What you can do with a decent PC and FFXI =)... Beautiful if I do say so myself... Looks better then THAT OTHER GAME HAHAHA... looks better then most MMO's and its older then most too.

those models are great...the textures on the walls however...

overall the graphics arent that bad (they work on most machines and still look decent so its a win win for most).  One thing i cant get over is how badly my eyes burned everytime i tried to log in .

I always though FFXI had excellent graphics. I am always puzzled when someone says these graphics are not good. I have never been bothered by that kind of stuff anyway as long as the game is good.

 That DOES look great, who knew it's DirectX8.  Can you tell us what your settings are?

Even after all these years, FFXI still has the best-looking character models in an MMO. And the textures aren't bad either. Unlike WoW, FFXI's graphics have actually aged well over the years and don't look that dated.

 I just dont like the looks of the races. They all look so... cant explain, I just dont like them.

Originally posted by sanders01

 I just dont like the looks of the races. They all look so... cant explain, I just dont like them.

Chunky, that's what I thought at first. Being a huge FF fan I was really excited to install FFXI years ago, but the models were butt ugly except for Taru's. The textures are gorgeous, but I thought the models were really bulky, however in the PC version you can change the aspect ratio of the models so they appear slim and tall. That won me over :) The hands are still pretty chunky though.

I have always had a decent PC (multiple ones actually) and I also have a 360 ... I have never seen the graphics of FFXI look as good as your picture. What did you do to get them like that?

Originally posted by Cynthe

Originally posted by sanders01

 I just dont like the looks of the races. They all look so... cant explain, I just dont like them.

 

Chunky, that's what I thought at first. Being a huge FF fan I was really excited to install FFXI years ago, but the models were butt ugly except for Taru's. The textures are gorgeous, but I thought the models were really bulky, however in the PC version you can change the aspect ratio of the models so they appear slim and tall. That won me over :) The hands are still pretty chunky though.

Screen shot please? :P

Originally posted by sanders01

Screen shot please? :P

OK :)

Actually ... taking another look at the pic ... the angle of the floor is really off ... you can't turn the camera in such a way that they angle of the picture is possible. Nor to I remember shadows being that detailed (although I think i have them turned down, but even at the highest I don't remember them being that good) ... gonna have to call bluff on the pic ...

Originally posted by ic0n67

Actually ... taking another look at the pic ... the angle of the floor is really off ... you can't turn the camera in such a way that they angle of the picture is possible. Nor to I remember shadows being that detailed (although I think i have them turned down, but even at the highest I don't remember them being that good) ... gonna have to call bluff on the pic ...

 

Interested to know if the graphics can actually get to that level now... When I played they did not look like the SS posted here.

Originally posted by nob1e

Originally posted by ic0n67

Actually ... taking another look at the pic ... the angle of the floor is really off ... you can't turn the camera in such a way that they angle of the picture is possible. Nor to I remember shadows being that detailed (although I think i have them turned down, but even at the highest I don't remember them being that good) ... gonna have to call bluff on the pic ...

 Interested to know if the graphics can actually get to that level now... When I played they did not look like the SS posted here.

Trouble is they don't look that good and I do play now. I mean .. my signature uses one of the model viewers. At least for me my graphics makes them look like that ...

Originally posted by ic0n67

Originally posted by nob1e

Originally posted by ic0n67

Actually ... taking another look at the pic ... the angle of the floor is really off ... you can't turn the camera in such a way that they angle of the picture is possible. Nor to I remember shadows being that detailed (although I think i have them turned down, but even at the highest I don't remember them being that good) ... gonna have to call bluff on the pic ...

 Interested to know if the graphics can actually get to that level now... When I played they did not look like the SS posted here.

 

Trouble is they don't look that good and I do play now. I mean .. my signature uses one of the model viewers. At least for me my graphics makes them look like that ...

Have you tried registry editing?

Originally posted by ic0n67

I have always had a decent PC (multiple ones actually) and I also have a 360 ... I have never seen the graphics of FFXI look as good as your picture. What did you do to get them like that?

I have seen better screenshots. You need to tweak your registry to get the game to look this good but it is doable. You don't even need a very powerful computer. These screenshots dated 04/21/2006.

Originally posted by ic0n67

Trouble is they don't look that good and I do play now. I mean .. my signature uses one of the model viewers. At least for me my graphics makes them look like that ...

Model viewer isn't that good. I use Phabin's and well my in game graphics look better.

Originally posted by ic0n67

I have always had a decent PC (multiple ones actually) and I also have a 360 ... I have never seen the graphics of FFXI look as good as your picture. What did you do to get them like that?

If you have a Nvidia card go into the NVIDIA CONTROL Panel and force settings on like below, or make a profile for FFXI with the same settings as these

Anisotropic filtering = 16x

AA = 16xQ

Antialiasing - Transparency = supersampling

Force mipmaps = trilinear

Texture filtering - Neg LOD bias = clamp

Texture filtering - Quality = High Quality

and then do this vnboards.ign.com/message.asp

Yep, I just tested it then and got mine looking that good, possibly better by turning up ALL the options in my ATI Catalyst Control Center, of course it came with a performances drop though

But not a very large one, so I figure if you only turn a few of certain options up, then it looks this good, and plays good too.

I think most peoples turnoff on the graphics is that they are muted compared to say WoW.  I think the colors in FFXI help make it a more serious game actually - more for adult players than the bright kiddy colors on WoW.  Yes, I've played both - I began playing FFXI in 2004 and WoW in 2006.  I think the only reason people say they are outdated is because they're comparing them to a game like WoW - but playing FFXI isn't only about the graphics - its about the story and its freakin FF!  How can you not love this game if you love any of the FF games?  lol  well unless you just don't like to have to interact with other people.  anyway off subject for a minute - but the graphics aren't bad at all in fact this is my favorite i've ever taken and no this isn't adjusted at all -

 But here's another one just to show a little more detail - oh and i've only cropped these photos and they were taken while I was on a old gateway so the resolution isn't the best anyway -

You are telling the person who refused to use windower (becasue it is cheating) and berates anyone who uses it (because it is cheating) to change the registry?