Better Graphics

[Heoki]

I've edited the registry which make a huge increase in how good the game looked for me. I use Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering at max.

My question is now, is there anything I can do to increase how good the game looks.

It looks great now I just want to see if there's maybe something I can download to make it look even better. I heard something of replacement DAT files.

[eticket109]

Re: Better Graphics

here are some tips from a friend

Go to start and select Run

Type 'regedit' and click ok

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\FinalFantasyXI

Here is an explanation of the relevant keys:

0000 - MIP Mapping (min: 0, max: 6 higher is better, recommended 3 on high perf systems)
0001 - Horizontal Resolution (e.g. if 1024x768, this number will be 1024)
0002 - Vertical Resolution (e.g. if 1024x768, this number will be 768)
0003 - Horizontal Overlay Resolution (min: 1 default: 1024 max: 2048)
0004 - Vertical Overlay Resolution (min: 1 default: 1024 max: 2048)

The thing that will make the biggest overall difference is 0003 and 0004. By default these are generally set at 1024 and 1024. Try setting them at 2048 and 2048. With a fast system, the sh!t will own.

Secondly, if you wanna select the best options from the FFXI Config Utility, set Text Compression to Uncompressed, although if you do this you should have at LEAST a 128MB video card, and preferably a 256MB video card.

despite his rather emphatic backing of changing the last two options, I've noticed the most significant changes from 0001 and 0002

[Heoki]

Re: Better Graphics

I've already done all of that.

[eticket109]

Re: Better Graphics

oh, haha, I missed that first sentence.

then no, there really isn't much else if anything. we're limited by the emulation aspect of the game engine.