Highly regarded gaming analysis outlet Digital Foundry has published a damning review of the PC port of “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor”.
The group makes a rare conclusion – calling this the worst PC port of 2023 so far and reportedly going so far as to say that the current PC version of the game “should not be sold” in its current state and needs a “radical change in its CPU performance to actually be considered good for review”.
The outlet indicates there is essentially no way to fix the game on PC right now fully – even those with high-end graphics cards turning down the settings will still run into a range of issues. The issues aren’t tied to a specific manufacturer so AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPU users are all being hit.
Even before running the game, they found the title’s DRM is so sensitive that it won’t let you install the title on two computers in quick succession. As the caption of the video review succinctly puts it:
“Plagued with shader compilation stutter, traversal stutter, nonsensical CPU limitations, an impenetrable settings menu with little utility, a terrible FSR2 implementation, no DLSS or XeSS… virtually everything that could go wrong with a PC port is present and correct in this awful release. The tragedy is that the game looks great, but the quality of the code here is unacceptable.”
Comparisons are being made to the launch of “Cyberpunk 2077,” but a reversal of platform performance. ‘Cyberpunk’ famously was fairly functional on PC, bar various glitches and frame rate drops, but was so unplayable on console that it was pulled from the Sony PlayStation store for months until multiple patches had been uploaded.
The opposite seems to be the case here. Though there are some noticeable frame rate drops and issues with screen tearing and pop-in, the game is still quite playable on console. On PC, however, users – especially those with high-end hardware – are having real issues with the game.
It continues an increasing trend of problematic PC ports in the past half year or so, with many major releases impacted with serious issues including: “The Last of Us Part I,” “Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty,” “Wild Hearts,” “Forspoken,” “Gotham Knights” and “The Callisto Protocol”. Other titles like “Resident Evil 4 Remake,” “Hogwarts Legacy,” “Atomic Heart,” “Returnal,” and the “Dead Space” remake launched in better states – though a few still had minor issues that have been mostly resolved.
Over 12,000 reviews for the game are now up on Steam with an almost even split between positive and negative.
EA has already apologised for the issues with the PC port on Twitter, promising that patches are coming. For now, it’s not clear how long it will be before the issues are fixed.
