Players are reporting issues with Stranger of Paradise’s PC port
A number of players have been complaining that the PC version of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins is performing well below expectations.
The PC port, which is currently an Epic Games Store exclusive, has been causing issues for some players, a number of whom are reporting that the game is slowing down during combat.
One player, who claims to be playing the game with an RTX 3080 graphics card and an i5-12600K processor, created a post titled “PC port is horrendous” on the game’s subreddit.
“The game is ugly as hell with awful render distance, tons of pop-in, jagged visuals, aliasing everywhere, and really blurry and washed out image,” they claimed.
“In basic one-on-one fights the game goes from full 120fps straight down to low 40s and 50s, and not only does the FPS drop but the actual gameplay speed slows down with it so it looks like you’re playing in slow motion. Strongly recommend not purchasing until there’s some fixes, I’ve never seen such a bad port.”
Another user with a 2080TI graphics card, AMD Ryzen 7 3800X processor and 48GB RAM replied: “There is definitely something really weird about this game’s performance.
“The VRAM usage is unusually high for the graphics fidelity. No matter what I do to change my settings, both in game and Nvidia panel, the game uses 9GB of VRAM which is quite odd.
“Furthermore, the game has this weird feature that slows the game down when the graphics card can’t keep up anymore. So it pretty much means whenever you do a soul burst, which is a crucial ability to the combat flow, the entire game goes slow-mo. Very jarring.”
They added: “Now here’s the really whack part. The UI and some in-game cutscenes appear to force your game to some really, really horrible graphics settings. So when
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