Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[LucisBlack]

"Patch" day and the official release are now here.. and still no way to actually turn off bloom since the removal of the option in 7.0.

*cries in tears of blood from the eyebleed levels of bloom*

I feel for the people that are affected by the blurry upscaling too, but why, oh why, is there still no fix for the bloom? That seems like it would be such a simple thing to add back in as opposed to tweaking the upscaling on their end (not a dev, so I could be wrong). Unless the glare/bloom setting truly is bugged, which is seeming to be the case at this point.

It's a shame though SE doesn't seem to want to make public statements about these things like other companies will. Just a simple, "we're working on it ASAP" would be dope. A stock reply of "We know" doesn't cut it in 2024 in my opinion, but what do I know? lmao

[RevaC]

It's a shame though SE doesn't seem to want to make public statements about these things like other companies will. Just a simple, "we're working on it ASAP" would be dope. A stock reply of "We know" doesn't cut it in 2024 in my opinion, but what do I know? lmao

Feels like Squenix only responds to critique from Japanese-speaking twitter most of the time.

Really hope this whole thing gets resolved. I may personally be used to having to research weird little work-arounds for the majority of pc games in 2024 but this still isn't great. And it's beyond unacceptable for console players.

[Guasta_Ryets]

.... will only serve to make Square Enix complacent ...

No, my settings are to help people suffer less eye strain or to get it back to something that I felt was possible only in 6.58. It won't "only" serve to make them complacent,... that's like blaming me if they don't do anything from here onward. Respectfully, screw that whole notion

I'm not trying to undermine any of the calls for change you and many are asking for. SE should STILL reconsider all of these new settings that are causing people eye strain, discomfort or annoyance (and even old ones if there were any that are bad, especially if any have gotten worse after 7.0), remove them and give better options for AA. (DLSS mode has the TSCMAA on by default so switching it to AMD FSR and then the slider below that to 100 with FXAA enabled for edge smoothing makes it work "like 6.58" for me and quite a few others even as the camera and/or character moves).

It is very obvious that due to simple nature of all of the issues that we see in this thread and others that have been reported on this topic that SE needs to give us a drop down menu button at the top of the graphical settings page that when altered between "6.58" and "7.0 and after", gives us settings that work based on those 2 distinct game versions. This would be the simple solution on our end (and not too complex to implement on their end since they just need to package in the 6.58 rendering calls into game... and test that they all work with all the content added or changed from 7.0 onward [but I'm pretty sure it will anyway because I highly doubt anything that they've added in the game explicitly requires 7.0's unique rendering solutions])

Don't conflate me trying to help others with giving SE a pass. You too SE, you all have work to do on this specific set of issues. Others have pointed out other eye strain or annoyance issues from 7.0 onward that are not blur related too so please don't get it twisted. For all those who wish to protest the game, do what you must and be loud about it. For all those who wish to keep playing and are willing to try different things as a stopgap, consider the solutions the community has come up with in this thread that mitigate core eye strain issues but for the sake of those who want it dealt with easier, please voice your support for having the 6.58 options returned to the game as a basic setting drop down option at the very top of the graphical settings page (or something similar that gives us full control over the game settings as we did in 6.58 [I just think that a drop down option would be the easiest method imo]).

Peace

[gllt]

It's incredibly ridiculous. Removing settings for turning off things like bloom just feels like straight up ignorance from the dev team.

Did the want to prevent anyone from taking footage of the game without all the pretty effects on or something?

[Wind-Krysvein]

I think its an individual kind of issue, which is why they need to add options (whatever they may be) to help those that are having "eye strain".

Some people need glasses, others don't. Some people are allergic to peanuts, others aren't. It's very much an individual issue, as you said.

But yeah, people going from "I could play this game for 12+ hours a day without any problems" to "15 minutes of this game makes my head hurt and my eyes want to die" is definitely a sign that the new graphics need more work.

[gllt]

Even trying to play it in spite of the strain just made me a worse player and that was embarrassing.

I don't want to subject others to me trying to tank and not being able to see the screen.

[Orriss]

Its incredibly annoying, most notably so far in Urqopacha in places with lots of grass. Literally scrolling in and out or stopping and starting movement seems to change focus on scenery. Im guessing that's what's causing eye strain. Its even more noticeable at 4k.

Must be DLSS, tried all other settings. 4060/7800x3d here.

[Cerbolt]

As a PS5 player I'd like to add my voice to the chorus. Let us disable glare and movement blur.

[Wind-Krysvein]

Bump. Back up we go.

[gllt]

Please let me turn off these atrocious effects..