• Final Fantasy X and X-2 Coming to Steam on May 12

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    Depression Moon
    Published on 05-10-2016 01:15 AM
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    Steam dropped a surprise announcement today when Final Fantasy X and X-2 were added to its games section. Square Enix is releasing both Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 to Steam on May 12. These PC ports are the HD remasters that were made for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita back in 2013, which were later re-released for PlayStation 4 exactly a year ago. These HD remasters include the content from the International versions of the PS2 games while also providing updated HD models and a remastered soundtrack. The specs for the game are as follows.

    System Requirements


    • Minimum:
      • OS: Windows Vista or later
      • Processor: 2GHz Dual Core CPU
      • Memory: 1 GB RAM
      • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT VRAM 512MB or later / ATI Radeon HD 2600XT VRAM 512MB or later
      • Storage: 37 GB available space
      • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card




    • Recommended:
      • OS: Windows Vista or later
      • Processor: 2.4GHz quad-core CPU
      • Memory: 2 GB RAM
      • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 450 / AMD Radeon HD 5750 with 512MB
      • Storage: 40 GB available space
      • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

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    Comments 25 Comments
    1. DMKA's Avatar
      DMKA - 05-14-2016, 01:21 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
      I don't understand why the system requirements for a hd remaster of a PS2 game is lower than a port of a PS1 game.
      The same reason there are ports of seventh gen games with higher system requirements than 8th gen titles, and why half of all high profile PC ports these days are broken beyond belief while the console versions run fine on vastly inferior hardware. Depending on who's in charge, some developers/publishers are just lazy and don't give a crap about optimization and proper porting, so they just shove it onto Steam and hope no one will notice/care.

      Although in Square Enix's case I think they simply don't know how to do it properly. Not one FF game has a good, well optimized PC port. Even back when FFVII and FFVIII first got their PC ports all those years ago, they were known for being terrible. Even the PC ports of FFXIII and FFXIII-2 are notoriously poor.
    1. Mirage's Avatar
      Mirage - 05-14-2016, 04:20 AM
      FF11's port to PC is also very bad, lacking both in optimizations for video cards, and poor control over settings. The entire game is extremely cpu reliant, and almost not GPU accelerated at all, except for using the VRAM and being affected by the memory bandwidth of the card.

      This causes the game to be slow as trout even on new systems, if you increase the resolution to levels that are expected for new systems.
    1. Aulayna's Avatar
      Aulayna - 05-15-2016, 11:23 PM
      I think a large part of it is that they outsource the ports. Plus in most cases the recent PC re-releases have been ports of the Android/iOS versions that in turn have been ports of DS/PS3 emulated PSone versions. IX PC, for example, is basically running on an Android emulator. I think in most cases it's probably technically more accurate to call some of the re-releases "emulators" rather than actual ports.

      Though, of course, that doesn't excuse XIII. XIII-2 I didn't have that many issues with and LR was fine for me.

      On that note, aside from being 30 FPS locked, X|X-2 HD has been a pretty solid port for me. I haven't noticed any issues with it.
    1. Depression Moon's Avatar
      Depression Moon - 05-16-2016, 04:24 AM
      It sounds like X will run better on my PC. I've been having issues with IX like the part where you have to talk to Vivi on the Red Rose, I can only talk to Vivi if I walk through his model first. Game has also crashed on me and I haven't been able to talk to a couple npcs.
    1. DMKA's Avatar
      DMKA - 05-19-2016, 04:20 AM
      Quote Originally Posted by Aulayna View Post
      On that note, aside from being 30 FPS locked, X|X-2 HD has been a pretty solid port for me. I haven't noticed any issues with it.
      That's great news. I have it installed but haven't got around to trying it out yet.

      And yeah, while XIII and XIII-2 are screwed, I heard that LR is actually a decent port.
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