It is likely to be April Fools’ Day at this time, however Helldivers 2 has recieved an precise patch. It is just a bit one, is patch 01.002.202, however there’s one repair in it that is caught my eye, given what’s been occurring with the sport on PC currently.
As a fast refresher, for the reason that final massive patch, 01.002.200, made some modifications to how the sport does AI calculations, some PC gamers on older programs have reported that they are now unable to play the sport with out crashes. Arrowhead confirmed final week that it is engaged on a repair for this “AVX2 concern”.
Enter patch 01.002.202, and the repair it makes that caught my eye. “Mounted sport crashing on legacy {hardware} when participant drops right into a mission,” the road laying out that tweak reads.
As of writing, we won’t ensure that this repair is particularly geared toward that AVX2 concern, because it clearly would not point out AVX2 particularly, however the usage of “legacy {hardware}” would seem to doubtlessly match what’s been occurring, because the AVX2 downside has primarily affected people utilizing older CPUs manufactured previous to round 2013/2014.
VG247 has reached out to Arrowhead by way of e-mail, in addition to neighborhood supervisor Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin (who posted each the announcement of at this time’s patch and that Arrowhead was engaged on an AVX2 repair) and one among Arrowhead’s participant assist brokers by way of Discord with a view to try to get concrete affirmation as as to whether this repair is expounded to or designed to rectify the AVX2 concern.
For now, making an attempt to learn into what varied gamers are posting within the channels of Helldivers 2’s Discord server, it is troublesome to inform for 100% sure whether or not this patch has modified something for everybody who was struggling to run the sport on their older PCs. That stated, I’ve observed a few gamers indicating that it has improved issues of their particular circumstances.
“AVX2 downside appears to be fastened. Taking part in issue 4 bot mission. Was by no means capable of go above 2”, one with the deal with Wendigoez/SEAF Hellbomb Producer who claims to be utilizing a 12 12 months outdated CPU has written, whereas one other with the deal with Anoth/SES Sword of the Stars has asserted: “Arrowhead made it.. I can play the sport once more with my outdated ass CPU.”
We’ll must see if these change into remoted circumstances or if this patch has quietly fastened the AVX2 concern. Are you able to now play Helldivers 2 once more in your outdated ass PC? Tell us beneath!
