Prompto Auto-Snaps causes the stutter, is there any way to disable it?

[Drexel31]

I have been trying to fix FF XV Windows Edition for months and I have upgraded every single thing on my pc but I can't fix it. Then I saw this post saying that it was prompto's photos which causes the random stutters. I tested the said theory and it really was prompto!!! So now does anyone know how to disable it or at the very least would prompto stop taking auto-snaps once he reaches 10 photos (considering that you did not equip the camera strap)?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

[megatron302]

Originally posted by Drexel31:

I have been trying to fix FF XV Windows Edition for months and I have upgraded every single thing on my pc but I can't fix it. Then I saw this post saying that it was prompto's photos which causes the random stutters. I tested the said theory and it really was prompto!!! So now does anyone know how to disable it or at the very least would prompto stop taking auto-snaps once he reaches 10 photos (considering that you did not equip the camera strap)?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

yep same with me i stopped playing because of this. I asked kaladian he said there was a few things to do with the special k mod but it didn't work. Maybe we can contact square enix .

[Drexel31]

Originally posted by megatron302:

Originally posted by Drexel31:

I have been trying to fix FF XV Windows Edition for months and I have upgraded every single thing on my pc but I can't fix it. Then I saw this post saying that it was prompto's photos which causes the random stutters. I tested the said theory and it really was prompto!!! So now does anyone know how to disable it or at the very least would prompto stop taking auto-snaps once he reaches 10 photos (considering that you did not equip the camera strap)?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

yep same with me i stopped playing because of this. I asked kaladian he said there was a few things to do with the special k mod but it didn't work. Maybe we can contact square enix .

I'd like to message them but for some reason I can't get to the support page for FF XV. I really hope we can do something about this. This caused me nightmares for months hahaha

[megatron302]

Originally posted by Drexel31:

Originally posted by megatron302:

yep same with me i stopped playing because of this. I asked kaladian he said there was a few things to do with the special k mod but it didn't work. Maybe we can contact square enix .

I'd like to message them but for some reason I can't get to the support page for FF XV. I really hope we can do something about this. This caused me nightmares for months hahaha

we need to push special k into fixing this

[Drexel31]

Originally posted by megatron302:

Originally posted by Drexel31:

I'd like to message them but for some reason I can't get to the support page for FF XV. I really hope we can do something about this. This caused me nightmares for months hahaha

we need to push special k into fixing this

wait....... hahahaha I think you're the guy who posted this on another thread (forgot which)! thanks for sharing your experience! I'll try to make a video after a few weeks to show that it is the one that causes the stutters!

[megatron302]

Originally posted by Drexel31:

Originally posted by megatron302:

we need to push special k into fixing this

wait....... hahahaha I think you're the guy who posted this on another thread (forgot which)! thanks for sharing your experience! I'll try to make a video after a few weeks to show that it is the one that causes the stutters!

yeah chances of square enix fixing this is slim mbut maybe

[Maginera]

never had any issues with stutter on i7 4790k & 970, fps lock 30 TRAM high everything on high & nvidia stuff disable

[Prince Vegeta]

Doesn't he stop taking pictures when the roll is full? When I return from a week+ XP run usually the only pics he has are from the first day.

[CatPerson]

You could try disabling Ansel manually (there's a program file for it somewhere in the game's files/directories). I have this feeling Prompto's photo taking is somehow connected to it in some fashion, considering some of his camera filters could/can affect Ansel screenshots and other small things. (Edit - this doesn't stop Prompto from taking pics, btw. But Ansel is known to cause performance issues so if Prompto's camera AI tries to connect with it perhaps ... then again, may not help at all)
Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Ansel\Tools

Originally posted by Outlaw Star:

Doesn't he stop taking pictures when the roll is full? When I return from a week+ XP run usually the only pics he has are from the first day.

No, not entirely. The game keeps taking shots now and then if you go a long time without resting and will delete/not show some earlier shots in favor of any "cool" later shots. Sometimes the game doesn't think any later shots are worth showing you but if you experiment by loading a save and doing enough things/enough time to fill the 10 or 15, then reloading that save and doing many battles so the timer can/could take a lot more than that, you'll see the way it tries to get at least one shot from every fight in there at times.

Edit: Prompto's camera seems to take the random shots in timed intervals (eg, example, tries to take one every two or three minutes or some such), although there's probably also other factors like combat vs. non-combat.

[basil boof 🥴]

This is starting to really bug me now, lets hope we can get somebody to actually take notice of this.

[Maginera]

Yes the ansel auto capture is tanking performance so it might be that problem and not prompto

[Junior]

Originally posted by BloodNoctis:

Yes the ansel auto capture is tanking performance so it might be that problem and not prompto

I can confirm, 100% , that it is ANSEL technology. I deleted Tools folder from it and the stutters are entirely gone, no only that but my game is much more stable now in terms of fps (specially in fights which you cast magic at night for example). You wont have any more pictures when camping but the stutters are gone. It is worth, believe me.

[megatron302]

Originally posted by Dario:

Originally posted by BloodNoctis:

Yes the ansel auto capture is tanking performance so it might be that problem and not prompto

I can confirm, 100% , that it is ANSEL technology. I deleted Tools folder from it and the stutters are entirely gone, no only that but my game is much more stable now in terms of fps (specially in fights which you cast magic at night for example). You wont have any more pictures when camping but the stutters are gone. It is worth, believe me.

can you explain what tools you deleted

[TexelGuy]

If anyone's still having big stutters with Prompto's auto snaps, I found the fix, or rather semi-fix. First thing to do, is to move your savestorage folder (It's found where your FFXV saves are) to an SSD if it's not already on your SSD. You do that by cutting and pasting the file onto some place on your SSD, download and install "Link Shell Extension", then right click on the savestorage folder, click "Pick link source", now go to the place where your savestorage folder originally was, and right click the empty space and click on "Drop as-->Junction". That should be it.

