Forcing Final Fantasy Remake 7 to run in DirectX 11 might help with stuttering
It’s not in the options menu, but then not much is.
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Here’s a public service announcement: if you’re experiencing a lot of stuttering in the PC version ofFinal Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, which seems particularly bad in chapter 3’s slums and other hub areas where a lot of characters congregate, there’s a potential fix for it. While not a perfect solution, it has reduced the number of framerate drops I experienced while sprinting through the streets between sidequests.
To set Final Fantasy 7 Remake to run in DirectX 11 mode, click on your profile in the top-right of the Epic launcher and select settings from the drop-down menu. Scroll down until you see a list of currently installed games, click on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, then tick the “Additional Command Line Arguments” box. In the space below it, type “-dx11” without the quotes. If you want to force it to run in fullscreen rather than borderless windowed, add “-fullscreen” as well.
The downside to running Final Fantasy 7 Remake in DirectX 11 is that it prevents HDR from working. According toPCGamingWiki, this can result in “wrong and washed-out colors, with severe banding.” Choose SDR from what few graphics options there are.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake’s PC port is a major disappointment, and not just because of some inconsistent frametimes. The inability to turn off dynamic resolution is another frustration, though there’s a workaround for that as well: thedynamic resolution disabler mod, courtesy of BobG123.
The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Jody’s first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia’s first radio show about videogames,Zed Games. He’s written forRock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue,GamesRadar,Zam,Glixel,Five Out of Ten Magazine, andPlayboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody’s first article for PC Gamer was about theaudio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he’s written aboutwhy Silent Hill belongs on PC,why Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, andhow weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.
Final Fantasy 14 composer Soken admits he doesn’t like musicals, but reassures fans he wasn’t ‘forced to make’ Dawntrail’s controversial Smile theme ‘against my will’
Final Fantasy 14’s patch 7.1 trailer teases much-needed character development for its bad dad antagonist Zoraal Ja—but a sluggish release schedule for everything else
It’s time for Deadlock to introduce an arachnophobia setting because its newest hero can unleash ‘a wave of spectral spiders’ onto enemies
