Final Fantasy XV demo for PC is out

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#5523536
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The main character gives me cringes.
#5523538
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Any chance of a quick performance test? The only thing you can't outright enable is VXAO and even that can be forced plus aside from some quirks it seems to be doing well in comparison to the benchmark though there's some reported graphical anomalies for both AMD and NVIDIA and due to the complexity of the effects Turf, PCSS (And HFTS) and Hairworks do a number on framerate for both AMD and NVIDIA GPU's. 😀 EDIT: VXAO. https://www.resetera.com/threads/final-fantasy-xv-windows-edition-demo-thread.25835/page-10#post-4968788 (And from some of the screenshots spread throughout the thread Ansel is doing some fun stuff to certain shader effects, thought the new implementation driver wise limited this side effect but I guess it depends on how the game also implements it.)
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RzrTrek:

It's not often you get to try a game demo these days.
Yeah seriously. Companies keep whining about pirates, when they don't realize that a large percentage of them just want a demo. Though to be fair, so many games now are open-world, which makes demos a little difficult. Even 20GB for FFXV is a lot.
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schmidtbag:

Yeah seriously. Companies keep whining about pirates, when they don't realize that a large percentage of them just want a demo. Though to be fair, so many games now are open-world, which makes demos a little difficult. Even 20GB for FFXV is a lot.
Exactly. Resident evil 7 was a day one purchase for me because I loved the demo. This game will be as well. I've ended up pirating some games mainly because I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. If a demo had been present, I would have gladly just stuck to the demo. I remember a time when games always had demos and I would always base my game purchases on those demos. Really miss that.
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Moto_Life:

I cant get audio unless i use headphones for some reason. I checked playback devices and it should be good. Anyone else have this problem?
Do you maybe have changed the bitrate for the Default Format in the advanced audio settings of the Playback Device in Windows? I've seen games in the past which didn't like this. Restore it to defaults and test again.
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Moto_Life:

I cant get audio unless i use headphones for some reason. I checked playback devices and it should be good. Anyone else have this problem?
I heard some people were having issues with 5.1 sound, try stereo. This game is ridiculously taxing, and doesn't give individual options such as disabling the damn depth of field. And as usual, it has some arbitrary frame rate limit. It's not UE4 so disabling effects like DoF through commands in an ini isn't as easy as it should be, and I don't know if it covers the same range of options as UE4.
#5523836
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riddle me this,the first scene runnin from the fire works,then the lil cutscene works,then it starts loading freezes up an closes,ive done tried,new and old drivers,defrag an chkdsk the harddrive,downclocked cpu to stock an videocard to stock made sure directx an vc redistribution packages were installed,still nothin,every other game on my pc runs well with no freezing or locking up,only thing i can think of is that win 10 build 17093 has issues guess i will try an update to a new build an see what happens edit: tried the newest build an same issue,even turned the preset to low for everything an still same issue smh
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20Gb is the size of the playable demo makes me wonder how big the full game is. I know the required amount is 100Gb. I wish SE would do is give us the choice on whether we want the Japanese voices or not because that would save us a ton of HDD space.
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Fender178:

20Gb is the size of the playable demo makes me wonder how big the full game is. I know the required amount is 100Gb. I wish SE would do is give us the choice on whether we want the Japanese voices or not because that would save us a ton of HDD space.
SE are 100% retarded when it comes to anything to do with PC ports. With any of their releases you have to manually delete the Japanese files because they're usually half of the total file size. Even when the audio is separate files from the videos they still have duplicate video files most of the time. IIRC FF13 upon download from Steam was 25GB... after deleting duplicate files and moving the English movie files to an HDD to symbolic link... 9GB. Even this demo can be reduced by a chunk by deleting the few duplicate Japanese videos it has. But be careful not to delete everything labeled Japanese in SE game files, sometimes they're the only copy of a file, no English variant.
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Neo Cyrus:

SE are 100% retarded when it comes to anything to do with PC ports. With any of their releases you have to manually delete the Japanese files because they're usually half of the total file size. Even when the audio is separate files from the videos they still have duplicate video files most of the time. IIRC FF13 upon download from Steam was 25GB... after deleting duplicate files and moving the English movie files to an HDD to symbolic link... 9GB. Even this demo can be reduced by a chunk by deleting the few duplicate Japanese videos it has. But be careful not to delete everything labeled Japanese in SE game files, sometimes they're the only copy of a file, no English variant.
Yeah FFXIII takes up way too much space because of having both the Japanese and English voices. Yeah thank the steam guides on what you can and cannot delete as far as having only one language. and SE really does not care.
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I didn't think 20gb was a terrible size for this....
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file bloat aside (as hilarious as that is by itself), the fact that they are putting out a substantial demo is entirely respectable. that being said, i have no palate for animu final fantasy
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vbetts:

I didn't think 20gb was a terrible size for this....
No 20GB isn't a bad size but some of us do not need the Japanese Voices when we are playing with the English Voices. The same thing applies to the full game which is going to be alot more than 20GB.
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Fender178:

No 20GB isn't a bad size but some of us do not need the Japanese Voices when we are playing with the English Voices. The same thing applies to the full game which is going to be alot more than 20GB.
I mean...I have the Japanese voices enabled... Now this does not apply to everyone but one would think if you have a rig beefy enough to play the game at full HD, you have the space for it as well? I have a 2TB storage drive I have yet to fill up honestly.
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Smik:

Final Fantasy XV Preload Uninstalls Demo
WTF? I know Square are Japanese and everything but do they always have to do bizarre crap like this? 95% of what they do leaves me asking the same question: Why?
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Edit: Doh, double post.
vbetts:

I didn't think 20gb was a terrible size for this....
Whenever you see a Square Enix release on PC, 50-80% of the file size is junk or duplicates. Usually at least half is duplicates to do the same function, but labeled Japanese, even if it has no language info.

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