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. Only a disgrace it arrived a month after I lastly bought round to ending Cal’s newest journey.
It is 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.
Again in 2018 we bought Darkish Souls modder Durante to check Remaining 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.
Regardless, Denuvo presents no advantages for gamers, and even when DRM does not have an effect on a sport’s efficiency, it may possibly 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 folks from with the ability to play a major variety of video games, together with Guardians of the Galaxy, Soccer Supervisor 2022, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Persona 4 Golden. Mainly: Denuvo is a ache within the arse.
Patch 9 additionally guarantees body charge enhancements, fixes for body charge hitching and the irritating “Optimising Sport Recordsdata” display has itself been optimised. This was a very annoying challenge: each time you fireplace the sport up, it’s a must to sit by means of this annoying rigamarole, successfully an additional (and additional lengthy) loading display. Whereas Respawn making it faster is a welcome change, you’ll be able to really skip it solely with some tweaks.
This is the total checklist of modifications:
Efficiency Enhancements:
- Body charge enhancements for varied {hardware} configurations.
- Fixes for a number of sources of body charge hitching for smoother gameplay.
- Ray tracing has been optimised for CPU utilization and may now scale higher for high-end GPUs.
- Fixes for efficiency associated to utilizing a mouse as gameplay enter.
High quality of life:
- The “Optimising Sport Recordsdata” display has been optimised and may now see velocity will increase from a number of CPU cores.
- Mouse and keyboard performance has been improved throughout quite a lot of menu screens, together with the primary time consumer screens, title menu, sport menu, and workbench.
Bug fixes:
- Fastened collision challenge the place gamers may fall by means of elevators at low body charges.
- Repair for a conversation-related crash when strolling away from NPC characters.
- Repair for varied, intermittent crashes.
Basic:
- Denuvo DRM has been eliminated.
