I posted about battle effects not working for me the other day in bug reports and considering I can't edit or reply to my thread in "insufficient information" I'm remaking it with what I hope is sufficient information. I also think this is more of a technical issue rather than an in-game bug now considering no one else is getting it.

Since day 1 launch I've not bee able to see battle effects, nor spell effects. I've fiddled with the options and going from none to show all, they only thing i can see is the floor light up when I use skills/spells.

I'm also having trouble seeing the sprites outside of Ul'dah and Gridania, the water sprites etc. I'm not sure if they are linked together or not but hey, if they're some sort of lighting body and should shine, maybe they are.

Also I can't seem to enable HDR, as when I turn it on I see no difference aside from fps, I've tested it in daytime, night time, inside a building, outside, no difference, just an fps hit.

Maybe my graphics card is having lighting issues or maybe my client is messed up, I'm just speculating. I've relogged multiple times and tried different times of the day so there's no way it's a connection thing(better safe than sorry, maybe servers being so congested slowed down information to client etc/no show effect instructions were issued/given.

My PC specs are:
Windows 7 ultimate
AMD HD6850
AMD FX4100
Asus M5A99X Evo mobo
Corsair 650 xt psu
G.Skill Ripjaw X 2x 4gb
Also running the game on a Corsair Neutron 256gb SSD.

Anyone got any ideas as to how to solve this? I've tried different drivers as well and it doesn't help, even tried the 13.8 beta drivers. Help is much appreciated.