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Nier: Automata PC performance thread
- Thread starter JaseC
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So i tried to give this mess another shot, and without downsampling, FAR doesn't crash my game anymore, but i still CTD when i do the Lost Girl quest (hopefully it'll be the only one).
Is it a common thing for this one quest, or should i just brace for CTD every other quest? If that's the case i may very well skip the game entirely (as painful as that would be) since i just can't stand a game that crashes on a consistent basis, especially since this one doesn't have save states (unlike, say, Witcher 3).
If it's just the quest that is broken, i'll just skip that one instead.
Is it a common thing for this one quest, or should i just brace for CTD every other quest? If that's the case i may very well skip the game entirely (as painful as that would be) since i just can't stand a game that crashes on a consistent basis, especially since this one doesn't have save states (unlike, say, Witcher 3).
If it's just the quest that is broken, i'll just skip that one instead.
RedlineRonin
Member
Agree on above. 1080FE and 6700K. 60 or w/e hours and I don't think I had one crash the entire time with FAR (except when it was screwing with RivaTuner, my fault)
ShadowSoldier89
Member
I just used borderless gaming and I had the same result. However I have a 1080, in a vacuum this looked like an amazing port aside from the resolution scaling in full screen
I have a 970, latest drivers.
Steam tells me i played 6 hours, but i actually played more than that, in Offline mode, and i think i've experienced just a couple of crashes, however this Lost Girl mission (
), is crashing consistently (tried 3 times already).
FAR was crashing my game after an update, but after disabling supersampling, it didn't seem to be a problem anymore, and i had played pretty smoothly until that point.
Now, even deactivating FAR, the game still crashes during that mission.
I guess i'll try to skip it and hope it's that one mission, that is faulty.
I may even try to uninstall FAR altogether and try running it in borderless windowed.
To me is absolutely mind blowing that they STILL haven't patched something as basic as that.
I hope they didn't see FAR and went "well, our job is done!".
Steam tells me i played 6 hours, but i actually played more than that, in Offline mode, and i think i've experienced just a couple of crashes, however this Lost Girl mission (
where you have to rescue the robot girl from the desert area
FAR was crashing my game after an update, but after disabling supersampling, it didn't seem to be a problem anymore, and i had played pretty smoothly until that point.
Now, even deactivating FAR, the game still crashes during that mission.
I guess i'll try to skip it and hope it's that one mission, that is faulty.
I may even try to uninstall FAR altogether and try running it in borderless windowed.
Bit of a contradiction there.
To me is absolutely mind blowing that they STILL haven't patched something as basic as that.
I hope they didn't see FAR and went "well, our job is done!".
I renamed the dinput8.dll of FAR (just to quickly deactivate it) and installed borderless window, and i actually managed to get the girl out of the desert without a crash.
probably just luck and had nothing to do with borderless window, but hey, whatever works.
6th time's the charm!
I hate how this port is so inconsistent for some people.
The game is too good for such shoddy work
I hate how this port is so inconsistent for some people.
The game is too good for such shoddy work
Tell me about it.
This was my most hyped game, in a pretty packed year, and i had to essentially put it down for months because of these problems.
I feel bad for Platinum tho, they seem willing to support their games, going by the Bayonetta and Vanquish PC ports (which got patched pretty swiftly) so i blame SE for this nonsense.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
not really no, I dont consider something a bad port if flicking on borderless gaming completely solves the issue. Minor annoyance at best.Bit of a contradiction there.
If an extremely basic feature (Like fullscreen) is broken, months after realese, yes i consider it a poor job and a shitty effort.
Btw borderless has to be implemented through 3rd party programs or fan made mods, which also speaks volume.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
clearly we have different scales, no need to be so hostile.
GameAddict411
Member
So Nier Automata is on sale again on Steam 35% off. I have a core i7 and a GTX 1060 6GB. Are the headaches surrounding this game sorted out?
ArtificialIntelligence
Member
At 1080p you should be good
If you're willing to run 3rd party apps to fix the headaches, jump in.
