Just managed to install the whole game on nvme yesterday had to delete 3 games for it...
will test the R/W speeds again tonight.

how come game size of AC:O only turns out to be 1/3 of FFXV?

Different games use different compression techniques

In this case , FFXV has a lot of video files and some of it are 4K remastered , which translate into massive file sizes
At the same time FFXV is equipped with multiple Languages options, audio and voice files can be unusually large

This post has been edited by Convael: Mar 14 2018, 03:41 PM

The extra 68 gig dl is for 4k video?

Some of it , not all of it . As the title suggests the high res texture pack consists of some new assets and new texture to replace the default texture in game


But from what I have seen , it is more of a different artstyle than radical improvement on texture work.


On a screen of 1080p , you basically wouldn't notice much difference beside the addition of foliage , mainly the grasses and plants
Something to be noted here , the high res texture is not always an improvement .

So unless you will be leaving Nvidia Turf effects on , I would consider the high res texture pack a downgrade over the original assets




The screen on top has Turf & High res pack on , while the bottom is the default game with turf work on .
Nvidia turf work can be quite demanding , so if you can't afford to leave turf on , just use the default asset

The extra foliage doesn't look anywhere as good without Turfwork

This post has been edited by Convael: Mar 14 2018, 04:03 PM

I have AC : O, and honestly, i am completely not impressed at all and to be honest, rather disappointed since i heard so much praise and award. To be fair, FFXV PC is just few days back and its whole lot difference with the PS4 version. While AC : O HDR is done beautifully, its too intense to my liking. World design is certainly as you said, AS : O. But AS : O is still far behind from FFXV in terms of eyes for minor detail. If pay attention to fine prints on texture, you can see the amount of work that is placed into them. AC : O is certainly better in general effects as you mentioned above(shadow rendering , water , environmental lighting , global illumination and texture filtering), but i am certainly bought by FFXV attention to details and world design, and overall quality of graphics. And yes i have 2 HDR capable panels.

Comparison is only fair if you compare PS4's ver of both game and PC ver of both game.

Again, issue with GFX options in FFXV that most aren't aware. Since the option isnt there natively (on some of my PC), to manually enable them, you have to do the following.

1. under win 10 display settings turn on HDR
2. under your display driver set pixel format to ycbcr 4:2:2 and color depth to 10 or 12
3. make sure your at ingame full screen
4. ingame under display the light setting should show up it starts at 600 so crank that up to 1000, if you can't find this in game, do it at the config file.



When i saw some videos on Youtube, most are playing English dub ver and they all have the pre-rendered CGI lip synced to English. And my Japanese dub is properly lip synced too. Thus leading to my conclusion, the Videos itself must have taken up a reasonably big proportion of the 63GB as well.

I was explaining how upscaling works. Certainly not the exact numbers of pixels.

From your quote





I know you were , but to make it clear

Upscaling at 200 % = 2X the vertical and 2x horizontal pixel from 1080p
a Display of 1080p going up to 2160p = 400% the pixels


In your quote you first mention upscaling at 200% to 4k (which is correct ) yet in the latter part of your explanation you mention squeezing all the " 2k details " , you even mention the quality comparison between 1080 and 2k in the last sentence , so I thought you are talking about 1440p ( 2k ) . Not a big deal really

This post has been edited by Convael: Mar 14 2018, 06:22 PM

In terms of preference we can agree to disagree , I suppose


AC : O already has a level of general brightness on top of the HDR, if your luminance range is too low the sun tend to look really bad at times

Invalid statement considering FFXV wasnt released on the PC in 2016. So it's fair to compare both since they're only months apart from release.

this is my fps though 11G of ram orz



much higher loading speeds compared to the demo edition...



btw has the summoning bug been fixed?

yeah the summon bug is fixed.

driving in this game really frustrating, open world my ass

how is driving a pain in the ass? just because u cant steer around freely? or is pressing 1 button too boring?

EDIT: actually let me try to explain what i think for y they do it this way..

1. So u wont crash into other people's car, allowing crashing means huge amount of work ranging from graphic, physics, story, characters, damage etc etc.. this is not GTA u r not suppose to drive around and crash into monster or NPC
2. simplified the control so u would pay more attention to how the character behave in the car, like how gladiolus is always reading book, prompto jumping around in the car cheerfully, noctis sometimes lean ahead to talk with ignis etc..
3. so that player will be able to make decision when a sudden mission happen, most notably seen is prompto asking who should he focus on shooting photo at

This post has been edited by Ryutaro: Mar 15 2018, 02:33 PM

cant steer around, and when encounter enemy, force u to go out from the car, really stupid design.

refer to my edited post for some of the reason ;D for real i think this design suits the game more, i am not oppose to crashing but too many things involved that they would rather not risk breaking the characters

if they dont force u to fight, one thing is then possible being u can drive into the enemy, which again is not what they would want to see

but it dont even let u u-turn and run from the battle, especially driving during night time, force to dump the car and run to near by rest point because of the LV 30 enemy.

i think they gave up this option to avoid creating potential bug such as player u turn and then reverse into the enemy etc (save a lot of time on coding as well ), anyway they have make it clear numerous time that driving in the dark has its consequences, so player should only get annoyed by it once

Just play on, you will get more freedom later on. You're free to drive anywhere you want when you get your Regalia Type-D upgrade.

I think the driving is incorporated very decently, i enjoy driving alot as there is so much to see instead of just the roads(if you are manually driving), the characters interacting, the breathtaking view of the world, interesting point of interests. And i never once drive manual unless absolutely needed, ill just leave it to ignis and auto mark destination on map. You can even drive safely at night once you have your car's headlights upgraded.

This post has been edited by Hevlaska: Mar 15 2018, 03:11 PM

apparently there are some spoilers

Seems really bad...

This post has been edited by fujkenasai: Mar 15 2018, 06:01 PM

bro i think that review is kinda filled with spoilers to the main game. may wanna put spoiler alert.