Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds is an exciting mobile game that has been making waves in the gaming industry. However, if you've been experiencing lag or FPS drops, you may feel frustrated and unable to fully enjoy the game. Fortunately, there are several fixes you can try to improve the game's performance. In this article, we'll guide you through some troubleshooting steps to help you fix lag in Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds on both Android and iOS.

Optimize In-Game Graphics Settings

We will first take a look at your in-game settings. Open up Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds and navigate to your Graphics Settings. Choose a graphics preset as your quick settings. This will change your overall graphics settings for the game. Lower-end or older devices should choose Low or Normal. We are using an iPhone 11 Pro Max and set the graphics preset to High.

Lower the Advanced Graphic Settings

Enable your Advanced Settings. These give you more control over your quality settings to tailor the game’s options to your device performance. I will set these options for a low-end device with low available memory and graphics performance. Increase these settings later on if you have some performance to spare.

Set the Texture Quality to Normal. I prefer to set the Shadow Quality option to Low, as these don’t break the immersion by too much for me, and they are known to drain your performance. The Object Quality sets the structural quality of plants and natural objects. Set this option to Normal or High.

The Detail Quality will allow you to display more details at further distances, but it will greatly decrease your performance when setting it too high. In my case, I’d suggest setting it to Normal. Below, set the Effect Quality to Low and your Post-processing levels. The Background View Distance will set the vision range of your background while in-game. Set this to Normal.

You should set the Object View Distance option to a range that will not greatly affect your performance. Most devices should be able to run Mid Range fine if the options above are not too high. When using High or Very High Object Quality, you should consider lowering your Object View Distance option to Mid Range and not Long Range.

Disable Anti-Aliasing, set your Ambient Occlusion to None, and enable or disable character outlines. This will come down to your personal preference. Enabling this option might reduce your performance by a bit.

Graphic Quality Settings

In your Graphics Quality settings, set the Frame Rate to 30. For high refresh rate devices with a lot of performance, you will want to use 40 or 50 to get a smoother viewing experience. Reducing your overall Render Resolution can drastically improve your performance and fix lag, but it will greatly reduce the visual quality. If you still experience lag after applying all of the next settings, then consider reducing this option to 80% or 90%.

Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds Performance Options

Under Performance, make sure to enable the Auto-Graphics Settings During Overheating option. This will automatically adjust your graphics settings to manage temperature when your device overheats. Set this option to your preference for the number of name tags to display. The lower the amount, the higher your performance might get, but this cannot impact your performance, depending on your bottleneck.

Large Battle Optimization Options

In your Large Battle Optimization settings, you can reduce the stress on your device by simplifying the appearances and costumes of characters, effects of all entities, and name tags to prevent your device from lagging and keeping a steady frame rate. Make sure to enable all of these options. Lastly, you can enable or disable the Tap Effects option. This will have little to no impact on the game's performance, so set this to your preference.

Graphics Settings > Large Battle Optimization

Close Background Apps

After applying your changes, prevent other applications from running in the background. Resource-intensive applications or apps that use up your network connection can impact your Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds gaming experience.

Software Update

Open up your native settings application. On your iOS device, scroll down and tap on General. First, make sure that your iOS device is up to date. Select Software Update, and make sure to download and install the latest update in case one is available.

Ensure Enough Device Storage

In your iPhone or iPad storage settings, you can preview how much storage you have left and how much each application uses up on your device.

You will need enough storage on your device to increase your overall Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds performance and reduce FPS drops. Games like Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds generate and delete files in the background when the game is being used. If you don’t have enough storage left, writing and deleting data can be slow and induce lag. I suggest ensuring you have at least 5GB of free storage left.

iPhone Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Ni no Kuni

Disable VPN Connection

You should also consider disabling your VPN while playing Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds to prevent the service from inducing lag.

iPhone Settings > General > VPN & Device Management

Disable Background App Refresh

In your General settings, tab on Background App Refresh. Turn this setting off while in-game to prevent your device from updating other applications while in-game. The battery-saver mode can also reduce your performance and induce FPS drops, so make sure your device is charged, and the battery-saver mode is disabled while playing the game.

iPhone Settings > General > Background App Refresh

Restart Device

Restart your mobile device if you haven’t done this in a while. This will restart some services and processes and increase your performance when playing Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds.