Full ‘Patch 4’ Patch Notes On PC, PS5 And Xbox Series X

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is one of the best games released in 2023. I’m having a blast with the sequel to Fallen Order and the story of Cal Kestis and his fight against the Galactic Empire.

But one thing that continues to hold the game back from true greatness is its rather terrible performance. While I’ve definitely noticed the improvements that previous updates have brought to the game, there’s no doubt that Respawn and EA Games released this before it was done cooking.

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Framerate drops, crashes, audio issues, save data corruption have plagued gamers’ experience with the game, which is a real shame given how truly great the story, combat and platforming mechanics are. It’s all fun and games until your game crashes and you have to replay 30 minutes and then it crashes again.

The latest patch—Patch 4—is being deployed for consoles today, Tuesday May 9th and “as soon as possible this week” on PC according to the game’s patch notes. The update includes many performance fixes with some specific fixes on PC for raytracing, traversal hitching and so forth. On PC and consoles, the update includes fixes to crashes, unbeatable boss glitches, save state errors and much more. Read the patch notes below to see everything included in the update, as well as upcoming fixes and known issues that Respawn is working on.

Patch Notes (Patch 4)

The latest patch (Patch 4) for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor arrives this week. Here’s our expected timeline for rolling out the patch:

• PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S: Patch expected to deploy Tuesday, May 9.
• PC: Patch expected to deploy as soon as possible this week. Keep an eye for the latest updates via the @EAStarWars Twitter account.

Patch 4 Details

Here are the fixes you can expect with this patch:

• (PC only) Updated occlusion behavior for raytracing, reducing idle time stalls.
• (PC only) Updated streaming budgets that will help alleviate traversal hitching.
• (PC only) Performance improvements for some VFX.
• Coming soon to console
• (PC only) Updated data handling when toggling raytracing, improving non-raytraced performance.
• (PS5 only) Fixed an HDR value mismatch that would cause HDR setups to display incorrectly for PS5 users.
• Fixed various save state errors.
• Fixed a streaming issue that causes some streaming scenarios to end on a black screen.
• Fixed an issue where one of the vents did not properly activate in Stone Spires.
• Audio fix for a narrative moment where music was behaving incorrectly.
• Fixed lightsaber marks not displaying correctly in some scenarios.
• Fixed a scenario where the player could enter a progression blocked state in the Lucrehulk.
• Fixed an elevator to prevent the player from falling through it and entering a progression blocked state.
• Fixed a bug where Rayvis would become unbeatable.
• Fixed a severe animation issue that would break a late game narrative sequence.
• Fixed a collision bug where players can get stuck inside a Meditation Chamber.
• Added a note explaining that some of BD-1’s abilities are not available while in combat.
• Improved text scrolling.
• Minor text translation fixes.
• Various crash fixes.

More work continues.

Known Issues

Additionally, here are a few known issues we’re currently investigating and working on for future patches.

• (PC only) Improving performance on newer i7 and i9 CPUs that have efficiency cores.
• (PC only) General performance improvements to improve both CPU and GPU utilization while reducing idle time, both with and without raytracing.
• (PC only) Improving some hitching which can be attributed to streaming raytracing data, assets, and a gap in our prebuilt shaders.
• Various bug fixes.
• And more!

Be on the lookout for future patches across all platforms. Let us know if you run into any further issues and thank you again for your continued support.

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