{"id":62,"date":"2022-04-26T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=62"},"modified":"2022-04-26T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:53:55","slug":"fatal-frame-maiden-of-black-water-pc-port-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water \u2014 PC Port Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water\u00a0<\/em>is described as a remaster, but it\u2019s more of a straight PC port of the Wii U version with changed controls. Case in point, the original version was 15 GB, while this one is 22. Granted, I don\u2019t own a Wii U to go back and compare the versions side by side, but as best I can tell, the graphics don\u2019t appear to have changed much at all. As this is a port of a Wii U game, there\u2019s no reason to post any specs here. You can run this well if you have a dedicated GPU.<\/p>\n

There\u00a0is<\/em> a rather glaring problem with this port, though. If you have a 60 hz monitor, it\u2019ll all be fine on your end. If you don\u2019t, the game will either run at your monitor\u2019s refresh rate or thereabouts. I use a TV with multiple settings and usually game at 1440p\/120hz. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water\u00a0<\/em>runs at a solid 120 fps for me for the most part. The\u00a0problem\u00a0<\/em>is that the game\u2019s speed is tied to its frame rate, so I was playing the game at\u00a0double speed<\/em>. At first, I thought I was losing my mind when I noticed how fast everything was.<\/p>\n

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There doesn\u2019t appear to be a way to work around this in-game. I saw no frame limiter of any sort. You\u2019ll likely have to use an external program to cap your fps in order to play this. It\u2019s\u00a0kind\u00a0<\/em>of a big deal. I just switched my resolution to 4K\/60hz and that solved that problem. At least Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water\u00a0<\/em>runs wonderfully at 4K. I got a steady 60 fps with very rare drops, outside of certain instances such as the misty folklorist\u2019s house in drop five. At least it runs well? Let\u2019s take a look at the graphics options next.<\/p>\n

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Okay, this isn\u2019t shocking. Textures, AA, and depth of field. At least borderless is available, I guess. There are three texture settings and it doesn\u2019t say what kind of AA it uses. Again, it\u2019s a port of a 2014 Wii U game, so it\u2019s not that surprising. Regardless, I took some comparison shots.<\/p>\n

\"Textures<\/p>\n

Textures High 1<\/p>\n

\"Textures<\/p>\n

Textures Low 1<\/p>\n

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Textures High 2<\/p>\n

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Textures Low 2<\/p>\n

\"AA<\/p>\n

Aa On<\/p>\n

\"Aa<\/p>\n

Aa Off<\/p>\n

Since the re-release was announced, I often thought about how awesome it\u2019d be to play Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water\u00a0<\/em>with mouse controls. Swinging the camera around with a mouse would surely be one of the best ways to play the game, no? Well, there\u2019s no mouse support outside of the buttons. You can\u2019t move the camera or navigate the menus with a mouse in any capacity. It\u2019s horribly disappointing. It seems like it\u2019d be fairly easy to implement, but here we are all the same. The default keybindings are also\u00a0super weird<\/em>, but you can rebind all of them, at least. Well, not the gamepad ones. I do have to note that I got two freezes during my time playing the game. The game just stopped responding to my inputs and the next thing didn\u2019t happen. The exe stayed open and the sound continued to play, but I had to close it out via the task manager.<\/p>\n

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There you have it. Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water<\/em>\u2018s PC port has one major problem, one major disappointment, and the occasional weird freeze. If you don\u2019t mind locking your fps with an external program, it\u2019s still an immensely playable game that I happily recommend to horror fans. I really wanted that better camera control, though. Maybe one of you animals will mod that in for me. Pretty please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water\u00a0is described as a remaster, but it\u2019s more of a straight PC port of the Wii U version with changed controls. Case in point, the original version was 15 GB, while this one is 22. Granted, I don\u2019t own a Wii U to go back and compare the versions side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}