This seems to be a problem from Square rather than AMD.
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Final Fantasy XIII PC |OT| Lightning must not be forgotten
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threelights
Member
Yes, and someone said before that there's a thing you can do to move the characters eyes around (I don't remember how it works).
Maaan, can't wait to try this game.
Figured i'd add this one.
Though most seem to not care about 3D, i still do.
Hud and various 2D elements are way too deep (so here's hoping for Helix Mod / 3DMigoto) but otherwise it's working quite well (1080p 120Hz - thanks Durante
)
Screenshot at 3DVision Live
Though most seem to not care about 3D, i still do.
Hud and various 2D elements are way too deep (so here's hoping for Helix Mod / 3DMigoto) but otherwise it's working quite well (1080p 120Hz - thanks Durante
)Screenshot at 3DVision Live
surely all the money Square got from the steam ports will go to a XIII demake
blinded by light still sounds top class in 16bit
blinded by light still sounds top class in 16bit
surely all the money Square got from the steam ports will go to a XIII demake
blinded by light still sounds top class in 16bit
Oh snap where's my clean 16-bit Heart of Chaos?
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Possible spoilers.
Does anyone know/remember when/where the "Worst Birthday Ever" cutscene happens? I'm getting the feeling that I accidentally skipped it. Gonna be depressed if I did.
The game itself is pretty but yeah there are some issues that could get in the way of your enjoyment, it's really sad. Outside of that if you have a decent computer it at least looks really awesome ingame, not everyone is able to get 60fps locked though, I have to play it at 30, so basically it's looking great ingame, but other stuff not so much.
MrChowderClams
Member
Recorded some gameplay @ 4k/60fps (only 30 on youtube, sadly. although I used frameblending when encoding). The game looks so good at a high resolution. Based Durante.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlac8t-OmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGlac8t-OmU
BONKERS
Member
Here's a prime shot of the shadow depth issue, notice the sword and Sazh's outfit.
Doesn't exist in PS3 version after checking myself. On PC it's present during this entire shot basically. Where as in the PS3 version, it only shows up once for a split second on the sword
During gameplay it's especially bad. I was shocked how much the PS3 looked better
Also the macroblock like artifact on the hair I mentioned prior doesn't exist either (*However, I have had several straight runs/ tries so far where this issue doesn't happen. This is with using no forced AA or increased resolution. EDIT: I have actually nailed this issue down to a variable )
The difference in audio levels is quite noticeable as well especially the differences in levels between sound effects, foley and Music
The audio though IS most likely in .OGG format. As in the menu open source software credits, Xiph.org is mentioned at least 3 times in the forms of OGG,Vorbis,etc
Ex
http://i.minus.com/ibqlj0HjoG8PCi.png
http://i.minus.com/i3NvIh1SadLjK.png
http://i.minus.com/it0GSjT2fGCjD.png
The Minimap is the same however. Just as pixelly. Never noticed it before I guess
most frame drops also stop when I plug in a controller too. Frame variance and some odd drops are present though.
IchigoSharingan
Member
my stutter and fps dips fixed with a controller plugged in. 16x af and 12x aa with a pur
MrChowderClams
Member
Man, I didn't even notice the shadows on the gunblade. Cannot unsee now T_T. Is this something that can be fixed by finding a way to increase the shadow map resolution?
edit: yay! just noticed I'm no longer a junior. hooray (。⌒∇⌒
。Rats Off To Ya
Banned
I wanna say it's after the Gapra Whitewood, because that's where Lightning gives the knife to Hope. So if you haven't hit that part yet you're probably safe.
Durante said he plans to work on that, but it might be a while.
Ganon Dragmire
Member
Saw the scene with
where you get to see an awkward Lightning. haha So sad that Light
before the shit hit the fan.
Also here are some pics of Light smiling
Daddy Bear (Lieutenant Amodar)
was up for a promotion
Also here are some pics of Light smiling
Relaxed Muscle
Member
The game is the very definition of mediocre. Now I know it 100% without doubt.
Basically I'm replaying it because is beautiful to look at 4K, I'm getting 20-30 fps, but damn it looks good.
Edit: No picture of Vanille showing her L'Cie mark? GAF I'M DISSAPOINT
Basically I'm replaying it because is beautiful to look at 4K, I'm getting 20-30 fps, but damn it looks good.
Edit: No picture of Vanille showing her L'Cie mark? GAF I'M DISSAPOINT
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
God everytime I see the opening scenes of this game I melt down. It's definitely my favorite FF opening section. They perfectly nailed the atmosphere here, Hamauzu is a monster and art directors too with him. PERFECT VISUAL STYLE, MUSIC, STORY INTRUDUCTION and gameplay mechanics. Rightfully linear.
retardedrockstar
Member
4K@60 here i come!
How many playthroughs do you have so far? If you have kept count that is.
retardedrockstar
Member
The better question would be: How many times have you been able to finish the game?
Hell yes, I hated the locked crystarium so much. Gonna give this a try
Tizoc
Member
Did you replace Snow with Vanille?
Cuz I am 100% certain you never play solo as Vanille like that early on
Abdul Hafeez
Member
How many people in here are playing this tragedy for the first time?
Tizoc
Member
The port may be a tragedy but the game isn't that bad.
Did you replace Snow with Vanille?
Cuz I am 100% certain you never play solo as Vanille like that early on
I replaced Lightning with Vanille, and then removed Sazh. I was trying to get a party of 3 Vanilles, but the game is not cooperating with me.
Abdul Hafeez
Member
Yeah, I eventually ended up really liking it. But it took 25 hours to get to that point...
