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[Drkirby]

Was hard to get the game to start, but I'm in now. Defaulted to 4k to match my TV, which caused some issues. Hope I can go at 30FPS at 4k, I only have a GTX760. First minute seems fine. Also, the movies play at 24fps which is amusing to me.

DLC section just made my game lock up though.

 

[Falk]

So

Restarted (twice) completely

- Steam Overlay works
- No audio issues (RIP my non-48k work/projects in the interim)
- Quicksave works, no prompt that tells you it saved, but continuing from two different spots seemed to work
- Screen tearing solved, when restarting AFTER setting V-sync to on.
- 30fps :'( (Oh well, we've bitched enough about this)
- Holy hell this mouselook is floaty as hell this is going to be hilarious playing the entire game through like this.

 

[artsi]

Waa hard to get the game to start, but I'm in now. Defaulted to 4k to match my TV, which caused some issues. Hope I can go at 30FPS at 4k, I only have a GTX760. First minute seems fine. Also, the movies play at 24fps which is amusing to me.

Well there's a reason, they're anime cutscenes, and anime is generally produced at 24fps so...

 

[Basileus777]

I had some weird controller issues, actions were bound to strange buttons and some buttons wouldn't work at all, but restarting the game fixed it.

- Holy hell this mouselook is floaty as hell this is going to be hilarious playing the entire game through like this.

You're playing a Tales game with a M&K? You're pretty bold.

 

[Lunarwhale]

This game has one of the worst implementations of AO I've ever seen.

No option to turn it off either, blech.

Lord that looks atrocious. Does forcing it through GPU drivers look any better? If not, hopefully people manage to mod that soon.

Still got a couple of hours on my Steam download. Getting pretty excited, AO jank aside.

 

[Linearskillz]

Looks like Quick Save doesn't work. The pause menu just pops back up.

Works fine here. It doesn't prompt you but the quick save is there.

 

[JudgmentJay]

Waa hard to get the game to start, but I'm in now. Defaulted to 4k to match my TV, which caused some issues. Hope I can go at 30FPS at 4k, I only have a GTX760. First minute seems fine. Also, the movies play at 24fps which is amusing to me.

DLC section just made my game lock up though.

A single 680 runs 4k just fine at a locked 30 and the card is only at ~50% utilization. Shame this game isn't 60 fps.

 

[OniBarubary]

Oh.

This came out.

Neat.

GreenMan shot me my code and I thought I was preloading but nope, apparently I just have the game now.

 

[WickedLaharl]

$22 for cheat codes? Holy fuck Bamco.

welcome to 7 years ago. it's a shame people buy the costumes and such but it is what it is now with this series.

 

[Peff]

Works fine here. It doesn't prompt you but the quick save is there.

- Quicksave works, no prompt that tells you it saved, but continuing from two different spots seemed to work

Huh. I got a 1/1/1970 (wat) file with no other info and it took me back to the previous hard save. Weird.

 

[CertifiedFP]

Specifically when stuff like this happens, it usually boils down to how drivers handle sample rate requests. Applications can take exclusive control over sample rates, and this causes problems with other programs that don't know how to compensate for this.

Before it was patched, Valkyria Chronicles for example didn't crash outright but certain SFX would simply play at the incorrect sample rate (lol)

So it's probably because your USB headset's plug and play driver isn't playing nice with sample rate change requests. If you plug it back in, go to windows sound properties, find it and force 48k it -should- work. (If I'm wrong, I'd really like to know)

It's not sample rate. I'm at 48k.

It's audio channels. The game crashes on PCs in 7.1 mode.

 

[JoeyJungle]

How do I set up DSR with this? The game's not showing up in Nvidia experience, and the Nvidia control panel doesn't have an option for DSR?

Edit: nm found this guide http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509076

 

[Stuart444]

So... most issues seem to be resolved with a restart of the game?

Wonder why that is. Ah well, at least it's running smoothly so far.

 

[mugurumakensei]

Game seems like a good port. It's only problem is that it was hampered by the original's coding. Unlike most, I'm not going to fault them. Sometimes optimizing for a particular platform creates non-trivial problems when moving to another platform.

 

[Falk]

It's not sample rate. I'm at 48k.

It's audio channels. The game crashes on PCs in 7.1 mode.

So it's both. (I crashed nonstop at 44.1)

Or a complex combination thereof.

