Can you imagine what this game would like in DX11?Follow

The game looks beautiful in DX9, can you imagine DX11 with latest shaders + tessellation?

Too bad it isn't being launched with DX11 support.

Will tessellation be included? I believe that's the major advancement in DX11.

I honestly don't think that DX11 is going to make the game look that much better immediately.

But it will hopefully streamline things for the PC and PS4 versions and will be a better base for future patches/updates.

As far as the PS4 version, I think it's going to look and run pretty good out of the box and I think it's going to coincide with the release of DX11.

If the new benchmark optimization is any indication (and given its specs), the PS4 version will run a bit better than my PC.

My bad. It was an assumption based off of my previous scores from the previous benchmark compared to this new one.

...Though it doesn't look any worse on my end?

Guess it would depend on what sort of hardware you're running with. My theory is that they switched from normal AA to FXAA.

At the very least they enabled SLI, my score jumped 8000 points.

Someone should do this I think it'd be interesting to see. I think I deleted my old benchmark so I can't.

I'd like to see it done with AA completely off on both benches.

I'm not married to this idea of optimization, but I'd wager that if it was a different AA they're using with an increase in FPS and negligible difference in quality, I'd consider that an optimization.

For me the new benchmark looked better overall, but certain animations didn't look as smooth. Specifically, the chocos. When they were running they just looked jerky at times. Some things did look much improved, Ifrit in particular. This is just eyeballing the benchmark, so I could just be losing my mind.

Disclaimer: I am not trying to somehow incriminate SE for juicing their benchmark numbers. I'm simply trying to find out why(and I think it's reasonable to want to understand) the numbers are increasing so much across the board.

Most people are experiencing abnormal increases to their scores(ie. Wint's 8k point increase) while using the exact same hardware with the same benchmark settings. There has to be a reason for that and I'm simply trying to figure out exactly what it is since nothing was stated by SE. The only thing (immediately)apparent in comparing the settings between both programs was the appearance of FXAA for anti aliasing whereas in the 'world' benchmark, it wasn't specific.

Since I run with current gen GPUs I don't really have a need for FXAA because I can use higher quality AA, but it would be interesting to know if it has that much of an impact. Also, I usually don my 'good guy Filth' cap in the topics about upgrading computers that pop up frequently. It would be nice to know so I'm not advising people to upgrade their GPU when a simple adjustment to settings(like enabling FXAA) will give them the increase they're looking for without any cost at all.


I'm pretty sure you're referring to the debugging that was done server-side which was leading to latency issues. The benchmark wouldn't be impacted by that.

Filth, are you using ATI or NVidia? If it's NV, can you PM the settings and which profile you were using to force it. I spent about an hour trying different ones and couldn't get any of them to actually enable AA at all.

Wasnt 1.0 DX11 capable? I dont know why they didnt release it this time with it. I personally hate DX9, its tech is very outdated for todays capabilities. Ya the grapgics will go from being a 7/10 to at least a 9/10