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The highly anticipatedStar Wars Jedi: Survivorhas finally been released. While many critics areprettyenthusiastic about it, and the game has most certainly received its fair share of praise, there is one glaring issue: it is a struggle to get it running well on PC. Well, we’re here to (hopefully) help you get your game running better. We talked to multiple members of the TheGamer staff and found the best approach to getting Star Wars Jedi: Survivor running well.
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Naturally, uniformity isn’t the way of the PC. However, if you follow these tips and tricks, we are certain that you will get Survivor running smoothly enough for it to be playable until the inevitable performance patch drops.
Update Your Drivers
We had issues even getting the game to launch without the drivers being updated. So, this isn’t even necessarily a step for improving performance gains,it is quite possible that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor simply won’t run at all if you don’t do this. And if it does, it may frequently crash.We have included both the AMD and NVIDIA sites below.So, get those drivers updated.
Nvidia Drivers
Close Everything Else
Unfortunately, the crux of these performance issues is a CPU problem, so if there is a program running on your PC that is puttinganystrain on your CPU, shut it down.If it isn’t a process necessary for running your PC, you will want to shut it down. If you previously had something like Google Chrome running in the background you will likely find that this makes ahugedifference in your performance.
Gradually Finding The Sweet Spot
It seems like a completely smooth experience just isn’t in the cards at the moment.Even when we had the game consistently running well above 60 frames per second, it would still periodically get choppy at times.
As we already discussed, the performance problems are directly tethered to CPU bottlenecking. That is the source of our woes here. So, unless you are rocking the best of the best when it comes to your CPU, it is going to be difficult to get that buttery smooth performance. One thing is for sure,you need to start by turning Ray Tracing off.That is easily the most appreciable performance you are going to see (though, unfortunately, it may already be off, even if it says it is on in the menu, but that is a whole other bucket of worms).
The next step is the painful one. If we are going to try to eke out performance improvements, our only choice is to start dropping all of our settings. We would recommend running down this list and gradually tuning your settings. Hopefully, when all is said and done, you won’t have everything set to low. Firstly, make sure the game’s resolution matches your monitor’s native resolution. Next,turn down Shadow Quality, Anti-Aliasing, and Foliage Detail.We found that this did give us an appreciable (if minor) boost.If that hasn’t done the trick, then lower your Texture Quality and Graphics Quality.We are intentionally leaving View Distance to last, as we feel like lowering it does diminish the experience of playing Survivor. However, if your game is still running choppily, this is your last recourse.
