Phase 3 Beta Screenshots

[HumsterMKII]

Dump bitches. Did 4 x Faction leves today got 3 shields 2x Canvas hats from chests

pretty boss looking npc
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...xx/warwolf.jpg

then i noticed his goofy fucking smile..
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...x/warwolf2.jpg

DUDE!

That's a Space Marine!

[Kaiyoko]

Well hi thar :3
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-17-10-06.jpg

Wut is this? Seems to be some kind of level 30~40 behest. First ever recorded mahbee?
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-23-55-46.jpg

Cactars you say?
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-29-49-47.jpg

Psh! 1000s needles is nothing! But wait theirs moar?
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-30-19-27.jpg

Random Encounter! Wut these don't belong here! They're not on my list ~~;;
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-33-24-36.jpg

A flock of birds? Pathetic...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-43-00-56.jpg

And that's that.. How un-eventful for the 1st 30~40 leve...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...2-44-30-09.jpg

But wait there's more?!??! Don't mind the dead worthless cat..
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...1-05-35-70.jpg

I'll post the CH one if people interested later.

[Arximiro]

What was the reward for the CW one?

[Tearshang]

Goodbye Phase 3! It was fun!

http://a.imageshack.us/img830/8354/goodbyeu.png

[Cjskater]

One leve was in town. This was starting npc had a bad ass shield ran around town finding boxes.. i shit you not... not even worth posting pics of..

NSFL!

Spoiler: show

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...3-17-53-38.jpg

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now then, a few of my pics with shido...
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...3-35-37-34.jpg

He wanted me to post one of my shield I got...
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...3-48-32-41.jpg
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...3-51-20-24.jpg
...so there's 2 of them. lul

When you see it:
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...3-41-17-02.jpg

If you still need help...
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...3-41-23-84.jpg

[Izzy]

Man the game looks so pretty on nVidia cards. I really hope they fix this bullshit shading issue with ATI cards.

[Buttons]

Decided to go exploring one last time. Been wanting to see this place but forgot about it till earlier.

http://i38.tinypic.com/28krb5d.jpg

http://i36.tinypic.com/rtq7io.jpg

http://i35.tinypic.com/1zbq5us.jpg

[Akiyama]

We'll miss your little Buttons character, Buttons.

[lilpepe]

I basically turned everything to max my ATI card and FFXIV but for some (HD5870).

My fps was between 35-60, but it never went lower then 35 no matter how many ppl were around me.

I mean i dunno or dont think this is smoother then Button and i wished i knew all his FFXIV and GPU configuration.

http://ckara.net/ff14/lilman.jpg

I mean you can see the grass flying around when i run, dance or do anything, i'm pretty amazed.
http://ckara.net/ff14/lilman2.jpg
http://ckara.net/ff14/lilman4.jpg
http://ckara.net/ff14/lilman5.jpg
http://ckara.net/ff14/lilman6.jpg
http://ckara.net/ff14/lilman7.jpg

I could be wrong and hope you guys can give me your opinion, with all my 3D configuration max and FFXIV almost. I was hoping they be better or as good as Button SS hehe. But i'm glad at least i can play this way at high fps.

I would love to hear anyone input or help on my configuration.
This is my PC: I7-920 @ 2.7ghz, 12GB Ram, win 7 64bit, Evga X58 Classified SLI Motherboard, GPU Diamond ATI HD 5870.

This where the configuration i used:

ATI
-Smoothvision HD: Anti-aliasing - 8X
-Smoothvision HD: Anisotropic Filtering - 16X
-Catalyst A.I. - Advanced
-Mipmap Detail Level - High Quality
-Wait for vertical refresh - Always ON
-Anti-Aliassing Mode - Super-sample AA
-OpenGL Setting - Triple buffering (uncheck)

FFXIV config
Multisampling: 4x MSAA (8x seems to glich on me for some reason)
Buffer size: Resolution
Shadow Detail: Standart
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Higest

Next think i could do is overclocking my GPU and see better result maybe, but i never done it before.

Please pardon my English and grammar

[aru]

Spoiler: show

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9...0824010603.png

@ 1680x1050, 2x AA, High/Highest, no AO/extra shit. Not half bad. Hair's a bit grainy.

I've seen the GPU, FPS, etc info posted on some screen shots. What program are you running that allows this to be displayed?

[tri]

I've seen the GPU, FPS, etc info posted on some screen shots. What program are you running that allows this to be displayed?

I use EVGA Precision.

There's also MSI Afterburner

[Buttons]

I basically turned everything to max my ATI card and FFXIV but for some (HD5870).

My fps was between 35-60, but it never went lower then 35 no matter how many ppl were around me.

I mean i dunno or dont think this is smoother then Button and i wished i knew all his FFXIV and GPU configuration.


I mean you can see the grass flying around when i run, dance or do anything, i'm pretty amazed.


I could be wrong and hope you guys can give me your opinion, with all my 3D configuration max and FFXIV almost. I was hoping they be better or as good as Button SS hehe. But i'm glad at least i can play this way at high fps.

