A new patch for The Last of Us Part I is now available, addressing multiple issues and providing optimizations for PC gamers. The update includes enhancements to framerate, texture and graphical fidelity, and crash fixes. Additional improvements in CPU optimization, framerate, and texture fidelity will be introduced in future updates.
The patch optimizes CPU and GPU usage throughout the game and improves texture fidelity and resolution on Low and Medium in-game settings. The graphical fidelity has also been enhanced, particularly on water surfaces in the Low graphics preset. The update fixes several crashes, including those occurring during shader building, quitting to the Main Menu, and dying after combat.
Players will now have shorter wait times when loading into the game for the first time. The HUD menu now features an option for players to lock and unlock performance stats simultaneously. To provide more clarity, the Graphics menus now include descriptions explaining when certain settings may affect others.
The patch also introduces a Texture Streaming Rate setting and fixes issues related to skipping cutscenes during critical loads and shader load warnings not appearing while relaunching the game. Additionally, the VRAM bar has been updated for better accuracy in displaying OS+Apps usage, and issues with locked settings being read by the Screen Reader have been fixed.
Keyboard and mouse users will experience improved camera sensitivity when aiming downward, and handling of commands assigned to the same keybinding has been refined. Multiple menu options have had their translations corrected for various languages, and Ultrawide Displays now have the Rangefinder reticle position corrected for the bow.
For AMD users, the patch fixes a crash that may occur on CPUs with affinity limited to X3D cores and an issue with textures rendering incorrectly on AMD GPUs. Steam users will no longer experience the “It Can’t Be For Nothing” achievement not triggering despite acquiring all other achievements. Steam Deck users will find that resetting Display settings to Default now correctly enables AMD FSR 2.
Here are all of the patch notes from the official post by Naughty Dog:
- Optimized CPU and GPU use throughout the game
- Improved texture fidelity and resolution on in-game Low and Medium settings
- Improved graphical fidelity on the in-game Low graphics preset, particularly water surfaces no longer appear black
- Fixed a crash that may occur during shader building
- Fixed a crash that may occur when quitting to the Main Menu
- Fixed a crash that may occur when dying after combat
- Fixed an issue where, on first boot, players may experience longer wait times to load into the game
- Added an option for players to lock and unlock performance stats simultaneously in the HUD menu (Options > HUD)
- Added descriptions in the Graphics menus to better explain when certain settings may affect another (Options > Display)
- Added a Texture Streaming Rate setting (Graphics > Texture Settings)
- Fixed an issue where skipping cutscenes during a critical load may cause the game to hang
- Fixed an issue where the shader load warning did not appear while relaunching the game
- Updated the VRAM bar to more accurately display the OS+Apps usage
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader read values for locked settings which may imply those same locked setting were active
- Fixed an issue where aiming downward while using keyboard and mouse (KBM) may increase camera sensitivity
- Refined the handling of certain commands that are assigned the same KBM keybinding
- Corrected Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, LATAM Spanish, Spanish, Thai, and Traditional Chinese translations for multiple menu options
- [Ultrawide Displays] Corrected the Rangefinder reticle position for the bow
AMD
- Fixed a crash that may occur on AMD CPUs with affinity limited to X3D cores
- Fixed an issue where textures may render incorrectly on AMD GPUs
Steam
- Fixed an issue where the “It Can’t Be For Nothing” achievement did not trigger, despite acquiring all other achievements
Steam Deck
- Fixed an issue on Steam Deck where resetting Display settings to Default no longer enabled AMD FSR 2 (Options > Display)
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