Final Fantasy XV was released on consoles roughly a year ago, and it was a huge success. Ever since PC gamers have been craving for a PC port of Square Enix’s signature franchise.
Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition
After a lot of teasing, we not only got a Windows Edition of Final Fantasy XV, but a dedicated one. Not a port, but a version built from scratch for Windows. The trial version was released just a few days ago, while the full-fledged game releases on Steam in a week.
There’s a moderate amount of grinding in this JRPG which is pretty much essential, but thank God you don’t have to fight a hundred-thousand battles just to make sure you can beat the boss at the end of every level.
Overview
With an OC’ed GeForce GTX 1080Ti, to get to the 60 FPS mark at 4K, I had to turn down Turfworks and ShadowLibs, in addition to TAA. Although, if you have a beefier system or are playing at a lower resolution, you shouldn’t have a problem maxing out pretty much every setting.
At the max setting, with every GW enabled I got an average of 45 FPS at 4K with a GeForce GTX 1080Ti (OC). By disabling TAA, Shadow Libs and Turfworks, I got smooth 60 FPS for the majority of the testing period.
NVIDIA has already released a driver for Final Fantasy XV, and from my testing I can tell that it takes care of 99% and 99.9% lows and makes the overall experience smoother. Looks like team green took good advantage of the early access they got to the game code. Well, that’s a win for gamers.
Now for the benchmarks. The game was tested at 4K and 1440p. We also tested the performance at every quality preset. In addition to that, we also compared the performance with NVIDIA Gameworks enabled vs GW disabled. Let’s dive in, shall we?
ULTRA HD (4K)
QHD (1440p)
Preset Comparison
As for Gameworks, here are the comparisons:
Conclusion
Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition may be one of the best JRPGs on PC if you take into account the performance and the visual fidelity. Playing it is a real treat too. If you think we missed anything let us know. Also are you buying Final Fantasy XV on PC when it releases, or have you already done so?
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