And at the time, that was fine cause I didn't have a lot of games. But surely Steam users have plenty of unplayed games from sales that will not waste as much time as this game. I can't imagine people who have no background with the franchise to have the ability to tolerate those 25 hours.
I am, but I'm going in knowing as much.
Can I just say that Lightning, Snow & Hope are fucks and that I can see that I'm going to be in for a fun ride. Only character I really like so far is Sazh.
Abdul Hafeez
Member
Hahahahaha, yes! At least you're mentally prepared for the train wreck that is the overall plot, writing, and characterization of this game. I can pretty much guarantee that you'll eventually hate Snow and Hope even more than you do right now, and you might end up being indifferent towards Lightning. You'll probably still like Sazh just the same.
It's pretty easy to do with memory editing. Doesn't seem to change any cutscenes.
BONKERS
Member
I have come to a revelatory discovery...
Not only for the FFXIII plugin, but something that may have solved a problem i've long had.. a solution I didn't even think to try
(Only problem left is that 2D stuff, no matter what, doesn't scale the best, this includes the FMVs, which if you use the plugin to run native at, will look pretty bad unless you use a different scaling mode. Which also affects 3D too. Which may be a double edged sword. See below)
And if you prefer something sharper...
Not only for the FFXIII plugin, but something that may have solved a problem i've long had.. a solution I didn't even think to try
(Only problem left is that 2D stuff, no matter what, doesn't scale the best, this includes the FMVs, which if you use the plugin to run native at, will look pretty bad unless you use a different scaling mode. Which also affects 3D too. Which may be a double edged sword. See below)
And if you prefer something sharper...
Abdul Hafeez
Member
Good luck. You'll need it.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
lol wat
I was seeing how well the auto-battle would do without even paradigm shifts so I was just spamming it and lightning got killed. It goes "Retry?" and I hit yes and it puts me right next to same enemies to immediately try again, not at the save point! So basically there is no penalty for losing except trying the fight again from the start.
I was seeing how well the auto-battle would do without even paradigm shifts so I was just spamming it and lightning got killed. It goes "Retry?" and I hit yes and it puts me right next to same enemies to immediately try again, not at the save point! So basically there is no penalty for losing except trying the fight again from the start.
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
9 times the japanese DEMO included with Advent Children, 2 times the final english version, 1 time the japanese language version. And I still don't have enough. I want an "HD Remaster" eventually on PS4, hopefully they make one.
...Are you insane? As a FF fan do you not want to see new entries?
BONKERS
Member
An HD Remaster would be an insult if they left this version as is.
dafuq is this supposed to mean?
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
Battles in this game will become (soon) something of an arcade type of game. Frenetic, fast, hard as shit. You retry like you retry in Street Fighter, because the fun comes from surpassing the challanges and not repeating the old stuff over and over before them. BS is God-like in here once you get all the elements in check. Good luck especially when you get to the missions-hunts later in the game. You'll sweat a lot and you'll be thankful for that retry button considering you'll retry tons of times each of them...
Perfo
Thirteen flew over the cuckoo's nest
I don't see how the two things are even connected. Of course I want new FFs, I also want to experience better versions of the ones I enjoyed the most eventually. Like the FFX HD remaster and the incoming FF Type-0 Remake.
BONKERS
Member
I agree.
So forgot that GeDoSaTo lets you remove the HUD. Which means you can get some nice shots during the Stagger Swagger animation without a load of text in your face.
Myself and a few others get the same issue on Nvidia where menus/UI/HUD overlays as well as demanding alpha effects more often than not pull my frame rate down, GeDoSaTo or not.
Crashing to 30 from 60 isn't pleasant and I can deal with drops to 20 from 30, especially because it looks a lot cleaner at 7680x4320 so sod it 30fps it is!
Myself and a few others get the same issue on Nvidia where menus/UI/HUD overlays as well as demanding alpha effects more often than not pull my frame rate down, GeDoSaTo or not.
Crashing to 30 from 60 isn't pleasant and I can deal with drops to 20 from 30, especially because it looks a lot cleaner at 7680x4320 so sod it 30fps it is!
CrimsonCrescendo
Banned
Whoa, how did you get Vanille into a fight that early?
Edit: nevermind, you already answered.
And really, why do you need some arbitrary penalty.
You have to start the battle over. That's the logical penalty to apply. Anything more only serves to pointlessly slow the game down. This isn't directed at you, but just because you can brute force your way through a game while dying a hundred times doesn't mean it was easy. In fact, that many deaths means it was difficult. This game's battle system is about efficiency and being aggressive. Sure... you can get through the game with a defensive setup, but you'll get low battle ratings.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Yeah, and I like that. A system like this doesn't only take out the arbitrary penalty of retracing your steps (or cutscenes, in many RPGs) and even recollecting items and reconfigurations you may have done while progressing, but it removes compulsion for "safety net" behavior that is actually not needed most of the time but is "just in case" something really unexpected comes up. Both only slow down and pad out gameplay, making it all routine and decided beforehand and less interesting in the moment. This seems like a good system.
I just don't think they should spend further resources on this series. Sure, remastering is outsourced and requires almost no creative effort on their part, but I rather they refocus the resources somewhere else. I really hope they don't make the "Lightning returns and never leaves" thing true, because the mockery is more than I enjoy.
Have remasters, SE will also have to delay new releases to avoid cannibalism.
Not going to happen, you can only replace models with ones inside the game. Serah doesn't have the right animations. Of course I'm speaking for now, at least. Skeptical of mods.
BONKERS
Member
And yet your avatar...
It's probably a a long shot, but since XIII and XIII-2 run on the same engine and use the same file structure, I wonder if it would be possible to use models and animations from XIII-2 in XIII. I don't think the file structure changed with the transition from consoles to PC either.