Final Fantasy VIII resoultion steam version.

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I was just wondering what kind of res people use when they play? At first I thought well I use 2048 x 1152 on my desktop. Might as well use it in game. Sadly the game screen was like a box with big black edges.

I tested and now I think 1152 x 864 is best, it leaves small black edges at the top and bottom though. This may also be a rookie question but does the resolution affect graphics wise? In that, the lesser res - > worse graphics, or have got it the wrong way here?
 
There's a lot of wise people here, surely someone will give you a detailed technical answer. I just can say that "bigger res" is not the same as "better res" when it comes to FF8 (and much other games) When you chose a big resolution such as 2048 x 1152 the game will stretch the textures (because the textures aren't high res). So is much better to choose a reasonably lower resolution.

I also recommend you to take a look at Omzy's Tonberry and Project Eden:

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10459/
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10460/

And Mcindus' Project SeeD Reborn and Tripod:

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10467/
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10481/

That mods will improve A LOT your graphical appearance.

Hope it helps
 
As far as I can tell the game is internal limited to 1280 x 720. If your graphic card driver can use some kind of FXAA you should go with that resolution.
 
There's a lot of wise people here, surely someone will give you a detailed technical answer. I just can say that "bigger res" is not the same as "better res" when it comes to FF8 (and much other games) When you chose a big resolution such as 2048 x 1152 the game will stretch the textures (because the textures aren't high res). So is much better to choose a reasonably lower resolution.

I also recommend you to take a look at Omzy's Tonberry and Project Eden:

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10459/
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10460/

And Mcindus' Project SeeD Reborn and Tripod:

https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10467/
https://www.ff7catalog.com/threads/10481/

That mods will improve A LOT your graphical appearance.

Hope it helps
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Thank you for a quick reply. I didn't really noticed any major changes when I tried different res, just a difference in how much the game screen output takes.

And yes, I have already installed all relevant FF8 mods but since it's been forever that I played the game I'm not so good at picking up the changes haha. But the examples in the links tell it all I guess.

Regarding FXAA I'm not even sure what that is! But I'll look into it. My card is a GeForce GTX 760.
 
It's a fullscreen shader anti aliasing method. Your graphic card should also have another option: TXAA. The game normally refuse to use anti aliasing, but shader based AA will work.
 
Regarding FXAA I'm not even sure what that is! But I'll look into it. My card is a GeForce GTX 760.
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Yes, your card have FXAA. Kaldarasha is a graphics expert here, so he will explain a lot better than me. I'm a little lost in that matter...
 
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