Anyone else having a hard time playing on PS3?

I play on PC too, but I got on last night to relax in bed and play it on my PS3...but the lag is close to unbarable. I couldn't even target and get a spell off in the FATE's, and even a simple quest to go kill some pirates was rough...I had 2 on me, the lag froze the game mid cast and then I was dead with like 5 pirates around me lol..

Anyone else experiencing this? I checked my signal strength and download speed etc and everything is more than okay..Just curious because I would like to be able to do dungeons and such later, but don't want to harm my team because the game can't run smooth on the PS3.

(I haven't tried an instance yet on the PS3, but I'm hoping it will be a little smoother without the open world lagging everything down.)

Outside of FATE it's ok but it's almost not playable in FATE with tons of players

Performance in a instance is near perfectly smooth.

I haven't encountered any lag on Balmung yet.

I play on PS3 and I have only run into issues when a load of people are camping a mob quest pop area. Everyone charging and attacking usually lags a slight bit. Only issues I've run into, though.

During the early release it was pretty smooth and the only trouble I had was targeting when faced with a large mixed group of mobs/players.

Ever since live though Fate's have been far too laggy to add any sort of meaningful contribution. What did help a little bit though is to completely turn off everybody else's spell effects at all times. Then set party members to show only some spell effects some times.

You can of course take it steps further and turn theirs off completely as well as your own...but I like seeing my own flashy spell animations.

In fates where alot is happening there seem to be serious lag, in the fate in Coerthas Central Highlands with the Dragon, sometimes the Dragon doesn't even show up, you can see where its supposed to be because everyone is attacking it but it just isn't there and you can't select it.

I play on PS3 exclusively and the only problem times are large population areas and fates. Got my worst lag during a Treant fate. Seems to have a tough time with all the leaves or something.

Having said that, my guess is that the lag and small PS3 issues seem much worse to you coming from PC. I would probably think I was in some kind of dream world if I played on a nice PC rig.

Thanks for the responses guys^^ So when you are in an instance, everything is almost perfectly smooth?

Also, I didn't realize I could turn off all other effects but my own. I'll definitely get in and dumb down everything. Don't care about the graphics really, I just want to play the game in bed haha :p

I'm having the same problem. If the camera is facing the ground and I'm too zoomed out and a treant is in view, the game staggers to a stop. Its a huge issue in the WHM storyline where there's 3 of them on screen at once. But the game has no problem loading the rest of Gridania, just that top view of Treants is killer. Really odd. Maybe its the size?

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I'm having the same problem. If the camera is facing the ground and I'm too zoomed out and a treant is in view, the game staggers to a stop. Its a huge issue in the WHM storyline where there's 3 of them on screen at once. But the game has no problem loading the rest of Gridania, just that top view of Treants is killer. Really odd. Maybe its the size?

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The branches of trees/treants must just pretty complex to render or something, it is likely not be fully optimized. In 1.0, if you had any of the event christmas trees on screen at all most people's computers would start to chug and heat up, and turning the camera to get a view inside them would make the game stall like mad. The same issue happened when they released the moogle fight where the entrance area had a lot of treants. In both cases, the issues got fixed at some point so it shouldn't be an issue in the long run.

I remember turning off shadows helped a lot in those instances, if the PS3 has that option you can try that?

Balmung player here. Fates give me a bit of trouble (esp the Goblin one with the barrage of AoE spells) but the monsters of the Coblyn species tend to lag me out more than anything which is so weird to me.

if your using wifi then your going to experience more lag than hardwired unless the wifi is a foot away from your ps3.

I play on my PS3 all the time, with wifi. I noticed the ONLY time I ever experienced lag was during the Marlboro Fate in North Shroud I think it was, maybe East Shroud. But anyway, yeah at that point the game gets laggy, but it's still playable. It just slows down and my abilities and everything slow down a bit. There's always a bunch of people there trying to kill it though, so that could be it.

I have been having some fairly intense lag issues since EA. I play on the PS3 exclusively, and have turned off spell effects from players. I also play on a high population server, Leviathan.

It's really frustrating, I want to play this game, but when I get to a FATE and I am just sitting there anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute depending on how many people are around, it's already over. It's not just FATEs either, any place of higher population character models tend to disappear, PCs and NPCs.

I log on today, and I am experiencing the same issue, I really don't want to play this game until I get a decent PC, if this is going to be an issue for the long term. Even PCs that can barely run the game aren't having this issue at all. Feels like I wasted a few hundred dollars for the system and CE when I expected a fairly smooth experience.

Can't do Fate on PS3

I have been playing ps3 version since beta and early access. I didnt have any major issue like you mentioned, a few lags, but instance showed no problem. What I can say is that pay ATTENTION TO YOUR PS3'S TEMPERATURE. IF IT GETS TOO HOT, YOUR SYSTEM WILL SLOW DOWN. Make sure its well ventilated. Also, to keep it cool, I keep a small desk fan and blow it directly at the front to help lower the temp. Side note,. You can also buy a ps3 wireless keypad, it helps a lot especially of your customize its keybind.

F.A.T.E.S on ps3 are unplayable.
The frame rates drop to unbearable levels and the delay on skills activating Is terrible.
The game Is great but stay away from F.A.T.E.S and anywhere that's heavily populated :(