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on Monday, alongside a release date announcement of September 17th on Steam and Epic Games stores. Naturally, my first thought was to immediately test it out on my Steam Deck , Legion GO, and ROG Ally Z1. Well, let’s dispense with the bad news up front: things are looking pretty rough in the performance department. So rough that you shouldn’t get your hopes up for enjoying this PS5-to-PC port on your handheld of choice.released.
Then I switched on AMD FSR to “Performance” and saw roughly a 36% framerate boost to 26 FPS. Still, during movement and panning it felt very sluggish, and performance would surely be even worse in larger open world environments. The verdict, as of now, is that this one is unplayable on Deck. Hopefully the Proton wizards at Valve can work some magic, but we shouldn’t get our hopes up.Final Fantasy XVI Demo on ROG Ally Z1
With that same baseline of Low preset and dynamic resolution or image scaling disabled, I saw between 22 and 25 FPS.
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