Modder 'fix' Tales of Zestiria on PC, it's now running at 60fps
- Thread starter texhnolyze
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JudgmentJay
Member
Tried the mod out just now despite having finished the game. I'm jealous of anyone still playing or planning to play. Wish I'd waited.
texhnolyze
Banned
I know the feels, man.
I wish I'd waited to play this after Fallout 4. I kinda rushed through my playthrough and skipped most side quests.
Drilbit777
Member
Okay just finished trying out the mod myself, aside from some occasional slowdown the game runs great. It feels like a completely different experience playing in 60fps not to mention the battles feel alot more smooth and lively.
Balmung421
Member
Holyshit this mod is the real deal; the game is so much better at 60fps I mean wow.
Scene changes during cutscenes have some flicker.
Noticeable, but nothing game breaking.
UnrealEck
Member
I doubt it's a big deal for me. I don't put a lot of attention into the story/dialogue of these games.
I'll maybe start it after Fallout 4. I think I've only played 1 or two Tales games and finished only one.
CommandThrower
Member
I've bought this game for PS4, but I have yet to play it. It's still in it's sealed plastic, actually.
This mod is making me consider getting a refund on my PS4 copy...
This mod is making me consider getting a refund on my PS4 copy...
DR2K
Banned
No fair. That looked so good.
KainXVIII
Member
Could probably be fixed by dropping to 30 FPS during those scenes. Fluid movement is more imporant during gameplay, especially the combat anyway.
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah, dynamic 30 fps for scenes only, that would be great.
Not sure if it's possible though, or which is easier to do.
Khilandros
Member
Been using this fix for a while, since it first fixed the audio stuff and stuttering. It is amazing at how it keep getting better and better, the 60 fps fix is glorious.
Glad I held off trying to rush through the game, because the game has changed for sure...wow!
I always keep an eye on the steam thread, because he's updating it all the time.
Glad I held off trying to rush through the game, because the game has changed for sure...wow!
I always keep an eye on the steam thread, because he's updating it all the time.
Got a link to the thread where he's posting updates?
I'm still very early on in the game (only just drew the sword) so very interested in playing the rest with this mod.
texhnolyze
Banned
It's in the OP.
He has actually been working on this tool since release, and added more features on the way. This 60 fps fix is his newest fix.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/351970/discussions/0/490123938441506815/
Khilandros
Member
Sure
http://steamcommunity.com/app/351970/discussions/0/490123938441506815/
my slowpoke copy and paste, heh
http://steamcommunity.com/app/351970/discussions/0/490123938441506815/
my slowpoke copy and paste, heh
I'm just getting to the final battle now
Wondering if I should bother as I know there's going to be a bunch of cutscenes and dialog moments at the end...
I personally think that the cutscenes look much better at 60fps, odd occasional glitch aside.
BakedTanooki
Member
Oh man, looks like how it should look from the beginning. Hope they get it right from the start with Berseria. At least on PS4 and PC
protomouse
Member
Well, they also have to support what they put out. It comes down to money, not talent.
CrackPebbles
Member
This is great news, buying next time it's on sale now.
TheFNEffecT
Member
I mean they weren't exactly lying, there are still some bugs when implementing this frame rate.
I'll take a flicker, occasional judder, anything for 60fps and beyond, though.
There are very minor things that happen that full porting team could have taken care of I'm sure. I mean, two people were able to pull this mod off and for the most part it is pretty stable and the only time I have judder during gameplay is during combat transitioning. Game runs like silk otherwise
I don't think Bamco wanted to pay QLOC more than what they already had to. I'm sure it wasn't a parity thing (for those who think it might be) and more of a money thing since DB Xeno on PC is the only version that runs at 60 and was done by QLOC as well.
BONKERS
Member
It's far from perfect and seems to echo Bamco's own statements. There are a ton of issues that I doubt they will be able to fix completely.
At this point I wish Bamco would just PATCH the game to fix the constant stuttering at 30FPS and other basic things like Support for more than 16:9, Hor+, broken Vsync toggle,etc.
Having someone else fix a myriad of problems with ease for you just makes you look like you either dont' care. Or are incompetent.
The game has a metric shit ton of performance to spare, but they couldn't bother making the shadows look any better(Stupidly low resolution, bad filtering on everything but character shadows, which makes no sense. The low resolution shadows lead to an issue on characters that causes it to look like they have super low grade SSAO on their faces but it's just low res shadow maps) ., or improve the DoF (There are two in place. One that seems to work at render res and scales nicely and another that is ridiculously fixed at a fractional rate that looks bad even at super high resolutions). They couldn't bother to make sure the right mips are loaded across the game. Resulting in an insane amount of high frequency information and texture shimmering that not even 8xSGSSAA nor 16xOGSSAA+FXAA can tame completely.
