Gaming News Hogwarts Legacy: The first patches are here… but not for everyone!
Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy is hosting its first major game since the game’s launch.
THE PC and Xbox gamers from Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy will be able to access theirs first major patch from today. THE Unfortunately, PlayStation players will have to wait …
A well made game when it was released but still suffered from some issues
Launched in Early Access a week agoHogwarts Legacy didn’t have one not a big patch yet. Logical, there The game came out well overall (which isn’t to say that nobody had an issue with this one, just that we didn’t have huge waves of complaints about the title’s performance, as is sometimes the case with the launch of a long-awaited game). As a reminder, the game was postponed last summer, which certainly explains how The Avalanche developers may have had time to fine-tune their game, but like all games, and especially those that exploit a particularly rich open world comme Hogwarts Legacy, some bugs and other performance issues (including some frame rate drops). always present. If those concerns weren’t perhaps recognized by the studio (which would explain why we didn’t have a big “patch day one” like many similar games), they now are. thanks to the feedback from millions of players who tested the game
Today a first patch for PC and Xbox Series … and in a few days for PS5
Xbox Series X and PC Hogwarts Legacy players can expect a bug and performance fix today.
Unfortunately, the PS5 patch has to be postponed for a few more days. This includes the fix for the Collector’s Edition trophy. We’re targeting that later this week. Thank you for your patience!
— Chandler Wood (@FinchStrife) February 14, 2023
It is Chandler Wood, Avalanche’s community managerwho has announced the patch firstrecorded and confirmed by the Official studio account afterward.
Hogwarts Legacy PC and Xbox Series X players can expect a patch today that fixes bugs and performance.
Unfortunately, the PS5 patch has to be pushed back a few days. This includes the fix for the “Collector’s Edition” achievement. We are targeting (a patch release) later this week. Thank you for your patience !
Note that he quotes the Xbox Series X, but in response he did confirmed to players that the Xbox Series S patch is coming at the same time, so today. On the other hand, as you have read, the PS5 players will have to wait a few more days. Don’t panic, the patch should arrive later this week.
The patch notes for the first major update of Hogwarts Legacy
Warner Bros. Games has released the patch notestranslated below.
February 14, 2023 patch
Build version: 1120320
Developer Note: This patch addresses general gameplay performance and stability, as well as online improvements.
error correction:
On-line
- Fixed issues with success data being sent correctly to the Wizarding World portal after linking accounts.
playing style
- Post from the owl:
- Fixed an issue with Post not correctly triggering the next mission.
- World Events:
- Fixed a rare crash in certain locations where in-game events were taking place.
- PNJ:
- Fixed a rare crash when respawning NPCs in the world.
- Fixed crash on some NPC routines.
- Characters:
- Fixed flicker issues occurring with a transparent head while the hair was still present.
user interface
- Updated localization text for additional content items.
- The version of this build has been added to the first EULA.
- Fixed a rare case where mission descriptions were not displayed correctly.
cutscenes
- Fixed the VFX rendering of the clothes transformation.
- Fixed a stability issue when skipping cutscenes.
- Fixed crash when playing cutscenes and cutscenes.
fuse
- Fixed bug when rewriting last autosave location.
- Fixed an issue when restarting from the last saved game where it was not possible to speak to a vendor after the first conversation. This will fix the following reported issues: HL-412, HL-494, HL-246, HL-1063, HL-590, HL-542, HL-976, HL-965, HL-1158, HL-1184, HL- 1089 , HL-1240, HL-1031, HL-1490, HL-1433, HL-89, HL-1930, HL-1086, HL-1636, HL-1585, HL-1028, HL-1933, HL-2606, HL-2062, HL-1587, HL-488, HL-498, HL-162, HL-1706, HL-2626, HL-2865, HL-2888, HL-2804, HL-2910, HL-2944, HL- 3000, HL-3043, HL-3024.
performance and stability
- Improved performance in loyalty mode.
- Fixed a rare crash when hovering over the map.
- Fixed an issue with world object distortion and stretching caused by wind.
- Fixed a rare occurrence when swapping materials.
- Fixed a rare crash with map asset states.
- Fixed a rare crash that would occur during in-game world events.
- Fixed a memory leak in the Global Illumination System, reported issue HL-313.
Xbox Series:
performance and stability
Improved crash collection to find rare crashes.
PC Steam / Epic PC Games:
cutscenes
- Fixed issues with missing or not working properly audio.
controllers
- Updated Switch Pro controller support, reported issue HL-346.
upscalers
- Enable frame generation technology when DLSS is disabled.
- Antialiasing and screen resolution settings are disabled when using DLSS and not Super Resolution.
ray tracing
- Fixed an issue where RTAO rendered worse than SSAO.
- The default setting has been adjusted to Medium Quality.
performance and stability
- Optimized collection of shader types.
- Performance updates and feature improvements in shader compilation.
- Fixed a crash that affected the use of Text2Speech.
- Addressed issues with suddenly expanding world resources, which resolves the following reported issues: HL-305, HL-265.
- Fixed an issue with lower frame rate for Nvidia GPUs compared to AMD GPUs.
DirectX version 12
- Please note that DirectX version 12 is required to run Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy on PC. We do not recommend trying any workarounds to get the game running with DirectX version 11 as it may cause stability issues in game launch and gaming experience.
find it Patch notes at this address. If you want Find out if this patch fixes any issues you may have encounteredsee there Links to all reported concerns (the HL-XXX codes) on the Developer Support Site.
Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy is available now for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, coming to PS4 and Xbox One in April and Switch in July.
