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[Stereogatari]

The game is 90% a movie anyway! lol

The other 10% is pressing X and L1. Gotta shift those paradigms!

 

[MayMay]

Since the cutscenes are just there in a folder, if you figure out how to rip them from the PS3 disc and convert them to w/e file format they use for the PC version, they might work?

I really hope someone does that, I dont care about the amount of data I'd have to download

 

[Unai]

Not sure if posted yet but Porcupine posted a downsampled image in 1080p in the Steam thread

Someone explain this. That image is 1600x900. Did the guy upscaled it or something?

 

[TheTrain]

Guys, who cares for the cut scene. Right now the rendering resolution is the only problem that we have :/

 

[AJ_Wings]

Pressing Escape in windowed mode brings up the "Are you sure..." dialogue rather than just dropping the process straight away.

Why

It's so bizarre. Confirmation for window mode but a boot straight to desktop in full screen. Lots of strange decisions went into this port.

 

[YianGaruga]

It's so bizarre. Confirmation for window mode but a boot straight to desktop in full screen. Lots of strange decisions went into this port.

It's less strange decisions and more minimum effort (and budget).

 

[Porcupine]

Someone explain this. That image is 1600x900. Did the guy upscaled it or something?

Hey, I upscaled it to 4k, but the internal resolution ist just 720p. I did post it in 1600x900 so it isn't to big for the thread.

 

[CrimsonCrescendo]

I can't believe how horrendous the performance is. I've got an i5 2500K at 4.2GHz and a GTX780, and while it's a relatively smooth 60fps in the field, it fluctuates wildly between 30-60 in battles, and any sort of full-screen effect reduces it massively (the screen dimming during the tutorial slows it down to 30fps).

With the complete absence of any video configuration settings, surely that's no good for their streaming service? Wouldn't they need it to be efficient?

Well... they did end up delaying it until further notice, lol.

 

[MayMay]

Someone explain this. That image is 1600x900. Did the guy upscaled it or something?

Probably just scale the image up, it doesnt look downsampled at all.

Guys, who cares for the cut scene. Right now the rendering resolution is the only problem that we have :/

The cutscenes are a major issue

 

[Zexen]

Someone explain this. That image is 1600x900. Did the guy upscaled it or something?

Yeah, this is clearly an upscale.

 

[ToD_]

If the game shows black bars in fullscreen mode on a 16:9 monitor, it is very likely your monitor isn't scaling 1280x720 very well. You can force your GPU to scale instead in the NVidia/AMD control panel. That should fix it.

 

[GavinUK86]

Someone explain this. That image is 1600x900. Did the guy upscaled it or something?

Looks like he just resized in Photoshop.

 

[Kyougar]

This is what I use:

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=59385385&postcount=102

thanks!

 

[Unai]

Hey, I upscaled it to 4k, but the internal resolution ist just 720p. I did post it in 1600x900 so it isn't to big for the thread.

I see, thanks.

 

[Anteater]

back from finishing some work, so how is it?

..

 

[Yoshichan]

Guys when I say black bars I mean HUGE black bars...

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

FF13 windowed takes control of my mouse & desktop.

I have to ALT-TAB to my browser or Steam if I want to access the start menu or do anything else.
Fucking ridiculous this shit is.

EDIT: Oops. Alt-tabbing to the desktop fixes things.
This is just ?????

 

[Stereogatari]

Probably just scale the image up, it doesnt look downsampled at all.



The cutscenes are a major issue

In theory it shouldn't be too hard to get the PS3's cutscenes from a dump of the Blu-ray.

 

[thesaucetastic]

Good to know that Lightning can still cause a meltdown after all these years.

Her power, etc.

 

[xBladeM6x]

Sounds like there's a fix for just about everything, except for the resolution.

Spoiler

Unless Durante pulls through.

 

[ShinobiFist]

You don't have to play the game in Window mode to get to apply AA and AF. I'll post screens in a sec.

 

[GavinUK86]

Guys when I say black bars I mean HUGE black bars...

You need to go into your driver control panel and change how it scales. Make it use the GPU not the Monitor. At least, that looks like what it's doing.

 

[MUnited83]

edit: welp nevermind, seems they have been removed

 

[MayMay]

In theory it shouldn't be too hard to get the PS3's cutscenes from a dump of the Blu-ray.

Yeah, I might even be waiting for that.. the PS3 cutscenes are just too damn perfect. At least the CGI ones, I dont care much about the rendered "normal" cutscenes.

Rips of the PS3 cutscenes can be found here. No idea if just replacing the files will work though.

They're all broken links, because they've all been removed due to copyright lol

Also I doubt they'd be in the right format anyways.

 

[TheF1BOB]

Guys when I say black bars I mean HUGE black bars...

ubisoft pls.

 

[glaurung]

No, it's not. lol

Heh, just for reference about the game files:

Movies folder - 42 GB
Program folder - 38 MB
System folder - 6 GB
Zone folder - 13 GB

The game is mostly movies.

The game looks mighty fine on my WQHD monitor, shame there is no native support for any resolutions beyond 1080p. I am sure someone will mod it in short order though. Oh and the settings XML file is the laziest one I've seen yet.

 

[diaspora]

JP/ENG has their own lipsynched cutscene, that's why it increased to 50GB after they added dual audio. The PS3 version of FFXIII with only English cutscenes/audio is 40GB. So they're definitely more compressed, no where near as bad as 360 though.

/

Is it possible to delete the Japanese one?