PC GAMING!!!

It's different issues. Sample rate doesn't cause crashes, it causes audio crackling.

I'm telling you it crashed here

(FWIW I'm on professional grade audio interface with its own drivers, so it's probably an edge case)

 

[Robobandit]

aside from the audio thing, it seems ok for me.

 

[Basileus777]

It's not sample rate. I'm at 48k.

It's audio channels. The game crashes on PCs in 7.1 mode.

It's different issues. Sample rate doesn't cause crashes, it causes audio crackling.

 

[Pancakes]

So it's both. (I crashed nonstop at 44.1)

Or a complex combination thereof.

PC GAMING!!!

More like Japanese devs slowly bumbling their way into the PC scene. There will be growing pains like this. We can only hope a Durante-like fellow will come save the day.

 

[Persona7]

I have always wondered if the leveling and money DLC does well for them. How does it even work anyway?

I remember on Vesperia for 360 they had multiple listings for each one but once you got all of them I think that was it and you couldn't buy anymore even if you wanted to?

 

[Nyteshade517]

with the pre-order DLC (costumes/weapon skins)...will that stuff show up to pick at a later point in the game?

 

[Falk]

More like Japanese devs slowly bumbling their way into the PC scene. There will be growing pains like this. We can only hope a Durante-like fellow will come save the day.

I'm actually pretty surprised how good M&KB implementation is, outside of how floaty mouselook is outside of menu screens. Clicking on stuff that you'd expect to work, actually works.

Compile Heart games on Steam also had awesome M&KB implementation.

I can think of a couple of franchises that didn't.

 

[Aeana]

If you disable fullscreen mode, it goes into borderless windowed mode automatically. Resolves the tearing problem (provided you have Aero on) and gives you triple buffering too.

 

[Stuart444]

I have always wondered if the leveling and money DLC does well for them. How does it even work anyway?

I remember on Vesperia for 360 they had multiple listings for each one but once you got all of them I think that was it and you couldn't buy anymore even if you wanted to?

Appears in the DLC section of the items menu each time you start a new game

If you disable fullscreen mode, it goes into borderless windowed mode automatically. Resolves the tearing problem

Yeah, someone on twitter told me that as well but I didn't think to mention it since a restart seems to fix the issue with the tearing (after V-sync is turned on)

 

[RPGCrazied]

Also noticed the ToZ CE box is different. Its not a pull top box, its a folded top box. Not a big deal, but its different.

Also didn't see a soundtrack disc in that CE unboxing, hopefully its in there and they didn't scrap that at the last minute.

 

[Basileus777]

with the pre-order DLC (costumes/weapon skins)...will that stuff show up to pick at a later point in the game?

You have to use them as items from the DLC tab, then they unlock.

 

[Persona7]

Also noticed the ToZ CE box is different. Its not a pull top box, its a folded top box. Not a big deal, but its different.

Also didn't see a soundtrack disc in that CE unboxing, hopefully its in there and they didn't scrap that at the last minute.

Yeah, I originally thought it was exactly like the EU CE which is exactly like the symphonia CE but it is completely different.

 

[Basileus777]

So all of the free skits are just scenes you get to see through the items menu, they're not integrated into the game at all?

 

[Drkirby]

What are these attachment options, you can do some really dumb things with the items. Maybe I can get some orbs and pretend to be Dio.

 

[Hikami]

Surprised the game runs perfectly with everything maxed @ 1080p on my PC. Wonder if it can handle some downsampling.

 

[Peff]

So all of the free skits are just scenes you get to see through the items menu, they're not integrated into the game at all?

Yep, and somewhat spoilery too.

EDIT: Ah, quick saving works now. Tales of Restartia indeed.

 

[Aeana]

The game does seem to have automatic UI scaling, so DSR/downsampling works as expected. Good stuff.

 

[Baha]

When/How do I access the pre-order dlc (artes/costumes?)

 

[Basileus777]

When/How do I access the pre-order dlc (artes/costumes?)

Go to the items menu, switch over to the DLC tab and use the items there. Then they unlock. At least the costumes do, the arts seem to be unusable until later.

 

[mullet2000]

Maxed out in 4K DSR on my GTX 970, no issues or frame drops.

Surprised the game runs perfectly with everything maxed @ 1080p on my PC. Wonder if it can handle some downsampling.

