May the Fail be with You: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor player goes to extreme lengths to boost PC performance, but it’s still a disaster
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Update 4/28/23 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET:Respawn Entertainment has released a statement about the PC version of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the issues that players are experiencing with it, noting that the studio is “working to address these cases quickly.”
“While there is no single, comprehensive solution for PC performance, the team has been working on fixes we believe will improve performance across a spectrum of configurations,” the developers wrote. “We are committed to fixing these issues as soon as possible, but each patch requires significant testing to ensure we don’t introduce new problems. Thanks for understanding and apologies to any of our players experiencing these issues.”
A note from the Jedi Team on the PC version of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor pic.twitter.com/C3bp78VICrApril 28, 2023
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is finally here, but unfortunately, its performance and stability on PC has proven to be very rough. Multiple reviewers warned fans of issues like huge framerate drops, crashes, and stutters ahead of the game’s launch, and now that it’s in their hands, players are discovering just how severe the problems are. At the time of writing, only 35% of the 2,268 reviews on Steam are positive, resulting in Survivor getting a “Mostly Negative” on its launch day.
When you experience bad performance in a PC game, it’s natural to think you can improve it by lowering the game’s graphics settings. This tends to help in most cases, but in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, doing so appears to have little to absolutely no effect. In aTwitter video, YouTuber Mutahar shows that despite turning down every setting in the game to Low, disabling ray tracing, using the Ultra Performance preset ofAMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2, and even lowering the resolution to a measly 1024x768 pixels, Survivorstilldoesn’t even come close to a smooth 60 FPS.
As you can see in the clip, the framerate barely manages to stay in the 50s with these ultra-low settings even though there’s nothing going on in the scene. I imagine that things dipped even lower when any type of combat with Imperial forces started.
BRO IT GETS WORSE pic.twitter.com/4nU45ljUHQApril 28, 2023
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If a YouTuber’s beastly RTX 4090 and Ryzen 9 5950X rig can’t even hit 60 FPS using the lowest settings possible, it’s clear that there are some deeper issues here that can’t be mitigated by user tweaks. Many players and Mutahar’s performance analysis software both report low GPU and CPU utilization, so perhaps that’s the root of the game’s broken state. Hopefully developer Respawn Entertainment can resolve this and otherStar Wars Jedi: Survivor issues, bugs, and glitchessoon.
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The trend of major games launching with unplayable PC ports is incredibly worrying, and it’s gotten to the point where I don’t even bother buying new PC games until several weeks or months after they release so I don’t have to deal with a giant list of technical problems. Granted, the console editions ofStar Wars Jedi: Survivorhave several issues, too, but it’s clear that they’re still much more stable than the version PC gamers got.
The developers have said that patches “in the weeks ahead” will fix bugs and improve performance. Until those updates arrive and the community confirms they’re effective, though, I’d avoid buying Survivor on PC. It may eventually become one of thebest PC gamesfor Star Wars lovers, but right now, you should pass.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Respawn Entertainment has taken feedback from what didn’t work in Fallen Order, and the result is an adventure game that Star Wars fans are sure to love. However, the performance is incredibly rough right now, especially on PC. You may want to hold off until the developers patch the game up.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
