FFVII Performance Issues Theory [Dec 18, 2021, 2:38 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE launched
as promised on the
Epic Games Store. Despite stiff system requirements, performance of the
updated RPG has been the subject of a lot of criticism.
PCGamesN rounds up these complaints, and identifies a possible explanation.
A
thread on Reddit discusses evidence from the game's files that Square Enix
may have shipped a debug version of the game:
As Digital Foundry’s Alex Battaglia calls it, Final Fantasy VII Remake “is literally the worst AAA release I have seen on PC in a good long time”. Massive stuttering issues, framerate drops, and the lack of crucial graphics settings like anti-aliasing or toggles for pretty much any option to improve performance all mar the experience.
Worse still, these issues may be down to something modders digging into the game’s files have discovered – which is that the build of Final Fantasy VII Remake on PC seems to be a debug version rather than a version ready for shipping. The files refer to the released version as a “PPBC_Development” build when it should be “PPBC_Shipping” for a final, polished release.
Yeah it probably was the debug version... except that's ALSO probably the only version they had when it came time to ship. Probably one of those "oh we'll fix it in day 0 patch" things. Except what often happens is that there's too much work for that.
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