Final Fantasy XV

[Mchart]

Hour plus long unpacking. Zowie!

This is why pre-loading isn't worth it unless you're on super slow internet that would require days to download.

Unless maybe you've got an optane drive or something.

 

[Armenius]

This is why pre-loading isn't worth it unless you're on super slow internet that would require days to download.

Unless maybe you've got an optane drive or something.

Q-BZ doesn't have a SSD according to the KCD thread. I've never had a decrypt take longer than 10 minutes on one of my SSDs.

 

[KamelRed]

Still downloading the 4K texture pack but I was running the game on 390.77 Nvidia drivers and all settings maxed @ 3840x2160. Getting about 30-45 fps running around in the first area so far.

I scaled the in-game resolution down using the 75% option (effectively 2880x1620 aka 3K) and getting 50-60 fps. I think I will stick with this option as it offers, in my opinion, the best visuals and fps for my needs.

Also stay away from the Cactuar stuff in the Steam Workshop it just replaces all NPCs and some of your weapons with Cactuar models. Not that cool, TBH.

 

[delita]

Still downloading the 4K texture pack but I was running the game on 390.77 Nvidia drivers and all settings maxed @ 3840x2160. Getting about 30-45 fps running around in the first area so far.

I scaled the in-game resolution down using the 75% option (effectively 2880x1620 aka 3K) and getting 50-60 fps. I think I will stick with this option as it offers, in my opinion, the best visuals and fps for my needs.

Also stay away from the Cactuar stuff in the Steam Workshop it just replaces all NPCs and some of your weapons with Cactuar models. Not that cool, TBH.

How's it look with scaling at 3K? This was my concern, we have pretty similar rigs...dipping below 40 is no bueno for me.

 

[KamelRed]

How's it look with scaling at 3K? This was my concern, we have pretty similar rigs...dipping below 40 is no bueno for me.

Its a little blurry overall compared to 4K but not nearly enough to bother me compared to 1080p.

 

[Mchart]

Turn down the screen filtering option. I have no idea why they thought PC users wanted this adjusted all the way to high. All it does is blur the screen and drop performance a little. Turn it to low and the game looks way better. It only makes sense to leave on if you can't afford AA and want to blur the screen to hide jaggies instead.

 

[delita]

Its a little blurry overall compared to 4K but not nearly enough to bother me compared to 1080p.

Fuck it, I bit. The base game is installing. Do you have to install the high res pack after that? I tried to click the high res pack first but it opted to download the base game. I'm guessing you're forced to download both sets of textures hence why the total download ends up being 155GB or whatever people said.

 

[Mchart]

Fuck it, I bit. The base game is installing. Do you have to install the high res pack after that? I tried to click the high res pack first but it opted to download the base game. I'm guessing you're forced to download both sets of textures hence why the total download ends up being 155GB or whatever people said.

You have to enable it like a DLC and then it installs.

The dumb part is that 49GB of the 4K pack are just movie files. The actual textures for in game are only like 20GB extra.

I wish they would have allowed you to download just the higher-res textures and skip the 4K video files. As most won't give a shit about having the stupid video files in 4K unless you actually have a 4K display.

 

[delita]

You have to enable it like a DLC and then it installs.

The dumb part is that 49GB of the 4K pack are just movie files. The actual textures for in game are only like 20GB extra.

I wish they would have allowed you to download just the higher-res textures and skip the 4K video files.

Yeah that blows. I could care less if the cutscenes were 4K, 1080p would be OK with me to save me from raping my 500GB SSD with 1 game.

 

[GOD'SlittleSERVANT]

I got mine to work finally rolling back the drivers. Getting 60-70 Fps at 3440x1440.

Will the texture pack update the textures if I'm running at my resolution? Or only if I'm running at 4k?

 

[Mchart]

Yeah that blows. I could care less if the cutscenes were 4K, 1080p would be OK with me to save me from raping my 500GB SSD with 1 game.

I plan on using a NTFS re-direct for just the movie file folder and storing that on my backup drive instead.

 

[Mchart]

I got mine to work finally rolling back the drivers. Getting 60-70 Fps at 3440x1440.

Will the texture pack update the textures if I'm running at my resolution? Or only if I'm running at 4k?

It'll use the higher res textures no matter what res you run at. It's just that 49GB is of worthless higher res video files for cutscenes that will be murdering your capacity for no reason.

 

[delita]

I got mine to work finally rolling back the drivers. Getting 60-70 Fps at 3440x1440.

Will the texture pack update the textures if I'm running at my resolution? Or only if I'm running at 4k?

