Unknown Soldier
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Come on now, it's almost as good as FFXIII, amirite?
FFXIII is the first mainline FF title I've never felt the desire to play through a second time.
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Final Fantasy XIV |OT| ARR: Alpha Closed. Beta mid-Feb
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obligatory swimsuit pix
weird that they decided to cover up miqote's crack
been waiting for the chance to solo some NMs ever since i came back
had to use the cheat method
but after a couple nights of effort i'm all ready to play THM now
this really is the state the game should've been released on
weird that they decided to cover up miqote's crack
been waiting for the chance to solo some NMs ever since i came back
had to use the cheat method
but after a couple nights of effort i'm all ready to play THM now
Rentahamster said:
this really is the state the game should've been released on
I'm just glad the future is a little brighter now. Oh and yeah, leave ambient occlusion off. General Drawing should be left at standard as well. Mess with everything else.
Also depth of field should probably be turned off since it doesnt look that great...unless they improve it later on. They've already stealth improved the lighting, so I could see that happening in the near future.
Also depth of field should probably be turned off since it doesnt look that great...unless they improve it later on. They've already stealth improved the lighting, so I could see that happening in the near future.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Check the links I posted earlier in the thread.Ken said:
I read the first two links and they didn't seem to answer my question, and I wasn't sure which Google result to click in the third link but the few I did seemed to not answer my question either.Rentahamster said:
Someone on the previous page said the official site doesn't allow the client download so I would have to find it elsewhere even after registering my buddy pass/registration key?
Metalmurphy
Member
Ken said:
Yes, I had to download it off a torrent. The patches however I found on a website with great speeds:
http://tehkrizz.net/FFXIV/downloads.php
You don't have to download all of them though, it's just 7. Not sure which ones but I can tell you once I get home cause I still have the files.
Metalmurphy said:
Yea the tearing in this game is BRUTAL. I almost got sick for the first week of playing. That was until I found out about D3DOverrider to force vsync. I think it comes with a program called "RivaTuner" (Thanks to somebody in the LS that told me)
D3DOVerrider is a must for PC gaming.
Metalmurphy
Member
mileS said:
I spent a long time googling the problem, it seems that D3DOverrider works for Nvidia cards and not AMD. However, i found several reports saying that ATITray Tools works, but for some reason, I can't get it to work on mine :/
Metalmurphy said:
I did the same thing when I first heard about it. Searching mostly comes up with results saying it only works for Nvidia but that isn't correct. It works for AMD as well because I have a 5850. I use it for about 90% of the games I play on PC. As far as I know there's no way to just download D3D on its own, you need to get RivaTuner because thats what it comes with. I think after you install you can move D3D and uninstall RivaTuner but I didn't bother.
From my experience, if you are going to force Vsync, D3D will give you the best performance almost always. Most of the time it's even better to use for games that offer you in-engine Vsync.
Oh and I'm not sure what internet browser you use but don't try and open D3D when Chrome is currently running. It won't show up on you system tray if you do.
Gaming4Lyfe
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I been looking forward to this game
I'm on Lindblum - name is Ravidrath Astolph. Might reroll to get a better skin tone, though... not sure I like the one I have.
Graphics setting question...
The self-shadowing on things looks pretty bad... it's all moire-y and covered in lines.
What do I need to change to improve that?
Graphics setting question...
The self-shadowing on things looks pretty bad... it's all moire-y and covered in lines.
What do I need to change to improve that?
Metalmurphy
Member
I just realized I had over 20GB of video that I accidentally recorded with FRAPS. It explains the framerate problems I was having at the time -.-
At least some good came out of it.
At least some good came out of it.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
lol it's extra sexy Renta Santa
Teknoman said:
That wasn't it - they were already off, in fact.
The game has some self-shadowing going on that looks really shitty for me. I found that can be turned off in the in-game configuration, under System.
There's an example of it, although not a very good one.
It's really distracting, though, because your characters are constantly covered in these shifting moire patterns.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yeah, I get that too. I just tend to ignore it. There was a thread on the forums about weird shadows, and I think they mentioned that they want to address this but it's gonna take a while.Ravidrath said:
The text command to toggle shadows is /shadow
Why would they default a graphical feature on that makes the game look worse? :\
Anyway, I was surprised that the game mostly runs in Parallels on Mac! It has a weird issue where all the characters and objects blink... if I can figure out a way to fix that, it'd be pretty neat.
