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Another The Last of Us Part 1 patch arrives, but the mouse jitter fix is delayedA bigger update is coming this Friday
A bigger update is coming this Friday
The Last of Us Part 1developers Naughty Dog have released the latest hotfix for its beleaguered Murder Dad adventure, although it doesn’t include the anticipated fix for a widespread camera jitter issue that’s been popping up for mouse users. According to an officialtweet thread, that’s been pushed back to a later patch, leaving this update –v1.0.1.7– to squash some other UI and UX problems.
The Last of Us Part I - Launch Trailer | PC GamesWatch on YouTube
The Last of Us Part I - Launch Trailer | PC Games
Indeed, whereasUncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection– Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy’s previous collaboration – was an imperfect yet serviceable port, The Last of Us Part 1 arrived on PC as a technical wreck. From tediously long shader compilations to regular crashes, stuttering (in spite of that compilation time) to CPU-hammering performance drops, it’s offered a rude greeting to anyone excitedly coming from therecent TV show. At least there’s been the chance of some comic relief from theinexplicably moistening character models.
Several patcheshave already been deployed, and there’s also aGeForce driver hotfixthat should reduce crashing on Nvidia RTX 30 seriesGPUs– an issue I’ve suffered several times playing on my own PC. Even so, there’s much more to do to bring performance and stability up to standard, especially now that the camera jitter fix is delayed.
What makes this all the more unfortunate is that there’s a properly good game beneath all the technical clusterfudgery. While I share theAlice Bee viewthat The Last of Us’ story ain’t all that, I do remember playing the whole thing in two sittings when the original PS4 version launched in 2013, and when it’s not crashing I’ve been very much enjoying the Part 1 remaster’s tense, tightly crafted stealth-action on PC. Not so much at sub-30fps on the Steam Deck. But still.
