This video has a companion article at SDHQ here.

Today we’re pushing Final Fantasy 13 as hard as we can and making some massive strides along the way. Watch as we bring FF13 from a bad port all the way to a great JRPG.

Note: Most of these fixes should also work for FF13-2 and Lightning Returns.

FF13Fix: https://github.com/rebtd7/FF13Fix

Large Address Aware game properties:

PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 %command%

CryoUtilities 2.0 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9EjXYZUqUs

HD Project: https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy13/mods/17

HD Full Motion Video: https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy13/mods/18

Better Cutscene Audio: https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy13/mods/34

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Chapters

00:00 - The Hook

00:26 - Announcement

01:08 - Test Methodology

02:38 - Getting a Baseline

03:21 - FF13Fix Installation

04:07 - FF13Fix Results

04:40 - Large Address Awareness

05:14 - LAA Results

05:37 - CryoUtilities 2

06:13 - Proton-GE Results

06:36 - Identifying a Bottleneck

06:57 - Frame Limiter

08:27 - SMT

09:20 - CPU Governor

10:10 - GPU Pinning

10:40 - Pushing the Deck

11:44 - 1080p Results

12:14 - 4K Results

12:36 - Comparing to Baseline

13:37 - Other Things I Tried

14:12 - Presets Intro

14:45 - Battery Saver Preset

15:12 - Smoothest Preset

15:37 - Recommended Preset

16:03 - 1080p Docked Preset

16:32 - 4K Docked Preset

16:54 - Conclusion