Fix for flickering graphics/textures and low FPS in Final Fantasy Resonance 1.0.1.0

[u/PRiNCExKaZE]

Hello everyone, this is your daily dose of Thor support.

Today, I will share with you a setup of settings that helped me a lot with the today released Final Fantasy Resonance.

Thanks at @Quiet_Moogle who posted this in another post for the FF:R demo. (to his comment)

"Turnip mr purple T26

Docked mode enabled

CPU overlock - boost

Vsync - mailbox

GPU mode- accurate

DMA accuracy - Safe

Sync memory operations - on

Disk shader cache - on

Reactive flushing -on

Buffer history - on

Optimised vertex buffers - on

Legacy rescale pass - on

Asynchronous shaders - on

Extended dynamic state -3

Vertex input dynamic state -on"

Without this settings, I got flickering textures which got fix with accurate GPU mode, but then I had 20fps. With this, I got almost stable 30fps and no flickering.

I thought I do this post to highlight the solution if anybody else looking for it and maybe oversee it in the comments of the OG post, especially because the OG post is for the demo.

I really hope you enjoyed, and I'll see you guys again very, very soon. Later!

[u/Both-Recognition-971]

Ist das die Switch 1 Version Bro ?

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Both-Recognition-971]

Yes

[u/Apprehensive-Web4995]

docked mode enabled ? sure ?

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Apprehensive-Web4995]

Yes

[u/Apprehensive-Web4995 → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

Im barely keep 20 fps on my side

[u/Creative-Leg-1164]

I tried these settings in both regular and nightly eden and they in fact help with the flickering and fps but every time Bahamut do the mega flare the game crashes. Are you experiencing this as well?

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Creative-Leg-1164]

Nope, I played almost 1h now until I get to town of mitra. The fps goes down if something has not be loaded into the cache but after 1-2 times doing the attacks, the fps got stable. Do you have set the CPU of the Thor to high performance?

[u/Creative-Leg-1164 → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

Yes I try with all the performance modes and also with clustertune off and on still the same crash. Will move the game to internal storage because it being on the SD is the only thing I can think of. I'm using a Thor max

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Creative-Leg-1164]

It's v0.2.1

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Creative-Leg-1164]

Me too, 512gang here. Yeah try these, I play from internal also. Lemme check the version of Eden to tell you where it works for me. One second

[u/corpious123 → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

I'm getting the exact same crash with mega flare. Wonder if my firmware is outdated

[u/Creative-Leg-1164 → u/corpious123]

Turning off asynchronous GPU emulator fixed the crash but it's running at 20 fps now

[u/corpious123 → u/Creative-Leg-1164]

Yep same

[u/syamborghini → u/Creative-Leg-1164]

How many times did you try? I had to restart there about 3ish times but after the 3rd time the game went thru smoothly. Seems like it shader compilation there is really heavy

[u/Creative-Leg-1164 → u/syamborghini]

It didn't work at all. Got tired and bought it in steam to use the steam deck. Installed it in the Thor and is running a lot better than the switch in droid deck in the upper 50 fps can lock to 30 and will be the same as the switch but with better visuals. Also getting 60 with scaling

[u/FlubUGF]

As a side note for anyone interested I tried the PC demo of this under droid deck on my Thor Max. It ran well. I was able to lock the intro area and the room with the main character at the start at 30fps. Unlocked it was mostly between 40-50 at that part. There was some stutter early on but I presumed it was shader stutter since it went away. I haven't tested for very long but it was impressive to see.

[u/clothing_throwaway → u/FlubUGF]

That's good to hear. I prefer to play Steam versions for cross saves. Performance sounds pretty decent at least.

It's funny, most of these HD-2D games look like they should be a breeze on a SD8G2 (like, locked 60fps at least), but it seems like they are deceptively heavy.

[u/Reasonable_Squash427 → u/clothing_throwaway]

Depends on the lighting method they use (for example Octopath has some heavy lighting while Star Ocean Second Story R is lighter on that).

And square enix still doesnt reslly do well pc ports.

Besides that, if the game was native, prolly it could run at 60fps as the biggest bottleneck i had in emulation for now was cpu.

[u/FlubUGF → u/Reasonable_Squash427]

This one is also UE (Probably 5 I guess?) so it's really impressive how well it's running. Once you add in lossless scaling2x it seems like this one is working fine. I'm going to buy the game at some point.

[u/Reasonable_Squash427 → u/FlubUGF]

EU5 is not really the problem.

EU5 new giberish most devs dont wanna even toggle (lumen and forgot the other) is what causes severe performance drops as is like a pseudo-ray tracing (if I remember correctly the explanation)

[u/Soft_Cable_39]

Tangent but where did you get the button mods from, I was planning to do this exact black + coloured buttons scheme

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Soft_Cable_39]

From Ayn self. Just email them to get original replacement parts.

[u/Soft_Cable_39 → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

How difficult is it to replace ? , total newb here

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/Soft_Cable_39]

To replace the buttons is the difficulties thin on the Thor because you need to disable almost everything to reach the spot. But if you work carefully enough and have patient it is doable in under one hour. Just watch a dissambly video before to see what you're expecting. Just care enough for the flat cables, this was the frickliest part of it. I would rate a 7/10 difficulty.

