PS5 Beta - Performance issues (framerate drop and image stuttering)

[Wetw0rk]

I love this game but the more I play of the PS5 version the more I consider upgrading my PC and playing there instead. I shouldn't have to do that, but playing with these issues is slowly breaking my resolve. The 1440p mode has, for me at least, only manifested problems in the open world sections. All dungeons, trials and alliance raids run flawlessly as far as I can tell. However, I've been playing a lot of BSF over the last day or so which is predictably ropey, but Castrum Lacus Litore... OMG! It is by far the worst performing zone I've been in. It was horrible and broke my heart tbh. It was so choppy I honestly don't want to play it again. I've got Delubrum Reginae to do today and I'm dreading it.

edit - Just got finished with Delubrium Reginae and other than getting my arse handed to me, the game ran beautifully.

[BristolRuss]

Digital Foundry did a video about FFXIV versions and found the PS5 native version to be lacking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIiUXdEyo0

PS5 version starts at around 28 minutes.

[TipRingSleeve]

Digital Foundry did a video about FFXIV versions and found the PS5 native version to be lacking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIiUXdEyo0

PS5 version starts at around 28 minutes.

Was just about to post this but yup, was happy to see this today. Hopefully it’ll bring more attention to the issues.

[RyoXander]

I haven't played the game in a while and download the PS5 version that can't even run 4k 60FPS ������. Idk if that's bad for SE or Sony but one of the 2 companies has some explaining to do lol

[Furukawa]

i can’t believe we still haven’t had any acknowledgment from the dev team for this issue. This is the worst thing they can be doing. Just pretending there’s nothing wrong with the PS5 and moving on. i don’t even need it to be fixed right away, i understand it’s crazy time for the dev team with Endwalker and we’re still in a pandemic. All i would like to see is someone from the team acknowledge the PS5 version issues.

[Furukawa]

i can’t believe we still haven’t had any acknowledgment from the dev team for this issue. This is the worst thing they can be doing. Just pretending there’s nothing wrong with the PS5 and moving on. i don’t even need it to be fixed right away, i understand it’s crazy time for the dev team with Endwalker and we’re still in a pandemic. All i would like to see is someone from the team acknowledge the PS5 version issues.

[Wallance]

I wanna raise this issue as PS5 version with framerates dropping is still a problem whether it's on 1080p or 1440p or 4k. It's worse when comparing to ps4 version playing on ps5 which is far more superior in terms of FPS. DF video is a good example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trIiUXdEyo0

I sincerely expect squareenix support team to fix this. The crisp UI and loading time is fantastic and it just left one thing to be fixed which is the framerate on 1080p and 1440p. I don't expect it to run amazing on 4k but just give us back the 1440p/60fps from the ps4 pro version apply with high resolution UI and fast loading. Thank you for your time SE tech support team.

[LEANDRAO]

I confirm this information. I played every day on PS5 and the FPS is a CRAP very bad optimization, guys. The Devs would be focus it and resolve this issues.

[Nero_Leono]

I just came back here after watching the Digital Foundry video to link it, but see it already has been posted. The video has perfect examples of the issues I described in my original post regarding the framerate dip and stutter on the native PS5 version. I'm running the PS4 version on the PS5 and have been since trying out the PS5 beta and seeing how poor it runs. I'm disappointed that SE has not even acknowledged the issue in this thread.

[Dracian]

I finally broke down and went back to the PS4 version. The faster SSD and controller features just weren't worth the FPS drops. Hopefully closer to Endwalker things get resolved.