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Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 1,636 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,636 Donate  | Why does my text look like ass?(pics Hey i just got the PC version of FFXI and my text/starting screen look like a pixely mess...Im running this on a PCI-E 6600GT at 1024x768 on both res at higest settings |  | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-21-2005, 03:51 AM | #4 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 91 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0
Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 115 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 115 Donate | Mine looks like that too (9800pro). Everything in game looks fine, though.  
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RDM: 13 WAR: 6 | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-21-2005, 03:54 AM | #5 (permalink) | | Veteran Member Brain of Knowledge Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: UK Posts: 1,510 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 3
Thanked 30x in 17 Posts Gil: 12,291 Bank: 7,067 Total Gil: 19,358 Donate | | Quote: | Originally posted by Feenicks
Looks fine to me, whats your problem? | There's no Chains of Promethia logo. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-21-2005, 04:41 AM | #6 (permalink) | | Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 976 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 7
Thanked 51x in 29 Posts Gil: 2,432 Bank: 18,881 Total Gil: 21,313 Donate | Could be that he hasn't installed Promathia yet ...
At a second glance I can see that the Zilart logo looks a bit chunky but I still don't really see what's up with the in-game text. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-21-2005, 04:52 AM | #7 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: my house Posts: 73 Style: Dark - Version 5 Thanks: 0
Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 149 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 149 Donate | Set your overlay to higher resolution in FFXI config and your text will be more clear (like Starving Artists') it will also much smaller. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-21-2005, 05:21 AM | #8 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 462 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0
Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 2,263 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 2,263 Donate | It's probably the method they used to create transparancies, they likely set a single indexed color instead of an alpha channel, showing a lot of aliasing when the image is stretched. Sort of like how *.gif transparancy sucks.
FFXI obviously doesn't use rendered text like you see in a word processor, but a small image file per letter that is streched--which looks pretty horrible on a computer monitor. If you moved in from TV, the low rez and analog conversion hide jaggies by bluring everything.
So I doubt there is a real fix for it.
You can use a psudo super-sampling anti-alising by setting your Background Resolution higher than your Overlay Graphics Resolution which will smooth it out. Of course, your computer and VGA card need to be pretty recent if you want to run at settings like that. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-21-2005, 08:32 AM | #9 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 127 Style: Dark - Version 5 Thanks: 0
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There's no Chains of Promethia logo. | Yeah i dont have CoP for PC yet, but imma get it...some year...
Yeah i have been playing with different res and i finnaly found one that makes the text looks better...so yeah... | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-22-2005, 08:13 PM | #10 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Maine Posts: 385 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0
Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 1,211 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,211 Donate | What I want to know is why the textures in the game are so large, blotchy, washed out, and hurtful to look at. When I first started playing, I didn't mind them so much, but after a while I would dread having to look at the same boring, eye-straining textures.
If the textures weren't so horrible I might consider coming back.  Satsuki~Thf/Nin~42/24
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Thanked 51x in 29 Posts Gil: 2,432 Bank: 18,881 Total Gil: 21,313 Donate | Simple explanation for that - FFXI is a PS2 game ported to PC. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 05-24-2005, 07:37 AM | #13 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Maine Posts: 385 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 0
Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 1,211 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,211 Donate | The scenery textures still look horrible. It's not something that tweaking your computer can fix. Square-Enix would need to scrap and remake them in order to fit to my liking. :p Satsuki~Thf/Nin~42/24
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Simple explanation for that - FFXI is a PS2 game ported to PC. | Correction, it's a game designed to play on both PS2 and PC; with PS2 being the lowest common denominator. | | | ::Quote Selected:: | |
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