[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Sinzfeldt]

In XIV the map must be drawn and rendered every time you move the camera, every time you physically move and everytime something else must draw an emote/move. Every time a PC or NPC appears in your range it must be loaded, drawn and stored. So, no, this game isn't really putting an unrealistic load on your GPU compared to other games.

Judging by how little the game engine does, some high poly characters and a smack load of bloom i'd say it is overtaxing. Even WoWs engine probably has more special effects and shaders than XIV.

[MonsieurVerde]

Judging by how little the game engine does, some high poly characters and a smack load of bloom i'd say it is overtaxing. Even WoWs engine probably has more special effects and shaders than XIV.

And WoW is offset by Low Draw Distance, Low Res Textures, etc. Bloom itself isn't that taxing. >_> It's Also not just the characters that are complex.

[Sinzfeldt]

And WoW is offset by Low Draw Distance, Low Res Textures, etc. Bloom itself isn't that taxing. >_>

It may be slightly lower but i dont remember the pop-in/blurry texture distance being as bad as XI. Hell i dont think it was even noticeable in XI. One step forwards 2 steps back.

[MonsieurVerde]

It may be slightly lower but i dont remember the pop-in/blurry texture distance being as bad as XI. Hell i dont think it was even noticeable in XI. One step forwards 2 steps back.

pop-in? Blurry Texture? Are you referring to when you get closer to certain landscapes?

[Sinzfeldt]

pop-in? Blurry Texture? Are you referring to when you get closer to certain landscapes?

I funnily enough have some examples at hand:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...evir/LLFar.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...evir/LLMid.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ir/LLclose.jpg

[MonsieurVerde]

I funnily enough have some examples at hand:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...evir/LLFar.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...evir/LLMid.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ir/LLclose.jpg

Thought so. This is somewhat realistic in that you really can not make out fine details with the human eye at certain distances but this also saves GPU power by not fully rendering everything in Fine Detail within Five miles. If the game always rendered everything in fine detail, well....the minimum settings would sky rocket. O_o

Oh, and I have never seen it quite as blurry and rough as those screenshots. So either this points to a config issue or a card issue...

[Sinzfeldt]

But still most games seem to pull it off without being hugely distracting. XIV fails horribly at this.