PS4 version to run locked at 30 FPSFollow

Check out the ZAM interview with Yoshi-P. He indicates the FPS is capped at 60, with the goal to have FPS never dip below 30.

"The quality and framerate is pretty similar to the PC version."

You can see this part of the interview at the 2:39 mark here: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=152&mid=1392199728243771499

Well, if you take note, that forum thread you posted was dated in December of 2013....

... the video interview posted in ZAM is what... a day or two old?



I'm willing to bet that the video interview is a more accurate representation of what's actually happening.




Edited, Feb 12th 2014 8:27pm by darexius2010

He said it's capped at 60fps, and the target is 60fps, but that at a minimum under extreme conditions it can dip below 30. And again, regardless of whatever other information you have seen, that interview is dated for today, the 12th. It supersedes interviews from November, December, and January, as well as any articles that were written during those times, etc. It's... just logical. It's literally the most up-to-date information.

And don't accuse me of rating you down. For that, you get a rate down. I only rate down when a rate down is merritted.

Edited, Feb 12th 2014 9:26pm by darexius2010

I swore he said the target cap is 60 fps but they are content with it as long as it doesn't go under 30, and Odin is the only fight where it goes under 30, with it going lower than 20. Seeing as Even people with PCs have that issue, and that fight is the most crowded.

First your title is disingenuous, you re word information for whatever reason. Odin is not a major boss fight by a long shot. Simply saying that makes it look like random boss fights will have low fps when they specifically stated which one will.

"PS4 Locked at 60 fps" More honest title

Odin to be the only fight where fps dips due to the nature of the FATE. There is nothing more ridiculous than a group of people who decide they don't like something. (In this case console ports) So they spread misinformation.

You'd have had better luck claiming ps4 hates women.

Hey guys, I'm the one who filmed this interview. We had the chance to play it for a couple hours prior to our interview session and this question was asked because of the play session. The first thing I noticed was that it was very clearly hitting 60 fps, but not maintaining it when I, say, spin the camera in circles really fast. Even during fights, it would hover somewhere in the 45fps range, but rarely did it ever drop below 30. Since we weren't doing anything other than strolling through towns, checking different mounts, and killing low-level mobs, I figured there had to be situations where the framerate would dip.

That being said, we're playing an early early beta version of the game on what should still be considered new hardware. I'd imagine the game will go through several optimization passes.

Also, in case you were wondering, the VITA feels like it's capped at 30fps even when the console is giving 60.. but no one should be surprised.

Yes, it sold "a bunch of copies" (nice wording there), and it did result in "a bunch of subscriptions" too, which means the game will be that much more worth investing into "for a bunch of time".

Next, a comparison of a PC only MMO that doesn't suffer from the "slow content update" syndrome would be nice. But we don't do that here, otherwise it would become apparent that ARR is no slower than any other PC only MMO out there and in fact it is one of the best ones.

If you mean as slowly or slower than ARR, every single one of them.

Well, that was easy.

Edited, Feb 13th 2014 12:26pm by Hyanmen

That is all fine and dandy until we include the one variable that actually matters - the volume of content in said updates.

I really wonder why you chose to leave that one out of the equation...

Actually, he said the cap is 60 which is pretty common. The goal was to never drop below 30FPS so you were a little off and it does drop into the teens during Odin. On this account you are incorrect sir darexius2010.




Because the game sucked to be frank. Why would you produce and distribute a game that 90% of the initial playerbase from PC abandoned and nobody was ready to subscribe to? Think about it. They released an apology for 1.0 about 6 months after launch and vowed to restore the brand with PS3 launch.


They have experience developing for just about every console, but XIV's engine was over-tuned even for PC. XI was ported from PS2 to PC which is the correct way to go about it. It's easy to ride a tricycle after you learn to ride a motorcycle. The other way around? Not so much.


You guys are comparing interviews that are a month apart. SE is working hard to make the PS4 launch successful. It's possible that at the time they believed they would cap FPS at 30 and it's changed. It's also possible that the translator might have gotten a little confused in the recent interview. There was a lot of info and if you listen to it(I did several times because parts of it are hard to understand even translated) you'll hear her um and uh quite a bit. Jury still out...



Edited, Feb 13th 2014 5:32am by FilthMcNasty

Really? I play on both the PS3 and the PC. The only time lag is really an issue on the PS3 is during the Titan fights and even then my FPS doesn't suffer, the issue for me is server to client. It is the same on my PC.

Really? Updates for WoW were much slower then the ARR updates. WoW was (for the 6 years I played it) about once every 4 to 6 months. ARR, so far has been about every 3 months.



Your post makes me think you have no sense of the flow of time. ARR was released at the very end of August on the 27th. Patch 2.1 was released on December 17th. That's around the 3.5 month mark. ARR will have only been out 6 months as of the 27th of this month. Because of your blatant disregard of these facts and others, I must conclude that you sir, are a troll.

Edited, Feb 13th 2014 8:32am by princessary

@Filth, I concede, you are correct on all accounts related to me. He did say the cap and target was 60 FPS, etc. Good call and I stand corrected. You're also right on the basis of 1.0's PS3 release and what the original engine was built and tuned for. What I am happy to see is the agreement that there's a comparison of data that's several months apart. I rarely see us disagree on anything, and I'm glad to see that trend continue.



Again, you're saying that there was a translation error when back when that interview was done, the most up to date information could very well have been with a 30fps lock. This isn't December anymore. Time has passed and the software is more fully developed. You can't bring up a couple month old interview and call it gospel -- Your argument doesn't track at all in that regard.

That'd be like saying back in 1941 they said the nation would never hit $17 trillion in debt, so therefore what's going on now cannot possibly be true and is just a ruse by the government. Times have changed. We're $17 trillion in debt.

I myself am a PS3 player. I haven't run into content yet that crashes or crawls. At the absolute worst prior to 2.1 I had issues where a mass of onscreen characters wouldn't render right away, and that lasted for a few seconds at most. Now they're prioritized the render pipeline and that's a non issue. I run endgame content all night long on a PS3 when I'm lazy and want to play on the couch instead of on my PC. I experience none of the symptoms you describe.

The 1 week updates you describe in other MMOs are out there, yes -- And they're the sort of small missions that are contextually equivalent to larger dailies that we're running now. New dungeons don't get added every single week in any of the MMOs that I've played, even the SLEW of cracker jack short lifespan games such as Florensia, or any period of time in RF Online. World of Warcraft doesn't release content every single week, or even every two weeks. EVE Online is even slower on the ball than Square has been, and they've improved SUBSTANTIALLY in the last three years. Pantheon is an upcoming MMO, and I doubt they'll release content as quickly as you're stating... In fact, I doubt you yourself can identify an MMO that pulls out new content in the scope of new zones, dungeons, and quest lines in tandem as quickly as you're claiming, with all your vast knowledge of the MMO landscape. In what amounts to essentially a 6 month timespan we're getting two major content patches. I'm curious to see what they'll do with the first expansion. Sadly it seems you're just here to sow dissidence where you've no basis to do so, other than your own amusement, and are confused why it isn't taking.

Edited, Feb 13th 2014 1:01pm by darexius2010

Edited, Feb 13th 2014 1:04pm by darexius2010