Complaints about ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ crashing greet the game’s official launch

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now out, with critics praising the return of Cal Kestis as a high-water mark for Star Wars in gaming. But though the reviews are positive, the launch hasn’t exactly been smooth. Survivor has performance issues on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X, though the game is still very much playable. The same can’t be said for the PC version which, after over 2000 user reviews, has been rated “mostly negative” on Steam.

Many PC players would probably love to be dealing with performance flaws as they can’t play the game at all due to frequent crashes. A glance over at Reddit and the Steam discussion threads sees many players unable to get past the title screen, or the same crashing completely during the first cutscene, or reporting an “Exception Access Violation” error and forcibly shutting down.

Here’s a taste of what’s going down:

I'd love to play #JediSurvivor tonight, it'd be great if the game didn't crash every time as soon as I tried to launch it? @Respawn

Lags and crashing:

Jedi survivor just keeps crashing on my brand new RTX 4090 i9 13900kf PC.Low frame rates.Lagging all the time.Poor performance on PC.#JediSurvivor

Not good:

#JediSurvivor is good fun…but the performance is terrible.Frame drops,textures loading,pixelated in fast action areas,constantly and crashing ruin the experience pic.twitter.com/HhhMcP94S6

We wonder indeed (and we’ll take this opportunity to point out that our own review extensively highlighted these problems):

So for now avoid this game until they have fixed it. Crashing, stuttering and woeful performance on all platforms. There’s no point driving a Ferrari on shopping trolley wheels. Makes you wonder what is going on at the below review sites