GSC GameWorld has just released the first title update of the year 2025 for STALKER 2, and shared its full patch notes. This update is 13GB in size, so let’s see what it brings to the table.
Patch 1.1.4 fixes the crashes and freezes that could occur during the shaders compilation process. As such, the game should no longer crash during it. The devs claimed that it did their best to identify the issues that were causing those crashes and, eventually, fix them.
Title Update 1.1.4 also fixes a memory leak that could occur at Rostok location. Moreover, it fixes performance degradation when shooting/aiming on saves with long playtime. Plus, it fixes a random crash related to UI animations.
So, while this patch is 13GB in size, it can be considered a small – but important – update. Sadly, it doesn’t pack any major CPU optimizations. Thus, the game will still stress the CPU in villages and towns.
GSC GameWorld claimed that it continues working on the future update, and monitors players’ comments and feedback. However, there is no ETA for when the next patch will come out.
In theory, this patch should be compatible with the mods we’ve shared. So, it should work with this mod that adds a Parkour-like climbing system to the game. It should also work with this mod that allows you to fast-travel anywhere on the map.
Earlier this month, we shared a mod that allowed you to loot all mutants. This was a feature present in all previous STALKER games that was apparently cut from STALKER 2.
Finally, you can download a mod that will remove the inventory carry/weight limit. I’m not a fan of this last mod but hey, some of you may like it. Then there is a mod that enables real-time dynamic flashlight shadows. Oh, and we also have a mod that can further improve the game’s graphics, and enable GTAO.
Like always, Steam will download this update the next time you launch its client. Below you can also find its complete changelog.
STALKER 2 Patch 1.1.4 Release Notes
- Fixed crashes and freeze on shaders compilation
- Fixed memory leak occurred at Rostok location
- Fixed performance degradation when shooting/aiming on saves with long playtime
- Implemented fixes, that should solve the problem causing saves to be lost on Xbox
- Fixed a random crash related to UI animations.
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This game has a huge potential but actually it's utterly broken , glitched and extremely unoptimized. what a waste !!
https://media3.giphy.com/media/FPqhnS4QMdZzIJYRIp/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Give it 3 years of oficial patches and mods then maybe it will be fixed, maybe.
GSC Games made a trrible choice by choosing UE5 sh##t engine !!! they sould upgrade XRay Engine instread !!!
It's too 2010 (CoP) to look 2025, and lightly threaded while at it, plus all the problems they already had. Not an option.
yep f*k unreal engine 5.
Yes I agree 💯 UE5 is mess.
Surely you are a developer and can understand why a change was made??
Guessing you didn't play Stalker did you?
dont even bother, he's an idiot
I played Stalker 2007 before you were born ……… !!!! Back then i had = Athlon 64 3800+ / GeForce 7600 GT / 1Gb RAM DDR2 800 Mhz.
And you must a gem to be around in person….
I’m 44 by the way. So yeah when you were playing your little game I was too, but in Iraq on a combat deployment! Of which was one of five combat tours totalling over four years of my life deployed!
So WTF Have you done that’s selfless and not just for yourself in this world?!?!
I’ll be waiting….. and let’s not keyboard cowboy it all up alright?
GFYS !!! Killing innocent people : children and woman there's nothing to be proud of ………. YOU Moth#F###er
AWE…….
And I had a laptop that would destroy those specs back then SLI 7900's core 2 duo and 8gb RAM.
Probably costed more than that POS box of a vehicle you're driving today!
Well well. Little one. Good for you, good FOR you.
Being I’m 44 years old you must be so much older than I now.
And cool on your build then. I had a laptop that would destroy that build back then by Sager. Dual 7950’s in SLI with 8gb of RAM and an Intel core 2 duo with first gen HT.
Playing STALKER while your busted a*s slept in your mommy and daddy’s basement while I was deployed to Iraq.
WYF have you done with yourself that is selfless in your life GUY!?!?!?
Keyboard cowboy?!? Five combat tours and over fo
GFYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trigger much. Proved my point entirely. Must be one of them non gender peoples or whatever you guys used to be called.
You’re sick !! Get Help !!
Buh bye……
UE5 looks brilliant & realistic, but it's a very unstable engine that's full of bugs. For example, the idTech engine that created the Doom series is great, the PQ looks awesome & it plays well with hardly any in-game issues.
That's where UE5 fails. But S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 is far too good to abandon due to its crashes & unstable game play. Give the dev team time and they will have this game ironed out.
Biggest issue is the stutters and poor performance in the vast majority of UE5 titles, many dev's don't seem to know what their doing or have time to do proper work – And the engine sure don't help either.
