Yesterday I decided to play this game after barely starting it two and a half years ago. It was running at 60 fps when I was playing it all day yesterday and this morning. After doing some reading last night, it seemed like every post and discussion claimed it the game was 30 fps except for this thread on Reddit:
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Wondering if there was some sort of more recent patch that unlocked it, I inquired here on the Enhancement thread but people state that it's accurate to be 30 fps. So deciding to do some testing on my end, I tried playing it on my One X, and sure enough it was 30 there but because of the steps I took, I somehow lost the 60 fps mode on my Series X and now I want it back after having played most of the game that way. Let's see if we can figure out how the bug/glitch works to enable it.
Here's more details on what my situation was that maybe can give some insight as what happened.
So I last played the game on 10/15/19 on my Xbox One X. At the time, it was from a physical disc version. I got through pretty much the prologue and that was it at the time.
Fast forward to today, I now have a Series X and have the game installed on an external hard drive. I'm not sure if I copied it over to that drive after I got my Series X, redownloaded it, or it was originally stored like that on the drive and just plugged it into my Series X. So how it got there is unclear but maybe it makes no difference. The game has been updated on that drive despite never playing it on the system before. Since I last played it however, I have purchased the game digitally so now I no longer need the disc. I don't think factor should matter since Xbox treats the physical install and the digital version as the same thing and simply buying the game digitally lets you play your physical install without the disc.
Booting the game for the first time on my Series X did clearly do some sort of processing as booting a game for the first time often does on the system since it's not instant. Also I recall a couple times it complained it was taking too long to start and errored out. Oh one other thing, I was downloading a game at the time when I first launched it. After it finally booted, it pulled down my save from the cloud and when I started the game I was now at the dock with the two brothers in modern day and the game was running at 60 fps. I played it for a few hours yesterday and it was always running at 60 fps aside from some minor framerate hiccups on occasion. There were a few instances where I accidentally hit the wrong button or made a choice I realized I should have made differently and tried to quit the game immediately and start again to see if I could change my choice so it wasn't simply because it was running that one instance that allowed it to be 60 fps. You could kill game and start it fresh and it would still be there.
It wasn't until trying to sanity check myself because everyone was saying it was most certainly 30 fps and I could be mistaken because of the camera being static that I lost this ability. I did a full shut down of my Series X in order to plug in my One X to the same connections just to make sure it was on the same input, same cables, same install of the game, etc. Since I had not used my One X since I got the Series X, it had about 4GB of updates to the system before I could even boot it. Once the system was updated, I launched the game, it pulled down my save and yep sure enough it was 30 fps on the One X and I knew for a fact I wasn't seeing things then. So I unplugged everything, hooked everything up to the Series X again. This time when it tried to load from a Quick Resume, it complained that the save data was out of date and the game would need to shut down and reload. It was at that point that the game was now running for the first time at 30 fps on my Series X. So either the full shut down, or the transfer of the save data between systems has made it so the game no longer runs at 60 fps for me anymore.
My initial guess was something about the save file being older and then transferred to playing in a much more updated version of the game glitched it into being 60 fps. But I would think that the game saving would have removed that the first time it saved but clearly I was able to quit and restart the game, reload the save and it would still be there. I also can't imagine what saving on the One X would do to remove it either since you'd think the save would work the same on either platform. I also can't imagine what the cloud transfer would do to change the behavior either.
So now I'm at a loss at how I invoked this glitch. But between that Reddit thread, someone in the other thread saying they saw the glitch too and me doing the comparison to know what I was seeing wasn't 30 fps on my Series X initially, I'm pretty confident there is some way to glitch the game into a higher framerate. Before anyone insists that I was mistaken about what I saw, that is absolutely not the case and I wish I did a video capture of it at the time. I can absolutely tell the difference between 30 and 60 instantly and it was clear as day when comparing it to all the various YouTube videos of the game and comparing it to how it ran on the One X and now how it's running on the Series X for me. The game absolutely was running at a higher than 30 fps framerate.
For details of what I'm using, I have an Xbox Series X, two external HDDs with the game installed on a 4TB WD external 2.5" drive, all the video options enabled except for Dolby Vision for Gaming in the settings, and the game running on a 48" LG C1. I have verified there is no motion interpolation enabled and the TV settings is set to Game Mode. Besides motion interpolation wouldn't suddenly make the One X and Series X look 30 fps without any changes. When I hooked up the One X it was with the same cables and same input on the TV.
This glitch absolutely exists so it's a question of what causes it and I'm hopeful the community here can come together to help figure out how to make it happen.
Edit:
Figured it out!
If you play the game and pick up Fliss' license on her boat shortly after you get out to sea, it'll unlock the framerate to 60 fps. This works with a fully patched digital version. It also sounds like picking up certain other objects can trigger this too but it's not just any object. Here's video proof:
Edit 2:
Sounds like it works on PS5 too based on Het_Nkik's experience using the same technique
Edit 3:
Here's another point which looks like you can trigger it earlier in the game. Again, thanks to Kolle for linking this:
Edit 4:
A good trick is if you start a new game, and then quit right after you pick up the letter from the video in Edit 3, you can always just load this save file to trigger it and then quit back to the main menu and continue on with your main save. It's just a nice quick easy access to the trigger by having that second save around.
