Ys X: Nordic, the latest installment of the long-running and fan-favorite series of JRPGs developed by Nihon Falcom, will run nicely on PCs when it launches for Steam on October 25, according to a new blog post from PH3 Games that explains how it spent a good amount of time optimizing the title for PC, bringing what was initially 106 FPS in the 0.1 version of the game to 314 FPS as part of a CPU optimization process. Peter “Durante” Thoman, the CTO of PH3, shared the news on Steam earlier this week, noting that his team had some additional challenges to contend with when it came to AMD hardware. A chart that outlines the improvements achieved over the course of Ys X: Nordics’ port CPU optimization process, as well as a trailer for the game, can be found below.
During the intro scene…his framerate dropped below 5 FPS, on a rather high-end system. He immediately asked others to test on different hardware, and we found that there was no issue on Nvidia GPUs. To make a long story short, back then we found that particular uses of memory in DX11 led to catastrophic performance loss on AMD, and we solved this issue by changing the buffering implementation of GPU uploads. Applying the same procedure to Ys X also solved this performance drop.