Here we go again! Just like The Last of Us Part I (and so many other games recently), another major game released too early. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor is a hot mess.
It didn't take long for players to make their thoughts clear, with the Steam user review rating hitting Mostly Negative shortly after release from over three thousand people, although now it's changed to Mixed. This could easily be the worst launch so far this year. It's so full of general technical issues but the biggest problem is the performance, as even on top-end systems it seems to be struggling everywhere.
Here's an example of just how bad it is on Steam Deck:
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It's probably going to be quite a while before it's fixed up to a satisfactory level. They've now released a statement that reads:
We are aware that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor isn’t performing to our standards for a percentage of our PC players, in particular those with high-end machines or certain specific configurations.
For example, players using cutting-edge, multi-threaded chipsets designed for Windows 11 were encountering problems on Windows 10, or high-end GPUs coupled with lower-performing CPUs also saw unexpected frame loss. Rest assured, we are working to address these cases quickly.
While there is no single, comprehensive solution for PC performance, the team has been working on fixes we believe will improve performance across a spectrum of configurations. We are committed to fixing these issues as soon as possible, but each patch requires significant testing to ensure we don’t introduce new problems. Thanks for understanding and apologies to any of our players experiencing these issues. We will continue to monitor performance across all platforms and share update timing as soon as it is available.
The Star Wars Jedi Team
Testing STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor out on desktop Linux with my Fedora KDE 38 system running an AMD Ryzen 5800X, an NVIDIA 2080 Ti and Proton Experimental it can't hold anywhere near 60FPS even at only 1080p. Testing across Low, Medium and High details preset, the performance across all of them is very similar and even Low is well below 60FPS, often 40FPS and below. Keep in mind these shots are on Low details:
Right now, it's a definite skip until they actually sort out all the performance problems.
You can buy it on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I'm old enough to remember when Electronic Arts was a fantastic publisher
Me too, thats the sad bit about it.
PS.
Now the emojis work..,. WT*
slaapliedje Apr 29, 2023
Someone needs to remaster Mail Order Monsters...I'm old enough to remember when Electronic Arts was a fantastic publisher
Me too, thats the sad bit about it.
PS.
Now the emojis work..,. WT*
Never. Ever. Ever. Pre-purchase. Ever.
I could understand the need to preorder back when games were primarily sold as physical copies however the digital age doesn’t make any sense to me. The only benefit is that you can pre-download the game, but if you MUST play it day one anyways, does pre-download really add any benefit? Preorder bonuses will eventually be made free or added as optional DLC. Entire idea seems like broken logic for impatient people.
Someone needs to remaster Mail Order Monsters...Don't give them any ideas - they'd probably decide to add microtransactions in order to simulate the "Mail Order" part of the name...
You know when you have a 300-400 Mb game executable, that it most likely has Denuvo or at least something like it that isn't supposed to be there. The assholes bake those things right into the main game program. That goes against everything we hold dear in our computing environment. Hell, you'd catch flack for static linking of a little library, never mind this vomitus.
I'm pretty happy I can play this game on my hardware still (Nehalem Corei7, slight overclock at 3.2 GHz (the turboboost freq.) and slight memory bus overclock, RX 570 8 Gb card). No, it isn't 60 FPS but it's decently playable on the High preset at 1920x1080.
I got fooled though! I thought this was going to need Proton. I created a new prefix with my Proton-TKG (latest lutris can run Steam Protons again now, it uses the Steam runtime) and expected to have problems with the EA App and I did. It's fine for Steam where it doesn't need to be interactive (launch game exe and it just connects up to the EA App services, with login tied to Steam account) but I have the EA App in Lutris. I switched it to my system wine (wine-tkg built with wine staging 8.6.1) to get the game installed, then I intended to switch back to my Proton-TKG and let the game exe connect to the EA app back end.
But I didn't have to, it works well with my system wine tkg.
The game's videos are a mix of .bk2 (bink) and mp4, but it seems the mp4s work with wine gstreamer, so no need for protonmediaconverter for that mediafoundation bollocks.
I generally don't like these frustrating jumping/climbing puzzle games. I tried to like the last one, but I finally gave up when every planet was just more of the same shit. So far, 2.5 hours into this game, I haven't gotten frustrated. I'm also finding it more interesting than Jedi Fallen Order. I have an EA sub as overhead, so this game didn't cost me anything more. I wasn't expecting to like it, I just wanted to see it, so any enjoyment I get out of it is a bonus.
I honestly don't know how do companies test their games to release them in a mess like this. I guess it's our own responsiblity too for having short term memory and allow it.
They don't they must their customers do it far cheaper
I came across some reddit comments or somewhere saying that this helped somewhat with performance of this game and thought "oh" :-)
I'm not sure if there is any credence to that (I didn't turn it on to test it) but it wouldn't be the first time those kinds of mechanisms have contributed to performance issues.
rustigsmed May 1, 2023
Last edited by rustigsmed on 1 May 2023 at 3:01 am UTC
slaapliedje May 1, 2023
Ha, I wasn't hoping EA would do it... That'd be terrible.Someone needs to remaster Mail Order Monsters...Don't give them any ideas - they'd probably decide to add microtransactions in order to simulate the "Mail Order" part of the name...
Mohandevir May 1, 2023
However, I'm not having that performance problem in this game, moreover since I last posted performance has improved a bit more with shaders being optimized (my guess) or even that FSR2 not taking proper effect until the next game restart.
It's working up to the limitations of my hardware. It probably depends on CPU and possibly graphics chipset. I note @rustigsmed said he cranked everything up to at least get full GPU usage. So it likely boils down to bad scheduling and iowait, for modern CPUs.
I had probably better hurry up and finish this game before they fix it (for everybody else) and hurt it or break it (unsupported instructions) for me.
slaapliedje May 1, 2023
Sad thing is, that players will not draw any conclusions from this and will preorder more games from same studios.Performance on my system has been fine, even when I turned on Raytracing. I haven't tried it since the patch was released though. Will likely do so tonight.
Then again I have a 3080 RTX and a 5900x (I think, it has been a while since I looked at the CPU.) With Proton 7 and Glorious Eggroll, otherwise the videos at the beginning and some billboards only show the NTSC signal test.
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