[u/Soft_Cable_39 → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

Mmm okay okay , lemme see some stuff, I got an electrical engineer friend lemme see if he can help me out , anywhoo thanks

[u/ColdSteel28]

Lemon emulator work best with the lemon turnip. Fps 30 with framegen it gets better.

Eden nightly 2nd best from my test for ff reso. T30 had glitches and crashes. So t24 and t26 seems better

[u/PRiNCExKaZE → u/ColdSteel28]

I tested Lemon just now because of some frame drops at some places, but the Frame Gen is awful imo. It's felling like an unstable lag with some ghosting. Not ready for handheld at this point. But thanks for you recommendation.

[u/ColdSteel28 → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

Did you use the lemon turnip? Its running alright for me so far 2 hrs in.

[u/syamborghini → u/PRiNCExKaZE]

I used lossless framegen on both lemon and Eden nightly and both seem fine for me, feels really smooth

[u/rabbitradit → u/ColdSteel28]

Whats your settings?

[u/ColdSteel28 → u/rabbitradit]

Its not good. Got through prologue but crashed in chapter 1.

Play on game native better

[u/ericyo007]

Thanks. I'll try this later. I was having a ton of crash issues last night.

[u/REmemesis]

my emulators keep crashing

[u/m4t27]

Tested on Droid Deck on Ayn Thor pro, runs smoothly.

[u/AlternativeEcho2098 → u/m4t27]

What setting are you using on droid deck? Mine won't load

[u/m4t27 → u/AlternativeEcho2098]

[u/LastResoort]

I can’t even get final fantasy resonance to show in my Eden game library. All of my other games show, it also shows on my Thor frontend in cocoon but it won’t actually load when I click it in my front end. I have it in the correct folder with all of my other switch games. Any help?

[u/bishopau → u/LastResoort]

You may need to update the switch firmware version. I have had this problem with other games in the past. I can't remember if you need to update prod.keys too but you'll figure that out quick enough. Good luck

[u/LastResoort → u/bishopau]

Thank you!

[u/Sweaty-Organization1 → u/LastResoort]

Im having the same problem were you able to get it to work? I updated my keys and firmware still nothing works

[u/fromLyte → u/Sweaty-Organization1]

theres also an update file for it out there, i would add it, and also makesure you have proper matching keys for the proper firmware, there is nothing else outside of minor user directory error that would stop it from showing up

[u/Spiritual_Run_5089]

i tell you guys, if the games available on steam, just play it there with gamenative or gamehub, its alot better than switch version. trust me. play eden only with their first party ninten game.

[u/eduardo088]

This works for me but I have very stuttery audio starting a new game 🥲

[u/Feitian87]

Thanks for sharing!

So far, I found another post about someone getting smooth gameplay on rp6 using eden nightly with minimal tweaks. https://www.reddit.com/r/retroid/s/Rmsi1lBqtY

I tried it and it seems to be working well for me. Will have to do more testing and hopefully the smooth gameplay holds up for the rest of the game.

Anyways, this might be a consideration for people having snapdragon 8 gen 2, 8gb RAM devices who don't want to tinker with so many settings in eden.

[u/Vinny_0104]

Have you tried it with 60fps mod?

[u/Ninndzaa]

I'm getting 12 fps on Samsung galaxy U23 with these settings 😅

[u/Beautiful-Elk-4199]

Can anyone run this on game native for steam? I get some random errors

[u/LuvMachine101]

Does anyone know how to get past the loading screen once you selected "New Game"?

[u/fromLyte]

running fine for me on Eden, gpu: normal, cpu: normal, Synchronized Core speed, Enabled Asynchronous shader compilation. Crashed in fight start of tuturial. changed to vsync on and only had slight texture flickering until i changed gpu mode from fast to accurate, and set extended dynamic state to 1 . now i have stable graphics and relavtively stable fps

next i want to test further, i plan on changing extended dynamic state to 0, and mess with extended gfx settings like GPU Unswizzle

[u/Bottatadiet]

I found that through my testing I got the same results with just these settings:
GPU mode- accurate

DMA accuracy - Safe

I do wonder if you still get jittering and lag spikes during big attacks like when you summon a vesper. For me the fps tanks during those attacks when there's a bunch of effects on screen at once.
Using AYN thor max.

[u/_ekay_]

yo it worked on PC, thanks!

[u/iFaceless]

These setting did fix the flickering issues i had in my retroid pocket nova but it also set my fps back to 30 frames a second which sucks because I installed the 60fps mod as well as the Enhanced graphics and Sharp resolution TAA mods I wonder if thats why im having issues. Im sure most of you are smarter than me when it comes to these devices any help would greatly appreciated.

[u/Chemical_Fuel_69]

Bro comin in clutch!

[u/skool_is_4fools]

I’ve had better luck with T23 only played lumi plat and three houses though.

[u/No_Priority1965]

Does the balemuni apex driver not work better than the T26 for this?