Final Fantasy XIII trilogy comes to Steam

With just a few exceptions over the past couple decades, Final Fantasy has historically been a console series. Better late then never, Final Fantasy XIII (and its two sequels) are being ported to the PC, and hit Steam tomorrow for $16 apiece. They got mixed reviews on release. On one hand, the art style is remarkable and gorgeous, and the late-game combat is innovative and breaks the traditional Final Fantasy expectations. On the other hand, the game is painfully linear and the early- and mid-game combat was panned as remarkably straightforward and repetitive. Regardless, I'll probably pick up the first at least. Anyone else interested?

Final Fantasy 13 Trilogy to Launch on PC Starting Next Month - IGN

 

Sooooooo...the game is a 60 gb download, is locked at 720p, and still stutters on a lot of peoples' machines. Nicely done Squaresoft! I can see you really put a lot of time and energy into the PC port for the last four and a half years.

 

I refuse to buy any FF game from after FF-X. Everything went downhill from there. :/

 

I tried to get into FFX for a couple dozen hours but never could. The last FF game I was really into was 7, and I've always been primarily a fan of their SNES-era games (thankfully now all ported to Android and the Wii). Still, I was going to give XIII a shot until I read about the issues with the PC port.

 

Please do not tell me FF XIII (not including XIII-2 and Lightning Returns) is a 60GB download locked at 720p that cannot run on most peoples' PCs.

 

According to Steam's listing, the 60 gb is just the first of the three games, not for all three: FINAL FANTASY® XIII on Steam

And the specs include the following warning: "Full screen display mode will only run on an environment that supports a screen resolution of 1280 x 720."

They also didn't appear to alter the control scheme for PC: "A game controller using Xinput is recomended for this game. (If using a DirectInput based controller, please use the driver side key configuration to adjust settings as required )"

Folks, this is a play-by-play of how NOT to port a game to PC. Seriously.

 

Please note Durante who did DSFix and GeDoSaTo *ALREADY* has a plugin to render it at 1080p. Already. Yes. Already. But japanese dev teams could not do this. Yes. Already. I know. I totally know what you're thinking. Already. Impossibru. Wow.

But yeah, totally how to not do a PC port.

 

Epic fail on SE's part...

If I decide to play XIII, I'll just play it on my PS3. I couldn't really get into the story at all though.

 

Aight.

I got this game, it was pretty cheap, I enjoyed it for what it was on PS3 and what it turned into for me was something I could play while relaxing, shutting my brain off and enjoy pretty visuals.
Deleted the Japanese cutscenes since they were taking up 20 gigs of space I didn't care for anyways.

Got Durante's GeDeSaTo fix which enables downsampling and all that fun stuff, only there is one problem.
On my desktop computer, it appears as if my GPU is only using 40 - 50% of full load rather than 100% like when I play any other game. Causes a lot of stuttering and generally low FPS for no real reason.

Anyone know a way to make my GPU recognize the game as a game and start kicking instead of playing it in idle clock speeds?
Already tried forcing the GPU into high performance mode in the Nvidia driver settings. My desktop card is GTX 680.

 

Haha this happens to me with Dark Souls 1 and 2. I had to supersample to get it to draw enough power to keep my card in high gear. You cannot get around it; it's a kepler feature. I suggest running the game at 1440p and seeing if it still downclocks.

 

Supersampled it to 3840 x 2160, GPU won't pass 55%

This blows!
And yeah this is exactly what happened to DS1 and 2 as well, argh!

 

try 6k res or 8k res then

 

Oh god then I run out of VRAM at 6K
Why is this game so horribly optimized ;_;

 

Why would you run out of vRAM? How much does it use normally? 1080p to 4k res is only like +400MB vRAM; 6k might still work; unless it uses like 1.5GB at 1080p