XBOX one edition texture load bug?
I recently got the Royal Edition for Xbox One, and I noticed that frequently there's a texture loading bug that lasts until I close the game and re-open. A lot of textures will stay at the extremely low-res long distance textures even if Noct is shoving his face in them, especially for things like things cutscenes (like certain bosses, some character's clothing, or an imperial dropship) or signs, like the logo and pictures on the Cup Noodle trailer in Lestallum. This makes some things look like Skyrim on low settings at best and signs downright unreadable - all with (somehow) framerate issues. Googling this only leads to threads from 2016, for the demo, or for the PC edition.
How do I fix this? Wasn't there a patch for this over a year ago?
Posted Apr 16, 2018, 4:56 AM UTC
If you already owned the game before and just upgraded with all the DLC, I'd try deleting it and reinstalling (which I had to do on Xbone to remedy the frequent crashes). There's a chance it could also be your hard drive, which is what I've suspected my myriad of issues to be.
I've only ever had the low detail textures persist a handful of times, in situations where the game should have thrown up a loading screen and just failed to do so. Doesn't happen often at all, but I've had it happen a couple times on the PC version, as well.
Tried reinstalling but the problems persist. Any other ideas?
Hi, did you ever find a fix for this problem? I have the exact same issue and cant fix it. Even totally cleared my HDD of everything and reinstalled the game, but it didn't change. xbox one s here
Sadly, I did not. I eventually gave up and sold my XBOX One for a PS4 Pro.
I'd first say try having your hard drive or other parts checked over by someone to see if any of them are failing. My guess is either the hard drive (likely a deteriorating one with my Xbox One, since loading screens were also atrociously long) or, secondly, a GPU issue.
My PS4 Pro still has the same issue, to a degree, but it happened much more rarely and to lesser extents, usually after hours of play, and was fixed with closing the game (or restarting the PS4) and starting the game again. I only ever really saw the problem on the PS4 a couple of times with Imperial stuff or when viewing enemy models in the bestiary.
There is one section, however, where low detail textures IS part of the game, which is sadly not fixable, but it's only in one specific cutscene that was added in post-launch involving >!Ardyn "rescuing" the Chocobros in an Imperial dropship.!< So if you do manage to fix the problem one way or another and see that, don't panic. That's just the developers' fault.
TL;DR: If your loading screens are long as fuck too then get your HDD checked and possibly replaced (with a solid state if you can afford it)
Thank you so much for replying in such detail. I'm now convinced my HDD is dying. Again thank you so much for this, nobody else seems to have this issue and it was making me a little insane.
Not a free one, sadly. I'd try replacing the hard drive with solid state, which is something I really want to do, but 2TB solid state drives aren't really cheap at the moment.