighting engine to address these kinds of issues. Also something about Praetorium's lighting makes it look all my characters I have gone through there with have no eye brows when viewed at certain angles. It is weird because at a certain distance past that their eye brows seem to reappear. I have again noticed it on PS5 and PC. I work on things on my pc and it could surely use some updates but I notice some of this on my ps5 as well, so not sure I can say potato pc is the cause here.

[gllt]

This is not the glow up I was hoping for when we got a graphics update

[gllt]

Another month subbed to the forums, another month of bumping the eye strain thread

[Rueby]

I thought this thread vanished so I panicked. I'm glad it didn't. So up we go.

[Anarnee]

Bump Bump Bump Bump playing xiv right now is like trying to read white on white