Performance

[Whamarama]

How's performance for everyone else?
Looking out over the first big open area I drop from 144fps to 50, 4k and 1080p have the same performance for me.

[Tenerezza]

Well found one workaround for now that works for me, for some reason the game uses your last core at 100% immediately at startup and do crazy amonth of system calls? for some reason as it's the system process that is overloaded but changing your Affinity after the game started seems to make that stop.

Start the game start Task manager go to Details right click Metaphor.exe and change Affinity, set it to one core save, Repeat and tick all cores back again and for some reason it will not go back to eating one whole core and causing these issues again. Sadly you need to do this every time you start the game.

Went from 0.1s stalls and 40-50 fps to ~60-70fps without the stutter.

Also dried dxvk above but it halves my fps and didnt fix my stutter.

[Doranvel]

Even on lower settings the desert area runs poorly. This is not optimized.

[Le Rat]

Originally posted by Tenerezza:

Well found one workaround for now that works for me, for some reason the game uses your last core at 100% immediately at startup and do crazy amonth of system calls? for some reason as it's the system process that is overloaded but changing your Affinity after the game started seems to make that stop.

Start the game start Task manager go to Details right click Metaphor.exe and change Affinity, set it to one core save, Repeat and tick all cores back again and for some reason it will not go back to eating one whole core and causing these issues again. Sadly you need to do this every time you start the game.

Went from 0.1s stalls and 40-50 fps to ~60-70fps without the stutter.

Also dried dxvk above but it halves my fps and didnt fix my stutter.

it's the exact same problem than with P5R
must be an engine thing

[davidsu]

rtx 2070 super, 5700x, 16gb ram 3000mhz running the game on a nvme, i get mininum 50 fps everage 75 in the city area.

[exctasyi]

Originally posted by Tenerezza:

Well found one workaround for now that works for me, for some reason the game uses your last core at 100% immediately at startup and do crazy amonth of system calls? for some reason as it's the system process that is overloaded but changing your Affinity after the game started seems to make that stop.

Start the game start Task manager go to Details right click Metaphor.exe and change Affinity, set it to one core save, Repeat and tick all cores back again and for some reason it will not go back to eating one whole core and causing these issues again. Sadly you need to do this every time you start the game.

Went from 0.1s stalls and 40-50 fps to ~60-70fps without the stutter.

Also dried dxvk above but it halves my fps and didnt fix my stutter.

I tried this and it made my fps go from like 70 to 144 on 150% render scale and 1440p ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[Arthur]

The game seems to have some issues with CPU utilization. I was getting some weird frame drops in open areas too, even though my GPU was far from 99% use. Bizarre.

[Juez]

4k and I have about 30 fps in the first zone.

Ryzen 5700X
Nvidia 3080
32 GB DDR 4
SSD M.2 WD Caviar Black

The performance is realy really bad at this momment.

[Noir]

200% scale on 1080p max settings runs buttery smooth on a 6700 XT. The motion blur is killing me though. I hope this can be turned off in the full release. it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ atrocious.

[LoverBoy]

i can play FF16 with midium quality but cant play this with low quality

[Stoibs]

May as well give my 2 cents. (RTX4080 playing at 2560x1440 resolution)

Game started out at 144fps, then when the "music" kicked in and the openworld dust storm cleared up I tanked to ~60

I'm in the town now hovering anywhere from 90 to 144 erratically

Yeah... certainly a far cry from the previous SMT/Persona games here on Steam :/
I thought after SMTV ran like butter (Pulling 90fps on the Steamdeck!!) that Atlus had their engine and Pc Ports down pat.. hopefully stuff like this is the entire point of the demo though and they can push through some optimization before launch.

[MUVEEER]

tf is renderscale, which % i should put on 1080p? 100% or what?

[Hinamina]

Neither the github dxvk nor the cpu task manager tricks work for me. The desert has ♥♥♥♥ performance and stutters constantly. For 70€ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EUROS you could expect the devs to make the game run smooth. Is it a ♥♥♥♥ implementation of Denuvo or something? Trash.

[mako]

Originally posted by ヒナタちゃん:

Neither the github dxvk nor the cpu task manager tricks work for me. The desert has ♥♥♥♥ performance and stutters constantly. For 70€ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EUROS you could expect the devs to make the game run smooth. Is it a ♥♥♥♥ implementation of Denuvo or something? Trash.

Would be nice to know your specs.

And right now it's not 70 euros but a free demo, although I highly doubt it'll be fixed by release, but probably shortly after by dedicated modders

[thejooninja]

Originally posted by Phalanx:

There are some serious problems with this demo. 15% CPU usage and 40% GPU usage and any graphics setting from lowest to highest has the same performance (55-ish FPS). Bizarre.

Yeah game is hardly using my GPU which is causing low FPS.

[MUVEEER]

Originally posted by Nein:

Originally posted by muveeer:

tf is renderscale, which % i should put on 1080p? 100% or what?

Leave it at 100%.
Anything above will render the game at a higher resolution and downscale it to your monitors native resolution.
Going above 100% is only recommended if your gpu has the headroom for it.

My 3060 TI hits 90% usage when I set it to 200%. Glad I didn’t pre-order the game, I'll wait until they drop all the necessary patches for ReFantazio Reload Royal Rewind lol