Best Settings for The New 7.0 Graphics - NO SPOILERS 

As some of people here in the comment pointed out: The 3D Scaled Resolution Makes a Massive Difference in Sharpness. Just put the Value to 99% instead of 100% and you will notice the difference very quickly. Though, performance takes quite a hit with that.

The difference between 100 and 99 is that the engine turns on the resolution scaling which IN ITSELF requires additional processing power.. so staying at the exact 100% resolution requires 0% rescaling processing power while 99 requires the maximum amount of processing power for rescaling.. it is counter-intuitive but working as intended. This is why you have a slider in the first place.. the lower you set the scaling the more FPS gain you will have. This can ofc. behave extremely different depending on the resolution and HZ you play as well as your hardware. Also as long as you have a Nvidia card you should always go with nvidia dlss. The applied "greyed out" settings do not have any impact on nvidia dlss. Important for DLSS: >>>> *when you have Nvidia DLSS enabled do not set it to "always enabled". Especially if you are rendering without FPS/HZ limitation this can cause the jankiest horrible looking graphics in the weirdest situations just cause the engine will want to render the maximum fps* (its caused by bottleneck racing between CPU and GPU, if the CPU allows for high fps the gpu will try to get as many fps as possible hence your graphics will turn into crap just to get as high fps as possible, while when the cpu is already bottlenecked the graphics will be smooth since the gpu is not using 100%) So when your CPU is not bottlenecked and can give the gpu the potential to render 500fps rather than 120fps you will run into severely worse graphics since the GPU needs to renderscale more than 4x the amount of frames so your 4K textures turn into 120p. Applying vertical sync or a frame rate cap will prevent this.. the CPU will be restraint to render only e.g. 120fps thus the gpu only needs to apply renderscale to 120fps. For all this resolution scaling stuff balance is what you need to find for your specific hardware.. and that balance is often very depending on the situation.. just go from outside with lots of textures to an empty room and you will see.

Me adjusting my settings was very much the Kylo Ren scene where he continuously says "MORE!"

I spent 2 hours figuring out the shadows. Needed this video yesterday 😅

DLSS is actually just weirdly implemented. When having DRS set to Activate only at 30/60fps it defaults to TSCMAA at Native Resolution and aggressively targets the given fps with a high bias to image quality when you reach that threshold (only when under the framerate target on those two it will engage DLSS) Setting it to Always On results in it at least always being in Quality mode at worst, but it still kinda does it's own thing mostly and is uncontrollable for consistent performance unlike the TSCMAA+FSR1 option. Really hope Creative Studio 3 fixes this and adds the standard DLSS Settings (Quality, Balance, Performance, Ultra Performance), and DLAA (Using the ML pipeline of DLSS just for Anti-Aliasing). Or at the very least once Dalamud is updated someone makes a convenient plugin to do it (as the Dlss tweaks mod ATM seemingly can't work with Reshade, and is a lot more hard to work with requiring restarts between edits to DLSS Profiles)

thank god I’ve been waiting for this!!! my pc has been working overtime

Bro optimizes performance on a 400% overkill rig ;-;

Thanks. will rewatch later when im back on the game to change settings.

I do recommend TSCMAA + Camera Jittering. The Camera Jittering means that the anti-aliasing (AA) is also working when not moving the camera. With just the regular TSCMAA, the AA only works when you move the camera, and when the camera is stationary, the AA is not active, making the game look terrible. TSCMAA + Camera Jittering works by applying AA consistently, even when the camera is still. Try it yourself ingame and you can see what I mean.

Thank you for the in-depth one. Haven't played for 6 yrs and considering coming back for the graphics update.

very thorough as usual, thanks desperius! I love that you actually go out and test things, everything is well argued for and not some pseudo hack to get more fps

Thanks for the guide. Will try this out for the shadows.

Thank you!

Having rtx 4090 on the performance chart is funny.