Now for what I think is the better method that should be done in conjunction with the one above: Go to your savestorage folder, delete all the files in the "Snapshots" folder, right click the "Snapshots" folder, and remove write and modify permissions for all entities by going to the security tab. All of this should lessen the length of the stutter considerably during combat and everywhere else, and it won't look like your game "froze" for a split second, it'll be more of a dropped frame which is much more tolerable. This doesn't remove the stutter completely, hence the reason it's a "semi fix". If you want a full fix, someone needs to mod the game to remove prompto's auto snapping mechanic altogether, which I don't have any idea how to do. Or maybe if SE decides to acknowledge this issue.

Came up with this fix after 3 or 4 days of annoying lag fest combat in the game that took way too much of my time trying to fix. Jesus Christ.

Disabling Ansel didn't work for me, hence why my method is different. Nvidia removed the "nvcameraconfiguration" exe anyways, so there's no way to actually disable it from the driver level, even if you delete the files driver files for ansel and delete the "anselsdk64.exe" file, it did literally nothing. Probably something to do with updated drivers or updated game compared to when they were talking about deleting ansel.

[megatron302]

Originally posted by TessellatedGuy:

If anyone's still having big stutters with Prompto's auto snaps, I found the fix, or rather semi-fix. First thing to do, is to move your savestorage folder (It's found where your FFXV saves are) to an SSD if it's not already on your SSD. You do that by cutting and pasting the file onto some place on your SSD, download and install "Link Shell Extension", then right click on the savestorage folder, click "Pick link source", now go to the place where your savestorage folder originally was, and right click the empty space and click on "Drop as-->Junction". That should be it.

Now for what I think is the better method that should be done in conjunction with the one above: Go to your savestorage folder, delete all the files in the "Snapshots" folder, right click the "Snapshots" folder, and remove write and modify permissions for all entities by going to the security tab. All of this should lessen the length of the stutter considerably during combat and everywhere else, and it won't look like your game "froze" for a split second, it'll be more of a dropped frame which is much more tolerable. This doesn't remove the stutter completely, hence the reason it's a "semi fix". If you want a full fix, someone needs to mod the game to remove prompto's auto snapping mechanic altogether, which I don't have any idea how to do. Or maybe if SE decides to acknowledge this issue.

Came up with this fix after 3 or 4 days of annoying lag fest combat in the game that took way too much of my time trying to fix. Jesus Christ.

Disabling Ansel didn't work for me, hence why my method is different. Nvidia removed the "nvcameraconfiguration" exe anyways, so there's no way to actually disable it from the driver level, even if you delete the files driver files for ansel and delete the "anselsdk64.exe" file, it did literally nothing. Probably something to do with updated drivers or updated game compared to when they were talking about deleting ansel.

welp i bought the orgin version and i don't get that sttuder

[TexelGuy]

Originally posted by megatron302:

Originally posted by TessellatedGuy:

If anyone's still having big stutters with Prompto's auto snaps, I found the fix, or rather semi-fix. First thing to do, is to move your savestorage folder (It's found where your FFXV saves are) to an SSD if it's not already on your SSD. You do that by cutting and pasting the file onto some place on your SSD, download and install "Link Shell Extension", then right click on the savestorage folder, click "Pick link source", now go to the place where your savestorage folder originally was, and right click the empty space and click on "Drop as-->Junction". That should be it.

Now for what I think is the better method that should be done in conjunction with the one above: Go to your savestorage folder, delete all the files in the "Snapshots" folder, right click the "Snapshots" folder, and remove write and modify permissions for all entities by going to the security tab. All of this should lessen the length of the stutter considerably during combat and everywhere else, and it won't look like your game "froze" for a split second, it'll be more of a dropped frame which is much more tolerable. This doesn't remove the stutter completely, hence the reason it's a "semi fix". If you want a full fix, someone needs to mod the game to remove prompto's auto snapping mechanic altogether, which I don't have any idea how to do. Or maybe if SE decides to acknowledge this issue.

Came up with this fix after 3 or 4 days of annoying lag fest combat in the game that took way too much of my time trying to fix. Jesus Christ.

Disabling Ansel didn't work for me, hence why my method is different. Nvidia removed the "nvcameraconfiguration" exe anyways, so there's no way to actually disable it from the driver level, even if you delete the files driver files for ansel and delete the "anselsdk64.exe" file, it did literally nothing. Probably something to do with updated drivers or updated game compared to when they were talking about deleting ansel.

welp i bought the orgin version and i don't get that sttuder

Hmm, maybe the origin version fixes that too. Unfortunately I'm not gonna be buying the game again. My "fix" makes it atleast playable now, and the stutters are only big enough to bother me when I enter a new cool area and prompto shoots a picture. Otherwise, the other stutters are there but very short now, so I can bear it.

I wonder if you could copy paste the Origin version's files into the steam version except ffxv.exe and any Origin related files, and see if that helps. If that works, maybe anyone can paste those files over their steam version and get the best experience, without having to buy the game again. People might take issue with that if it's distributed online, but honestly, it's something we should be able to do guilt-free if square enix doesn't want to bother fixing it. We've already bought the game.