Modder ‘Romi’ has just released a must-have 11GB 4K Texture Pack for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. This pack focuses on the game’s environments, and it will overhaul around 1300 textures in total. So, let’s take a closer look at it, shall we?
This 4K Mod will overhaul trees, cliffs, rocks, stones, ground, grass, flowers and puddles. As such, it will make the game look better than before. And, given the fact that a lot of textures looked blurry in the vanilla game, I highly recommend trying it.
As the modder noted, this pack comes with a 5-15% performance hit on both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. I also suggest using it on GPUs that have enough VRAM. The modder claims that the pack should work with GPUs that have 12GB of VRAM. However, he highly recommends an SSD as he’s seen upwards of 700mb/s disk usage.
You can go ahead and download the 4K mod from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find some comparison screenshots. These will give you an idea of what you can expect from it.
Speaking of 4K textures, Romi has also released 4K Mods for Cloud, Barret, Yuffie, Tifa and Aerith. These mods aim to overhaul the main cast. So, you might want to also try them.
As I wrote in my PC Performance Analysis, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth runs fine on PC. Although it’s not one of the best optimized games I’ve seen this year on PC, it’s still above average. The biggest gripe is with the shader compilation stutters. Yes. Although there is a shader compilation process when you first launch it, there are shader compilation stutters. You may not be sensitive enough to notice them, but they are there. And yes, this affects every PC, whether it has an AMD or NVIDIA GPU.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Christ almighty. The base textures are awful. Just like in Part 1 only the characters look good, anything else screams PS3, and yet the game can run bad and put stress on SDD. It's crazy.
The mod that runs bad and puts stress on the SDD, I been playing this game on a HDD with no problems.
This your typical AI upscale mod with minimal effort put into it.
Minimal effort by 1 guy that even square enix couldn’t do. Also remember SSDs get worn out from writing. Not reading.
For starters, no one talked about wear and tear of SSDs, but stress (look it up, there a huge difference).
For seconds, using AI upscalers is the laziest thing a developer should do.
You don't need all textures at 4K to make them look good, not to mention is a huge waste of bandwidth and space.
So again, typical low effort mod with no though put into it, real modders would actually put work into the textures to make them look good, and only increase resolution on the ones that actually need it.
Fallout 4 is a nice example of a game that uses high resolution textures everywhere, at the cost of bottlenecking the engine, and they don't even look that good (textures resolution =/= textures quality). There several mods replacing those textures with half the resolution, and look 3x better, but I'm sure this is beyond your comprehension.
These textures improve the visuals. I notice it. Yes you don’t need huge textures. Look at what Halkhogan did with the Witcher 3 textures. But that also took months/years of work. This was just dropped into an AI upscaler. Which is minimal effort. But still better than what it looked like before.
p.s. Both DeepSeek and ChatGPT agree that your statement about putting stress on the SSD refers to the potential for damage to/wearing out of the drive. You may want to use better phrasing in the future if that’s not what you meant to imply.
The mod that runs bad and puts stress on the SDD, I been playing this game on a HDD with no problems.
This your typical AI upscale mod with minimal effort put into it.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cddf46e24d6a3c28bc577075fa2eb855a87e4181ae92b2fe64e748b969faca98.gif W.H.A.T. *Looks at peak ps3 games* W.H.A.T.
So most of the gamers can't afford to download these textures, 12+gb of vram gpu's from nvidia are high ends only
Pointless.