PringleCreamEgg fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Mar 20, 2022

• The worst that the framerate got for me was in cutscenes. I think someone already posted the tweet but the King's right-hand man or chancellor or whatever was the absolute worst of it - every shot of him in the frame just obliterated the framerate.
  
• Generally a lot of early cutscenes in the throne room area had some kind of slowdown that would cause the voice track to desync from the lipflaps, although these would sync after the shot ended and the camera angle changed. It may have happened on occasion during other cutscenes, but specifically during the last handful missions I don't recall it happening once (I know some of the cutscenes towards the end are prerendered, but I'm specifically talking about ones that still had my dudes gear shown).
  
• Other than that, there were slowdowns that occurred during combat when someone used a finisher while there were a lot of enemies who were also primed to be knocked down out, or when my friend who really likes sage got around to getting their Ultima cast off. I personally found these tolerable, because my other recent benchmark for stutter and slowdown was Elden Ring, who's PC port I'm still heated about because of how awful the frequent DX12 stutters felt in that game.
  
• The absolute worst the game got for me in general was in the FF11 and FF15 areas. I'm not exactly sure how or why, but in those areas only I've had some hard crashes, typically after getting hit by a big attack or when large groups fire off skills at once. I've frozen in the FF11 boss, during the Tonberry side mission in the FF11 area, in the FF15 boss, in a fight against a Gigas in the FF15 area, in a fight against a bunch of harpies in the FF15 area, in a random hallway in the FF15 area, and a couple more, at least once per mission in these areas. Like I said, I don't know what it is about these two that hits me like this. Another friend of mine reported that they crashed once in the FF8 area, but that wasn't my experience. I'm really not looking forward to doing the FF15 main mission on Chaos for one of my main job uncaps, so I hope these get patched soon.
  
• The game in general does look very ugly and muddy, but I think it was at its worst in the field of wheat that you do the combat tutorials in. I'm also told that this isn't very different from the console experience, so while disappointing from a PC user perspective it also didn't both me much, especially since the combat cues are still clear enough to allow me to act accordingly.