New Jedi Survivor PC patch pushes further performance improvements

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But only for "non-raytraced rendering," says Respawn.

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As you probably know by now, the PC version of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has not launched in the best of conditions, with many players reporting choppy performance in Respawn's latest Star Wars adventure. Publisher EA has already issued a sort-of apology for the problems, and has promised more patches coming in the next few weeks.

One of those patches had landed today, which apparently provides "performance improvements for non-raytraced rendering." That's literally all the patchnotes say, though. There's no specific information about what's been fixed, or what's been causing all the problems in the first place. But this is the second update EA has released in the space of a few days, and Morgan reported that the first patch alleviated some of the issues he experienced while reviewing it, so let's hope this second patch further smooths things out.

The announcement also addresses a bunch of bugfixes coming to consoles tomorrow, but as EA point out, the PC has already had those. It doesn't make any mention of other issues with the PC version that have been raised, such as the terrible implementation of AMD FSR 2.0 upscaling, and whether there's any chance of getting some DLSS action up in here.

Chances are Respawn and EA have further improvements coming in the next few weeks. But it would have been better if all this could have been avoided, especially since the game underneath it all is genuinely very good. This isn't a Cyberpunk situation, where the flaws stretch beyond the technical and into the core game design. For what it's worth, the Steam reviews have improved from "Mostly Negative" to "Mixed", which suggests things are a little better than they were before the weekend.

Perhaps the problems would smart less if Survivor wasn't the latest in a spate of rough PC ports, including the technical mess that was Forspoken, and the outright disaster that was the PC version of The Last of Us. It's difficult to pin down what exactly the industry's problem is with the PC at the moment, but there certainly seems to be something troublesome in the water.

Rick Lane
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Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.