Enabled higher resolution on background textures. Game looks amazing. Look to see how

[Shota]

Curious, but would it be safe or possible to go any higher than 2048 x 2048?

I'm running that with everything on max and not a hint of lag, so just curious to see what my PC can do!

[Mhurron]

The higher you push it the more texture memory you'd need. You're not going to physically damage anything so feel free to push it as far as you want. Just keep the numbers divisible by 2.

[Shota]

thx for info, went ahead and popped it up to 4000*4000! Damn did it look even smoother, still no skipping, but there was a slight slowdown that wasn't there before! Just kinda looked like everything was moving slower than it should!

Went back to 2048*2048, it doesn't really look much different, ah well!

[tankknat]

Would someone be kind enough to help me out with a config for 1440x900 res?

[Ellipses]

Would someone be kind enough to help me out with a config for 1440x900 res?

Registry values:
0001:5A0 (1440)
0002:384 (900)
0003:B40 (2880)
0004:708 (1800)

That'll give you 1440x900 UI, and 2880x1800 background texture. Note that if you're running Windows XP you don't actually have to fool around with hex values. The regedit in XP has handy little radio buttons that let you enter these numbers in decimal, so you can just put in the resolutions you want.

[darathorn]

When U Go To The Ffxi Config Do U Just Leave The Background Reso Blank And The Better Graphic Setting Is The Default? Thank You For Any Help.

[Kuro]

Set my rez' to 1440x9900 and 2880x1800

Damn thing gave me a headache when i was playing, think tis why ive been feeling crappy recently. I turned it on today knowing i was unwell gave me a headache right away.

Oh the Alla page it sayd this on the bottom...

Fake Antialiasing
You can set a higher resolution for your background than the display mode. Doing this will force your graphics card to downsample the image, which will do a weighted average on nearby pixels thus blurring pixels whose neighbors are not the same color. In layman's terms: You'll get simple antialiasing by setting your background resolution (0003 and 0004) higher than your display resolution (0001 and 0002).

Differential Resolution
This is the technical term for having a different resolution on your menus and your background. For example, 400x300 background and 800x600 display mode. Don't do this. Your eyes and head will get really irritated.

Isn't that contradicting its self? Saying to get AA by setting it higher, but not to set it differnt to your menu's resolution as it will mess your head up (like it seems to have done to me)

Could this be why my heads acting up, or am i just being paranoid.

[Mhurron]

Isn't that contradicting its self? Saying to get AA by setting it higher, but not to set it differnt to your menu's resolution as it will mess your head up (like it seems to have done to me)

Read very closely, it's not contradicting itself.

Fake AA: Higher background then foreground
Differential Resolution: Higher foreground then background.

BTW it's possible that the fake AA works better keeping the background resolution square. I believe all the textures are square anyway.

[Ellipses]

Could this be why my heads acting up, or am i just being paranoid.

I wouldn't think so, though you can always set it to square or equal values to test. It's more likely your monitor itself, the lighting conditions, other ergonomic factors, etc. Have you got FFXI configured for the right aspect ratio in-game? (I think it's under Config > Windows.)

[Kilazar]

I just picked up a 20" lcd with resolution 1680x1050 can someone give me the proper settings for that resolution? All my characters are squished when I try setting it up as 672 in 0003, and 41A in 0004 (tried reversing them too but no change)

It seems as if the changes do not take effect at all. But with my 17" the changes to it's native resolution worked like a charm.

[Jorginus]

Just checking back here to see if any new programs or fixes can increase the text size in-game. I'm using a custom resolution of 1808x1012, and the text is pretty small.

If there's no way to increase the text size, I'm willing to scale the resolution a bit. Does anyone know a good resolution that makes everything look pretty but also has the text at a respectable size?

[Kuro]

I wouldn't think so, though you can always set it to square or equal values to test. It's more likely your monitor itself, the lighting conditions, other ergonomic factors, etc. Have you got FFXI configured for the right aspect ratio in-game? (I think it's under Config > Windows.)

Yeah I used the 16:10 ratio lighting was the same as allways.

I did however have it set to 2x my foreground res (so 2880x1800) which is 2x what its now set at...

[Orakio]

Ok so, I set the background resolution to 1600x1600 and it looks great, but I'm having an issue. The overlay graphics seem to be stuck at 640x480. I read through the replies and haven't seen anyone mentioning this. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

[Ellipses]

Ok so, I set the background resolution to 1600x1600 and it looks great, but I'm having an issue. The overlay graphics seem to be stuck at 640x480. I read through the replies and haven't seen anyone mentioning this. Anyone know what I can do to fix this?

Open up FFXI Config (Start > Programs > Playonline > Final Fantasy XI > ...Config) and change the value there. It's the bottom of the two resolution drop-downs. The top one will be blank, and as long as you don't change that within FFXI Config, it will stay at 1600x1600. If that doesn't contain the resolution you want, the registry keys 001 and 002 in the same folder with 003 and 004 are for the overlay resolution.

[Orakio]

hmmm, I tried that and it still gets set back to 640x480.

I just tried setting the background resolution back down to something normal, to 1024x768. The overlay still was reset back to 640.