So it seems when you Family Share the game you can't download the high-res pack o.o Oh well does it have a big performance impact if any at all? I'm planning to play till Chapter 3 atleast to see if my 37fps lock holds up.
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Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition PC performance thread
- Thread starter Ishiro
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So yeah, crash again... I disabled high quality assets and VRAM usage still crept up to almost 8GB even after again dropping TRAM to Average, just took more time, total memory usage which was at 15% (2.4GB out of 16) before I loaded the game, stayed at around 45% for a while but it too started climbing, I think it was around 55% before the crash, one of the error codes can be related to faulty memory so gonna to do a scan of my RAM and VRAM tomorrow and see if that could be the issue.
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Posted on the Steam forums, tweeted at the main guy who does their stuff on Steam. They don't seem to care about it sadly.
I can confirm the fps drop after summoning is real. I was playing until you trigger the first, mandatory summon for the story, after that I needed to quit the game because it became unplayable.
That's part of the issue IMHO. Using traditional SSAO with such a huge radius just causes too many artifacts, especially in motion.
By the way, here's a pretty good recent presentation on all things high-end AO.
Yeah Nvidia's work on AO has been amazing and enabling HBAO+ into older games via Inspector can make a huge difference even it means dealing with some bleeding. I'm surprised they didn't offer HBAO+ as an option for FFXV too but maybe they've improved VXAO's footprint enough so that it doesn't cost significantly more than HBAO+ does.
You are not alone, the game is really picky with its V/RAM usage. I had to put back Swap to Windows controlled or I'd suffer from crashes, and that even with a manually set 10Gb Swap. Out of my 16Gb physical RAM, I once saw the game tapping more than 3Gb in the virtual memory pool, that's pretty insane all things considered.
edit: On the bright side, it looks like a patch is on it's way.
Was about to post this since i just experienced it minutes ago, yeah FPS drops to 15 no matter what config/resolution you are on. Alt-tabbing and going to fullscreen doesn't have any effect either.
That's a bummer, the issues seems to stem from the way they set Steam to handle the high-res pack like a separate game somehow than to classify it as DLC under the DLC list. It doesn't bother me too much since as said I'll buy the game myself at some point anyway but I might wait for the first sale since I already have the PS4 Special Edition so right now I'm treating the PC version more like a tech-treat.
On another note to everyone who suffers from generic-controller icons, make sure you connect your controller and have it turned on before you launch the game then the correct icons should show.
Wow like everytime? That's a huge bummer, how nobody from the dev team noticed it is beyond me.
Just like how they didn't noticed their game had no virtual keyboard, you have to use Steam's Big Picture mode to name your avatar on multiplayer DLC's Comrade, otherwise the game doesn't record your keyboard's letter inputs.
Huh I hope they'll fix those issues asap. It's weird as it seems to be a pretty competent port from what I've seen so far.
gang, i changed some settings and stuff in steam and now i cant figure out why my xbox controller isnt working perfectly. The xbox 360 (wired) prompts dont show up anymore, and everytime i try to run with noctis by pressing the left-stick down the keyboard pops up. and some of the buttons dont work anymore.
i was attempting to 'remove the steam overlay' or something, because I was told that improves performance, or something! lol. anyhow, any tips on how to resolve this? I like the xbox prompts but if they have to go, no huge deal. main issue is getting rid of the dumb keyboard popping up and buttons not working right. Help appreciated!
P.S. - PC gaming is truly another world. Seems to be full of advantageous but im not sure I like the huge variations in things that comes as a consequence of configuration differences.Oh well, 60+fps and sharp visuals for FFXV seems to be worth it
i was attempting to 'remove the steam overlay' or something, because I was told that improves performance, or something! lol. anyhow, any tips on how to resolve this? I like the xbox prompts but if they have to go, no huge deal. main issue is getting rid of the dumb keyboard popping up and buttons not working right. Help appreciated!
P.S. - PC gaming is truly another world. Seems to be full of advantageous but im not sure I like the huge variations in things that comes as a consequence of configuration differences.Oh well, 60+fps and sharp visuals for FFXV seems to be worth it
Have a play around with the controller settings under Big Picture Mode. I sometimes find Steam is overriding my 360 controller and emulating it as a Steam controller rather than just letting Windows do it as a 360 controller.
That's weird, it recognized mine. Didn't have to use Steam's to type my ava's name.
