Quote Originally Posted by zipkin View Post
I wanted to start off by saying I appreciate the folks who offered advice on ways to try easing the eye strain, it helped to have a better idea of where to begin with trying to tweak my settings. Unfortunately, even though adjusting things within the game and in my laptop's display seems to help a little bit with some elements, I STILL cannot play for more than 20ish minutes without pain. I do not have vision problems myself, I have never had eye strain issues with a game (even with some unwisely exorbitant screentime) before, and I wasn't having any in this one prior to the graphics update. Trying to heal through a low level dungeon in FFXIV this morning had me nearly in tears it hurt so much. I was admittedly unhappy with a lot of the visual/design changes shown in the Benchmark, but it never occurred to me that the update would LITERALLY hurt. I hope some adjustments will be offered to fix this for all of us suffering, an optional 'downgrade' to graphics that aren't painful to look at would be so much better than the current situation. I don't think I can play with the graphics as they are, and it seems like I'm not the only person stuck feeling that way.
That’s a super bummer. I hope for your sake that this is only a temporary issue. Personally I believe if they gave us more options for some of these graphic choices like Bloom, you would be in a much better position. It’s odd to lock us in to settings like bloom but let me toggle the grass interaction dynamic. I assume its going to be engine related design choices but I don’t develop games so wtf do I know lol.