Hi everyone, while we are waiting for any news about the performance patch, I decided to make this thread to help those who are with pretty bad performance on both games.

This guide should make FF XIII playable at least, FF XIII-2 is a lost cause, since even with an I7 at 4.2GHz it still doesn't run 60FPS most of time, but at least FF XIII-2 will be playable at 30 FPS.

1st) Changing the power management on your Nvidia Control Painel to prefer maximum performance to improve FPS, for some odd reason the GPU likes to enter in sleep mode when we're running FFXIII & FFXIII-2. :zzZ:

























Step by step

1) Open nvidia control panel

2) Click in Manage 3D settings

3) Now if you wish to make it a global change:

a) Change the power management on your Nvidia Control Painel to prefer maximum performance and apply,

but if you wish to do this only for FF XIII & FF XIII-2:

b) Click in Program Settings tab and add the ffxiiiimg.exe and or ffxiii2img.exe

4) Change the power management on your Nvidia Control Painel to prefer maximum performance in both games and apply.


2nd) Another way to improve FPS is have an I5 or I7 CPU overclocked to 4.2GHz or more, what this basically means is that this game loves overclocked CPUs. The higher your frequency, the better. After all, this is the only way to overcome the game’s single-threaded CPU issues. And in case you are wondering, no; there is no CPU able to run FFXIII & FF XIII-2 with constant 60fps .

Doing those things, you should get 60FPS most of time on FFXIII and 30 FPS most of time in FFXIII-2.

My specs:
Motherboard: Asus model: P8Z77 V-LX
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770 3.4 GHz - 4.23GHz Overclocked
RAM: 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Corsair Vengeance
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 770 Gigabyte (GV-N770OC-2GD)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 Bits

Using the prefer maximum performance + OC CPU 4.2GHz FF XIII runs most of time 60FPS here, while FF XIII-2 runs most of time 30FPS, very rare cases it jump to 60FPS here.

Change to 720p or lower the shadow and AA doesn't help much because we're limited by CPU in most of time.[/previewicon]