And if THIS is the level of support and effort that defines their work, things are not looking good at all for future Tales games on PC, let alone Symphonia.
I don't get it, Bamco has a pretty long history of PC games. They should know better. Ace Combat Assault Horizon makes this look amateur.
At this point I wish Bamco would just PATCH the game to fix the constant stuttering at 30FPS and other basic things like Support for more than 16:9, Hor+, broken Vsync toggle,etc.
Having someone else fix a myriad of problems with ease for you just makes you look like you either dont' care. Or are incompetent.
The game has a metric shit ton of performance to spare, but they couldn't bother making the shadows look any better(Stupidly low resolution, bad filtering on everything but character shadows, which makes no sense. The low resolution shadows lead to an issue on characters that causes it to look like they have super low grade SSAO on their faces but it's just low res shadow maps) ., or improve the DoF (There are two in place. One that seems to work at render res and scales nicely and another that is ridiculously fixed at a fractional rate that looks bad even at super high resolutions). They couldn't bother to make sure the right mips are loaded across the game. Resulting in an insane amount of high frequency information and texture shimmering that not even 8xSGSSAA nor 16xOGSSAA+FXAA can tame completely.
And if THIS is the level of support and effort that defines their work, things are not looking good at all for future Tales games on PC, let alone Symphonia.
I don't get it, Bamco has a pretty long history of PC games. They should know better. Ace Combat Assault Horizon makes this look amateur.
Which are? All I've seen is 3 issues they found throughout their playthroughs other than that its perfect.
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah, 'far from perfect' and 'ton of issues' seem a bit hyperbolic.
It's fine, really, except the out of sync issue in cutscenes/videos.
It's fine, really, except the out of sync issue in cutscenes/videos.
Oh? QLOC ported it? They could've gotten 60 FPS done if they had been told to do so, they did well with RE4 after all.
Same thing happened when 60fps hit for both VC1 and Dark Souls. People really do like their hyperbole. You'd think VC1 was unplayable.
QLOC are very skilled, but I think in this instance the game and the contract worked against them.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Cutscenes being out of sync and weird camera flicker actually qualifies as "far for perfect" to me and is certainly not acceptable for an official release.
KainXVIII
Member
But its not official, problems occurs only with unofficial 60 fps mod, duh.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Mm, this conversation began with someone implying that Bamco was being ridiculous when they refused to do an official 60 FPS port, despite the fact that now a 60 FPS patch indeed demonstrably makes the game not release-worthy.
KainXVIII
Member
Oh, ok.
texhnolyze
Banned
Honestly, I didn't know about that weird camera flicker, as I haven't tried this mod myself. Well, I guess you're right. It's 'serviceable'. Let's hope they'll fix those issues then.
Nabs
Member
He just put out 1.0.2:
Namco's framerate limiter has been completely disabled and limiting is now done completely by the driver / VSYNC / some third-party utility (these should work now, since I'm not toying with kernel timing anymore). This has a potential consequence of causing input latency because you can, and will, hit the pre-rendered frame limit before the driver starts limiting you.
Frame times are a little bit more variable than the frame pacing scheme I had setup, but generally lower overall and this will increase the odds that you can keep up with 60 FPS or something there about.
More importantly, however, FMV subtitle synchronization is fixed. DrDaxxy helped me find a much simpler way of doing this than I was floundering around with
Grab 1.0.2 here.
DrDaxxy has a prescription for your ailment.
With this I just changed the limiter to false and turned Disableframelimiter to false and fix stutter to true. Having the frame limiter disabled sped my game up after a cutscene even though I havd Vsync on and my hz set to 60. Seems the game went back to tying game logic back to frame rate.
Be sure to check out Kaldaien's TZTweak as well, it's the accompanying central configuration app that can handle adapting settings in the .ini files and for the graphics driver instead having to do that all manually:
https://github.com/Kaldaien/TZT/releases/tag/tzt_100-pr
http://steamcommunity.com/app/351970/discussions/0/490123938441506815/#c496881136924600575
https://github.com/Kaldaien/TZT/releases/tag/tzt_100-pr
http://steamcommunity.com/app/351970/discussions/0/490123938441506815/#c496881136924600575
Wow this mod works great. It even improves performance, I used to have very minor stutters into 28 FPS, but now it runs at 59-60 FPS without stuttering and I can still downsample from 1440p 
. It feels so damn good to play now, controls seem more responsive too, although they were pretty damn responsive as far as 30 fps goes.
Loadtimes are insane now, though, used to be 1-3 seconds, now it took a good 30 seconds to load my save, might've been my computer though.
. It feels so damn good to play now, controls seem more responsive too, although they were pretty damn responsive as far as 30 fps goes.Loadtimes are insane now, though, used to be 1-3 seconds, now it took a good 30 seconds to load my save, might've been my computer though.