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Hello everyone !
First of all, since it is my first post on this forum, let me say that I'm glad to be here. I'll be honest, you may be my last hope to enjoy KH III, so I'm really hoping that someone here can help me to solve my problem (by the way I'm french, and it's been a while since I wrote something in english so I do apologize for all the mistakes that I'll probably write in the following lines).
So my problem is actually pretty simple : I think KH III don't look good at all and it's actually completely preventing me from enjoying the game. I'm not talking about the graphics obviously, they are trully amazing (though the aliasing (I think that's what it's called, that feeling you have when looking at the textures from far away) is really annoying at times and doesn't help with what I'm going to explain). I'm talking more specifically about the framerate, or even more precisely about this feeling of slow-down that you have when playing this game. Before further explanation, let me say that I'm not particulary sensitive about the frame drops, I'm usually playing only on console at 30fps. And I'll add that I already test absolutely all that I could to make the game runs fine (turning the PS4 at 1080p, no supersampling mode, no graphics option on TV, and my TV is an ordinary 1080p TV from 2010). I'll add that all my other games run fine so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. My guess is that maybe the game run like that for everyone, but in that case I'm completely amazed to see that almost nobody is complaining about that...
So what is bothering me ? Basically, when playing KH III, I have this feeling that the game slow down really often. The game seems to run at 60fps most of the time, or 50-55 but that doesn't matter. However, there are a lot of moment or a lot of zone where the frame drops and, even If the game is still playable, it's really disturbing (for example at twilight town in the main area you can clearly see that the game is not smooth, the fight against the titan at the end of olympus is not smooth at all, on certain area at Galaxy Toys you slow down too and at the final boss of Toy Box when he's making al the item around him fly it had also huge frame drop).
But this is actually not the worst. The cutscenes, locked at 30fps, are not smooth either ! Well, I'd say that 80% of the cutscenes are "fine", and by fine I mean "just fine". All the cutscenes, even If they are beautiful, seems like they are not smooth at all, but some are better than other. But anyway in every cutscene you have this little feeling of slowliness which is annoying asf and which, personnaly, cut me off the game ! How the hell am I supposed to stay focus on what I'm seeing when you have the feeling that the cutscenes isn't smooth at all. The think is that it's not a huge slow-down, it's actually pretty tiny (well I had 3 or 4 cutscenes where it was really obvious that the frame pacing was bad), so you can still follow the events but man... It's huge enough to be completely annoying !
I just completed Toy Box so as you can see I'm not that far in the game but it's so annoying that honestly I'm having a hard time to keep going... I never felt so frustrated in my life of gamer. As you can see I can actually play the game just fine but those slow-down, especially in the cutscenes, are ruining my whole experience of it X_X And I don't know why... I tried every graphic option possible, I tried all the setting you can think of, reinstall the game, reconstruct the data base of the PS4, stable mode (which is even more unstable) etc. It's been 2 damn weeks and I've been trying to enjoy the game but man it's just impossible... I tried to forget about it but it's so visible that it's impossible !
And the worst in all that, it's that I don't find a lot of people complaining about that ! on french forum I met like 3 or 4 people concerned by the same problem... and that's all ! Everyone seems to enjoy the game just fine, how the hell is that possible ? I often see people saying that the cutscenes are completely smooth on there side and that the game has 0 frame drop, even on regular PS4... I'm on pro, why the hell there is lag ?! That would mean that I have problems that others don't have, but I tried everything, my ps4 pro runs all the other game perfectly, same for the TV. Actually it's like a real curse, KH III, the game I waited all my life for, isn't running well for me and I don't know why, the problem has no explanation, Square Enix support can't help me either, and everyone seems to be enjoying the game...
So here is my question for you guys : is it just me that is too concerned about the frame ? I don't have this feeling at all because honestly when you have that feeling of slow-down, the whole cutscenes feel off, it's impossible to not be bothered by that... Is anyone in the same situation ? I'm actually completely desperate about this, I've been searching for hours aroud the past two weeks but I'm still shocked by how few people seems to be bothered by that... I hope you can enlighten me, maybe find a solution... Really this forum is my last hope...
