Xenoblade Chronicles™ Definitive Edition

Summary

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition is playable

Issues:

  • lighting is too bright on some cutscenes
  • anisotropic filtering causes cloud rendering issues
  • stuttering and frame drops on some high-end machines
  • Rainbow flickering is still present while using Mesa OPENGL and sometimes Vulkan with AMD GPUs
  • Black Grass glitch appears when using windows Vulkan drivers with AMD GPUs.

Game-specific configuration:

  • Set GPU emulation accuracy to high
    • Setting to extreme improves framerate, but introduces issues with facial animations in cutscenes.
  • Anisotropic filtering to default
  • For AMD GPUs, the Rainbow Flickering and Black Grass Glitch issues doesn’t seem to happen while using AMDVLK Vulkan drivers.

AMD GPU users using Mesa should set the environment variable AMD_DEBUG=nohyperz to resolve black texture issues.

Setting GPU Accuracy to Extreme seems to increase fps, reduce stuttering and frame drops, but requires further testing. Tested on RX 570 8GB, Ryzen 1600AF 3.7Ghz with RADEONSI Vulkan and OPENGl, AMDVLK, RADV and Windows Vulkan drivers.

Compatibility

Build Date Tested By Hardware Version Rating
08/10/2021 on 08/15/2021 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/PCIe/SSE2
Windows
Mainline Build
41ddf7f
Great
08/25/2021 ReiKatari on 08/25/2021 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Windows
EarlyAccess Build
2848a44
Perfect
11/21/2021 on 11/21/2021 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
GeForce GTX 745/PCIe/SSE2
Windows
EarlyAccess Build
8729540
Bad
01/17/2022 on 01/18/2022 AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Windows
Mainline Build
c5647b8
Great
12/31/2021 on 01/01/2022 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Windows
Mainline Build
6591103
Great
09/12/2021 on 09/12/2021 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
Windows
Mainline Build
b7cd227
Great
08/25/2021 BCSpikeFM on 08/25/2021 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Windows
Mainline Build
f81aa7a
Okay
09/26/2021 on 09/27/2021 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Windows
Mainline Build
bb21460
Great
12/19/2021 on 12/20/2021 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Windows
Mainline Build
c25e33d
Great
09/24/2021 BCSpikeFM on 09/25/2021 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Windows
Mainline Build
db6f01d
Great
Compatibility
Great
Game functions with minor graphical or audio glitches and is playable from start to finish. May require some workarounds.
Release(s)
0100FF500E34A000

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