{"id":1631,"date":"2018-09-06T10:31:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2018-10-18T10:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T10:55:23","slug":"lost-sphear-lags-and-freezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/06\/lost-sphear-lags-and-freezes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Sphear Lags and Freezes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Japanese role-playing game is becoming more and more common nowadays and it&#8217;s none other than <\/span><b>Lost Sphear<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Developed by the famous <\/span><b>Square Enix Co<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the protagonist has been witnessed to\u00a0be a phenomenon that no one has ever seen before. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever a memory is forgotten, some portion of the world just diminishes. This is a journey to save the world where the storyline is incredible, to say the least. The gameplay is just as seamless as the storyline of <\/span><b>Lost Sphear<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/download\/ibx\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Clean Up System Cache with ST Cleaner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ST Cleaner adheres to Clean Software Association Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h2><b>Issues Faced During Gameplay<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is perhaps, no game safe from widespread complaints about issues faced by users during the gameplay. And the same holds true for <\/span><b>Lost Sphear<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where there is a huge number of ever-increasing complaints about the certain issues that plague the gameplay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are complaints about in-game stutters. In the beginning, moving around the map causes stutters. While users with this specific complaint do suggest that the framerate is stable, the\u00a0stutters turn out to be the main undoing. We will look into how to solve it shortly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another common issue being talked about is screen tearing. People with well above specs for running the game are experiencing this situation in which the screen has vertical lines across it. One reason for it could be the <\/span><b>Vsync<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being turned off. We will address this issue as well in a while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the issues that is well documented is the user being unable to see any sprites when the game launches. No characters can be seen in this instance. The only graphics present are the background and the spells. This is the stage where the protagonist is supposed to wake up but all that the gamers can make sense of is the background music and that\u2019s it. Another similar bug that has been reported is the game freeze which prevents the users from progressing further in the game. The particular scene being talked of is when <\/span><b>Locke<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been injured while shielding the soldiers from the blast. When the main character goes through the path where <\/span><b>Lumina<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asks to wake up, the screen freezes. It gets completely white and there is no way to revert it. The game has possibly crashed by now which is why it never tends to run again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few of the users of the game have also complained of high load times and have termed it as lag. The possible reasons behind this issue will be discussed in the following passage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Solutions to Problems<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing the last issue we discussed in the above passage, the definite reason for high load times i.e. around <\/span><b>20<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seconds is the presence of a hard disk drive rather than a solid state drive. Due to the mechanical parts in the <\/span><b>HDD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (which means having moving parts in the drive), it takes more time to read data. An <\/span><b>SSD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would almost certainly improve the load times and if load time is one of your issues, it is about time to upgrade to an <\/span><b>SSD<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To eliminate the issue of stuttering we discussed above, you need to use the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Kaldaien\/SpecialK\/releases\/download\/sk_special_projects\/SK_SO4_BorderlessFullscreen.7z\" target=\"_blank\"><b>mod framework<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that is present on <\/span><b>GitHub<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change the settings in <\/span><b>dxgi.ini<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set the <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>TargetFPS<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> variable equal to <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>60<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turn the <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>SleepLessRenderThread<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> variable to <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>True<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set the <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>PreRenderLimit<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>BackBufferCount<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>PresentationInterval<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equal to <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>2<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>3<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>1<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Screen tearing can possibly be solved by turning on <\/span><b>Vsync<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This can be done by first installing the <\/span><b>Nvidia Inspector<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This software lets you have some more graphics options. From these options, you need to set the <\/span><b>FPS<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><b>Frames Per Second<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) to <\/span><b>60<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and have the <\/span><b>Vsync<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to adaptive. You can follow these simple steps to do this:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the <\/span><b>Start<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> menu, type in <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Nvidia Control Panel<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and open the application.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to the <\/span><b>Manage 3D settings <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">panel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under <\/span><b>Global Settings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, look for <\/span><b>Vertical Sync<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and turn it on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is how you can help yourselves out of the screen tearing issue. Last but not the least, it is imperative that you check the system specs and ensure your computer at least meets those requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese role-playing game is becoming more and more common nowadays and it&#8217;s none other than Lost Sphear. 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