You most likely can. Someone mentioned a 680 doing 4k DSR so my 970 is well overkill for it.

 

[Drkirby]

Hope the main character is a big sword user, since he now has 3 swords and a knife strapped to him.

 

[Durante]

I really haven't had a single problem with the port so far. Audio works perfectly, downsampling works perfectly, the mouse/kb controls work well and make sense both during gameplay and in menus.

Oh, and it runs at perfectly solid framerate with 5k downsampling.
It's really quite swell.

If anyone wants to take screenshots and/or play without UI overlays (e.g. the minimap), you can use this with GeDoSaTo:

injectPSHash 7b2af8b6
injectDelayAfterDraw true

 

[bigkrev]

Game is tearing like crazy for me. What do I have to do in the Nvidia Control Panel to fix it? (I've never had to do this before)

 

[Stuart444]

Game is tearing like crazy for me. What do I have to do in the Nvidia Control Panel to fix it? (I've never had to do this before)

Enable V-sync from the graphic options and then restart the game

 

[ezodagrom]

Game is tearing like crazy for me. What do I have to do in the Nvidia Control Panel to fix it? (I've never had to do this before)

Have to exit the game with vsync on and re-open it, that seems to fix it.

 

[Durante]

Game is tearing like crazy for me. What do I have to do in the Nvidia Control Panel to fix it? (I've never had to do this before)

You probably just need to enable v-sync in the in-game options and restart the game. For some reason they don't enable it immediately, but also don't tell you to restart.

 

[texhnolyze]

Good stuff, Durante.

Game is tearing like crazy for me. What do I have to do in the Nvidia Control Panel to fix it? (I've never had to do this before)

Try this instead.

If you disable fullscreen mode, it goes into borderless windowed mode automatically. Resolves the tearing problem (provided you have Aero on) and gives you triple buffering too.

 

[Falk]

By the way, you need to enable V-sync (in the options menu), SAVE SETTINGS then restart the game.

I was bad and that caught me the first time. In that I changed it to "on" then alt-F4'd.

 

[bigkrev]

Wow, thanks for all the replys!

I'll try that after the Football game.

 

[Nyteshade517]

You have to use them as items from the DLC tab, then they unlock.

thanks

 

[Rnr1224]

Played a little bit but its annoying that headphones cant be plugged in for it to actually get to the main menu. Don't want to play the game muted. Interestingly enough, it actually plays the audio from the first animated cutscene in the game. Nothing else though.

 

[Zhao_Yun]

I am 10 hours into the game now and I definitely like it a lot more than Xillia and Xillia 2 although it isn't without flaws.

What I like thus far:
+ Battle system is more fun than in both Xillias but not as good as in Graces. Kamui seems to be a bit OP though
+ While the field areas feels a bit empty at times I greatly prefer it over Xillia's fields. I couldn't stand all the junk lying around everyhwere.
+ The soundtrack is probably the first Tales soundtrack since Vesperia which doesn't sound bland and generic to me. Go Shiinas tracks are the highlights on the OST and it's too bad that he didn't compose more tracks. Fortunately Sakurabas tracks have improved as well
+ Finally there is Dual Audio in this game
+ Game runs fine on PS4

+- story seems to be standard Tales fare thus far. Same with the characters. No complaints there.

- The camera has problems, especially in narrow spaces. Majority of the battles are fine though
- The skill system is strange. While interesting in theory, the different systems often seem to be at odds with each other. Once I got a good skill arrangement on the skill sheet, I felt reluctant to fuse or switch some of the equipment since it would have led to the loss of a certain skill and with it the bonus skills. It isn't made easier by the fact that you can't see in the fusion menu how the skill sheet layout will change after fusing... All in all, I am still struggling with this system.

 

[Durante]

So, when should one actually play the DLC chapter? Before, during, or after the main game?

 

[Falk]

Played a little bit but its annoying that headphones cant be plugged in for it to actually get to the main menu. Don't want to play the game muted. Interestingly enough, it actually plays the audio from the first animated cutscene in the game. Nothing else though.

USB or 1/8"?

 

[Peff]

So, when should one actually play the DLC chapter? Before, during, or after the main game?

After.

 

[texhnolyze]

Any local co-op impressions from you guys? How is the camera?
I'm planning to play the game in local co-op mode most of the time.