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JaseC · May 12, 2016

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System requirements:

Latest drivers: (as at 21/12/2017)
Nvidia: 388.71
AMD: 17.12.2
Intel: Depends on your processor; download the driver update utility

Tips and tricks:
Cap the framerate/potentially improve frametimes: Download RivaTuner Statistics Server, input your desired framerate limit in the "Framerate limit" box, and hit enter (the program comes bundled with MSI Afterburner and earlier versions of EVGA PrecisionX). Alternatively, those with an Nvidia GPU have the option of Nvidia Inspector, which can also be used to impose a framerate cap, either in a similar manner to RTSS or by way of forcing a different vsync interval (click the small tool icon to open the game profile section).
Note: Useful if you your system can't maintain, say, 60fps and you're sensitive to the wild fluctuations, or you're experiencing uneven frametimes. The greater window the engine has to render a given frame, if you're imposing a lower framerate than the game can otherwise provide, may also help in alleviating stuttering related to data streaming.
Stop the game from crashing after 15 minutes on touch-capable systems running Windows 10: Open the task manager, switch to the Services tab and disable TabletInputService.
Mix/match languages settings, manage cursor presence, fix DPI scaling-related issues, implement custom controller icons, and a few other things: Download Untitled Project X. (Credit to Kaldaien.)

When posting your own tip/trick or something else you'd like to see here in the OP, be sure to mention my username as this way the post will appear among the results when I search for my username after an absence. I may miss your suggestion otherwise.

Graphics settings:

Resolution: Self-explanatory
Screen mode: Window mode; Full screen mode; Borderless mode
Video quality setting: Low; Medium; High

Resolution: Self-explanatory
Screen mode: Full screen mode; Borderless mode; Windowed mode
Brightness: Self-explanatory
Vsync: Off/On
Texture quality: Low; Medium; High
Anisotropic filtering: 1x; 2x; 4x; 8x; 16x
Shadows: Off; Low (1024x1024); Medium (2048x2048); High (4096x4096)
Anti-aliasing: Off; MSAA 2x; MSAA 4x; MSAA 8x
Color correction: Off/On

Anti-aliasing (post filter): Off; FXAA; SMAA Low; SMAA Medium; SMAA High; SMAA Ultra
Unsharp mask: Off/On
Ambient occlusion: Off; HDAO Low; HDAO Medium; HDAO High

Kenzodielocke · May 12, 2016

So these other settings are available in the game?

Higher resolutions fuck up the screen and I have the japanese control scheme and I don't know why.

diablos991 · May 12, 2016

Kenzodielocke said:
So these other settings are available in the game?

Higher resolutions fuck up the screen and I have the japanese control scheme and I don't know why.

You using NVIDIA DSR?
Also have you tried borderless windowed mode?

Kenzodielocke · May 12, 2016

diablos991 said:
You using NVIDIA DSR?

I don't know, but I added these resolutions to the nvidia control panel.

Yeah, tried full screen and borderless.

CertifiedFP · May 12, 2016

Kenzodielocke said:
I don't know, but I added these resolutions to the nvidia control panel.

That's DSR.

OrionsNebula · May 12, 2016

It's nice to see that SE is getting better at these ports, looking back on the disaster that FF XIII was... Good practice for if FF XV gets ported

More so on topic though, it's a shame they didn't add the japanese audio. Any chance they could add this in a patch, or as dlc (like they did with lightining returns on consoles) in the future?

Flandy · May 12, 2016

This support 21:9?

Nero's Neptune · May 12, 2016

So there are issues with DSR?

Hopefully someone toys around with SGSSAA. I can't handle just MSAA anymore!

Zojirushi · May 12, 2016

Someone get on that fps unlock mod quick please.

AlanOC91 · May 12, 2016

980ti
AMD FX8350 @ 4.7ghz

4k resolution. Perfect 30fps with no drops so far. Obviously not that far into the game but 1000 times better than XIII/XIII-2 which give me 15-25fps.

IQ looks extremely clean. I'm impressed.

Playing in borderless fullscreen mode is also pretty flawless.

JaseC · May 12, 2016

OrionsNebula said:
It's nice to see that SE is getting better at these ports, looking back on the disaster that FF XIII was... Good practice for if FF XV gets ported

More so on topic though, it's a shame they didn't add the japanese audio. Any chance they could add this in a patch, or as dlc (like they did with lightining returns on consoles) in the future?

Japanese audio is in, but it requires that the text language be set to Japanese. It's not possible (for now, at least) to mix and match.

JoeyJungle · May 12, 2016

JaseC said:
(Click for general game info.)

Thanks for the OT! You should probably include that the game doesn't have proper dual audio, the only way to get Japanese voices is to change the entire game language to Japanese/Korean/Chinese.

