Some at least until that ending), others have experienced disruptive performance issues that have made the game a lot harder to enjoy.

Thankfully, the burgeoning FF7 Rebirth modding community has a fix for poor performance - or rather, multiple fixes. A mod recently ed by Nexus Mods VANIILAcoffee promises a wide variety of improvements: a higher FPS, less motion blur, fewer stutters, and overall cleaner visuals. There are two versions of the mod: one aimed at upgrading performance with no loss in visual clarity, and another that decreases the game's quality in order to help it run on lower-end systems. A mod ed by P40L0X offers a similar spate of improvements, in a more universal (although perhaps less flexible) package.

A Potential Fix For Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Performance Issues Has Surfaced

Many Players Have Encountered Bugs

Although the game itself is massively popular, many Rebirth players on PC have reported performance issues and bugs. A common complaint is the unstable frame rate; many players report that their games are unable to maintain a consistent speed, and may lag in the open world. This can be incredibly disruptive to Rebirth's real-time combat; you can't fend off those Cactuars when your game is functionally freezing every few seconds.

You should never attempt to install multiple performance mods for FF7 Rebirth at the same time; uninstall each one before testing out the next.

Others say the motion blur is excessive, which makes it difficult to explore and find secrets. Motion blur is a common trick of the trade, used to reduce the load on hardware by rendering distorted versions of the backdrop in certain areas instead of a full, detailed view. However, when overused, it can be distracting, preventing the player from catching important visual cues.

Still others say they've encountered sudden black screens that have required them to restart the game, and some say it occasionally crashes outright. It's clear that FF7 Remake is in desperate need of a patch, and since Square Enix itself hasn't yet stepped in, the fan-made performance mods have filled an important niche.

Why Does Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Need This Mod In The First Place?

PC Ports Can Be Tough

While FF7 Rebirth ran just fine on the PS5 at launch, many have encountered issues with its PC port. In general, ensuring consistent performance is much more difficult for a PC game than it is a console game. This is because all consoles of a particular type have roughly the same specs, even if there are multiple different models. But every PC is different, with one of a trillion possible permutations of hardware for the game to run on.

It's downright impossible for the devs to playtest the game on every potential system, so PC ports of console games like this one often get off to a rocky start, then even out after a few updates. FF7 Rebirth had similar issues at launch, and things have gotten much better since; its recent negative reviews are overwhelmingly concerned with the amount of filler content in the game, not its performance.

These issues have held Rebirth's Steam review score back to "Mostly Positive," a step below Remake's "Very Positive." Almost every negative review I could find was explicitly about bugs or performance issues. Still, given time, Square Enix will almost certainly be able to resolve the game's performance issues through periodic updates. But in the meantime, PC players of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth have lots of potential fan-made fixes to try.

Sources: VANIILAcoffee/Nexus Mods, P40L0X/Nexus Mods