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Naughty Dog tackles technical issues in The Last of Us Part 1 PC port with the fourth update
The patch notes detail a wide range of improvements, including game-wide CPU and GPU optimizations, crash fixes, and more detailed graphics menu descriptions.
Naughty Dog has released the fourth update for its much-criticized PC port of The Last of Us Part 1, with promises to optimize the game's framerate and address technical issues such as crashing, stuttering, screen freeze, and long load times.
The game was originally released for PC in March 2022, but it quickly drew criticism from players who reported an array of technical issues that caused the port to receive a Mostly Negative rating on Steam. Naughty Dog has since released three patches to address these issues and raise the game's Steam rating to Mixed. The new 1.0.4 update features several changes aimed at improving the game's framerate optimization, graphical and texture fidelity, and crash fixes, among other things. However, Naughty Dog has acknowledged that there is still work to be done and has committed to monitoring player feedback and releasing additional optimization improvements in upcoming patches.
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The patch notes detail a wide range of improvements, including game-wide CPU and GPU optimizations, crash fixes, and more detailed graphics menu descriptions. While the PC port of The Last of Us Part 1 has had a rocky start, Naughty Dog's commitment to addressing technical issues and improving the player experience has given fans hope for the game's future.
The full list of changes that comes with the 1.0.4 update can be found below:
- 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 appears 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 settings 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)
