SpecialK Fix Problem - low FPS [SOLVED]

[hvywethr]

Hey,

Installed SpecialK's fix on a new OS (worked on the same PC yesterday, just an older install of Windows 10) and now whenever the files are "installed", clicking the play button just reopens the launcher again and again.

[hvywethr]

Anyone?

[hvywethr]

SOLVED

It turns out...I was missing back end software and one final crucial Windows Update, which finally appeared for me today! For the sake of others, I am going to leave exactly what I installed and did.

Step 1: Update Windows 10 to Windows 10 Version 21H1 (+ the additional updates after reboot)

Step 2: Download ALL of the following and install. Reboot after installing them all.

Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019:
1) x86: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe
2) x64: https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

Visual Studio 2013 (VC++ 12.0):
1) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-visual-c-2013-redistributable-package-d8ccd6a5-4e26-c290-517b-8da6cfdf4f10
(Download for your language, both x64 and x86!)

DirectX End-User Runtime (latest):
1)https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Step 3: Install Special K to FF8 directory.

Then I downloaded the latest SpecialK from here: https://sk-data.special-k.info/SpecialK.7z

and extract "SpecialK32.pdb" and "SpecialK32.dll" to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered. Now rename "SpecialK32.dll" to "OpenGL32.dll". Reboot Steam and attempt to relaunch FF8.

Hopefully this helps someone! :)

[Sephiroth]

Im not downloading 3rd party files to get the game to run smooth I paid for the game because it was supposed to be REMASTERED.

My windows is up to date. So I will just request a refund if there is no way to fix it without downloading 3rd party stuff.

[Lyr]

Originally posted by hvywethr:

Hopefully this helps someone! :)

I want to thank you so damn much! Took me 3 minutes of my life and now we have a wonderful game! Even it is a desaster that SquareEnix can't fix this ... the community will!
Thank you again! (:

[Mimcom]

I dd use this mod and it fixed the FPS issue for this game. However it caused a lighting issue with FF14. I tried playing it yesterday and the ground was black. I don't know if there is way to fix that or if there is something in the mods menus to fix certain games. I only wanted it for FF8 but seemed to be installed for my entire steam library

[r3d33m3r]

Anyone know how to disable the achievement popup with SpecialK?
You get to see the games internal popup + the SpecialK one!
I only want to see one of them!

[Nightlife Neko]

Originally posted by Pogopuschel:

Anyone know how to disable the achievement popup with SpecialK?
You get to see the games internal popup + the SpecialK one!
I only want to see one of them!

Navigate to My Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Global and open achievements.ini in Notepad.

Change the following parameters to the specified value:

PopupDuration=0
AnimatePopup=false

This will cause FAR's built-in achievement popup to not pop at all.

PopupDuration specifies the number of milliseconds that the notification should stay on screen.
AnimatePopup specifies whether the notification should be animated (slide in from off-screen) when it appears.

[r3d33m3r]

Originally posted by The Gambler:

Originally posted by Pogopuschel:

Anyone know how to disable the achievement popup with SpecialK?
You get to see the games internal popup + the SpecialK one!
I only want to see one of them!

Navigate to My Documents\My Mods\SpecialK\Global and open achievements.ini in Notepad.

Change the following parameters to the specified value:

PopupDuration=0
AnimatePopup=false

This will cause FAR's built-in achievement popup to not pop at all.

PopupDuration specifies the number of milliseconds that the notification should stay on screen.
AnimatePopup specifies whether the notification should be animated (slide in from off-screen) when it appears.

There is no achievements.ini but I found PopupDuration and AnimatePopup in the steam.ini folder.
Thanks, I will try the new values, hopefully disabling these annoying popups!!

[efrenventura]

Thanks for this suggestion... Anyone know if this works on Steamdeck?

[r3d33m3r]

Originally posted by efrenventura:

Thanks for this suggestion... Anyone know if this works on Steamdeck?

Stop using this. There is no need anymore. The devs fixed the issue at hand by patching the game. Look at the date of these posts. It's outdated info.