I would love to hear anyone input or help on my configuration.
This is my PC: I7-920 @ 2.7ghz, 12GB Ram, win 7 64bit, Evga X58 Classified SLI Motherboard, GPU Diamond ATI HD 5870.

This where the configuration i used:

ATI
-Smoothvision HD: Anti-aliasing - 8X
-Smoothvision HD: Anisotropic Filtering - 16X
-Catalyst A.I. - Advanced
-Mipmap Detail Level - High Quality
-Wait for vertical refresh - Always ON
-Anti-Aliassing Mode - Super-sample AA
-OpenGL Setting - Triple buffering (uncheck)

FFXIV config
Multisampling: 4x MSAA (8x seems to glich on me for some reason)
Buffer size: Resolution
Shadow Detail: Standart
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: Higest

Next think i could do is overclocking my GPU and see better result maybe, but i never done it before.

Please pardon my English and grammar

I think it has to do with the difference between ATI and nvidia cards. Your PC has way higher specs than mine lol.

i7 870 @ 2.93Ghz
4 GB Ram
Gigabyte nvidia Geforce 460 GTX 1GB
Gigabyte H55M- USB3 motherboard
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

Nvidia Control Panel Settings all set to application controlled.

Game Settings on Medium-High, fancy stuff set to off.
http://i38.tinypic.com/2nvqlbm.jpg

Atm it seems that ATI cards have higher fps but don't look as nice and nvidia cards give a nice smooth picture but also have lower fps. At least that is what I have heard.

[Jak]

That's exactly right for me Buttons. I use a GeForce 470 card and with max graphics everything looks absolutely stunning before tinypic or PS compresses my images. But my FPS is horrible, even when I turn down the graphics. With everything at max I run at 15-20 FPS max and when I run everything at 50-75% of max it runs at 30-35FPS. I'm hoping they come out with some updated drivers to make things smoother (or FF:XIV gets its act together..)

[Akiyama]

I've seen the GPU, FPS, etc info posted on some screen shots. What program are you running that allows this to be displayed?

Yeah, that's MSI Afterburner.

I think it has to do with the difference between ATI and nvidia cards. Your PC has way higher specs than mine lol.

i7 870 @ 2.93Ghz
4 GB Ram
Gigabyte nvidia Geforce 460 GTX 1GB
Gigabyte H55M- USB3 motherboard
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

Nvidia Control Panel Settings all set to application controlled.

Game Settings on Medium-High, fancy stuff set to off.
http://i38.tinypic.com/2nvqlbm.jpg

Atm it seems that ATI cards have higher fps but don't look as nice and nvidia cards give a nice smooth picture but also have lower fps. At least that is what I have heard.

Heh. My CPU is crap compared to yours, but same card. My pic up there was taken at 1680x1050 with 2x AA D: Should've gone with 4x, but didn't try. My FPS gets borked to 15-25 while in town, or around the aetherite really. Shtsux. Oh well. Probably has to do with optimization, obviously.. and some drivers for the 400 series cards.

[lilpepe]

Ah i see, thx Button.

So basically this is how it goes:

ATI @ Max and high fps

or

NVIDIA @ Max and very low fps / @ half and still not high enough fps

I take the high fps, bcz at when i play at work with my nvidia pc and the fps goes around 20 it's so freaking annoying, after playing from home lol

[lilpepe]

Heh. My CPU is crap compared to yours, but same card. My pic up there was taken at 1680x1050 with 2x AA D: Should've gone with 4x, but didn't try. My FPS gets borked to 15-25 while in town, or around the aetherite really. Shtsux. Oh well. Probably has to do with optimization, obviously.. and some drivers for the 400 series cards.

yea i beat that's why i cant complain with HD5870 in town or around the cristal @ max i stay around 35+ and when i go explore i'm at 55-60

I'm sure in the future we will be able to make FFXIV look much better with some registry tweaking.

[Gulkeeva]

Ambient occlusion thing is like -50% fps on any card, with it off you get high fps, depth of field doesn't impact fps too much.

I was getting 30-40 fps just out in the field myself with Ambient occlusion, with it off its a constant 60 everywhere and around people

[lilpepe]

Ambient occlusion thing is like -50% fps on any card, with it off you get high fps, depth of field doesn't impact fps too much.

I was getting 30-40 fps just out in the field myself with Ambient occlusion, with it off its a constant 60 everywhere and around people

Oh i see, do you see a big difference ON and Off ? what does that do anyway?

[miokomioko]

It creates more shading in areas that get less ambient (sky) light. Basically you'll see more realistically darker shading on places like under the brim of a hat, in the crevasses of your quiver, your armpits, crotch, etc.



It looks pretty good, but not -50% FPS good.

http://www.maxon.net/fileadmin/maxon...ender/ao_1.jpg

top:before
bottom:after

[Snowknight26]

It's not about darker shading. Ambient occlusion tries to accurately mimic how light dispurses on various surfaces. If you have a completely matte surface, the lighting will be much less attenuated compared to a very reflective surface.