Edit 5:
Confirmed personally that it works on the PS5 as well while playing single player.
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Wondering if there was some sort of more recent patch that unlocked it, I inquired here on the Enhancement thread but people state that it's accurate to be 30 fps. So deciding to do some testing on my end, I tried playing it on my One X, and sure enough it was 30 there but because of the steps I took, I somehow lost the 60 fps mode on my Series X and now I want it back after having played most of the game that way. Let's see if we can figure out how the bug/glitch works to enable it.
Here's more details on what my situation was that maybe can give some insight as what happened.
So I last played the game on 10/15/19 on my Xbox One X. At the time, it was from a physical disc version. I got through pretty much the prologue and that was it at the time.
Fast forward to today, I now have a Series X and have the game installed on an external hard drive. I'm not sure if I copied it over to that drive after I got my Series X, redownloaded it, or it was originally stored like that on the drive and just plugged it into my Series X. So how it got there is unclear but maybe it makes no difference. The game has been updated on that drive despite never playing it on the system before. Since I last played it however, I have purchased the game digitally so now I no longer need the disc. I don't think factor should matter since Xbox treats the physical install and the digital version as the same thing and simply buying the game digitally lets you play your physical install without the disc.
Booting the game for the first time on my Series X did clearly do some sort of processing as booting a game for the first time often does on the system since it's not instant. Also I recall a couple times it complained it was taking too long to start and errored out. Oh one other thing, I was downloading a game at the time when I first launched it. After it finally booted, it pulled down my save from the cloud and when I started the game I was now at the dock with the two brothers in modern day and the game was running at 60 fps. I played it for a few hours yesterday and it was always running at 60 fps aside from some minor framerate hiccups on occasion. There were a few instances where I accidentally hit the wrong button or made a choice I realized I should have made differently and tried to quit the game immediately and start again to see if I could change my choice so it wasn't simply because it was running that one instance that allowed it to be 60 fps. You could kill game and start it fresh and it would still be there.
It wasn't until trying to sanity check myself because everyone was saying it was most certainly 30 fps and I could be mistaken because of the camera being static that I lost this ability. I did a full shut down of my Series X in order to plug in my One X to the same connections just to make sure it was on the same input, same cables, same install of the game, etc. Since I had not used my One X since I got the Series X, it had about 4GB of updates to the system before I could even boot it. Once the system was updated, I launched the game, it pulled down my save and yep sure enough it was 30 fps on the One X and I knew for a fact I wasn't seeing things then. So I unplugged everything, hooked everything up to the Series X again. This time when it tried to load from a Quick Resume, it complained that the save data was out of date and the game would need to shut down and reload. It was at that point that the game was now running for the first time at 30 fps on my Series X. So either the full shut down, or the transfer of the save data between systems has made it so the game no longer runs at 60 fps for me anymore.
My initial guess was something about the save file being older and then transferred to playing in a much more updated version of the game glitched it into being 60 fps. But I would think that the game saving would have removed that the first time it saved but clearly I was able to quit and restart the game, reload the save and it would still be there. I also can't imagine what saving on the One X would do to remove it either since you'd think the save would work the same on either platform. I also can't imagine what the cloud transfer would do to change the behavior either.
So now I'm at a loss at how I invoked this glitch. But between that Reddit thread, someone in the other thread saying they saw the glitch too and me doing the comparison to know what I was seeing wasn't 30 fps on my Series X initially, I'm pretty confident there is some way to glitch the game into a higher framerate. Before anyone insists that I was mistaken about what I saw, that is absolutely not the case and I wish I did a video capture of it at the time. I can absolutely tell the difference between 30 and 60 instantly and it was clear as day when comparing it to all the various YouTube videos of the game and comparing it to how it ran on the One X and now how it's running on the Series X for me. The game absolutely was running at a higher than 30 fps framerate.
For details of what I'm using, I have an Xbox Series X, two external HDDs with the game installed on a 4TB WD external 2.5" drive, all the video options enabled except for Dolby Vision for Gaming in the settings, and the game running on a 48" LG C1. I have verified there is no motion interpolation enabled and the TV settings is set to Game Mode. Besides motion interpolation wouldn't suddenly make the One X and Series X look 30 fps without any changes. When I hooked up the One X it was with the same cables and same input on the TV.
This glitch absolutely exists so it's a question of what causes it and I'm hopeful the community here can come together to help figure out how to make it happen.
Edit:
Figured it out!
If you play the game and pick up Fliss' license on her boat shortly after you get out to sea, it'll unlock the framerate to 60 fps. This works with a fully patched digital version. It also sounds like picking up certain other objects can trigger this too but it's not just any object. Here's video proof:
Edit 2:
Sounds like it works on PS5 too based on Het_Nkik's experience using the same technique
Edit 3:
Here's another point which looks like you can trigger it earlier in the game. Again, thanks to Kolle for linking this:
Edit 4:
A good trick is if you start a new game, and then quit right after you pick up the letter from the video in Edit 3, you can always just load this save file to trigger it and then quit back to the main menu and continue on with your main save. It's just a nice quick easy access to the trigger by having that second save around.
Edit 5:
Confirmed personally that it works on the PS5 as well while playing single player.
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