Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[IkraAndra]

When someone is is forced to toggle walk instead of run just to avoid feeling a sense of motion sickness from the motion blur that there is no option to turn off on consoles, that's when there is a problem.

[QuarterDollar]

Liked to support the cause. I handle motion and graphic effects in games very well but I agree the removal of the graphics settings that make things more accessible is bizarre and inconsiderate.

[Jeuno]

Disclaimer I have not read all 38 pages of the thread, but I'm VERY glad to see so many complaints about this.

I'm an older player who has played since day 1 of 2.0 and unfotuneatly I have deteriorating eyesight. Every expansion has been harder and harder for me to play as the game development has moved towards making content harder by upping the visual mechanics. I have gone from a hard core end game player in ARR and HW to only doing MSQ and basic dungeons/crafting as I have struggled with the constant eye load of the flashing graphics in SW and EW. But okay I accept it's a me problem and I was fairly content with being ultra casual and still enjoying things my eyes can handle e.g deep dungeon. But now with the graphics update I feel I can no longer even do that. I have issues with everything mentioned in this thread, for me I can play for about 30 minutes before I start to feel sick and headachey.

I'm at the point of needing to decide if I buy a new laptop to continue playing as my current one is not coping with DT. But if there is no option to switch the graphics update off I won't even be able to log in and craft or visit my island sanctuary what's the damn point? Even the basic things I enjoy like helping new players though early content is too painful. It's physically painful to do something like Syrcus Tower now.

After over ten years of continuous subscription to FF14 I think my time in Eorzea has come to an end.

I know this is a bit of a rant on my part, but I feel really sad it's come to this. Unless something drastic changes with the graphics I don't see anyway around it.

[Erinellza]

Looking at this feels like a bolt of lightning in my brain. X(

[Moonsinola]

I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing this during The Interphos when the mechanic "Absolute Authority" happens. I have really hard time doing this mechanic because I have mild photo-sensitivity and it causes pretty bad eye strain and in some cases a headache. I can see how someone with more severe photo-sensitivity, someone with epilepsy, or someone who just experiences seizures in general might have an episode triggered from the effects going on during this mechanic. I hope they address this somehow.

[Jlato]

While I don't particularly mind the bloom or the level of details in the texture, it does kinda suck that FSR looks incredibly shitty and crunchy to the point of being impossible to look at, but DLSS makes everything so blurry that my eyes are straining and triggering migraines for me, which makes it a bit difficult to enjoy the game. I really wish there was a happy medium between the two, because I'd like to take advantage of the options available specifically for the GPU I paid a lot of money for with the express purpose of using it to play this game.

I've heard talk that SOME of this is related to mipmap data within the textures on the models, particularly in player character models (I do not have evidence to back this up, hence saying I've heard talk of it, so please don't come after me), and wonder if perhaps there's a way to simply edit this data going forward so textures will begin blurring at a longer distance away? If I'm zooming in on my character, it's because I want to see all those details!

[Noverca]

I have a problem with the level 97 and level 100 MSQ dungeons. 97 being the hot pink/magenta hallway and 100 being the final boss mechanic where they full blast lasers and flash the screen. With the level 100 one, I have to look away from the screen entirely.
I have an astigmatism in my right eye and this causes it to become irritated and start watering. I wear blue light filtered glasses and play in a well lit room.

I think part of the problem is the amount of bloom present in game now and not having the option to turn it down is kinda lame.

[YanxiaFarmer]

''Glad'' to see I'm not the only one experiencing eye strain =/ I find the mechanic on the new extreme where you gotta dodge according to the boss position very taxing for the eyes cause it's so bright xd

[gllt]

I want to play so bad but I don't want to make my eyes hurt.

I'm enjoying other games but I already took long breaks from 14 before DT launch so I was really looking forward to trying the game during a launch period. I didn't get to play during EW launch either..

[gllt]

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