i bought this game today and damn

[Yujiro Hanma]

does anyone have also the problem that this game is after some time getting laggy as hell? i dont know why but my pc is not the problem. if theres anyfix i ould aprreciate that much

[Atom]

What are your specs?

The fixes a lot of people seem to find are:
- disable e cores if you're on 12th or 13th gen intel in bios.
- special k with sleepless render and window thread
- processlasso (which can disable e cores iirc but I think some found they needed to still use their bios), for high cpu priority + performance mode
- capping to 60 fps as if you fall below 90 at the 120 fps cap you'll get major stuttering and slowdown.
- short soul burst animation for those slowdowns, disable SSR, disable shadows.

[1 Panda]

Im in the same boat, I can somehow run the game at 720p 50% render resolution and still drop down to below 30 fps if a character or boss looks the wrong way.

I've tried almost all the settings in special K aswell as Process Lasso. Lasso can help with frametiming which is nice but the drops are still there, Special K doesn't seem to do much for me though.

I tried disabling different shaders with Special K and while this might have helped somewhat it didn't help me much either, but here is a link to a reddit post describing how to set that up if you want to try it. I do recommend using a newer version of Special K than the one linked in the thread though. (I do recommend also reading the comments as they are helpful, link is below)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/tj8ewr/ive_created_for_stranger_of_paradise_ff_origin/

The fact that game settings and downscaling does almost nothing at all for performance (even running the game like something from 1999) makes me believe that it's definately not just a badly optimised game but something is seriously wrong with how the game runs on certain setups. Like for example with how Yujiro said it ran fine on his laptop. Do you happen to know which CPU your stationary computer and laptop use? Overclocked CPU and/or RAM?

[Zetta]

This game seems to have weird issues with certain PC configurations.

I'm running an i9-9900k 32GB Ram and a 4090
I get a solid 120 FPS. No dips or stutter out of the box.


My friend who tried to play with us was running 60-90 with dramatic and frequent dipping into 15-30 FPS range.
He's running AMD Ryzen 5 5950X, 32GB Ram and a 4080.

He was unable to find a solution within the 2 hour refund window and did just that.

Whatever the issue is I don't think it's exactly linked to PC horsepower. It doesn't make any sense.

[CLG]

Well I got my 4070 today and put it in with the same exact cpu and ram and the game is working perfectly now. I guess it was just the age of the 1070 combined with how terrible squenix is with optimization.

My current rig is
Ryzen 3700x
Nvidia 4070
16gb ram

[Yujiro Hanma]

my specs on pc
Nvidia rtx4090
64gb ddr5
i9 13900k.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Yujiro Hanma:

my specs on pc
Nvidia rtx4090
64gb ddr5
i9 13900k.

And you're on Windows 10 or 11? If not 11 with that setup, then that is likely your problem. No Ecore usage.

[Yujiro Hanma]

i use win11. why shouldi use win10? makes no sense