 

[DoktorEvil]

Guys when I say black bars I mean HUGE black bars...

Is it set to widescreen for some reason?

 

[Xyber]

Guys when I say black bars I mean HUGE black bars...

Try windowed mode. Blowing up 720p to fullscreen just looks ugly anyway.

 

[FtsH]

Someone try CheatEngine just search for 1280x720 and change it to 4320x2160? lol I have not idea but want the resolution issue fixed so badly....

 

[BillGaitas]

Rips of the PS3 cutscenes can be found here. No idea if just replacing the files will work though.

Well... I clicked one at random and the file was deleted.

 

[Saty]

Growing pains, guys. Remember DS1's pc port and then DS2. Don't bail on FFXIII.

 

[Raitningz]

Is it possible to delete the Japanese one?

I think Steam will detect the file as corrupt and 'repair' it by re-downloading, but I'm not sure

 

[Tizoc]

Megatextures

and

???

Oh I know about the megatextures but cutscenes are pre-rendered 30 FPS IIRC, and honestly the game looks good but not OMGTHISPCGAMINGBLISSVISUALS good.
Heck Sleepy Dawgs blows my mind and it's 10-20 GB with the high res textures pack.

 

[Enthus]

I hope someone has a fix for this port reasonably soon. I'm considering not even playing it unless someone has a way to up the resolution.

 

[ss_lemonade]

I can't believe how horrendous the performance is. I've got an i5 2500K at 4.2GHz and a GTX780, and while it's a relatively smooth 60fps in the field, it fluctuates wildly between 30-60 in battles, and any sort of full-screen effect reduces it massively (the screen dimming during the tutorial slows it down to 30fps).

Force performance mode on your nvidia control panel maybe as suggested. Some games that aren't demanding enough end up not utilizing your GPU much

 

[GoncaloCCastro]

Guys when I say black bars I mean HUGE black bars...

Try this:

Or maybe this:

 

[GavinUK86]

Try this:

http://i.imgur.com/qDfFsuW.png

http://i.imgur.com/PPmR4hT.png

Or maybe this:

http://i.imgur.com/zGRSeQ0.png

The last one is what Yoshi needs.

 

[BillGaitas]

I think Steam will detect the file as corrupt and 'repair' it by re-downloading, but I'm not sure

It will only do that if you attempt to check the integrity or if it downloads a update.

 

[Queen of Hunting]

 

[Faustek]

At least I can play the game in Japanese I guess.

#optimistLuukyk

Wait? How? Where?

Is it possible to get the PS3 cutscenes in? This port, man...

Inb4 they just straight-up used the 360 cutscenes for the PC port.

I'm pretty sure they just ported the 360 version. It looks that way.

Anyway....I'm kinda disappointed. Yet again in one of SEs ports
Only saving grace is that it has maintained a straight 60FPS for me, I'm one of those that throws hardware at things, but the resolution...even with forced settings and everything, it kinda destroys the visuals

 

[FtsH]

Heh, just for reference about the game files:

Movies folder - 42 GB
Program folder - 38 MB
System folder - 6 GB
Zone folder - 13 GB

The game is mostly movies.

The game looks mighty fine on my WQHD monitor, shame there is no native support for any resolutions beyond 1080p. I am sure someone will mod it in short order though. Oh and the settings XML file is the laziest one I've seen yet.

MB.........that needs to be bold.

 

[Yoshichan]

Try this:

Or maybe this:

Thank you so much! IT WORKS

 

[Frumix]

MB.........that needs to be bold.

What? That's just the executable.

 

[Buburibon]

What's the best AA we can force with this? Really clueless when doing that outside the game (other than the whole nvidia inspector and profiles usage) just not sure what's the best (using transparency with other settings for example? And if it's even supported)- all these long names like SSGGXAA with bits and bobs, would appreciate any help with that too.

In NV Inspector, I selected "Aliasing - Mode = Override any application setting", and went all out with "Antialiasing - Setting = 4x4 [4x4 Supersampling (D3D only)]." It seems to be working because the image looks cleaner in spite of the inevitable "720p blur", and the GPU usage has definitely gone up from single digits at default settings.

 

[Caffeine]

my solution for keeping it windowed fullscreen lol cant get that bottom bar to go away though :| and its stretched lol

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

maybe they had a parity clause with Sony to not exceed the PS3 version

Spoiler

lolz

 

[SenkiDala]

Heh, just for reference about the game files:

Movies folder - 42 GB
Program folder - 38 MB
System folder - 6 GB
Zone folder - 13 GB

The game is mostly movies.

The game looks mighty fine on my WQHD monitor, shame there is no native support for any resolutions beyond 1080p. I am sure someone will mod it in short order though. Oh and the settings XML file is the laziest one I've seen yet.

Well, as you know on most games Audio/Video are the heaviest things in a game, It always have been... But it doesn't mean that you spend most of the game watching videos.

 

[Phaezyk]

I can't believe how horrendous the performance is. I've got an i5 2500K at 4.2GHz and a GTX780, and while it's a relatively smooth 60fps in the field, it fluctuates wildly between 30-60 in battles, and any sort of full-screen effect reduces it massively (the screen dimming during the tutorial slows it down to 30fps).

With the complete absence of any video configuration settings, surely that's no good for their streaming service? Wouldn't they need it to be efficient?

I have that exact same setup sans OC and I get slight frame drops consistently but nothing that's dropped me down to 30 yet other than cutscenes.

 

[GoncaloCCastro]

Man, this game at 1080p or more would look lovely