Great video!

antialiasing not being available is not a bug, it was like that in the benchmark too. furthermore, there is AA happening in dlss mode, you can clearly see it. i had a chat with a mod creator about it and he said that it's probably using dlaa when you set to dlss mode and are above the threshold. in my personal opinion the game looks amazing now with dlss/dlaa.

great video thank you

on my 3060 Ti DLSS works normaly... but your other tipps i try out tomorrow, thanks!

DLSS disabling Anti-Aliasing is not a bug. DLSS IS Anti-aliasing technology. Also, DLSS when turned on is active and running at all times, hence the performance hit. Even if it isn't scaling the resolution at all, it is constantly running, scanning frames. It's called Deep Learning Super Sampling.

The update surprised me. I maxed everything out and tweaked it a lil after and I was below 80FPS in a crowded gridania. I'm not used to seeing lower than 130FPS on my system x3

THANK YOU!!!!

Was on the moon while looking at this video and messing with Shadow Cascading just made shadows more than [x] distance away from me disappear, which is extremely disorienting seeing shadows just disappear only to show up when I get closer, especially for large structures and cliffs. It has to stay on for me lol

Thank you, Desperius! Since I definitely am not that much tech-savvy, videos like this help a LOT my good ol' PC to allow me to play things not completely ugly! 😅

love your character's outfit!

I run this game at 6 fps I'm addicted to ffxiv

DLSS still more stable especially on trees AMD FSR even with the highest antialiasing got some shimmering on trees image is less stable, sry for my bad english edit : i use DLAA now with the latest 3.7.10 just use DLSS tweaks

Do not turn Shadow Cascading to Off just based on this one area, it turns off shadows beyond a certain distance and causes a lot of draw-in as you're moving around.

Maybe I missed something but one of the last videos I watched said you weren't playing 7.0.. glad that's not the case, you're one of the few content creators for the game who's stuff I watch.

For some weird reason dlss in this game works at performance profile without dlaa. Using dlsstweaks you can force the game to use 3.7 dlss library and E profile with dlaa enabled, which looks quite nice. Though this method is against TOS, so be aware

Thanks for the guide. In the end I ended up going back to using Reshade. The in-game settings just can't seem to make the game look good and it's always blurry and the colors are muted and washed out without reshade. Added some vibrancy and then luma sharpen and I get a better looking game without any of the performance hits.

Oh man this improved my performance so much, went from 117 FPS to 194-204.

Can you make a List of your full settings?

I wish there was an automatic system where it just picks the value for each setting that gives the highest fps. I don't think I can notice any fps difference in the triple digits. While I admit I have a very weak hardware, I can appreciate any recommended settings that gets me stable framerate in the 50s.

GTAO Quality is actually huge in some situations, I definitely recommend it if you have the GPU for it.

Whats the difference between GTAO and HBAO? I cant see any.

I find the DLSS version they include and TSCMAA cause a blur aura around things in motion similar to TAA. AMD FSR 100%, disable dynamic, with FXAA/Off is the same as the old graphics but FSR/DLSS can give a performance boost. Neat trick you can do with Nvidia RTX or newer cards is replace the nvngx_dlss.dll in the XIV/game folder with a newer version to reduce motion blur caused by the DLSS anti-aliasing. You can force DLAA on with the third party configurator. If you have performance headroom, then set DSR in the Nvidia control panel to a DL enabled super-resolution. DSR Smoothness is the sharpening filter with 100=0% and 0=100%, start with 50 and decrease if UI is blurry/increase if over sharpened. In-game set DLSS on, then full-screen at the higher-than-native DLDSR resolution (prob turn up the UI scale too) to render the game in a high-res buffer that then scales down to the monitor, with the performance hit mitigated by DL-DSR & DLSS parts. This can even gain performance from DLSS if you don't pick too high of a resolution. Seems a bit silly to render the game at lower than native then AI scale it to higher than native then scale back to normal, but it just works.

