Dawntrail Graphics Update - Eye Strain

[Vesplume]

This thread was started on 6/28, during the early access period of DT. The official launch was on 7/2, but nothing was said on graphics until 7/5, where this post was made about issues with lighting with regards to housing settings. It goes into some detail about the changes made to how lighting is processed and specifies that the old lighting can't be recreated but they will make adjustments to it in the future. Though it's specific to lighting in housing, there's some insight here into some of the new graphical changes. There's a lot more of it than there was before.

The next related dev post was this one from 9/6 regarding the feedback on playable character models. There's plenty of fan pushback on that here and elsewhere. Rather than go into that, I'm going to talk about the what little info we have to go on as to whether the devs even consider this problem an issue.

Quoting a previous post of mine that contains links to the two dev posts on the Lodestone, since the patch 7.2 notes confirm that the issues brought up in those dev posts have been addressed. Only one new setting has been added based on the preliminary patch notes, but it's for the previously described housing issue.

Tuesday is a make it or break it day for this thread. It's noted several times that adjustments have been made to how shadows are rendered, which means changes have been made to the lighting. It seems like the current philosophy is more lighting = better graphics, and if that's the case we're SOL. I'd like to believe some of the changes made will be for the better but my optimism is at an all time low right now.

[Birdbrain]

I don't typically suffer from eye strain issues, but Bloomberg the Bloombird has been giving me a run for my money these past months.

Wondrous Lanner one second after mounting up:

After the glow effect applies:

Intentionally large screenshots to get the full Wondrous experience

A pic of how the glow looked pre-update (thank you, Lalafell youtuber). It's not the same location/lighting situation, but I find the glow is noticeably less intense.

Trying to hold out hope that these kinds of graphical "quirks" will be cleaned up and fixed sometime... eventually? Even if people weren't experiencing eye strain issues, this degree of bloom is still plain ugly.

[USAFJerrySo]

There is nothing wrong with the lighting in this game. If you have a headache/eye-strain, then it's a you problem. This is a 1st world problem that whining about this is a waste of developers time & resources. Go see an eye doctor if you have any eye issue.

[Daudream]

any complaint about this game would be a "1st world problem" but it is not a waste of dev time and resources, especially since they still are working on the graphical update so these oh so scarce resources have already been put into working on stuff like this lmao

and regardless the people in this thread very much have the right to "whine" about it when a product they bought and is actively paying a subscription for goes from little to no problems to nearly/completely unplayable after whats supposed to be an upgrade, not that the devs can't alienate these customers and piss all over their goodwill...

anyway, leave obvious troll to starve and instead keep making your problems heard about the game you're quite literally funding the resources for

[xbahax92]

This the only thing that comes to my mind about SE, when reading the issues.

[Gwen_Lavellan]

I don't typically suffer from eye strain issues, but Bloomberg the Bloombird has been giving me a run for my money these past months.

Wondrous Lanner one second after mounting up:

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After the glow effect applies:

Intentionally large screenshots to get the full Wondrous experience

A pic of how the glow looked pre-update (thank you, Lalafell youtuber). It's not the same location/lighting situation, but I find the glow is noticeably less intense.

Trying to hold out hope that these kinds of graphical "quirks" will be cleaned up and fixed sometime... eventually? Even if people weren't experiencing eye strain issues, this degree of bloom is still plain ugly.

Ty for posting those pictures. I mentioned the quite unbearable glow on mounts a few weeks ago on this thread but I didn’t took screenshots as proof.
The lanners are the most affected mounts imo

[Anarnee]

Go see an eye doctor if you have any eye issue.

I experienced some A++ karma for the last person that tried to act like this towards me. I told a friend about the issues I've had since 7.0 and they brushed me off very callously, then a month later tried to come to me for sympathy when their doctor prescribed glasses to them. I cut them off for other reasons, but the lack of empathy while also wanting it from other was very funny.

Anywho, I actually HAVE gone to the doctor after I started having the issues.

The problem is XIV. I've never needed glasses, still don't need them, and I've never had issues with my eyes in my life until 7.0. and I do not have issues playing any other game.

But anyways thanks for bumping our thread.

[Platinumstorm]

I experienced some A++ karma for the last person that tried to act like this towards me. I told a friend about the issues I've had since 7.0 and they brushed me off very callously, then a month later tried to come to me for sympathy when their doctor prescribed glasses to them. I cut them off for other reasons, but the lack of empathy while also wanting it from other was very funny.

Anywho, I actually HAVE gone to the doctor after I started having the issues.

The problem is XIV. I've never needed glasses, still don't need them, and I've never had issues with my eyes in my life until 7.0. and I do not have issues playing any other game.

But anyways thanks for bumping our thread.

Did you ever try Guild Wars 1? Guild Wars 1 had/has the worst bloom usage in history.

I am disappointed that we cannot turn it off still in this.

[TransgressorPterodactyl]

Patch 7.disappointmentandsilence dropped today

We're still waiting here SE

[Nadda]

Gonna give this a bump of solidarity - I don't have any of these issues but it should be addressed for those that do.

Hope this gets resolved in the future. Eye strain and headaches is no good.