The Last Of Us Part 1 PC’s 14 GB Patch Still Doesn’t Fix Most Issues
Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy continues to plug at fixing the issues in The Last of US Part 1 PC. Unfortunately, it seems they are still a long way to go.
The company shared patch notes for Patch v1.0.2.0. While the studio stated that Steam Deck compatibility was a lesser concern, they did make some fixes for Steam Deck. There are also some separate notes for changes made to the Epic Games Store version of the game.
It isn’t clear what differences the Steam and Epic Games Store versions of The Last of US Part 1 PC could have, but these may not be connected to the base game files as it could have something to do with the parts of the game that need to interact with their respective game clients.
These notes also indicate specific fixes made for AMD RX 5700 and RX 6600 GPUs. This may strike you as ironic, because as we know, AMD makes the CPUs for PlayStation 5. It’s reasonable to assume there was enough differentiation in the PlayStation 5 hardware and what is in these GPUs to cause issues in the first place.
As you can imagine, the game is far from playable. As reported by Push Square, this update comes in at a hefty 14 GB, making it something akin to a full game update.
However, many players continue to complain about issues. In particular, The Last of US Part 1 PC still throttles players’ CPUs, and eats up their memory bandwidth.
And this issue still continues to exist for gamers with high end PCs. Clearly, Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy are a long way to go from fixing the base game on a fundamental level.
We had reported at the end of last month that one analysis of the game issues pointed to wrong utilization of low end and mid-range GPUs with 8 GB VRAM or less as the cause of the issues.
It now seems that assessment was
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