Exentryk
Member
Install the FAR mod (look it up on Steam Discussions) and that should also allow you to tweak a lot more settings to get better performance for your card.
It's a great game, so have fun on your journey!
Bought this on steam and played through the intro up until the first savepoint with no real technical problems. No stuttering or crashes etc.
I'm on 90min played on steam and need to decide if i should refund or keep going, and i really like the game itself.
Do the technical problems usually show up later, or can i feel good about keeping on playing?
I'm on 90min played on steam and need to decide if i should refund or keep going, and i really like the game itself.
Do the technical problems usually show up later, or can i feel good about keeping on playing?
My copy started crashing about 6 hours in, sorry.
Many didn't have as many problems though.
On steam you can ask for a refund though, so no biggie.
Many didn't have as many problems though.
Nothing is "sorted out" officially, but there are fan mods that can help (assuming they work out for you).
On steam you can ask for a refund though, so no biggie.
My experience was the same, and also on a Pascal GPU. In fact, I didn't have a single crash or problem whatsoever in my 80 hours of play while using the FAR mod.
You can easily hit solid 60 FPS on 1440p wth a 1080. (Even enabling my additional graphics stuff in FAR)
That's how I played it. (of course you should disable in-game MSAA, since the implementation breaks LoD transitions anyway)
Easily. I played it downsampled from 1800p.
onken
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onken
Member
Awesome, thanks!!
Mine too and I stopped of playing because the framerate issues. I dont know what I should install or desactivate.
Personnaly crash kinda happen at random, the worst part were at the amusement park and with the Simone boss, multiple crash in that part in both route A & B.
At 1080p? If you disable MSAA (and install FAR to fix framepacing) that really shouldn't happen.
HerroRygar
Member
For me personally FAR kept crashing the game at a specific point such that I could not progress and I had to uninstall it. A shame because it greatly improved performance. i5 6500 and a GTX 1070.
Game is playable without FAR but there are resolution issues unless windowed and it does not perform as well as it "should".
Game is playable without FAR but there are resolution issues unless windowed and it does not perform as well as it "should".
I didn't install nothing because I'm a bit noob yet with the PC Gaming, I should force some anti aliasing from the nvidia control panel?
Turn off ingame AA, turn on Ambient Occlusion (as that applies SMAA) and install the FAR mod after reading this guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=914437196
AMD and NVIDIA has updated their driver to prevent the white screen crash (was the most widespread type of crash), other than that absolutely nothing has been done and I highly doubt Square Enix will ever do anything.
Fuck that company so much.
You need to turn Global Illumination down to High from Ultra (no real visual difference), which you'll need the mod for. It improves FPS quite a lot apparently.
I installed the mod manually, it's really easy. Basically download the archive and unpack the files into the Nier directory (or use the automatic tool if you want). It's all in the guide i posted above. I recommend it and shouldn't take more than 5-10 mins to download/fully set up.
Another bonus is a nicer looking achievement popup which i really hope the Steam client UI upgrade will improve when it comes out.
What i changed with the mod was:
- Global Illumination to High
- Hide Mouse Cursor
- Enabled Borderless Windowed mode
- Enabled High Quality Bloom and AO (Ambient Occlusion)
Before doing those, make sure you set up your video settings in the game first, like increasing AF, disabling AA/enabling Ambient Occlusion and turning on the Windowed setting along with your resolution of choice.
That's my specs, got no problems running it at 1080p/60. I'm fairly certain 1440p/60 should easily be doable from what i've gathered. Not sure if that benchmark had FAR running.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Hows the performance at 1080p with a gtx 1060? Gonna buy this at the next steam sale.
Perfectly fine as long you keep MSAA disabled.
Squeenix hasn't uploaded a new build of the game to Steam since updating the public (default) branch in preparation for the release of the DLC. That was four-and-a-half months ago now.
I don't get it, they seem so eager to make FFXV a good PC port (ofc, that remains to be seen, since they're still in sales-man mode), and then they don't even patch the most basic shit in Nier.
I'm sure it wouldn't take much, given how modders were able to fix many of the issues alone.