Over a 12 months after launch, Jedi: Survivor has shed everybody’s favorite DRM system and bid farewell to Denuvo. This welcome change is a part of Patch 9, which additionally throws in some efficiency and high quality of life enhancements, together with some bug fixes. Just a disgrace it arrived a month after I lastly received round to ending Cal’s newest journey.Â
It’s not unusual for Denuvo to be faraway from video games some time after launch. Launch is when publishers are most apprehensive about piracy, naturally, and EA already considers Jedi: Survivor a industrial success. Anyway, this might be trigger for celebration amongst those that blame Denuvo for efficiency points, although the affect it has on video games is inconsistent.Â
Back in 2018 we received Dark Souls modder Durante to check Final Fantasy 15, discovering that there was no efficiency distinction between the DRM-free model (particularly, the demo) and the DRM-laden retail model. That stated, different checks performed elsewhere with completely different video games have revealed efficiency good points when Denuvo is eliminated.Â
Regardless, Denuvo gives no advantages for gamers, and even when DRM would not have an effect on a sport’s efficiency, it may well create different points, thwarting modding and even rendering video games unplayable, which most notably occurred in 2021 when a difficulty with Denuvo’s servers stopped individuals from having the ability to play a major variety of video games, together with Guardians of the Galaxy, Football Manager 2022, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Persona 4 Golden. Basically: Denuvo is a ache within the arse.
Patch 9 additionally guarantees body fee enhancements, fixes for body fee hitching and the irritating “Optimising Game Files” display screen has itself been optimised. This was a very annoying concern: each time you fireplace the sport up, you need to sit via this annoying rigamarole, successfully an additional (and further lengthy) loading display screen. While Respawn making it faster is a welcome change, you possibly can truly skip it totally with some tweaks. Â
Here’s the complete checklist of modifications:
Performance Improvements:
- Frame fee enhancements for varied {hardware} configurations.Â
- Fixes for a number of sources of body fee hitching for smoother gameplay. Â Â
- Ray tracing has been optimised for CPU utilization and may now scale higher for high-end GPUs.Â
- Fixes for efficiency associated to utilizing a mouse as gameplay enter.Â
Quality of life:Â
- The “Optimising Game Files” display screen has been optimised and might now see pace will increase from a number of CPU cores.Â
- Mouse and keyboard performance has been improved throughout a wide range of menu screens, together with the primary time consumer screens, title menu, sport menu, and workbench.Â
Bug fixes:
- Fixed collision concern the place gamers may fall via elevators at low body charges.Â
- Fix for a conversation-related crash when strolling away from NPC characters.
- Fix for varied, intermittent crashes.Â
General:
- Denuvo DRM has been eliminated.Â