Yeah, I was messing around with things, and had way more flickering on textures with FSR turned on. DLSS looked better there was no performance difference on my system between the two, so I'm sticking with DLSS and Always On.

hey, should i use gshade or use the normal game graphics? or maybe reshade instead?

my only real gripe about this game is the flickering shadows. If I can get rid of those completely I would be so happy so I'll try this out!

I usually cap the frames at 60 fps, its not first person shooter , meaning, higher framerate wont do anything but make your gpu run at high %

I have a 2060 but an old processor, should i put on DLSS or stay with AMD FSR?

Does anyone else have a problem with the grass flickering/shimmering when ur moving around and stops once u stop moving?

Imo Dlss is superior. It completely solves the aliasing problem. For sharpening just press the Alt key and Z key together on your keyboard (in game) to bring up gforce experience. Select game filter (option on the left hand side) and add shaprening then adjust to your liking. I use the standard sharpen filter (not sharpen+) with 0% ignore flimgrain and about 20-30% shaprening. P.s this will only work for people with an nvidia gpu

tip: for FSR scaling, set it to 99 - 100 seems to be bugged too and makes everything blurry

I would want a bit of a help in terms of something that annoys me a little bit. Every time I have my camera go from far to close to my character, and vice versa, a bit of a blur happens around her, probably because it's adjusting textures/models. I wanted a way to remove it if possible. I'm using a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, but looking to upgrade it since I got a new job now.

With the new GTAO ambient occlusion setting, is it still worth using the MXAO reshade option?

DLSS definitely seems to be working, just focus on some distant textures and notice the slight shimmering with FSR, now compare it with dlss (i tested 1440p) and notice how all the shimmering is gone.

What resolution do you play at in the video? 4K?

read the note next to dlss vs fsr. it tells you that dlss handles the AA and the other options that grey out. it isnt broken.

99% looks amazing - i was actually blown away with how nice everything looks

I had an issue where my screen was flickering and lighting up whenever I would click something in-game, I thought it was reshade and when deleting the files accidentally deleted the data folder for 14 as well... turns out it was HDR causing the issue, FML

Why real time reflections off?

Anyone else that when using DLSS things get kinda too smooth/blurry but only while you move?

This whole "resolution scaling" crap is exactly that, crap. Setting it to 99 makes it look terrible, less blurry of course, but like a terrible sharpness filter. I wish I could just have an option to disable either option completely. It's dumb that the game actually looked better before DT minus the new textures and lighting etc. But this just ruins it all.

Do u have any suggestions on the PS4 version, or just go with what I have with early access? And plz in comments, I know , get a P5,…..yeah, yeah 😅😅😅

Any one having the stutter?

I have tried DLSS and while going through some cutscenes the background would get very pixelated

It seems my reshade isn't working correctly with AMD FSR, when it works fine with DLSS. any way to fix that? Edit: at 99resolution scale it doesnt work properly, on 100 it does. But on 99 is recommended now I assume?

Parallax occlusion can look great, but I feel like they overused it and didn't apply it to just rocky textures. It drags down the foliage layer with it so it looks all fucked up and glitchy instead. I turned it off.

What program are you using that's showing the frame rate

Maybe I’m the only one but I set everything to low because I’m always blinded by all the effects so I don’t care about the shadow or other things, as that’s a distraction later on. I just run Nvidia DLSS for upscaling and it looks perfectly fine to me

Typically FSR is used to gain FPS at the cost of lower picture quality. Although if you set FSR to 99%, this gives a better sharpness withoout downscaling the render resolution. At 100% FSR is not used and so no sharpness enhancement.

3060ti here. Because I don't have a rig that can support 4k120, this is what I found to be the best: For 4k60: FSR at 75, always on For 2k120: DLSS + Sharpen filter FSR at 99 looks horrible when zoomed out in 2K resolution unfortunately. It's fine in 4K, but then my PC averages only about 55 fps unless I turn down FSR to 75

If you set AMD FSR and your graphics are blurry. Put 3D Resolution Scaling from 100 to 99. It fixes the blurry screen.