Could it be related to keyboard layout? It would be weird because I was able to suppress and confirm with the keyboard, but the game would't record any character input, be it letters or numbers, numpad or not. Copy/paste didn't worked neither. Several peoples reported the same issue on Steam's forums and Reddit.
Not sure. Have you been using that special K fix? I' m also wondering, how wide spread is that summoning bug? I'm not quite there in the game yet. Is everyone experiencing a stuttering after a summon or is it more contained than that?
I'm sure they'll want to patch these as soon as possible. Square would be foolish to promise long-term mod support while at the same time ignoring serious bugs such as those.
Character inputs issue happened both with and without Kaldaien's fix.
I saw the post you mentioned on Steam. Have you tried this?
It definitely feels like there's a memory leak. I start off with 4.5 - 5 GB VRAM used and after a bit it's maxed at 6GB (980ti) and dropping settings does nothing to reduce it.
Well, I already "fixed" it by using Big Picture, but I'll try that at a later time.
Game has some weird pop-in issues when zooming in with the camera in certain areas. Also happened at the end of the date with Iris, trees in the background randomly disappeared, then reappeared again.
About Special K, do I have to do anything when it's installed? My main issues are with stutters when the game saves automatically and sometime while in combat. Anyone can share some settings?
Objects pop-in in this game is literally crazy. Nothing worse than spending few seconds framing a shot then a ghost bush suddenly came to view. Right in front of the car.
Also for everyone with Ansel color problem, Prompto camera filters bleed into Ansel.
To fix, take shot with Prompto cam using NO FILTER, then quit, and bring up Ansel, it'll be correct again.
When Prompto AI taking shot, Ansel color will be weird again. Do the steps again. Remember you must take shot, simply choosing no filter and quit cam menu won't correct Ansel.
Also for everyone with Ansel color problem, Prompto camera filters bleed into Ansel.
To fix, take shot with Prompto cam using NO FILTER, then quit, and bring up Ansel, it'll be correct again.
When Prompto AI taking shot, Ansel color will be weird again. Do the steps again. Remember you must take shot, simply choosing no filter and quit cam menu won't correct Ansel.
Sad thing is that it's as easy to fix as flipping a switch.
So I downloaded the hi res pack and the game wouldn't recognize it. Tried unchecking and checking the install checkbox and now it's trying to download it but I can see the folder already has the 60+ gigs in it. Anyway to prevent the download and make it use what's there?
I found another bug: I was fighting Melusine for a while, since I couldn't beat her during the night she despawned, respawned and started the fight again.
During the fight I summoned Ramuh, usualy shit with fps going down, but I kept on playing because I've almost defeated her...and than the game literally stopped.
Fps literally reached single digits, something like 1 or 2, I managed to save my game and stopped playing.
Dunno if it's related to the summon thing, because after 15 minutes I noticed fps went to normal again, just to stop after 5 minutes or so.
During the fight I summoned Ramuh, usualy shit with fps going down, but I kept on playing because I've almost defeated her...and than the game literally stopped.
Fps literally reached single digits, something like 1 or 2, I managed to save my game and stopped playing.
Dunno if it's related to the summon thing, because after 15 minutes I noticed fps went to normal again, just to stop after 5 minutes or so.
Objects pop-in in this game is literally crazy. Nothing worse than spending few seconds framing a shot then a ghost bush suddenly came to view. Right in front of the car.
Also for everyone with Ansel color problem, Prompto camera filters bleed into Ansel.
To fix, take shot with Prompto cam using NO FILTER, then quit, and bring up Ansel, it'll be correct again.
When Prompto AI taking shot, Ansel color will be weird again. Do the steps again. Remember you must take shot, simply choosing no filter and quit cam menu won't correct Ansel.
Thanks for the Ansel solution. Will try!
Well, this answered some of my questions. Nvidia stuff have the most noticable impact on my performance. I'm on an RX 470. Not sure if it's the same for Nvidia cards.
Great job, as always. And, yeah, this confirms what Kaldaien said too. I'm currently having the issue where clothing (and sometimes things like car tires and whole characters) are stuttering erratically every once in a while (from a few seconds to a few minutes, depending.) I think it may be due to a fluctuating framerate, but I hope not. I'm using a G-sync monitor I just bought, and one of the big draws was being able to run games at any FPS and have them remain smooth/free of insane drops when they can't quite hit a consistent 60fps and go into the 50s occasionally.
