Stuttering cutscenes?

[rookie]

Hi all,

I have owned this game back during it's initial release on the xbox but never completed it, saw it being on a sale and decided to buy it, welp, I have got only 10mins INTO the game! I have been having this annoying stuttering issue during cutscene, you would even notice it right at the start of the game.

Are there any fixes for this? I have noticed that there are dozens of posts related to performance issues. BTW. it's got nothing to do with PC hardware limitations.

Thanking you all

[King Milkshake]

Are you playing with a controller? I found my cutscenes would stutter until I connected a controller (steam controller and Xbox one using wireless)

[rookie]

Nope, using a keyboard and a mouse. Don't have a controller :/

[SenMithrarin85]

The issue was created after the deceember patch that forced the game into borderless windowed so that square could get a dialog box to ask you if you want to quit when you press esc...

Before that, the game was true fullscreen and the fmvs were smooth, but people were ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that the esc key would immediately close the game down. It took square 3 weeks to do this and the game is ironically worse than when it lauched.

They then added support for 720p+ resolutions, but at a cost: the libra info doesn't display above 720p which for first time players makes the Eidolon battles for example much more difficult/annoying.

[rookie]

Does this mean that there is no work around fix for this?

[SweetFish]

Someone graciously found a non-controller solution.

1) Go to http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/site/index.php/download-a-install/download
2) Install the vjoystick program
3) From the start menu, located vJoy Feeder (Demo)
4) When launched, have all numbers be 50 (Which is the "neutral" position of the buttons for the "Virtual" controller)
5) Launch FFXIII with vJoy Feeder (Demo) in the background

If you do happened to notice your screen spinning or something fishy, alt-tab to the vJoy and make sure that all the numbers are indeed "50". Sometimes the program will set some controls back to "0" which sends the joystick signal to have the game spin around. After putting in "50", play the game stutter free!

My guess from reading lots of post about the PC version is that the game is constantly looking for the damn game controller which somehow affects the graphics side of things. The players found this solution when someone realized the stuttering went "away" when the controller was plugged into the computer.

The vJoystick solution is for those of us who don't have a gamepad available.

Hope it works!

[Fujiara]

Originally posted by SweetFish:

Someone graciously found a non-controller solution.

1) Go to http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/site/index.php/download-a-install/download
2) Install the vjoystick program
3) From the start menu, located vJoy Feeder (Demo)
4) When launched, have all numbers be 50 (Which is the "neutral" position of the buttons for the "Virtual" controller)
5) Launch FFXIII with vJoy Feeder (Demo) in the background

If you do happened to notice your screen spinning or something fishy, alt-tab to the vJoy and make sure that all the numbers are indeed "50". Sometimes the program will set some controls back to "0" which sends the joystick signal to have the game spin around. After putting in "50", play the game stutter free!

My guess from reading lots of post about the PC version is that the game is constantly looking for the damn game controller which somehow affects the graphics side of things. The players found this solution when someone realized the stuttering went "away" when the controller was plugged into the computer.

The vJoystick solution is for those of us who don't have a gamepad available.

Hope it works!

This really help.

[cgiink]

Originally posted by SweetFish:

Someone graciously found a non-controller solution.

1) Go to http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/site/index.php/download-a-install/download
2) Install the vjoystick program
3) From the start menu, located vJoy Feeder (Demo)
4) When launched, have all numbers be 50 (Which is the "neutral" position of the buttons for the "Virtual" controller)
5) Launch FFXIII with vJoy Feeder (Demo) in the background

If you do happened to notice your screen spinning or something fishy, alt-tab to the vJoy and make sure that all the numbers are indeed "50". Sometimes the program will set some controls back to "0" which sends the joystick signal to have the game spin around. After putting in "50", play the game stutter free!

My guess from reading lots of post about the PC version is that the game is constantly looking for the damn game controller which somehow affects the graphics side of things. The players found this solution when someone realized the stuttering went "away" when the controller was plugged into the computer.

The vJoystick solution is for those of us who don't have a gamepad available.

Hope it works!

Thank you, this fixed the stuttering issue.
Appreciated.

[REI]

Originally posted by SweetFish:

Someone graciously found a non-controller solution.

1) Go to http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/site/index.php/download-a-install/download
2) Install the vjoystick program
3) From the start menu, located vJoy Feeder (Demo)
4) When launched, have all numbers be 50 (Which is the "neutral" position of the buttons for the "Virtual" controller)
5) Launch FFXIII with vJoy Feeder (Demo) in the background

If you do happened to notice your screen spinning or something fishy, alt-tab to the vJoy and make sure that all the numbers are indeed "50". Sometimes the program will set some controls back to "0" which sends the joystick signal to have the game spin around. After putting in "50", play the game stutter free!

My guess from reading lots of post about the PC version is that the game is constantly looking for the damn game controller which somehow affects the graphics side of things. The players found this solution when someone realized the stuttering went "away" when the controller was plugged into the computer.

The vJoystick solution is for those of us who don't have a gamepad available.

Hope it works!

Thank you. This really worked.

[quintarbarbarian]

hey, does the vjoystick solution still work? or has the website for it gone belly up after all these years?

[LarsenB]

Originally posted by quintarbarbarian:

hey, does the vjoystick solution still work? or has the website for it gone belly up after all these years?

This should fix the gamepad issue, among others, without having to emulate a virtual controller like the previous solution

https://github.com/rebtd7/FF13Fix

[your.local.rin]

Works great! Thankyou so much!

[Noob Herder]

Originally posted by LarsenB:

This should fix the gamepad issue, among others, without having to emulate a virtual controller like the previous solution

https://github.com/rebtd7/FF13Fix

Thank you for sharing this software! I launched and noticed it immediately, didn't even start on the game bc I knew something was off. It's a disgrace SE released this mess and users have to fix it to enjoy it properly. FFS they could add this in the code and add as an option to enable/disable the detection.

[Flib]

After I have downloaded the folders from GitHub, where do I put them?