How to make midmapping work, read inside

[vulcan4d]

As far as I know this hasn't been posted here yet. I do not take credit for this, the credit goes to lonewolf of the VN boards. The thread is here:
HERE.

It's a simple registry tweak. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\FinalFantasyXI and change the value 0000. Setting it to a decimal of 1 has no effect, but you'll notice less and less shimmering with a higher value. I set mine to 5, it looks good and I no longer need AF on =). Read the thread to learn more.

[hornplayerchris]

HOLY CRAP!!!

EVERYONE DO THIS NOW!!

Just go to 0000 in same regedit for graphics, turn it to 5, then go to FFXIConfig menu and check Mip-Mapping... the game looks SO beautiful now..

You guys know those little shimmery things in the background on graphics? Well they are GONE now! That was the only beef I had with this game's graphics was the mip-mapping (the shimmery sparklies you see in the background when you run around).

So with graphics at 2048x2048 and this new mip-mapping thing, this game looks beautiful.

P.S. Sorry If I sound a little nutty right now, but I just did this, and now my only complaint with this game's graphics since October has finally been resolved, and its one of the best looking games out there right now.

[Basher]

Re: How to make midmapping work, read inside

Originally posted by vulcan4d
The thread is here:
HERE.
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link doesn't work

[Autumn]

Link works fine for me. :D

[Thark601]

be happy it 404's... crashes my browser

[Jroggy]

works fine for me o.O
too bad my comp sucks so bad i can barely run ffxi as it is, so i can't really utilize this

[Balgas]

I tried it, it did remove the shimmering, but in Ronfaure to me it made the tree's look kind of cartoony, like they didn't belong there sticking out of the ground lol.

It doesn't really make it look better....just different. ^^

[Basher]

Originally posted by Autumn
Link works fine for me. :D

it works fine now

must have gone down for a brief time

[Basher]

i took some examples screenshots


0, 3, and 5

they are in 1600x1200

http://www.typesdragoon.com/MIP.htm

[snoop1050]

mip map at 0 looks better to me judging from your screenshot's at 5 it just makes the textures look washed out

[Basher]

Originally posted by snoop1050
mip map at 0 looks better to me judging from your screenshot's at 5 it just makes the textures look washed out

i agree

(i just have a problem with jaggedy edges >_< )

[vulcan4d]

I find shimmering extremely annoying, so a high value like 10 is what I use. Shimmering is easily seen when in motion, not while standing still when taking screenshots =). For those who don't want their textures to look bland and still want to get rid of much shimmering, set your value to 3 and it'll be good.

What I would like to know is why SE didn't tell us about this. People have been complaining about the broken midmapping for a long time and no word from SE on this at all. Enabling midmapping in the config sets the value to 1, 1 DOES NOTHING! You'll only start seeing a difference at 2 or higher, it's like they wanted midmapping broken.

[Auxiana]

Naa Don't listen.. Looks much better

This Game is designed for a console. Square locked the higher resolutions for this game (or tried too). This Regedit is amazing. I could see the promblem if you have a low-end machine, but the sparkles were just annoying, if you enable the mip-mapping and hate "jaggies" as I do, then enable the higher resolution. "jaggies" are gone, or if you prefer turn up the AA on your Video card. Problem Solved. This is one thing I add to the list of must do's when playing this game. Square seriously offended me with the starting graphics of this game... now thanks to some leets and some well spent time.... We can combat that horrific mishap. I mean really, all this post is about is... If "sparkles" bother you, fix it with the Mip-mapping, it will look better. If "sparkles don't bother you, or you have a P.O.S. Computer then no need to say anything, just don't do it and spare this awesome post for the ones that can and will make this game be Par with the other beutiful games out there.

[Basher]

Re: Naa Don't listen.. Looks much better

Originally posted by Auxiana
This Game is designed for a console. Square locked the higher resolutions for this game (or tried too). This Regedit is amazing. I could see the promblem if you have a low-end machine, but the sparkles were just annoying, if you enable the mip-mapping and hate "jaggies" as I do, then enable the higher resolution. "jaggies" are gone, or if you prefer turn up the AA on your Video card. Problem Solved. This is one thing I add to the list of must do's when playing this game. Square seriously offended me with the starting graphics of this game... now thanks to some leets and some well spent time.... We can combat that horrific mishap. I mean really, all this post is about is... If "sparkles" bother you, fix it with the Mip-mapping, it will look better. If "sparkles don't bother you, or you have a P.O.S. Computer then no need to say anything, just don't do it and spare this awesome post for the ones that can and will make this game be Par with the other beutiful games out there.

i could have guessed this game was made for console/TV because it runs at 30 frames per second max

i actually run at 1600x1200 with 1600x1600 overlay, and i still have very jagged edges. i tried messing with AA's, but it didn't seem to do much. i've got a 9800pro

>_<

[Arximiro]

How do i turn Up AA on a Ge-Force FX 5200 ... ya i know crap. Is it in the Nvidia control panel thing, Also what exactly does it do???.