I know there are many guides on this but I want to add extra stuff of my own and my own settings to hopefully help some people out. I recently got FF16 and truthfully my PC probably isnt the fastest for it Ryzen 7 2700x, 32gb ram 3200Mhz, RTX 2060, decently low end. But after couple of hours of tweaking settings, reinstalling drivers and such i managed to get a decently looking gameplay and a smoother experience. Now ofc stutters may occur, I've seen people with 30 series RTX or/and much higher end pc than me that suffer from stutters so I'm just guessing the current port of the game on PC is just has unfinished optimization. And I want to apologies if I made any spelling mistakes or said the wrong path to something, correct me and I will fix it, you may as well suggest new stuff, I will try them and post them in my guide. Thank you very much for your patience its a very long guide so please follow along and hopefully I managed to help you.


U may skip this if you are afraid to mess with your GPU drivers, but in some cases it might help if you haven't reinstalled windows in the longest time ever since lots of cache and corrupted files may still be running on the gpu from the previous updates. But still, totally fine to skip to step 2.
If you know a better APP then the one I used personally please tell us in the comments probably it will helps other people in need much better than the APP i used.
Let's try uninstalling the GPU drivers, I've personally used DDU(Display Driver Uninstaller), download and install it from the official website, even if u download an older version it will tell u and take u to the new updated version(it might still tell u theres a new version even tho there isn't probably a bug, current version that i see and used is 18.0.8.9, ignore the other new version if there really isnt a new one and keep going). On the right you will see a drop down --Select device type--, click it and select GPU, you will see that the app changes with a display of NVIDIA and it might still use the logo of GTX altho its not a problem, Now on the left u will see Clean and restart (Highly recommended), click that one and give it time to work and remove all GPU drivers and geforce experience, it will restart your PC automatically.

Once your PC restarts and you use 2-3 monitors the additional ones may or may not be disabled and only one will show up. Dont fear that it's just because the GPU drivers and windows were working together to send the information of more monitors to the GPU and the drivers were doing the most work with the optimization of extending the display without affecting performance too heavily. Go back to geforce experience download page, redownload geforce experience install it and once again install the latest driver, this process might take longer depending on your storage system and internet connection since the first install will take the longest. Once its done, you can restart your pc once again for good messure and move on to step 2.


Nvidia control panel

Many people recommended that you should change only one option in it that helped many so lets also do this because you can make it affect only FF16 and nothing else.

Right click on your desktop/right click the nvidia icon and select nvidia control panel from the app tray
Click Manage 3D settings
1. On Global Settings go all the way down until u see Vertical sync, click on the drop down and select ON, then apply
2. Have the game running, click on Program Settings, click on the drop down for Select a program to customize look for FF16 and after selecting it scroll all the way down until u see Vertical sync, click on the drop down and select ON, then apply


Windows Game Mode settings (Windows 10 and 11)
This will make your PC focus more resources than usually into FF16 to provide better frames but might make other stuff run slower in the background so you can avoid this step if you dont like that happening to you but give it a try and see how it affects you then revert the change.

In Windows go to Settings by clicking on the Windows Icon, in the search bar look for game mode settings, enable it if u have it off, then on the right you will see Related settings and Graphics settings, Click on Browse look for FF16 through the local files of the game to select the .exe (To find the local files easier go to your steam library, right click FF16, Proprieties, Installed files, Browse local files and at the top u will see the path to it, either copy paste or just follow along side it and u will be able to select the FF16.exe), click on the added FINAL FANTASY XVI, options and select High performance, click save and you are set. To revert it go back here and click Remove.


We finally getting inside the game now. I will list all the settings to make this one faster after nerding about the other steps.

In-game Vertical sync OFF
Super Resolution Here you want to either have NVIDIA DLSS 3 or AMD FSR 3 enabled, switch between them and see which one works the best, for me NVIDIA DLSS 3 worked better and looked better.
Dynamic Resolution OFF
Up scaling Balance, Performance, Ultra Performance. Play with it and see what works the best for you for me Performance works really good.
Sharpness 0-10 here again is different for everyone so see what works the best but below 5 is the best for FPS.
Frame generation for AMD FSR 3 for my NVIDIA DLSS 3 is not available but if you have it available turn it ON
Frame rate 60 FPS (the game already struggles sometimes to go above 60-70 so for me capping it at 60 reduces the chances of freezes when the frame rate drops. And its a story game you dont need to pixel frame hit a player.
Motion blur, vignette, Chromatic Aberration, Screen space Reflection, Ambient occlusion, Bloom Shader Personal preference but I have them all off to help slightly with frames, they are not that impactful but it feels smoother.
NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency if you have it available select Enable + Boost
Now for graphics settings Graphical Fidelity and Shadow Quality are the most demanding on your pc so have them either on low or med. I personally have everything on LOW and the game still looks amazing to me.
Variable Rate Shading ON. It can or not help with frames better, for me ON helps but if it doesnt have it OFF.

Now you can either stop here and enjoy the game or move to the modded part of the game with Step 5 and misc recommendations and thats all.


FF16FIX mod https://github.com/Lyall/FFXVIFix

• This link will take u to the github of the mod, on the right side u will see Releases and select the newest version that you see available. Scroll down and click on the FFXVIFix_v0.8.5.zip, download it and extract it.
  
• Go again inside the local game files like before and where u have the FF16.exe just drag and drop all the files inside the zip that u extract like 5 files in the FF16 local files folder.
  
• You will see a FF16Fix.ini file with a cogwheel on it, double click and expand the notepad.

Now for the settings what I've changed the most for performance are the following in the Graphics section.

• [Disable Cinematic Effects] Enable = true
  
• [Dynamic Resolution] MaxResolution = 90, MinResolution = 50
  
• [Level of Detail] Multiplier = 0.6

Everything I've left as default, now you may tweak with them and see what works for you

Have your browser closed fully.
Close any useless apps running through task manager and app tray like epic games launcher or riot games launcher or anything like this.
In discord disable hardware acceleration.

This is all, and I want to thank you for the patience and time.

You can as well reinstall your windows fresh on 10 or 11 and install only the important stuff such as drivers, discord if you use it a lot and a browser. Then try again to see if you have stutters/lag and if it moves better but not as good you can follow the guide once again from Step 2

Update 15/05/2025(mm/dd/yyyy)

If you are running on a Windows 11 operating system, you can try to downgrade to Windows 10 since Windows 11 uses up more resources. Windows 10 could make a small increase, it is worth trying if you know how to install different operating systems. If needed I can make a guide on that as well.