Wonder why the new driver caused you that issue. I actually just installed the latest ones today to play this as I heard it helped with framerates. Hope I don't run into the same problem.

 

[GOD'SlittleSERVANT]

Wonder why the new driver caused you that issue. I actually just installed the latest ones today to play this as I heard it helped with framerates. Hope I don't run into the same problem.

That would be nice to have that extra fps.

We'll see what the next drivers do.

 

[Flogger23m]

Just checked the Steam system specs, this is 100GB when installed. Glad I opted for a 1TB SSD less than two weeks ago. Never tried any of these games but it looks interesting. Do they tend to be grindy or is it more about action/adventure than finding stuff?

Is the demo essentially the intro of the game? Thinking of giving it a try.

 

[Mchart]

Just checked the Steam stats, this is 100GB when installed. Glad I opted for a 1TB SSD less than two weeks ago. Never tried any of these games but it looks interesting. Do they tend to be grindy or is it more about action/adventure than finding stuff?

Is the demo essentially the intro of the game? Thinking of giving it a try.

160GB w/ the 4K pack.

 

[Flogger23m]

160GB w/ the 4K pack.

That must be a record for a AAA game! Worth using the HD textures if you're on 1440P? Hope some good benchmarks come out to.

 

[KamelRed]

Just checked the Steam stats, this is 100GB when installed. Glad I opted for a 1TB SSD less than two weeks ago. Never tried any of these games but it looks interesting. Do they tend to be grindy or is it more about action/adventure than finding stuff?

Is the demo essentially the intro of the game? Thinking of giving it a try.

The demo is the start of the full game with a couple areas off limits like the mines. My install size (without 4k texture pack) is 83GB currently.

This game isn't very grindy as there are multiple ways to level up quickly but you will still want to hunt down monsters for items. Exploring is very RPGish while the combat is a lot more action oriented then previous entries.

 

[Solhokuten]

Does the PC version just not have HDR support?

 

[w35t]

In the first area of the game I'm getting upwards of 11gb of vram usage and I don't even have the 4k texture pack!?

.....unless I'm mistaken, memory usage in evga precision does show vram and not system ram right

 

[pendragon1]

Does the PC version just not have HDR support?

there is a setting called luminance that I assume is hdr as it wont enable on my non-hdr system.

In the first area of the game I'm getting upwards of 11gb of vram usage and I don't even have the 4k texture pack!?

.....unless I'm mistaken, memory usage in evga precision does show vram and not system ram right

sounds aboot right and AB can usually show eiher/or/both

 

[Solhokuten]

there is a setting called luminance that I assume is hdr as it wont enable on my non-hdr system.


sounds aboot right and AB can usually show eiher/or/both

Thanks

 

[Mchart]

In the first area of the game I'm getting upwards of 11gb of vram usage and I don't even have the 4k texture pack!?

.....unless I'm mistaken, memory usage in evga precision does show vram and not system ram right

Turn on the in game FPS counter - It will also show RAM and VRAM usage and will likely be more accurate.

 

[Sufu]

Do you have the latest drivers? That's the only difference for me. I'm going to roll back here in a few to see if that fixes mine.

My 1080 ti with the same settings at the demo runs a solid 10-15 fps slower on avg at 3840x1600. This game needs SLI; wish devs would stop being so lazy about implementing it. In any case, I think Denuvo is also causing performance issues.

 

[Q-BZ]

Overall pretty damned impressed.

 

[Mchart]

Overall pretty damned impressed.

I have some minor complaint with the very Japanese console game dev feeling menus, but besides that the game runs/looks/sounds incredible. The price wasn't that bad either given all the content it comes with.

 

[Q-BZ]

I have some minor complaint with the very Japanese console game dev feeling menus, but besides that the game runs/looks/sounds incredible. The price wasn't that bad either given all the content it comes with.

Agreed.

Unfortunately I do have one issue apparently: Twice now I've had what I believe people have referred to as the "black screen of death." I'm verifying my files right now. I also disabled Ansel.

 

[LurkerLito]

Do you have the latest drivers? That's the only difference for me. I'm going to roll back here in a few to see if that fixes mine.

I am using the latest 391.01 and it seems to work for me at 2560x1600. I haven't run into any issues people have mentioned about the drivers.

This is why pre-loading isn't worth it unless you're on super slow internet that would require days to download.

Unless maybe you've got an optane drive or something.

