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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.0 hrs on record
Posted: 27 Apr, 2021 @ 7:30am
Updated: 27 Apr, 2021 @ 7:48am

People who are making fun of people who are not able to play this game is just sad. I have a RTX 3080, an R7 2700x , installing it on my M.2 NVMe and so I don't need "better specs" or "stop running it on your toaster PC" talk. The requirements for the game is there and I think most people who had issues could have easily ran it and I will discuss my issues with this port.
I really do hope I am the only person that has experienced this, but I really wanted to enjoy this game a lot on my PC and I am not able to give it a good review as I cannot play it on Steam. I am playing it on console, it is wonderful, but I really do wish this port was better as I have not been able to play it at all and I wish I was able to do it on PC. I have tried every solution ever, I had this game start perfectly but with some FPS problems and I was like alright let me solve it like everyone has. Which did not help, so I thought to just restart my PC for the sake of it and try again.

After restarting my PC, now it doesn't even want to launch and I had worked tirelessly for 2 days straight to make sure it was working. I saw many reviews just suggest the 60 fps, I want to list all the options I had tried and I truly hope it works for others as this game who do not have consoles.

1. I tinkered around my monitor settings such as making my refresh rate 60 Hz, 1080p, Game is on 60 FPS.
https://i.imgur.com/nP84OPN.png
https://i.imgur.com/YPUSv0a.png
2. Ran it as admin.
https://i.imgur.com/e7NMvuS.png
3. Disabled all overlays
https://i.imgur.com/kRejPLe.png
https://i.imgur.com/PUcEVZj.png
https://i.imgur.com/WSvEw2X.png
4. I already had Media feature pack as I had this OS from Win 7 to Wind 10 long ago.
https://i.imgur.com/TxXMdN4.png
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Trying to run as a different user as it might create a new saved game folder within myDocuments with probably fresher settings. However; no luck.
6. I used specialK and other mods I have not been able to make it work even with help of amazing community members.
7. Deleted savegames and config file within Document folder and also deleted associated registry keys for this game.
8. Reinstalled this game 9 different times.
8. Another solution that other people might face would be their steam name not having special characters (Thank you NightmareVortex for this ! )

TLDR; This game is amazing, enjoyable to play and I just cannot play it even with high spec PC even after trying many different troubleshooting methods. I have been playing games for a long time, I know how to troubleshoot a bad port, but if I cannot launch it even after following through many steps I have done before and other methods that I discovered while troubleshooting with other people to help people who might experience the same problems to solve it hopefully. Thank you SE and everyone who helped me to solve this problem.
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25 Comments
Breaker 4 May, 2021 @ 9:40am 
Good game, bad port and coomer delusional fans. Yep this is a Square Game.
Baron 2 May, 2021 @ 8:50pm 
Bro just disable comments, idk why im here but I wish I was illiterate after reading this shit. theres a reason i've had square enix titles blacklisted on my store page for 4 years now, the fans are delusional and the company is no better than EA. Delete my shitty comment too, idk why the fuck im even writing this
Marcalitus 30 Apr, 2021 @ 5:25am 
@Reinstall of windows 10 for one single game is honestly a deal breaker for anyone who has reinstalled windows plenty of times, I used to do it so many times in the past, but that stopped with the excellent job some ports have been and I have reinstalled windows 10 many times on different hard drives to SSDs.
@Brock I have another windows 10 installation, which I use for pen testing/work and no luck there either which I failed to put here.
Marcalitus 30 Apr, 2021 @ 5:25am 
@Dingus Dev Regarding that, I have updated my chip set, BIOS and GPU drivers. Every driver is up to date from AMD, ASUS, Intel (Ethernet) and NVIDIA.
@Xarai I agree but there are a lot of comments of reviews that mention "Your X is old", "Stop running it on a toaster"when most games on my other PC can easily run using minimal old hardware such as a i7 4700k and a 780 ti. People call anything that is not the an i7 10 whatever numbering scheme they have and a 2080 a high specced for this game. I mentioned it only to deter these kinds of people and not to flex.
@CPU is old, please refer to the comment @Stormsinger, the CPU can handle it and handle games that are 10x more demanding than this
Marduk the Sun God 28 Apr, 2021 @ 4:12pm 
Maybe try a fresh Win 10 install. Kind of unclear on point 4, but it sounds like you might be running a years old install which you upgraded from Win 7? OS could be borked in some way. Other than that, make sure everything is updated (OS, drivers, etc).
Dingus Dev 28 Apr, 2021 @ 3:04pm 
I have to imagine a lot of people don't download the latest driver updates for your GPU/CPU in addition to keeping your OS updated and making sure you don't have background processes bloating your environment

I'm a software dev and I battle this all the time when I'm switching between Windows and Linux lol. Also, many people have reported problems with the 30 series since there are many optimizations to be written for the newer tech.

If you are on Windows (which I assume most of you are) try checking for an update, do a full restart and see if the problem persists. Go to the chip sets website and check to make sure you have the latest drivers. Download GeForce Experience and download the game-ready drivers there as well. Hopefully this helps gamers :UncleDeath:
Panzrfaust 28 Apr, 2021 @ 2:58pm 
Set fps to 60 and turn OFF v-sync (helps with low fps, somehow), both in Nvidia control panel.
grostuff 28 Apr, 2021 @ 1:59pm 
u pc stinky
Xarai 28 Apr, 2021 @ 1:04pm 
i hate whiney little children like this who brag about an overpriced prolly scalp paid rtx 3080
reviews are for the game not your shitty pc
glokk40spazzz 28 Apr, 2021 @ 11:08am 
upgrade ur cpu its old kinda