Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is available today and has been struggling with countless problems on the PC. A spate of negative Steam reviews complains of poor performance, while even fans who have the game preinstalled wait to install a massive 128GB day-one update.
The long-awaited sequel to Jedi: Fallen Order received high praise in early reviews, including my cityis own, especially for those who play on console. There are issues on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, like bugs and occasional inaccuracies, but it doesn’t seem nearly as bad which some have on the PC.
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The game currently has over 2,200 user reviews and a “overwhelmingly negative” rating on Valve’s storefront, with just 35 percent of players reporting an overall positive time so far. The most common problem seems to be wild frame rate drops even on medium settings and with mid to high end graphics cards. “Another AAA game marred by a terribly optimized release,” lamented one user review.
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Some gamers say they struggle to hit 60fps even at 1080p resolution, and even then the framerate seems far from stable. “I would wait for some patches,” wrote one Steam user. “Approximately 20 minutes of gameplay, 2 crashes already.” Other players reported significant performance improvements after deleting Food: Survivor first planet.
This also appears to be with the game’s massive day-one patch already in place. With 128 GB for a game that is already 155 GB on PC, even those who had the game pre-installed essentially had to re-download and install it from scratch. To make matters worse, how the files are installed. Players on Reddit The Steam version is reportedly copying files and appears to require over 250GB of disk space to properly expand and complete the patch installation.
Publisher Electronic Arts has already promised ongoing patches to fix bugs, improve performance and add more accessibility features. Post-launch cleanup has become somewhat commonplace on consoles, but there have been a number of high-profile messes on PC recently, including Callisto protocol, Wo Long: The Fallen DynastyAnd The Last of Us Part 1. Food: Survivor is the latest and begs the question again if a-month delay was enough.
Update 4/28/2023 1:01 PM ET: Food: SurvivorThe developers of tweeted a statement Acknowledging and apologizing for the problems on PC, claiming most of them seem to revolve around gamers with specific configurations, including high-end graphics cards coupled with lower-performing CPUs or with older versions of Windows.
“While there is no single, comprehensive solution to PC performance, the team has been working on fixes that we believe will improve performance across a spectrum of configurations,” the team wrote. “We aim to fix these issues as quickly as possible, but each patch requires extensive testing to ensure we don’t introduce new issues.”