AlanOC91 said:
980ti
AMD FX8350 @ 4.7ghz

4k resolution. Perfect 30fps with no drops so far. Obviously not that far into the game but 1000 times better than XIII/XIII-2 which give me 15-25fps.

IQ looks extremely clean. I'm impressed.

I can't believe they're finally just querying the OS for resolution options! And proper framerates! So excited to play this game again, I got the Vita version on sale months ago but only got a few minutes into it before getting distracted with other stuff.

JaseC · May 12, 2016

JoeyJungle said:
Thanks for the OT! You should probably include that the game doesn't have proper dual audio, the only way to get Japanese voices is to change the entire game language to Japanese/Korean/Chinese.

This thread is just for discussion relating to technical matters. The OT is here.

cloudstrife · May 12, 2016

What are the maximum settings?

I have my new rig on the way, and want to select the highest options.

Parsnip · May 12, 2016

Just a quick test, but it seems 4K with everything up on max is quite doable with gtx970.

Nero's Neptune said:
So there are issues with DSR?

Hopefully someone toys around with SGSSAA. I can't handle just MSAA anymore!

Not necessarily a DSR issue, but it seems like the fullscreen option in the game isn't actual exclusive fullscreen. It behaves more like borderless, but then there's also borderless. Don't know what's going on there.

JaseC · May 12, 2016

cloudstrife said:
What are the maximum settings?

I have my new rig on the way, and want to select the highest options.

The ones in the screenshots in the OP. The "High" preset in the launcher sets them as high as they go. Plus the values of each setting are listed in the OP.

Inuhanyou · May 12, 2016

II wonder what the weakest GPU that can get 4k is...seems like decent options so far

dr_rus · May 12, 2016

Locked to 30 fps max it seems?

Parsnip · May 12, 2016

dr_rus said:
Locked to 30 fps max it seems?

Yup.

Zexen · May 12, 2016

Kenzodielocke said:
I don't know, but I added these resolutions to the nvidia control panel.

Yeah, tried full screen and borderless.

Is your monitor native UHD? Try setting your desktop resolution to the choosen resolution and then launch the game.

Corpsepyre · May 12, 2016

Japanese developers and their love for 30 fps. Sigh.

OrionsNebula · May 12, 2016

JaseC said:
Japanese audio is in, but it requires that the text language be set to Japanese. It's not possible (for now, at least) to mix and match.

Yeah I just saw the post on the community page saying there were technical issues in adding it. Oh well. The voice acting in English is manageable for the majority of the game.

Deleted member 17706 · May 12, 2016

JaseC said:
Japanese audio is in, but it requires that the text language be set to Japanese. It's not possible (for now, at least) to mix and match.

Japanese text and audio is an option in the American release?

KainXVIII · May 12, 2016

Nero's Neptune said:
So there are issues with DSR?

Hopefully someone toys around with SGSSAA. I can't handle just MSAA anymore!

Waiting for Bonkers ^_^ But it depends if game uses DX9 or not.

Parsnip · May 12, 2016

Zefah said:
Japanese text and audio is an option in the American release?

Yes, but only at the same time, can't mix Japanese audio with English text, for example.
Until someone mods it.

Inuhanyou · May 12, 2016

Corpsepyre said:
Japanese developers and their love for 30 fps. Sigh.

Its a 16 year old game, its going to have legacy code.

diablos991 · May 12, 2016

Parsnip said:
Just a quick test, but it seems 4K with everything up on max is quite doable with gtx970.

Not necessarily a DSR issue, but it seems like the fullscreen option in the game isn't actual exclusive fullscreen. It behaves more like borderless, but then there's also borderless. Don't know what's going on there.

That looks clean!
Glad to hear it's doing 4K DSR on a single 970. This makes the PC version the definitive version IMO.

Deleted member 465307 · May 12, 2016

Are the max settings offered comparable to the PS4 version or are there improvements (apart from resolution) enabled by this PC port?

Deleted member 17706 · May 12, 2016

Parsnip said:
Yes, but only at the same time, can't mix Japanese audio with English text, for example.
Until someone mods it.

Thanks! Square has a spotty history of including full language options in their western releases. FFXIII Lightning Returns had Japanese built in as an option, but the other FFXIII releases only had western languages.

I'll go ahead buy this from Steam now that I know that!

KainXVIII · May 12, 2016

Anti-aliasing (post filter): Off; FXAA; SMAA Low; SMAA Medium; SMAA High; SMAA Ultra
Unsharp mask: Off/On

So using SMAA with MSAA is better solution?
And what is unsharp mask? Some comparison shots will be nice..

