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 bought 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 apprehensive about piracy, naturally, and EA already considers Jedi: Survivor a industrial success. Anyway, this will likely be trigger for celebration amongst those that blame Denuvo for efficiency points, although the impression it has on video games is inconsistent.
Again in 2018 we bought Darkish Souls modder Durante to check Ultimate 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 checks carried out elsewhere with completely different video games have revealed efficiency beneficial properties when Denuvo is eliminated.
Regardless, Denuvo gives no advantages for gamers, and even when DRM would 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 problem with Denuvo’s servers stopped individuals from with 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 price enhancements, fixes for body price hitching and the irritating “Optimising Recreation Information” display has itself been optimised. This was a very annoying difficulty: each time you hearth the sport up, you must sit via this annoying rigamarole, successfully an additional (and further lengthy) loading display. Whereas Respawn making it faster is a welcome change, you’ll be able to truly skip it completely with some tweaks.
This is the total checklist of modifications:
Efficiency Enhancements:
- Body price enhancements for numerous {hardware} configurations.
- Fixes for a number of sources of body price 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 may now see pace 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:
- Mounted collision difficulty 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.
Normal:
- Denuvo DRM has been eliminated.
