According to multiple reports, the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor may have serious performance issues on PC. The new Star Wars action RPG launches tomorrow at midnight EDT on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, but it seems that PC gamers may not have as great a time with it as they would hope.Developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by EA, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is the sequel to 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The new game picks up five years after the events of Fallen Order and sees protagonist Cal Kestis on the run from the tyrannical Galactic Empire. The game also features expanded lightsaber combat mechanics, larger and more expansive maps, and a wider range of customization options.Unfortunately, the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor appears to suffer from significant performance issues on PC. YouTuber Skill Up described the problems recently in a pair of Tweets. While he plans to upload a full review to his YouTube channel, his first tweet describes "a great game that you should absolutely avoid if you're playing on PC." Other platforms were similarly critical of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's PC port's performance, with PC Gamer dedicating four paragraphs to the problem in its review of the game.
Skill Up describes some of the problems in his tweets, particularly the PC port's poor framerate. The game reportedly struggles to maintain 40 frames-per-second on an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card and a 4090 GPU doesn't seem to do much better, so one can only imagine how bad it will be on more budget hardware. Meanwhile, Skill Up also reported a game-breaking audio bug that happens during every cutscene.
Park went into detail in his review, describing massive frame rate drops that often last for several seconds. Doors and cutscenes seem to be particularly bad for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's performance, with the latter sometimes plunging the game as low as 15 FPS. He also described how cinematics often cut off or overlap lines of dialogue, which is presumably the same audio glitch Skill Up encountered. Park also confirmed that changing hardware and adjusting Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's graphics setting didn't do anything to help. He eventually found a workaround by opening the Nvidia control panel, but that created its own set of problems.
In fairness, EA and Respawn are aware of the game's performance issues and will have a performance patch available at launch. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor also seems like a great game apart from its technical problems, which seem to be exclusive to the PC port. Still, PC gamers may want to wait and see before buying the new game.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launches for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on April 27.