Anyway, I was surprised that the game mostly runs in Parallels on Mac! It has a weird issue where all the characters and objects blink... if I can figure out a way to fix that, it'd be pretty neat.
JoshuaJSlone
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Yeah, pretty common. Same here. Worse was when I played in 3D for a bit, and the shadows were crappy in non-matching ways for the left and right images.Ravidrath said:
Metalmurphy
Member
Make sure you don't go overboard with the Background Detail. From what I could gather that basically renders the game at 2x or 3x the resolution and scales down, giving it a super sampled look. But ofc, might kill the framerate.
Depth of field didn't affect the framerate at all on my pc but Ambient Occlusion did. Also I'm not sure but doesn't reducing the shadow quality remove self shadowing?
Depth of field didn't affect the framerate at all on my pc but Ambient Occlusion did. Also I'm not sure but doesn't reducing the shadow quality remove self shadowing?
DimmuBurgerKing
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My bro has been bugging me for a long time to give this a try, so I finally did. I'm actually having fun with it so far. Despite the updates, I'm beginning to see why it was received so poorly. I've had to figure pretty much everything out myself until my brother logged on.
Luigi87 said:
People seem a little more talkative nowadays since dungeon runs and normal parties pay off more/ are less of a hectic event.
As far as PS3 goes, its still being fine tuned, and most likely wont be released until the game has a substantial amount of content/ improved performance.
Metalmurphy
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For those that want to run the game in fullscreen and still be able to ALT+TAB:
http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/14092-run-game-in-windowed-fullscreen-mode-instructions/
Works great.
http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/14092-run-game-in-windowed-fullscreen-mode-instructions/
Works great.
Metalmurphy
Member
Ravidrath said:
I doubt Square will do anything to this, it's not even a program, just a window script that removes the borders. The other application is just so you can activate it/deactivate it with CTRL+SHIFT+A
Unknown Soldier
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I reinstalled the game and patched it up. Windower XIV still works exactly the same as ever. I guess Squenix isn't going to take action against Windower XIV to block it's mechanism is the client, at least until they create a proper Fullscreen mode which doesn't crash when the client loses focus or they finally add a real Windowed Fullscreen mode. I don't care which really, they just need to fucking do something about how sad the client is in terms of being a Windows application.
I'm scared to actually log in and play it though. :|
I'm scared to actually log in and play it though. :|
Unknown Soldier
Member
Dega said:Those swimsuits are too good to pass up huh?
That actually had nothing to do with my reasons for reinstalling the game.
DimmuBurgerKing
Member
Luigi87 said:
Happy Catgirl Bikini Day
IonicSnake
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Luigi87 said:
It have become extremely annoying.
IonicSnake
Banned
Can't wait for 1.19! So end of September is their date, hopefully it wont be delayed.
djplaeskool
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My Little Chocobo? Haha.
Sign me up. I'll be a Chocobro.
Sign me up. I'll be a Chocobro.
SUPARSTARX
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Is this still free to play until they get some of their things in order?
IonicSnake
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SUPARSTARX said:
I think they are saving the PS3 version so they can do a re-launch with the game and then start charging for it. But as of right now and until they say otherwise it's free to play.
SUPARSTARX
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Cool cool, maybe I'll try this out a bit on controller. I didn't enjoy the beta a whole lot on keyboard and I didn't have a wired controller to play this on. I just picked up a nice 360 wired controller with stiff analog and well made D-pad. Might be worthwhile now.
Unless of course keyboard configuration is better now, because I wasn't really feeling the camera being entirely done on keyboard.
Unless of course keyboard configuration is better now, because I wasn't really feeling the camera being entirely done on keyboard.
Man, I thought 1.19 was sooner than that?
Guess I'll play at a low level until then to get my crafts and things going.
BTW - shadows!
If you turn shadows on in the game and set them to "Low" in the config utility, you will get ground shadows from characters and objects and none of the ugly self-shadowing.
Guess I'll play at a low level until then to get my crafts and things going.
BTW - shadows!
If you turn shadows on in the game and set them to "Low" in the config utility, you will get ground shadows from characters and objects and none of the ugly self-shadowing.
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