Graphical Update release date?

[マルコ]

Can someone tell me when the graphical update is going to happen?
I wanted to seriously start this game with that.

[Doonix]

someday in the summer of 2024 (no specific date), i want it a lot too, but we'll need to wait more D:

[Rhyagelle]

Most likely around July or August 2024.

[マルコ]

I see =_='
I know I'm not going to play something this size twice, so need to carefully consider if I should play it now, or if the pretty vistas are worth that wait
That foggy city alone is a very strong argument to wait, honestly...
Improved shadows, Ambient Occlusion, PBR, Subsurface scattering...
I think I'll try my best to be patient

[Doonix]

Originally posted by マルコ:

I see =_='
I know I'm not going to play something this size twice, so need to carefully consider if I should play it now, or if the pretty vistas are worth that wait
That foggy city alone is a very strong argument to wait, honestly...
Improved shadows, Ambient Occlusion, PBR, Subsurface scattering...
I think I'll try my best to be patient

Yes, if you waited until now I think it wouldn't be bad to wait a little longer to play with a better quality

[GeminiEclipse]

The graphics update wont cover everything initially. Some models are unique and those wont be updated until later. Also textures from some of the earlier expansions wont be done until later.

[♠♣The Jester♣♠]

Originally posted by GeminiEclipse:

The graphics update wont cover everything initially. Some models are unique and those wont be updated until later. Also textures from some of the earlier expansions wont be done until later.

^This^
If you want to play Final Fantasy XIV at Dawntrail's release I'd highly recommend waiting an extra 2-3 months or maybe longer. The queue times will be significant and you'll be losing time on those 30 free days you start with when you input your game key. Many people bought FFXIV when Endwalker was about a month into it's release and it's queue times were still in the 600-1000+ of people waiting in queue.

EDIT: If you decide you want to start earlier rather than wait and you have a Nvidia GPU, I'd highly recommend trying the filters that it provides. It can bring some much needed color and life to the game.

[hagare]

next expansion right. And the retroactive changes will probably happen gradually. Though DT will have updated graphic from the beginning

[Generic-Raider]

I thought they said it will start to come out be for the next expansion - last patch be for 7.0

[Veotax]

Originally posted by Generic-Raider:

I thought they said it will start to come out be for the next expansion - last patch be for 7.0

No, they didn't, it's coming with 7.0.

They talked about adding a few things ahead of the next expansion, but all that came was dynamic resolution support back in like 6.2 or something. There's only one patch coming before 7.0 anyway, in January, and it's not a big one.

[Sargon]

Originally posted by ♠♣The Jester♣♠:

If you decide you want to start earlier rather than wait and you have a Nvidia GPU, I'd highly recommend trying the filters that it provides. It can bring some much needed color and life to the game.

Can you expand on this at all?

[♠♣The Jester♣♠]

Originally posted by Sargon:

Originally posted by ♠♣The Jester♣♠:

If you decide you want to start earlier rather than wait and you have a Nvidia GPU, I'd highly recommend trying the filters that it provides. It can bring some much needed color and life to the game.

Can you expand on this at all?

Sure! If you open your Geforce Experience go to settings(top right of the window)below "Language" there should be "In-Game Overlay" and you want to enable that. Once you do that, just log into FFXIV like normally, open the overlay(Alt+Z)and Filters should be on the left.
Just keep in mind that you need to keep your drivers up-to-date otherwise you cannot use the filters. Also it's a pain but your filters will also be reset every time you update them. If you can't find Geforce Experience it's likely hidden. If you're on Windows 10 there should be a ^ on the far bottom right and it'll be there.

Apologies if you already knew about all this. Just thought I'd clear all the bases! :)

[マルコ]

I've ended up following this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/nxm703/how_to_significantly_improve_ffxiv_graphics/ and I really like how it looks

[♠♣The Jester♣♠]

Originally posted by マルコ:

I've ended up following this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/nxm703/how_to_significantly_improve_ffxiv_graphics/ and I really like how it looks

I would NOT recommend Gshade if that is what you want to use. The owner late last year added malicious malware to Gshade's code to shut down your PC. He did this to spite a different user who took his presets(that he took FROM Reshade!) and used them on Reshade.

If you want to use a shader for XIV either use Reshade or use Nvidia's filters.

[Dolls of Valen]

Originally posted by マルコ:

Can someone tell me when the graphical update is going to happen?
I wanted to seriously start this game with that.

heyy GF shutt these ♥♥♥♥♥ upp

[MOSLEY]

Originally posted by ♠♣The Jester♣♠:

Originally posted by マルコ:

I've ended up following this guide https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/nxm703/how_to_significantly_improve_ffxiv_graphics/ and I really like how it looks

I would NOT recommend Gshade if that is what you want to use. The owner late last year added malicious malware to Gshade's code to shut down your PC. He did this to spite a different user who took his presets(that he took FROM Reshade!) and used them on Reshade.

If you want to use a shader for XIV either use Reshade or use Nvidia's filters.

That isn't really what happened.

Someone took the GShade author's code without their consent (which violates the license of the software) and created their own unofficial version of GShade, so the author of GShade added a line of code that would restart your PC if you tried to update the unofficial version of GShade. Your PC would never be prompted to restart under any circumstances if you were using the official version of GShade.

It was an incredibly petty way to prevent their code from being stolen but to call GShade "malware" just makes you sound like you don't know what you're talking about. Software that will never do anything unexpected under any circumstances is not malware by definition.

Either way, The GShade project has been abandoned because of the iT's MaLwArE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, so the best thing to do now is download the GShade presets and use them with ReShade.