Robobandit · May 12, 2016

Zefah said:
Japanese text and audio is an option in the American release?

edit, beaten.

Zexen · May 12, 2016

kirbyfan407 said:
Are the max settings offered comparable to the PS4 version or are there improvements (apart from resolution) enabled by this PC port?

I have yet to play it, but I'm pretty sure the shadows are improved, being pushed to 4096x4096.

KainXVIII said:
So using SMAA with MSAA is better solution?
And what is unsharp mask? Some comparison shots will be nice..

This is unsharp mask at work. Probably used to counter PPAA blurring.

Dr Dogg · May 12, 2016

Sorry to poop on anyone's party but it's a DX11 title.

Anyhoo...

Top pic is mine (@5120x2880 with all the bells and whistles) and the other 4 are from Digital Foundry's PS4 Face Off article.

Atomic Playboy · May 12, 2016

Dr Dogg said:
Top pic is mine (@5120x2880 with all the bells and whistles) and the other 4 are from Digital Foundry's PS4 Face Off article.

Obviously a lot sharper on PC (which is great), but why does it seem there are some shadows missing that appear on the PS4 version?

diablos991 · May 12, 2016

Atomic Playboy said:
Obviously a lot sharper on PC (which is great), but why does it seem there are some shadows missing that appear on the PS4 version?

Which shadows?
It looks like a cleaned up version of the PS4 shot IMO.

Parsnip · May 12, 2016

JaseC, maybe a tip for the OP.

If anyone is running the game at higher than their monitor/TV native resolution and only see part of the screen even with the fullscreen option, try turning of DPI scaling from Windows settings. On my end at least Windows 10 was automatically scaling the game to 200% when I launched the game at 4K.

Atomic Playboy · May 12, 2016

diablos991 said:
Which shadows?
It looks like a cleaned up version of the PS4 shot IMO.

Yuna's forehead. It has a shadow from her hair on the PS4 shot, but it's missing on the PC shot.

PC
PS4

Kazuhira · May 12, 2016

Corpsepyre said:
Japanese developers and their love for 30 fps. Sigh.

How much of a difference would it make in a game like this? dodging lightning bolts in thunder plains would be a pain though.
More fluid,smoother blitzball games perhaps?

KainXVIII · May 12, 2016

Atomic Playboy said:
Yuna's forehead. It has a shadow from her hair on the PS4 shot, but it's missing on the PC shot.

PC
PS4

Maybe its SSAO?

jett · May 12, 2016

How annoying that it's locked to 30fps.

Kazuhira said:
How much of a difference would it make in a game like this? dodging lightning bolts in thunder plains would be a pain though.
More fluid,smoother blitzball games perhaps?

Visually it would just look better, period.

diablos991 · May 12, 2016

Atomic Playboy said:
Yuna's forehead. It has a shadow from her hair on the PS4 shot, but it's missing on the PC shot.

PC
PS4

I still can't see what one you're talking about. It does look like the PC version shadows are blended a bit better so maybe that looks like a missing shadow to you?

Mivey · May 12, 2016

Atomic Playboy said:
Yuna's forehead. It has a shadow from her hair on the PS4 shot, but it's missing on the PC shot.

Those are not shadows. That's overeager AO. So, if anything the PC version is more authentic.

Anteater · May 12, 2016

can't mess with this for another 10hrs... i hate my internet

Inuhanyou · May 12, 2016

jett said:
How annoying that it's locked to 30fps.

Visually it would just look better, period.

Its literally irrelevant to the entire experience outside of some people's visual ticks.

Mifec · May 12, 2016

Anteater said:
can't mess with this for another 10hrs... i hate my internet

Same situation with me and Doom rn

Inuhanyou said:
Its literally irrelevant to the entire experience outside of some people's visual ticks.

what?

Bl@de · May 12, 2016

Inuhanyou said:
Its literally irrelevant to the entire experience outside of some people's visual ticks.

It's not. Higher framerate is always better to look at.

ss_lemonade · May 12, 2016

Why is there a difference in storage requirements between minimum and recommended?

Imp the Dimp · May 12, 2016

Loved the games back at release and I think I'll replay FFX-2 due to its fantastic combat. Once a 60fps hack is up, I'm in.

Deleted member 17706 · May 12, 2016

Inuhanyou said:
Its literally irrelevant to the entire experience outside of some people's visual ticks.

It's literally irrelevant *only* in still screenshots.

Inuhanyou · May 12, 2016

Bl@de said:
It's not. Higher framerate is always better to look at.

For those games that require quick controller response and fast motions, i agree with you. But it is literally just a check box for a game like this.

unless you literally can't stand to experience anything at lower framerates in which case i wonder how some people watch literally any other medium outside of video games.

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