Has this ever happened to you?: You’re playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy 16 and the game crashes. It’s a hard crash, too, the kind where y♈ou need to unplug your PS5 and restart it in order to get the game running again.
It happened the first night I played Final Fantasy 16, as I approached the end of an early boss fight against the Morbol. As I was close to emerging triumphant against the great beast, my TV went black, then gray, flashing "HDMI 3" in the top left corner. I held down the center button on my DualSense, but quickly realized that wouldn't work. I groaned, got up, and went to work unplugging my console.
After that, I managed to avoid crashes for the next few play sessions. But as I approached the end of the massive screen-filling battle that begins on a mountaintop buffeted by winds and leads into a massive kaiju battle between Ifrit and Garuda, the game crashed once again. I briefly considered that my PS5 might be defective, but⭕ a little googling made the problem clear.
Final Fantasy 16 defaults to Graphics Mode over Performance Mode when you start a new game. It’s easy to see why. When you’re in the heat of a fight against a massive boss and bright colors, flashing lights, and soaring particles are erupting across the screen, it’s hard to imagine that a game could look more spectacular. All those graphical bells and whistles can overwhelm your PS5 however, overheating it, and leading to a hard crash. Now that it's happened to me multiple times, I've searched around a bit, and it seems to be a common problem.
Thankfully, there’s an easy fix — and if you’re a frame rate fiend, you probably haven’t had any issues with the game to begin with. If you've had a hard crash, unplug the console and leave it unplugged for five minutes, giving the console some time to cool down. But, more importantly going forward, swap the game over to Performance Mode. It won't look quite as flashy, but it will run buttery smooth. More importantly, I've played for a few hours since without a crash in sight.
An added bonus: it actually makes fights easier. When I took on that mountain top fight pre-crash, I had a hard time telling when exactly I should dodge. The screen was so busy that the action actually suffered. But, once I attempted it again in Performance Mode, the game quickly became more legible, allowing me to pull off quite a few Precision Dodges and Strikes. Can a game look too good? I wouldn't go that far, but the things that make Final Fantasy 16 look really good place a heavy emphasis on particle effects that can get in the way of mastering its character action combat.
So, there you have it. Final Fantasy 16 is one of the best looking games on the PS5, but it might actually be better when it isn't.