The Last of Us Part 1 PC Hotfix Fixes Crashes, Reduces CPU Usage and Load Times

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Naughty Dog has released a new patch for The Last of Us Part 1 on PC, fixing several performance issues and bugs. It includes numerous fixes for crashes occurring when swapping between thumbnails of character skins quickly while loading shaders when booting for the first time and randomly.

Texture streaming has also been updated to reduce CPU usage. Increased active loading helps reduce load times during gameplay. An issue that caused the analog sticks on Xbox One and DualSense controllers to not respond is also fixed. The Screen Magnifier should now work, and the Navigation Assistance icon won’t clip through the player model anymore.

Check out the full patch notes below. The Last of Us Part 1 was released on March 28th for PC, and faced backlash for its various issues. You can check out our review and analysis for more details. Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy Studios are working on more fixes, so stay tuned.

The Last of Us Part I v1.0.2.0 Patch Notes

Fixed a crash that may occur while quickly swapping between character skin thumbnails Fixed a crash that may occur on version 1.0.1.6 during shader loads when booting the game for the first time Fixed one known crash that would happen randomly during gameplay Updated texture streaming to reduce CPU usage Fixed an issue where DualSense and Xbox One controllers’ analog sticks failed to respond Fixed an issue where extraneous SFX played in both main and in-game “Options” menus Fixed an issue where the Depth of Field setting’s (Options > Graphics > Post-Effects Settings > Depth of Field) sharpness may change based on the Render Scale’s settings (Options > Display > Resolution Scaling > Render Scale) Updated Graphics settings (Options > Graphics) user interface to accurately