Actually the reason pre-loading sucks is because steam puts the compressed files on the same drive as where it will be decompressed. I have tested very large file decompression with 7zip and doing it from a single drive cuts the speed of decompressing by at least half. If they let you download the compressed file to another drive you aren't installing to then it will double the extraction speed. Another thing is I am not even sure steam's decompress and decrypt is multithreaded.

So far the game is so much nicer than the PS4 version I played. Still the one little issue I noticed is some of the lighting seems a bit too dark and can make some of the hair look pretty bad in low light areas especially at night, but during the day the game is beautiful.

 

[Mchart]

I'm just glad the game looks as good as the preview videos made us believe. The benchmark didn't look that great - But it was because that stupid screen smearing option was enabled. With that option put on low and everything else maxed out this game really does look incredible - And it honestly seems to run really good as well.

I'm not sure what the VRAM usage information in this game means. There are three values - The middle one and last one are obviously current usage / max capacity. The first value however I have no idea what is being indicated.

 

[hypertek_s30]

does the game support cloud saving? between my desktop and laptop... i travel with my laptop

 

[Mchart]

does the game support cloud saving? between my desktop and laptop... i travel with my laptop

Yes, standard steam cloud saving.

 

[pendragon1]

Agreed.

Unfortunately I do have one issue apparently: Twice now I've had what I believe people have referred to as the "black screen of death." I'm verifying my files right now. I also disabled Ansel.

system froze black or powered off?

 

[Mchart]

Haven't had any black screening myself. Generally this happens if you've got an unstable system either due to bad parts, pushing too much of an overclock, or unstable power.

 

[ng4ever]

Best game ever!

 

[Derangel]

I'm not sure what the VRAM usage information in this game means. There are three values - The middle one and last one are obviously current usage / max capacity. The first value however I have no idea what is being indicated.

First number is the actual amount of VRAM being used. Second number is the amount reserved by the TRAM setting, the higher you set TRAM the more it will reserve for textures. The last number is max capacity. Make sure you do not set TRAM too high as it will cause stuttering due to the GPU not having enough VRAM for anything that isn't textures.

 

[Mchart]

First number is the actual amount of VRAM being used. Second number is the amount reserved by the TRAM setting, the higher you set TRAM the more it will reserve for textures. The last number is max capacity. Make sure you do not set TRAM too high as it will cause stuttering due to the GPU not having enough VRAM for anything that isn't textures.

... No. This doesn’t line up. The game is defiantly showing how much is stored in vram with the second number. The first number is smaller however.

 

[Derangel]

... No. This doesn’t line up. The game is defiantly showing how much is stored in vram with the second number. The first number is smaller however.

The second number is definitely the TRAM reserve. Changing the TRAM setting effects the second number.

 

[Solhokuten]

Was able to put in a few hours last night and I must say that this game has exceeded my expectations. I ultimately decided to run the game at 2560x1440 on my 60" HDR television via Nvidia Shield Gamestream and it looks and sounds amazing. Works great with my home theater 5.1 surround sound and runs silky smooth 60fps with all setting turned to max with the exception of the Nvidia shadow technology.

I may just be getting old, but I didnt notice too much of a difference at 4K when I'm sitting back on the recliner. When I stand right in front of the TV textures are noticeably sharper at 4K, but hardly worth the performance hit. I also wanted to mention HDR is currently not working with Gamestream. I had this same issue with Destiny 2 at launch, but Nvidia eventually fixed the issue.

 

[Q-BZ]

system froze black or powered off?

Video went black, audio and sound continued. I could alt-tab out and computer was fine and when I came back the screen was this dark gray. If you look this up, this is all typical of what people have called this "Final Fantasy 15 black screen of death" phenomenon.

It's mildly suspect in my case since I've been eyeballing another small bugaboo in a couple of games unrelated to this but that issue was simply a one second freeze of the video and then it continues like nothing happened. Audio always continues and everything else per normal. So I either have a bad coincidence here or the jury is out. Honestly not sure yet.

Haven't had any black screening myself. Generally this happens if you've got an unstable system either due to bad parts, pushing too much of an overclock, or unstable power.

I hope it's none of this but I will take it under advisement.

 

[Armenius]

My 1080 ti with the same settings at the demo runs a solid 10-15 fps slower on avg at 3840x1600. This game needs SLI; wish devs would stop being so lazy about implementing it. In any case, I think Denuvo is also causing performance issues.

This game uses deferred rendering, so SLI is impossible to implement without completely changing the rendering engine. You may be able to cheat it by enabling bits from other Cryengine games like Crysis, but you are sure to get graphical glitches.