HANDHELD NEWS – The PC port of the second part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake project is playable on Valve’s handheld PC, but it comes with a lot of compromises.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has a relatively high minimum system requirement, but it’s still playable on the Steam Deck, which is lagging behind its competitors (MSI Claw, Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go…) in terms of technology. Steam Deck HQ’s test, embedded below, shows how Square Enix’s game runs on Gabe Newell’s hardware. The results aren’t bad, but they’re not great either.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is able to run at 30fps on Steam Deck, which is stable even in the more open regions with higher system requirements. But a lot of sacrifices had to be made. Dynamic resolution scaling had to be enabled, resulting in blurred images here and there and some ghosting of the visuals. In cities where there are a lot of NPCs (non-playable characters), the frame rate becomes very unstable. Twenty to twenty FPS depending on the size of the city. One of the major flaws of the PlayStation 5 is also noticeable here: the Steam Deck is often seen in open areas where something suddenly pops up out of nowhere (pop-in).
We’ve just mentioned that you need a pretty hefty configuration for the minimum. This is not an exaggeration:
Minimum system requirements – 1080p/30 FPS, low graphics preset:
- Operating system: Windows 10 x64 (no version number is mentioned)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-8100/AMD Ryzen 5 1400
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060/AMD Radeon RX 6600/Intel Arc A580
- DirectX: DX12 Ultimate
- Free storage: 155 GB (SSD!)
- Minimum RX 6600 or RTX graphics card required (mandatory ray tracing?), support ShaderModel 6.6 minimum, minimum 12 GB VRAM recommended for 4K monitors
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth launches today on PC, making it a PlayStation 5 exclusive for nearly a year. Square Enix is looking to change that, as the Japanese publisher is pursuing an aggressive multiplatform strategy.
Source: WCCFTech
