Sony’s The Last of Us franchise was briefly driving excessive within the early a part of the yr. Following typically constructive buzz from the sequel in 2020 and the PS5 remaster in 2022, it gained cross-media acclaim because of a faithfully recreated HBO present starring Pedro “the guy under the Mandalorian helmet” Pascal and Bella “the other kickass little girl from Game of Thrones” Ramsey. But the story-heavy zombie shooter appears to have missed a step in its PC debut, as gamers decry that the PC port suffers from an all-too-familiar array of efficiency points.

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The day after its official launch, the sport is sitting at a “Mostly Negative” user rating on Steam. Despite the port’s purported PC enhancements, like an unlocked framerate, ultrawide resolutions, and assist for AMD’s FSR 2 upscaling, gamers are complaining of horrible efficiency, frequent bugs, freezes, and crashes to the desktop. Some gamers are seeing the sport gobble up an unimaginable 11GB of video RAM even at a comparatively tame 1080p decision. That’s the sort of reminiscence utilization that will choke an RTX 3070. The proven fact that Sony needs sixty bucks for what’s mainly a graphical punch-up for a ten-year-old PS3 sport most likely isn’t serving to issues.

The sport’s shader compilation is a very nasty shock, with some gamers reporting wait instances of as much as an hour for the prolonged, hardware-intensive course of to finish earlier than the sport hundreds correctly. In the phrases of 1 PCWorld employees member who shall stay Adam, it’s “f#$%ing brutal on the system,” capturing a 24-core, top-of-the-line Core i9-13900 to 100% CPU utilization.

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The Last of Us Part I‘s poor performance is particularly disappointing, and not just because it’s a highly-anticipated sport in its personal proper (it’s the primary time this franchise has come to any non-PlayStation system). It’s the latest PC port from PlayStation Studios, whose work has been typically good if not good thus far. Horizon: Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, God of War, and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves have been all launched to typically good opinions. Some are laying the blame at Iron Galaxy Studios, they of the infamously problematic Batman: Arkham Knight PC release, which labored on the PC model of TLOU together with the unique builders at Naughty Dog.

Late final night time Naughty Dog released a short message on its support page, acknowledging the final efficiency, stability, booting, and shader points, together with a attainable reminiscence leak. The builders are actively engaged on patches.