I'm also getting performance that isn't consistent with others. I get anywhere from mid 40s to high 70s, with some sharp drops. The settings are pretty much set to high, 1440p, with Assets on and the Nvidia additions set to off.
My rig:
GTX 1070
i5 6600k
16GB RAM
500GB Crucial MX500 SSD
165hz 1440p G-sync monitor
I've tried adjusting every setting, and the insane drops still happen (though the min is higher.) But I find the things that really affect performance that (and that I keep off) are:
Shadows on Highest
TAA Anti-aliasing
Nvidia Gameworks options
Resolution above 100%
Motion Blur
But even with these (and others) off or lowered, I'm having issues. It's really starting to hamper my experience, TBH. :'(
Looking at the Steam thread for this article, they would die on this horse.
Don't know if this is common knowledge yet but you can actually enable to increased draw distance and ground clutter that Assets [ON] gives without the burden of 4k textures (if you're GPU can't handle them) if you turn 'HighSpecAsset' to =1 in GraphicsConfig.ini and set it to Read Only. It will still show up as OFF in game but the difference is very clear.
Decided to see what this game looks like at 1080p... and holy hell. Now I see what people are talking about this game being so blurry. Changed it back to 4K pretty quick.
Hmm, alt-tabbing seems to force some sort of continuous mouse and keyboard input sometimes. Whenever I try to use the controller afterwards I get a huge amount of hitching and the button prompts switch between controller and m+k. I've tried disabling mouse input and keyboard input in Special K, but I'm still getting that issue. Anyone else experience it?
The game doesn't like alt-tabbing when you have special K installed. Before I installed it I had no issues, but afterwards I get an issue every time I do it.
Most commonly I get a black window with the game running underneath (you can hear it if you mess around with the controller) and you can't get picture back without resetting.
The following is my SLI settings, if anybody needs one:
GraphicsConfig.ini
Screenshots:
My PC specs:
i7 5930K @ 4.5Ghz
32GB DDR4 @ 3Ghz
2x 1080Ti @ 1974 Mhz (Stock Clock)
Windows 8.1E
Game is installed in 2x SSD in RAID0
Remarks:
I simply cannot reach 4K60 without a higher overclock. The frame pacing simply wasn't consistent enough. The performance could be better with overclocking, but I'll be needing a new PSU before anything else. With the game running, I'm already pulling close to 700W, and my PSU is only 860W. Maybe next month. For now, I'll have to settle for 1440p.
GraphicsConfig.ini
Code:
[BasicSettings]
DisplayResolutionWH=2560x1440
GraphicsPreset=4
MaxFramerate=144
RenderingResolutionRatio=100
ShowFPS=0
[DisplaySettings]
CurrentDisplay=0
FP16BackBuffer=1
FullScreenModeOnStartup=1
HDRLuminanceScale=600
HardwareFullScreenMode=1
VSync=0
HighPrecisionRenderTarget=1
HardwareFullScreenMode=1
[NVIDIAGameWorksSettings]
NvidiaFlow=1
NvidiaHairWorks=1
NvidiaShadowLibs=1
NvidiaTerrainTesselation=1
NvidiaTurf=1
NvidiaVXAO=1
NvidiaHBAO=1
NvidiaSLI=1
NvidiaAnsel=0
NvidiaHighlights=1
[RenderingSettings]
AmbientOcclusion=2
Antialias=1
HighSpecAsset=1
LightingQuality=3
ModelLODScaling=200
MotionBlur=1
ScreenFilterDetail=3
ShadowResolution=400
TerrainTesselation=1
TextureAnisotropicFilter=16
TextureStreamingMemory=6144
ShadowDistanceScaling=400Screenshots:
My PC specs:
i7 5930K @ 4.5Ghz
32GB DDR4 @ 3Ghz
2x 1080Ti @ 1974 Mhz (Stock Clock)
Windows 8.1E
Game is installed in 2x SSD in RAID0
Remarks:
I simply cannot reach 4K60 without a higher overclock. The frame pacing simply wasn't consistent enough. The performance could be better with overclocking, but I'll be needing a new PSU before anything else. With the game running, I'm already pulling close to 700W, and my PSU is only 860W. Maybe next month. For now, I'll have to settle for 1440p.