good pc port or not?

[beaver]

reviewers on youtube are saying square enix have finally got it right and made a good pc port for this game, but over on steam im only hearing bad things. personally i've had no issues as of yet, just wondering what the problems are?

[terry.langeveld]

It seems that with certain graphics cards the game runs poorly or just plain won't start up. Even if said card should be powerful enough. For me the game fails to boot even when Remake ran without any issue, presumably because my card lacks some shader feature.
I assume most reviewers have the latest hardware and don't run into these issues.

[ShadowSkill11]

Its a great port if you actually read the required tech specs on the store page to include the NVMe ask on there. If not you are going to be another confused gen z/a kid on here wondering why his potato can't run the game well. I have a rtx 4090 w/ 24 GB VRAM, R9 5950x 32 GB ram, and NVMe SSD's and I run the game maxed out in 4k and ultrawide (needs a mod) 5120x1440 mostly around 120-115 fps with occasional small dips to about 85-90.

[Shout Out To Ground Pound]

Originally posted by beaver:

reviewers on youtube are saying square enix have finally got it right and made a good pc port for this game, but over on steam im only hearing bad things. personally i've had no issues as of yet, just wondering what the problems are?

If you dont have Ancient Hardware the port is good, if you have Ancient hardware (everything that is 3 generations old we have RTX 5000 and Rx 9000 as current.) then The game is not for you.
If you have Low end or mid end hardware and used DLSS only to get playable FPS then this game is not for you.

[terry.langeveld]

I have a rtx 4090

Good for you and your newly released high end 1800 euro graphics card.

[Tiberius]

5120*1440p 100~120fps (without dlss) with 7950x3d rtx4090. Great port imo

[alumlovescake]

Those reviewers got early copies and most of them are known for being the biggest of shills don't trust them + most of them are console guys with no technical knowledge

[CHAO$$$]

Originally posted by alumlovescake:

Those reviewers got early copies and most of them are known for being the biggest of shills don't trust them + most of them are console guys with no technical knowledge

^this

i called it when the reviews released but digital foundry didnt get a review copy.

Tells you a lot about SQENIXs confidence in the port.

[Branded Lost]

no

[alumlovescake]

Its not good. They did not improve the graphics like they said they would.
framerate is decently high but its useless because the frametimes and stuttering is so bad you have to cap it 60 for it to be playable and even then it still stutters

Its not terrible and no way near as bad as 16 but calling it good would be being too positive

[WitWolfy]

Its fine for the most part. Either my GPU is dying or Ive seen some graphical texture not rendering correctly in some cases. But other than that, top marks

[Jeff4u]

It is a good port on Day 1 although would be better performance. It didnt crash 1 time on my side.

[Minuano]

It depends on what you consider good.

It requires a newish GPU so the specs are fairly high. RTX 2000 and the Radeon 6000 or newer iirc. If you have that, it's fairly well optimized. I've heard that even older GPUs will run the game alright, but you'd have to tweak the ini files to disable some effects for it to work.

On the other hand, the game really does look very blurry and pixelated. The only AA options are TAA, TAAU and DLAA, and you can't turn off AA or motion blur. Maybe it's more acceptable on Nvidia cards and 4K, but I'm playing on 1080p with an AMD card using TAAU and everything that's not a main character on a close up cutscene looks blurry like someone smeared vaseline on my screen. Then there's the ghosting too. I saw a ghosting effect just from a character waving their hand in a cutscene. The game simply does not look as good as you'd expect from a game that's exclusive to the current generation.

[Extra Big Swimjim with Cheese]

Pretty relative. PC ports are generally not good games in themselves. So Rebirth, despite the problems I and others have had with it, is pretty decent for a port. All the people on the 40xx series bragging that the game runs for them are still getting out of the prologue, and a few encountering the same problems everyone else is having.

[noobz0]

Better than Remake, that's for sure. Which is a very, very low bar.
The game suffers from heavy stuttering in some high end machines, doesn't include other common upscaling technologies (FSR, XeSS), pop-ins are still in the game and at times can be very noticeable, shadows aren't the best, especially indoors, they look very low res, with very jagged edges, no mouse support on menus (amazing for a pc port).

[lmaogg]

so far it's fine. But compared to Remake, every cutscene makes my GPU spit fire even with cap framerates and lower settings