Do NOT buy the Steam version

[TERMINATOR]

It's unplayable regardless of your specs. The game completely freezes for literally seconds! I bought the Xbox(Windows) version and I haven't had a single instance where the game would stutter or freeze.

[Kaldaien]

Runs fine for me. Ryzen 9 3900x, RTX 2080 Ti, 32 GiB RAM.

[TERMINATOR]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Runs fine for me. Ryzen 9 3900x, RTX 2080 Ti, 32 GiB RAM.

You're the exception, not the rule.

[Kaldaien]

Pretty sure you're the exception actually, since I've run this on 3 other machines for testing as well. Ranging from an Intel i7 tablet to a Ryzen 7 2700x.

[CatPerson]

Runs largely fine (and in 4k) for me, as well. I do sometimes get the fps drop from the Naga's in late game, but not every single time and it doesn't last very long. But it is still there. Other than that it's pretty smooth/stable. Both on a newer "uber" rig and on an older, ancient Win7 rig (so my almost-great performance isn't just from uber hardware...).

I got tired of saying so tho - people these days like to think a hundred or a few hundred people on a forum="everyone" so whatever. And I *do* think the issue (whatever the cause) has become frequent enough on Steam it could be considered a fairly significant performance glitch/bug/whatever you want to call it, probably introduced from one of the past updates, since downgrading can make it go away for some people.

Edit: Steam version is currently what I like to call a gambling crapshoot. You may have just fine performance, you may be one where your rig doesn't like it at all, or anything inbetween.

[S e n p a i]

Runs fine but on low resolution. I blame my hardware though.

[Barf]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Pretty sure you're the exception actually, since I've run this on 3 other machines for testing as well. Ranging from an Intel i7 tablet to a Ryzen 7 2700x.

No you are the exception. Otherwise why would we have a thread like this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637650/discussions/0/1648792158812521506/

The issue is with the latest update. Fall back to a previous version and the stutter is no more. Why some are not affected is still unknown but the vast majority are.

I also have the stutter issue and put up with it the entire time because I had invested too much time to lose it all.

[Quarren King of Q]

Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Pretty sure you're the exception actually, since I've run this on 3 other machines for testing as well. Ranging from an Intel i7 tablet to a Ryzen 7 2700x.

No you are the exception. Otherwise why would we have a thread like this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637650/discussions/0/1648792158812521506/

The issue is with the latest update. Fall back to a previous version and the stutter is no more. Why some are not affected is still unknown but the vast majority are.

I also have the stutter issue and put up with it the entire time because I had invested too much time to lose it all.

downloading multiple versions on same pc can also be a folly, does either of those installations include a full defrag and cleaning before and after installation which is supposed to be a standard requirement for installing any game. among other details like free space

[Quarren King of Q]

cache options etc

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Pretty sure you're the exception actually, since I've run this on 3 other machines for testing as well. Ranging from an Intel i7 tablet to a Ryzen 7 2700x.

No you are the exception. Otherwise why would we have a thread like this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637650/discussions/0/1648792158812521506/

The minority can be a statistically significant number if you have a large enough population of samples. It does not change their status as the minority, however.

[TERMINATOR]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

No you are the exception. Otherwise why would we have a thread like this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637650/discussions/0/1648792158812521506/

The minority can be a statistically significant number if you have a large enough population of samples. It does not change their status as the minority, however.

Considering there aren't a lot of people playing FFXV nowadays, I'd say that's vbery, very far from a minority. Oh, have I meantioned how fuycking fantastically well I run the game other than the steam version?

[TERMINATOR]

Originally posted by Quarren King of Q:

Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:

No you are the exception. Otherwise why would we have a thread like this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637650/discussions/0/1648792158812521506/

The issue is with the latest update. Fall back to a previous version and the stutter is no more. Why some are not affected is still unknown but the vast majority are.

I also have the stutter issue and put up with it the entire time because I had invested too much time to lose it all.

downloading multiple versions on same pc can also be a folly, does either of those installations include a full defrag and cleaning before and after installation which is supposed to be a standard requirement for installing any game. among other details like free space

Nice try, but I had never downloaded any other version before playing the Steam version and the game runs freaking fantastic on the windows and Origin version.

[J. Davi]

A significant problem is taking a chance to find out if the game will run is the 2-hour return window. In my case, I didn't see major performance issues, running the game at the highest settings, for about 3 hours or so. Then it took about an hour of trouble shooting, trying different levels of setting, windowed, borderless, full screen, potato settings, even 800x600 resolution, and none of it improved performance. 800x600! Lowest settings!.

EDIT: After trying the stuff below without results I returned to trying different resolutions. I had tried 800x600 on high GFX settings and the stuttering was still there, but when I turned down the GFX, the stuttering disappeared. I gradually worked my way up on resolution and found that 1450x1050 was very stable at 30fps, and frankly at non-native resolutions none of the higher GFX settings made much of any difference, so having to use low settings really made no difference. But things did have that stretched, less "crisp" look to them, which I don't like but can deal with... whenever you play older classic games you have to deal with that anyway.

Then I came across the Special K mod, and it worked! For about 4 or 5 hours of game play, my FPS was rock solid. Then, all of a sudden, it went to crap again, even worse than before. VRAM shot through the roof, disk usage sky rocketed and stayed there even when standing still, and FPS was in the 15-20 range.

I also read in a few reviews that their problems were cause by using a controller, and switching to keyboard fixed it. I tried it, and that did not work either.

Many people said the Origin or PC Xbox Game Pass version didn't have these problems: I tried the Game Pass, same exact problem. (Though it only cost me $1 to try, since that's their current 1st month intro price for the game pass... may be better than trying to test within the 2-hour steam return window since that first area doesn't always reveal the issues)

Sure, there may be some people that have no issue. Maybe it's some quirk of some video cards, or a background process, or sun spots, or whatever, but rig quality is no predictor of decent performance in this game, and the return window is too short to be confident you'll know if there's issues before it's too late.

[Vandals[UK]]

Windows 7 64bit SP1
AMD Ryzen 2600, 16Gb Ram, Radeon RX470 (driver 19.1.1)
Game located on NVME (1Tb C: drive)
Setting Medium, Frames set to 60 Hz

Mostly Shuttering and lags. Shuttering happens roughly every 5-10 minutes, for 0.3 to 1.5 second.

Too lazy to sort it out, as the game is still playable with smooth cutsences etc.

[Nerdbopper]

Try disabling pretty much all of the Windows Exploit Protection settings ONLY for the FF15 executable. It massively helped for me. Most people say only Control Flow Guard, but I think it's more than just that.

[TERMINATOR]

Originally posted by Nerdbopper:

Try disabling pretty much all of the Windows Exploit Protection settings ONLY for the FF15 executable. It massively helped for me. Most people say only Control Flow Guard, but I think it's more than just that.

I tried CFG but nothing else. I'm over it as I'm playing game pass(windows version)