I am concerned that my screen is 1080 p. But if i set my game to borderless window, the game foxed it at 720 p. Dunno why

Put 3D resolution scaling to 99 it makes the game much shaper, idk about performance though.

So for DLSS in general if you want the performance boost, you need to set it to alway on. This will cause it to render at a lower resolution and then upscale. However if you are using a high-end graphics card like your 4090 this will only really help if you are at like max setting at 4k. For AMD FSR it's roughly the same thing. If you have it at 100 that means it's doing absolutely nothing. Setting it below 100 makes it render the image at that percentage of the resolution and then upscale it. In either case for you, both were doing absolutely nothing because you had them essentially turned off since you specified they would only be applied at under 30fps. As for FPS, AMD FSR at 50 seems to outperform Nvidia DLSS and I don't really see any difference. I am playing on a 4k OLED and sitting roughly 10feet or 3m away from the TV.

How does this compare to PS5?

in my case nvidia dlss is better in terms of anti-aliasing , so i prefer dlss to fsr.

To be clear, ReShade is NOT even working "mostly", because the depth buffer is completely broken, even with a fresh ReShade reinstall. This means any effects or filters that rely on depth, such as Depth of Field/Hyperfocus, and even Ambient Occlusion for things much further than the camera's plane don't work.

I have heard and scene another way to help with some blurriness is to actually set the 3d Resolution from 100 to just 99. It is amazing the difference 1 percent is

They should fix the box version black screen often it happens.

Does anyone have any settings for M1 Macbook pro 16gb 2021? I was fine and had great frame rates for EW but once DT dropped I have been freezing and lagging...

On PS5 any 1 see a difference?

any tips to help with fps in areas with a lot of people like the hubs, i usually flicker between 60 and 59 fps and the fps hits are kinda new with this expac

For me personal the new AA is bad, and FXAA looks better, the new AA has ghosting and gets blurry while moving while FXAA just works fine

Allegedly if you put 3D Resolution Scaling to 99 instead of 100 it's a little sharper?? Not sure how true that is as I couldn't tell the difference o,0

DLSS defaults to DLAA if you are above your frame rate target.

GTAO Quality gives me like almost 10+ FPS more then HBAO and it looks better

There is just something cursed in seeing an FFXIV video with World of Warcraft music as background noise 😂

danke

Can anyone help me? My anti aliasing option is greyed out.

This is the last game that runs well on my toaster PC even with the graphical updates. SE are wizards at keeping this creaky old engine going and us running rusty battlestations are grateful.

i have a amd 7900xtx and for some reason fsr is grayed out in game

I dont understand whats going on lately I get like 63 fps on a 4080 super its so unreal I felt like I had better fps on my 1050ti

Turn 3d resolution down from 100 to 99 - trust me bro

Hey very weird setting choice I made, for AMD FSR I set it to 99. This is a personal choice, it does technically the same thing but for some reason for me it personally just looks better than it being off using dynamic resolution.

what resolution is he playing in?

DLSS verursacht in cutscenes bei anderen charakteren extreme stufen, kantenglättung ist da gleich null, daher bin ich aktuell auch für FSR

3D Resolution scaling should be set to 99, not 100. Zoom as close as you can to your character and watch the lines of the face on 100. Keep staring at the lines, set to 99 and apply. They didn't set something up right.

My rig's probably the highest of the highest end rigs out there, yet this game is the only one that lags and struggles to constantly hit 120 fps. No 4k, ofc.

I have everything at max, and colors still look washed out... -_-

> GATO: Standard

The recommended gpu is a 2060. Y'all really need to upgrade your rig if this is hard for you to run.

dude's is mix an matching with a 4090! xD

I wonder why DLSS is broken. It would be nice if it worked properly because I feel like it looks way better than fsr2

Meh, I just maxed everything out, RTX on. That explains why I've been enjoying the visuals more.

I’m on PS4. How screwed am I? XD

Ok but is physics still tied to frame rate? Because if it is I'm still capping the game at 30 fps.

What about PlayStation 5