As promised, Naughty Dog released a new major update for the PC version of The Last of Us Part I. This latest update promises to reduce overall CPU usage. In order to achieve this, Naughty Dog has updated the game’s texture streaming procedure.
Moreover, this patch updates the user interface to accurately display VRAM usage. This will be crucial for all those owning GPUs with 8GB of VRAM. And, in case you’re wondering, no. This patch will not reduce the overall VRAM usage. It won’t also improve the quality of Medium Textures.
Thankfully, Update 1.0.2.0 improves overall stability. According to the devs, there is a fix for a known crash that would happen randomly during gameplay. There is also a fix for a crash that could occur during shader loads when booting the game for the first time.
As always, Steam will download this patch the next time you launch its client. Below you can also find its complete changelog.
The Last of Us Part I Patch 1.0.2.0 Release Notes
- Fixed a crash that may occur while quickly swapping between character skin thumbnails
- Fixed a crash that may occur on version 1.0.1.6 during shader loads when booting the game for the first time
- Fixed one known crash that would happen randomly during gameplay
- Updated texture streaming to reduce CPU usage
- Fixed an issue where DualSense and Xbox One controllers’ analog sticks failed to respond
- Fixed an issue where extraneous SFX played in both main and in-game “Options” menus
- Fixed an issue where the Depth of Field setting’s (Options > Graphics > Post-Effects Settings > Depth of Field) sharpness may change based on the Render Scale’s settings (Options > Display > Resolution Scaling > Render Scale)
- Updated Graphics settings (Options > Graphics) user interface to accurately display VRAM usage
- Fixed an issue where Environments Texture Quality setting (Options > Graphics > Texture Settings > Environments Texture Quality) did not display the correct VRAM usage
- Fixed an issue where the pop-up to enable diagnostics after a crash did not appear
- Fixed an issue where certain artifacts and weapon skins textures may not properly render
- Fixed an issue with the tutorial’s user interface not displaying correctly
- Fixed an issue where mouse wheel scrolling in menus with dropdown options may accelerate faster than intended
- Increased active loading to reduce load times on gameplay progression
- Fixed an issue where camera orientation may warp to cursor position after exiting the Pause menu
- [Photo Mode] Fixed an issue where camera will not rotate in while in the Lighting tab
- [The Quarantine Zone] Fixed an issue where the player and buddy characters may suddenly appear wet during gameplay
- [The Quarantine Zone, Left Behind] Fixed an issue where lighting and texture may flicker during gameplay
- [The Outskirts] Fixed a gap in geometry visible during gameplay
- [The Suburbs] Fixed an issue where animations may fail to load during gameplay
- [The Suburbs] Restored the window-breaking and car-shaking FX in the sniper in-game cinematic
- [Tommy’s Dam] Fixed an issue where horse animations would fail to load during an in-game cinematic
- [Bus Depot] Fixed an issue where water FX may appear choppy during gameplay
- [The Firefly Lab] Fixed a LOD issue where enemy NPCs’ helmets may vanish or appear corrupted
Left Behind Standalone
- Fixed an issue where watergun shots would appear to hit Riley but not register while using Slow Motion with V-Sync off
- Fixed a crash that may occur while following Riley in the mall
- Improved level of detail in the Halloween store
- Fixed a crash that may occur when triggering the optional conversation at the Affordable Getaways poster
- Fixed an issue where textures of narrative elements appeared low-quality in a cutscene
- Updated ESDF control scheme in the arcade minigame to use ‘G’ as the alt key to better match gameplay punching input
Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Magnifier may fail to work
- Fixed an issue where Navigation Assistance’s directional icon may clip through the player character model
Localization
- [ENGLISH, HUNGARIAN] Adjusted language used when referring to the DualSense controller’s adaptive triggers and touch pad
- [THAI, LATAM SPANISH, KOREAN] Corrected translations in menus
- [SWEDISH] Added missing text-to-speech in menus
- [SWEDISH] Corrected language on crash window
AMD
- Fixed an issue where incorrect defaults for graphics settings were applied to AMD RX 5700 and RX 6600 Series GPUs
Steam Deck
- Fixed an issue where PSO Caching may freeze at 50% completion
- Fixed an issue where plugging in a DualSense controller while viewing cutscenes from the Cinematics menu may force a player into gameplay
- Adjusted the user interface to show Steam Deck controls in the Screen Magnifier menu
- Adjusted positioning of the Weapon and Health HUD elements
Epic Games Store Version
- Fixed an issue where the “Who’s a Good Boy?” achievement did not unlock despite the player meeting the requirements
- Fixed an issue where the sky may render black
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Why not also promise to cure the gay cancer *ahem* I mean “AIDS” in this POS?
Why are they building a shader cache on the Steam Deck when they could just make one and have the user download it with the game exactly like they do with a console? Since they all have the exact same hardware specs there is really no reason to have the user compile shaders …. If Naughty Dog/Sony won’t do it then Steam should themselves
Because it isn’t Steam Deck certified. Steam knows this game needs a lot of work before it truly works in the Steam Deck.
