The latest PC patch for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has just dropped, and one of its key features is that it’s getting rid of controversial DRM Denuvo. This move is part of developer Respawn’s bid to improve performance for the critically acclaimed single player action title.
As a certain Republic Chancellor would say, this is a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. While the game did indeed score highly when it comes to professional reviews, Steam user review scores are a lot more mixed, not because of perceived gameplay problems, but simply because since its launch back in April 2023, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor hasn’t really performed very well on anything but the top end machines (and even those sometimes got to chug along and stutter randomly). Hopefully this latest patch will improve things so more people can enjoy the fruits of Respawn’s work.
Patch 9 Details
This patch focuses primarily on performance and quality of life improvements for the PC version of the game.
Performance Improvements
- Framerate improvements for various hardware configurations.
- Fixes for several sources of framerate hitching for smoother gameplay.
- Ray Tracing has been optimized for CPU usage and should now scale better for high-end GPUs.
- Fixes for performance related to using a mouse as gameplay input.
Quality of Life
- The “Optimizing Game Files” screen has been optimized and can now see speed increases from multiple CPU cores.
- Mouse and keyboard functionality has been improved across a variety of menu screens, including the first time user screens, title menu, game menu, and workbench.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed collision issue where players could fall through elevators at low framerates.
- Fix for a conversation-related crash when walking away from NPC characters.
- Fix for various, intermittent crashes. motion values, and not just the custom value and the default game speed.
General
- Denuvo DRM has been removed.
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