Final Fantasy 16 is finally out for PCs, and the system requirements seem to be rather steep. This newer, non-remake mainline Final Fantasy entry thankfully scales down to less powerful hardware, allowing for devices such as the ROG Ally to somewhat play it.
It does require a fair bit of tweaking to get up and running though, and the best Final fantasy 16 settings for the ROG Ally can be found detailed below.
Optimized Final Fantasy 16 ROG Ally settings
In-game settings
- Screen Mode: Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1600×900
- Frame Rate: 120 Hz; can be capped to 60 Hz when on battery
- Graphic Preset: Custom
- Chromatic Aberration: Enabled
- Super Resolution: AMD FSR 3
- Dynamic Resolution: Disabled
- Upscaling: Performance
- Sharpness: 4
- Graphical Fidelity: Medium; can be increased to High on 8+ GB of VRAM
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Terrain Detail: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Water Quality: Low
- Clutter Density: Low
- NPC Quantity: Low
- Screen Space Reflection: Off
- Ambient Occlusion: Enabled
- Bloom Shader: Enabled
- Variable Rate Shading (VRS): Disabled
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Turbo (25 W)/ Manual (18 W)
- Control Mode: Gamepad
- AMD RSR: Off
- CPU Boost: Disabled
- Resolution: Keep this unchanged
- AMD RIS: On
- FPS Limiter: Disabled to take advantage of VRR
- AFMF 2: Enabled
- Recommended VRAM: 7-8 GB
The Turbo preset (25 W unplugged/30 W plugged in) may fare better in terms of performance. Final Fantasy 16 is not an easy game to run, and has a rather peculiar symptom where the in-game cinematics slow down to a crawl (with an average of 20 FPS) on these handheld devices.
Expect average frame rates between 40 to 60 FPS in-game. The original ROG Ally should last around an hour on battery – with the upgraded Ally X lasting twice as long.
Further optimizations and updates from Square Enix are likely necessary to get the game running better.
