Some Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth players on PC have been experiencing performance issues, but don't worry: there's already a mod for that. Released January 23, 2025, for the first time ever on PC, FF7 Rebirth has already garnered praise from players and professionals alike. It's skyrocketed to the near-top of Steam's Most Concurrent Players chart, smashing records among other single-player games. But while some are frolicking through Midgar unperturbed (well, 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 uploaded by Nexus Mods user 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 uploaded by P40L0X offers a similar spate of improvements, in a more universal (although perhaps less flexible) package.
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