According to multiple reports, the upcomingStar Wars Jedi: Survivormay have serious performance issues on PC. The newStar Warsaction RPG launches tomorrow at midnight EDTon PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, but it seems that PC gamers may not have as great a time with it as they would hope.Developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by EA,Star Wars Jedi: Survivoris the sequel to 2019’sStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The new game picks up five years after the events ofFallen Orderand sees protagonist Cal Kestis on the run from the tyrannical Galactic Empire. The game also features expanded lightsaber combat mechanics, larger and more expansive maps, and a wider range of customization options.RELATED:Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Confirms Fan Favorite Feature At LaunchUnfortunately,the upcomingStar Wars Jedi: Survivorappears to suffer from significant performance issues on PC. YouTuber Skill Up described the problems recently in a pair of Tweets. While he plans to upload a full review to his YouTube channel, his first tweet describes “a great game that you should absolutely avoid if you’re playing on PC.” Other platforms were similarly critical ofStar Wars Jedi: Survivor’s PC port’s performance, with PC Gamer dedicating four paragraphs to the problem in its review of the game.
Skill Up describes some of the problems in his tweets, particularly the PC port’s poor framerate. The game reportedly struggles to maintain 40 frames-per-second on an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card and a 4090 GPU doesn’t seem to do much better, so one can only imagine how bad it will be on more budget hardware. Meanwhile, Skill Up also reported a game-breaking audio bug that happens during every cutscene.
Park went into detail in his review, describing massive frame rate drops that often last for several seconds. Doors and cutscenes seem to be particularly bad forStar Wars Jedi: Survivor’s performance, with the latter sometimes plunging the game as low as 15 FPS. He also described how cinematics often cut off or overlap lines of dialogue, which is presumably the same audio glitch Skill Up encountered. Park also confirmed thatchanging hardware and adjustingStar Wars Jedi: Survivor’s graphicssetting didn’t do anything to help. He eventually found a workaround by opening the Nvidia control panel, but that created its own set of problems.
In fairness, EA and Respawn are aware of the game’s performance issues and will have a performance patch available at launch.Star Wars Jedi: Survivoralso seems like a great gameapart from its technical problems, which seem to be exclusive to the PC port. Still, PC gamers may want to wait and see before buying the new game.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivorlaunches for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on April 27.