Johnny Greece pimping the usual trash, colour me surprised! Probably a screaming liberal pig ba**ard!
like most games have been since 2022 they rely on you the user to finish their job for them using the DLSS scam
It played fine for me I have a 100 hours on it on PC and the game only crashed once for me. And frame rate is excellent and stable.
7800x3d and 3080ti here.
I completed it. But I didn't like the chaos in quests sometimes… another thing killing some bosses was really pain in the a*s, had to do it on like 30 tries… But had 9950x, 3090, then 4070Ti.
Isn't that the point though? Figure out a strategy & kill the bosses. If bosses were easy it would be boring yes? Lol
Well, yep, but I played really a lot of games (playing around 20 years for now), but this one was really chaotic. I had to google it twice 😀
Well, yep, but I played really a lot of games (playing around 20 years for now), but this one was really chaotic. I had to google it twice 😀
man this game is still in beta
Kind of like any game that had come out from the last eight to ten years.
Patch it to death is the motto….
Let the stupid gamer's test it, while the clever wait and grab it later… often better and cheaper. Its like the devs want to encourage that by releasing beta games and later earn less.
Nice! Game was running flawlessly on my end, other than the error in Rostok, which was really only an issue if you went into inventory/vendors. Looks like they patched it though. Sorry for others in comments who can't get the game to work on their system, maybe some day.
Thanks everyone for beta testing ! I'll go enjoy the OG Metro 2033 in the meantime.
LOL
I did this and am almost finishing Last Light, after playing 2033.
Just put some reshade and you're good.
Don't know if I'll play Exodus, tho.
Didn't like it when it came out.
Did you try the Redux versions? They have better lighting & graphics. Exodus is pretty good too. You should give it a chance. If you like 2033 and Last Light, you will love Exodus.
Yeah, I’m playing the redux ones. But I’m using reshade as well. Guess it’s inevitable to go to Exodus after, let’s see how it fares today.
The entire Metro Series is among the best FPS game series of all time. Sits in the Top 10.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 is right their with it in the top 10 best ever.
Half Life 2 sits in the top 10 too.
I'm at endgame. My experience has been pretty good. For shader optimization, I just force close the game when it begins, then I can skip it. Other than a brief moment when things pop in when I load in, everything works fine. Now I'm exploring the zone with my OP gear looking for stashes which gives me an excuse to look at all the interesting POIs. Definitely in the loop of loading up my inventory of goodies to sell, then using all that money to fix my gear, just to go back out to load my inventory back up lol
Ooo good to know that there back at work! Many were complaining about those 3 key points, so great!
Waiting for the big patches to A Life, and, if they ever exist, for some significant performance optimizations.
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But i doubt anything significant will be done with performance honestly. Maybe small and welcome improvements but that's it.
When you have a game with the troubled story of this one that got barely put together, the problems are likely deep and would require major refactors that require a lot of work and budget, and basically nobody does it. Plus the original team with Stalker 1 didn't do much for performance either, and UE5 games haven't gotten much in performance boosts by their devs after release, so… We'll see.
looks like I'm still waiting, maybe in a year. to be quite honest, I'm probably not going to play until the SDK that they have promised to release has been out for about 6 months
Ummm why? Aren't you playing 🤔
this game doesn't need a patch to fix it, it already is a patch that needs a base game.
2027 is going to be the year!
Dunno anything about CPU usage. 40% on 9950x lol 😀 https://youtu.be/91txqJMV-XI?si=GiA3Z5-cXdEachfk
I was reading about it yesterday.
People are complaining that the game has become literally unplayable.
The more they patch it, the more bugs there are, and the worse memory leaks get.
The developers are completely overwhelmed and can't fix this piece of crap.
I'm kinda glad to see what a disaster this is.
That'll teach you to support Zelensky.
Why are you people angry? 😂
Zelensky is a 🤡, who cares, the devs did an amazing job on this game, right in the middle of the deliberate fabricated war.
What does zelensky have to do with a video game. I'm not trying to get political here. But it seems strange to draw those conclusions.
Too little too late, I finished the game.
It could be great but …
This whole game is one big memory leak, making the performance start to become choppy after 10+ mins of playing even on my i7 13700k/4080 PC… glad they're slowing fixing these leaks but still going to wait for further patches before I try this again.
Never play games at launch.
And boom, 100k+ fragments when patching the game on steam – Yupp that's how bad steams delta compression patching is. With that degree of fragmentation the filesystem is taking a measurable impact even on the fastest of ssd's.
Let's hear the "hurr durr crowd" say sdd's are inherently fragmented on a hardware block level… just proving they don't understand that it also requires a filesystem that needs to do more i/o ops per fragmented file than if it was "clean"…
great! il be exploiting it for more glitch and bug videos!