How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

[Ameroth]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

I just know that losing a character with that much work put into it is officially quitting time, and not quite ready to quit, lol.

To each their own.

but even then not sure if I want to go through the trouble of all new macros for it, I've gotten really comfy with my 360 ones.

You can save your macros to the POL servers and recall them onto another machine. Or does that only apply same platform accounts as opposed to jumping from platform to platform?

[Callisto]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

No actually the last time they adjusted it they made it cross-platform, it's really nice. I saved my g/f's macros from her PS2 so that I could edit them on the laptop for her, then was able to save them on laptop and reload them to PS2.

Of course they added that feature 2 weeks after my first 360 died and I spent 3+ hours remaking macros, lol.

[Lunaryn]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

1280x800 is 16:10. 1280x768 is 16:9.6.

You don't necessarily need to set the background resolution to a square. You can set it to exactly the same as your overlay resolution, or you can straight-up double your overlay resolution, or somewhere in between. At least, the squared background isn't required by FFXI. Some cards might need it, or perform better with it, but you can always try different combinations to see what works best.

It's true that this resolution isn't going to need to be square, but this is the resolution of textures on objects, and those textures can be oriented a lot of different ways, so having a higher horizontal density than vertical density on your textures isn't necessarily going to give you the kind of effect you want...

I generally find it works best if you have a background resolution that's slightly higher than the maximum of your overlay, or if you have MIP mapping turned on, significantly higher (your character will look out of focus and grainy otherwise).

[Callisto]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

Well I changed the values in the registry to higher values, and now FFXI won't launch, lol. Edit: Ok, not sure what I broke, but I fixed it lol.

[Ameroth]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

Well I changed the values in the registry to higher values, and now FFXI won't launch, lol. Edit: Ok, not sure what I broke, but I fixed it lol.

Close calls with the registry are scary. Export is your friend.

[Callisto]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

Yeah I exported a backup before I started tinkering around in there. The game wouldn't launch when I tried 2x oversampling, and the FPS was a bit low when I tried 1.5, so I just went with 1x. It looks much less awkward now that the overlay/background resolution fit the widescreen.

[Ameroth]

Re: How Do I Work This Crazy Thing?!

Hmm really? After I read that guide, I oversampled my background resolution by 2x. My FPS didn't take much a hit or anything, but the onscreen text (damage/miss/etc) seems kinda big and in my face now.

Oh ya... You're on a laptop. I keep forgetting that. On my lappy, I am pretty comfortable with turning the majority of the settings down or off so I can enjoy a nice steady 25-29 fps. I'd recommend turning bump-mapping off. That can eat up a few too many resources if you're limited to begin with.