Sure doesn’t look like you’ve moved on ……
This site is a joke, all the news is just this crap game getting updates.
dont forget the Skyrim / The Witcher 3 4K 8K 16 K mods news every day !
It doesn’t need to, there’s hundreds of interesting gaming stuff out there, both new and old. John just picks the lame stuff.
John barely covers 10 % of AAA games, he just focus on this one for clickbait potential.
Indie games is where what is at lmao. They are more derivative and copy pasted than triple A sh*t but they get a*s licked by self important hipsters like you
How about they fix that nonsense where i got to update to latest windows 10 version for dumbass Agility SDK in order to play sh**ty ps3 to ps4 to ps5 to PC port
Look at all these dozens over dozens of fixes and one patch every 2 or 3 days. And the developers appologizing for the state of the game. But john from dsogaming blog wrote how awesome this game is and nowhere near an unoptimized mess. Because an overpowered system bruteforces some of these issues. Someone should inform the devs, those suckers are crunching so hard right now, when all this time the game just had superficial issues. I mean, it says so on dsogaming
Why do you care so much about this game? Is just another broken game, plus complaining about those with high hardware having little or no issues with it is ritarded.
game running fine with my 2070…
5 year old GPU this is what you call a “overpowered system ” LOL ok
Game running like butter here on maximum settings, and I have a 3h Stream on Twitch to prove it.
i still didn’t finished 1 but from what i heard about TLoU 2 , i don’t even want to try it, even if performance was good !
the story are a big finger to part 1
It is the biggest bait and switch in gaming history. Imagine this, you’re favorite Pnography. It has all things straight everything. Then suddenly they dropped a sequel. You downloaded it lube & tissues. Then you grabbed your dxck and get ready to double click. And all you see on screen is dxcks in hairy b-holes. Cherry on top the “lady” has a 5 o’clock shadow just giving it to the dude. That is the TLOU2. That’s why it’s more familiarly dubbed, the “Gay3st Of Us”.
just looked at some feedback online plus some 1:1 video footages (4090, 4080, 3060 ti, 1660 ti, 1660 super, so every range of cards with modern cpu’s like 5600x to 13900k) of the same area’s and i think they are just messing with people there. Cpu usage is not only the same but sometimes even higher (LOL), gpu usage is exactly the same, just in some scenese marginally better and WORSE (???!!!!!) in others, vram and ram usage is exactly the same too, such as erratic texture settings for medium and low it seems.
I had some hopes reading changelog featuring streaming changes for assets to help cpu, but honestly it is just the same as before if not even worse WTF
hope that other people will not be fooled by patch like this and still refund the game, doesn’t matter if system is high end enough to brute force the game, is just a ideaology thing at this point where they are asking people money for a subpar job that force to enjoy game in a bad state. People is still giving them the same money but experience is just terrible on mid range machines (most of pc’s out there basically).
Don’t buy, if you do you are giving them the idea they can continue in this way fot future games, every company will start to do like this (exactly like happened in last year with basically 90% of triple A games)
just looked at some feedback online plus some 1:1 video footages (4090, 4080, 3060 ti, 1660 ti, 1660 super, so every range of cards with modern cpu’s like 5600x to 13900k) of the same area’s and i think they are just messing with people there. Cpu usage is not only the same but sometimes even higher (LOL), gpu usage is exactly the same, just in some scenese marginally better and WORSE (???!!!!!) in others, vram and ram usage is exactly the same too, such as erratic texture settings for medium and low it seems.
I had some hopes reading changelog featuring streaming changes for assets to help cpu, but honestly it is just the same as before if not even worse WTF
hope that other people will not be fooled by patch like this and still refund the game, doesn’t matter if system is high end enough to brute force the game, is just a ideaology thing at this point where they are asking people money for a subpar job that force to enjoy game in a bad state. People is still giving them the same money but experience is just terrible on mid range machines (most of pc’s out there basically).
Don’t buy, if you do you are giving them the idea they can continue in this way fot future games, every company will start to do like this (exactly like happened in last year with basically 90% of triple A games)
The CPU part is true. It’s no longer doing 80-97% on my R5 3600.
I’ve seen 55-80% now. Way better
Sony claimed Microsoft will degrade COD on their platform if they buy Activision, the fact Sony claimed that must be because they themselves did that before and now are doing it again with that pos port to make idiots thinks their PS5 is some kind of magic box
After testing it seems that all the crash issues have been resolved. Game runs smooth on ultra settings. However, there is a slight bit of stuttering at times when you enter new areas. Also there is still some issues in the intro sequence. When Joel carries his daughter through the streets, the CPU usage is like 10% and the GPU usage hovers around 60-70% and frame rate drops frequently during the sequence. But after that, GPU usage goes back to 100% and all is smooth.
These posts are pointless since updates are automatic. Just clickbait things.
Too busy riding grooming flotillas and putting hats on cats to do proper QA testing.