First of all, since it is my first post on this forum, let me say that I'm glad to be here. I'll be honest, you may be my last hope to enjoy KH III, so I'm really hoping that someone here can help me to solve my problem (by the way I'm french, and it's been a while since I wrote something in english so I do apologize for all the mistakes that I'll probably write in the following lines).
So my problem is actually pretty simple : I think KH III don't look good at all and it's actually completely preventing me from enjoying the game. I'm not talking about the graphics obviously, they are trully amazing (though the aliasing (I think that's what it's called, that feeling you have when looking at the textures from far away) is really annoying at times and doesn't help with what I'm going to explain). I'm talking more specifically about the framerate, or even more precisely about this feeling of slow-down that you have when playing this game. Before further explanation, let me say that I'm not particulary sensitive about the frame drops, I'm usually playing only on console at 30fps. And I'll add that I already test absolutely all that I could to make the game runs fine (turning the PS4 at 1080p, no supersampling mode, no graphics option on TV, and my TV is an ordinary 1080p TV from 2010). I'll add that all my other games run fine so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. My guess is that maybe the game run like that for everyone, but in that case I'm completely amazed to see that almost nobody is complaining about that...
So what is bothering me ? Basically, when playing KH III, I have this feeling that the game slow down really often. The game seems to run at 60fps most of the time, or 50-55 but that doesn't matter. However, there are a lot of moment or a lot of zone where the frame drops and, even If the game is still playable, it's really disturbing (for example at twilight town in the main area you can clearly see that the game is not smooth, the fight against the titan at the end of olympus is not smooth at all, on certain area at Galaxy Toys you slow down too and at the final boss of Toy Box when he's making al the item around him fly it had also huge frame drop).
But this is actually not the worst. The cutscenes, locked at 30fps, are not smooth either ! Well, I'd say that 80% of the cutscenes are "fine", and by fine I mean "just fine". All the cutscenes, even If they are beautiful, seems like they are not smooth at all, but some are better than other. But anyway in every cutscene you have this little feeling of slowliness which is annoying asf and which, personnaly, cut me off the game ! How the hell am I supposed to stay focus on what I'm seeing when you have the feeling that the cutscenes isn't smooth at all. The think is that it's not a huge slow-down, it's actually pretty tiny (well I had 3 or 4 cutscenes where it was really obvious that the frame pacing was bad), so you can still follow the events but man... It's huge enough to be completely annoying !
I just completed Toy Box so as you can see I'm not that far in the game but it's so annoying that honestly I'm having a hard time to keep going... I never felt so frustrated in my life of gamer. As you can see I can actually play the game just fine but those slow-down, especially in the cutscenes, are ruining my whole experience of it X_X And I don't know why... I tried every graphic option possible, I tried all the setting you can think of, reinstall the game, reconstruct the data base of the PS4, stable mode (which is even more unstable) etc. It's been 2 damn weeks and I've been trying to enjoy the game but man it's just impossible... I tried to forget about it but it's so visible that it's impossible !
And the worst in all that, it's that I don't find a lot of people complaining about that ! on french forum I met like 3 or 4 people concerned by the same problem... and that's all ! Everyone seems to enjoy the game just fine, how the hell is that possible ? I often see people saying that the cutscenes are completely smooth on there side and that the game has 0 frame drop, even on regular PS4... I'm on pro, why the hell there is lag ?! That would mean that I have problems that others don't have, but I tried everything, my ps4 pro runs all the other game perfectly, same for the TV. Actually it's like a real curse, KH III, the game I waited all my life for, isn't running well for me and I don't know why, the problem has no explanation, Square Enix support can't help me either, and everyone seems to be enjoying the game...
So here is my question for you guys : is it just me that is too concerned about the frame ? I don't have this feeling at all because honestly when you have that feeling of slow-down, the whole cutscenes feel off, it's impossible to not be bothered by that... Is anyone in the same situation ? I'm actually completely desperate about this, I've been searching for hours aroud the past two weeks but I'm still shocked by how few people seems to be bothered by that... I hope you can enlighten me, maybe find a solution... Really this forum is my last hope...