Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[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

[gllt]

Maybe we can get an accessibility wave of changes, haha.
Wishful thinking but I'd love it.

I know it's already been brought up but it's still weird that the color blind accessibility filters are stuck on PC.. It feels like it wouldn't be hard to get a graphics shader that just changes colors to work on console.

I know they have to translate everything but I wish someone would translate this video for the dev team to watch

https://youtu.be/fHUAFYDzN3U?si=d7ZQwSByeA9gd5bI

[LilimoLimomo]

I'm just seeing this thread for the first time, and while I don't have the time to read through 63 pages of comments, I'm curious if someone familiar with this thread/issue can tell me if folks have uncovered any details as to what is causing the issue and what factors determine who it impacts?

I personally haven't experienced any eye strain issues from Dawntrail, but I'm incredibly familiar with the fact that different stimuli impact different people in different ways. I'm always curious to learn more about anything that has to do with accessibility.