Over a yr 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 acquired round to ending Cal’s newest journey.
It isn’t unusual for Denuvo to be faraway from video games some time after launch. Launch is when publishers are most fearful about piracy, naturally, and EA already considers Jedi: Survivor a business success. Anyway, this shall 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 acquired Darkish Souls modder Durante to test Final Fantasy 15, discovering that there was no efficiency distinction between the DRM-free model (particularly, the demo) and the DRM-laden retail model. That mentioned, different exams carried out elsewhere with totally different video games have revealed efficiency positive aspects when Denuvo is eliminated.
Regardless, Denuvo gives no advantages for gamers, and even when DRM does not have an effect on a sport’s efficiency, it will probably create different points, thwarting modding and even rendering video games unplayable, which most notably occurred in 2021 when an issue with Denuvo’s servers stopped individuals from having the ability to play a big 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 Recreation Information” display has itself been optimised. This was a very annoying problem: each time you hearth the sport up, it’s a must to sit via this annoying rigamarole, successfully an additional (and further lengthy) loading display. Whereas Respawn making it faster is a welcome change, you may truly skip it totally with some tweaks.
Here is the complete listing of adjustments:
Efficiency Enhancements:
- Body charge enhancements for numerous {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 Recreation Information” display has been optimised and might 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 person screens, title menu, sport menu, and workbench.
Bug fixes:
- Mounted collision problem the place gamers may fall via elevators at low body charges.
- Repair for a conversation-related crash when strolling away from NPC characters.
- Repair for numerous, intermittent crashes.
Common:
- Denuvo DRM has been eliminated.
