Final Fantasy XVI on PC one of the best ports of the series?

Final Fantasy XVI was one of the best RPGs of last year, and now it has arrived on PC with some additions that allow us to play it even on portable setups. Below, we’ll give you all the details of our multiplatform test, and if you want to read our original review, you can find it at the following link.

What’s included in Final Fantasy XVI on PC?

This port, which was released on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store on 17th September, also came with a free demo so you can see how it runs on your computer.

There are two versions of the game to choose from: the standard edition, which includes the base game, and the Complete Edition, which includes the Echoes of the Fallen and The Rising Tide DLCs, although those who pick up the standard edition will be able to purchase these separately at a later date. It is important to note that regardless of your configuration, the game will initially run a shader compilation to ensure proper operation and this can take up to 8 minutes.

In the Visual section, you can select a default graphics quality from Low, Medium, High, Ultra and Custom. while, on the super-resolution side you have options such as Legacy (TSCMAA + AMD FSR 1), NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 3, Intel XeSS 1.3, or you can disable it. You can also enable dynamic resolution, which is what the PlayStation 5 version works with, or opt for automatic rescaling or in DLAA, Quality, Balanced, Performance or Ultra Performance modes.

For NVIDIA GPU owners, you can enable DLSS frame rate generation and set the frame rate to match your monitor’s capabilities. It also features motion blur, vignetting, chromatic aberration, NVIDIA Reflex and you can choose between a low, medium or high la range:

Finally, you can also enable or disable screen reflections, ambient occlusion, bloom effect and variable rate shading.

As we can see from the graphics settings, this version is one of the most complete in terms of customization, since in the image section we can select the monitor we want (if we have more than one), the resolution, the refresh rate, enable or disable HDR and vertical synchronization.

It also includes enhancements such as the ability to select the screenshot format between PNG, JPEG, JPEG XR and JPEG XL, camera tracking when moving or attacking, mouse sensitivity, control settings, sound display (for the hearing impaired), text language, voice language, subtitle size and background, sound transcription and even the ability to subtitle what NPCs say.

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The tests

In a Windows 11 Pro configuration:

In this configuration, with all settings on high, DLSS 3, rescaling in quality mode, DLSS frame generation enabled and Variable Rate Shading (VRS) disabled. We averaged over 80 fps, although it should be noted that cinematics are locked at 30 fps.

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How does Final Fantasy XVI run on a Lenovo Legion Go?

On this handheld PC with a resolution of 1280x800, display refresh at 60Hz, TDP at 30 W, SPPT at 35 W, FPPT at 41 W, vertical sync disabled and visual settings as follows:

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With all these settings we managed to stay above 33 FPS fully playable.

How does Final Fantasy XVI run on the Steam Deck OLED?

Here we use in the image settings the native resolution of 1280x720, screen refresh rate at 60 Hz, HDR on, as well as vertical synchronization with the following settings:

These settings allowed us to play at an average of 24 FPS, but with larger enemies, the game slows down to the point where it is practically unplayable, something that needs to be taken into account if you want to use it on Valve’s portable platform.

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Hopefully, they will soon be able to make adjustments to this port to allow you to play it on the Steam Deck, because having Final Fantasy XVI on your portable is a pleasure to explore and get all the juice out of this great title.

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