Report: Star Wars Jedi Survivor On PC Is “A Total Mess”

gameranx.com:

We have some unfortunate news for fans who were looking forward to playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor on PC.

We know this may come to a surprise for our readers. Just yesterday we had reported that Star Wars Jedi Survivor received glowing reviews. But we have good reason to believe our source.

SkillUpYT, who had also alerted gamers about The Day Before, shared this about playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor on PC:

“I’ll have a Jedi Survivor review up later but right now I can say that it’s a great game that you should absolutely avoid if you’re playing  on PC (for now, at least). The port is a total mess, namely awful FPS performance that cannot be improved through any settings changes.

It struggles to maintain 40 fps on a 2080ti/3700x and my 4090/5950x cannot maintain a solid 60 fps. There’s also a game breaking audio bug atm that ruins every cutscene. There’s a PC patch planned for the 28th. Recommend waiting until the impacts of that patch are confirmed.”

Now, curiously enough, if you go checking how it’s fared on MetaCritic as a result, the PC version of this game has scored an 81. I did check the individual reviews, and most if not all reviewers do point out that they also experienced technical hiccups.

I’m going to quote part of PC Gamer’s review so you can see that this isn’t a single issue experience:

“The only thing that threatened to ruin my good time were the constant performance issues with the PC version. Even with Nvidia’s latest driver specifically optimized for the game, my framerate regularly slowed to a crawl at very annoying moments. Stepping through doors sometimes triggers double-digit framerate drops for ten seconds or more. Cutscenes often plummet to 15-20 fps, cut off or overlap dialogue, and usually