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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #50 on: 2014-10-09 22:07:07 »
Alex Kazai is streaming it right now!!! http://www.twitch.tv/alex_kazai

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #51 on: 2014-10-09 23:13:48 »
And whadd'ya know, Durante's already got a preliminary fix that lets the game run up to 4k. Still some bugs to work out, but definitely not bad for six hours after the game's release. It goes to show how lazy the port is, though, if higher resolutions could be supported this quickly through modding alone.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #52 on: 2014-10-10 00:20:20 »
This guy is amazing but higher resolution on my TV screen always seem to be rendered too slowly... I thing that I can live with 1080p atm. I remember trying his mod for DS2. But I prefer using the sweetfx enhancement due to performance reasons mostly.
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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #53 on: 2014-10-10 00:46:53 »
I don't think the series is going to pick up. Some how I missed that this four year old game is 60gb and only plays at 720p. Why the hell is this game so big!? I'm installing Middle Earth Shadows of Mordor now with the 4k HD pack and even that is almost half as big. This will just end up as a one and done game, not likely to keep installed nor redownload for a foreseeable future.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #54 on: 2014-10-10 02:53:00 »
It supports both English and Japanese voice acting, so I think that bloats the file size a bit.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #55 on: 2014-10-10 03:28:04 »
Both the voice acting (Japanese version is MUCH smaller) and high quality FMVs do a lot for bloat. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if all the FMVs are in there twice rather than just having multiple language tracks, too.

edit: Also, someone I know and can confirm as a good inside source has said that the main reason the game came to PC was for the sake of that streaming service they announced, and that a Steam version was only done because it was almost no extra effort at that point.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #56 on: 2014-10-11 18:00:29 »
The movies and the voices are duplicated, so there's one for English and one for Japanese. They could have just let you download the English one and get the Japanese one as a free DLC, but no...

Deleting the Japanese FMV's would save 19.8 GB.

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« Reply #57 on: 2014-10-11 18:51:09 »
What does the file architecture even look like? Seems like the movies are in a separate folder, but what about the rest? I wonder how much modding would be possible with this game.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #58 on: 2014-10-11 20:07:05 »
What does the file architecture even look like? Seems like the movies are in a separate folder, but what about the rest? I wonder how much modding would be possible with this game.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #59 on: 2014-10-11 20:40:45 »
I'm still downloading, but I think it's just the ps3 version.

Audio will be replaced easily, since they are just LAME MP3 in a fancy file with an easy format :p Textures are just DDS files as well.

It's just a case of unpack/repack of the white_img files.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #60 on: 2014-10-11 20:54:52 »
Guys, seems like the fps issues are from the hud, there are some screenshots with the minimap enabled and disabled, and the difference its too huge, this would explain the 30 fps drop on battles,


With hud:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xpe77vbphso213/ffxiiiimg%202014-10-11%2021-08-16-63.jpg?dl=0
Without Hud:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zutxfq801ck1y39/ffxiiiimg%202014-10-11%2021-08-24-13.jpg?dl=0

You can disable the minimap atleast, but there isnt any solution for the in-game hud for the moment.
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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #61 on: 2014-10-11 22:51:53 »
The movies and the voices are duplicated, so there's one for English and one for Japanese. They could have just let you download the English one and get the Japanese one as a free DLC, but no...

Deleting the Japanese FMV's would save 19.8 GB.

Good to know thanks man. That's an easy 20 GB I can free up. Agreed, this really should have been a dlc option.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #62 on: 2014-10-11 23:05:39 »
Well, I, should I be getting the game, will use the Japanese voices and videos with English subtitles, since the voices are always better (I mean, look at Type-0, the English voices are beyond awfulness).

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #63 on: 2014-10-12 01:25:39 »
...the ".bin" extension doesn't really say much.

.bin is possibly the second least descriptive extension (no extension being the least). By nature, all files are binary files and could be titled as such.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #64 on: 2014-10-12 01:35:42 »
Well, I, should I be getting the game, will use the Japanese voices and videos with English subtitles, since the voices are always better (I mean, look at Type-0, the English voices are beyond awfulness).

True in so many cases, but I think the FF13 series breaks that mold. The English voice acting is pretty good.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #65 on: 2014-10-12 01:53:16 »
Well it wasn't too bad I guess. I haven't heard the Jap so can't compare.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #66 on: 2014-10-12 03:00:38 »
The Japanese is good too, so you don't lose either way :)

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #67 on: 2014-10-12 12:55:29 »
Square must be embarrassed by this. They've removed all twitter, facebook and blog posts about it, almost like it doesn't exist.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #68 on: 2014-10-12 16:07:41 »
On the dub vs original voices thing
It's more relevant to the KH franchise but FF, especially 12, had some dub-over-original voice acting too
Of course there is usually at least 1-2 voices in either language that annoy the fuck out of you

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #69 on: 2014-10-13 13:25:27 »
It actually doesn't seem too bad all in all. I'm annoyed the install size is so massive, and nothing for the Japanese videos are labeled so removing them will be difficult, but otherwise it looks pretty good. Granted this is with the downsampling and custom resolution settings with the GeDoSaTo modding tool. People have mentioned issues with the controls but they must mostly be with the pc controls, controllers works just fine. To exit the game you have to go to the main menu and hit esc on the keyboard however, but otherwise I haven't found any issues. The game supposedly runs at 60 fps, but it seems closer to it's original 30 fps from the consoles. It runs smoothly though so I don't really care, and I have a few ideas to boost the frame rate a bit more anyway. This was just a technical test, I skipped all the videos and everything and went straight to the opening fights and ran around the first level a bit. Otherwise I haven't played the game so I cant say much about the dub or anything.   

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #70 on: 2014-10-13 15:06:58 »
Halfway through the game right now. Haven't seen anything gamebreaking and works fine for me out of the box. Used GeDoSaTo for higher resolution because it looks better but it wasn't bad to start with. The download size wasn't a problem for me either, Steam gave a solid 22,5 MB/s, took about 40 minutes.

I did however get a few fps drops at the weirdest moments (i.e. nothing happening, only very little to render), none of my hardware seems to be under any load at that time either, so I think it's a "port thing".

This is on a 4770K with a R9 290 btw.

Also I only play with xbox360 wireless controller on a projector. :P

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #71 on: 2014-10-13 15:56:55 »
Turn the mimimap off, instant FPS boost.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #72 on: 2014-10-14 18:54:34 »
Turn the mimimap off, instant FPS boost.

The minimap is less than useless in this game anyway.  :P

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #73 on: 2014-10-14 19:21:09 »
Duh, you only walk in a straight line, everything is a corridor.

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Re: Final Fantasy XIII Series coming to PC?
« Reply #74 on: 2014-10-14 20:14:24 »
Remember when I said you could delete the Japanese FMVs? You can't, they will automatically re download when you launch the game.