The Final Of Us Half 1 got here out on PC final week, and it did not take lengthy for followers to notice the port’s in depth technical issues and unusual glitches in adverse Steam critiques. Now, famous tech outlet Digital Foundry has launched a thorough evaluation of the port, calling it “successfully a beta” and some of the disappointing port jobs in latest reminiscence.
The hour-long video evaluation exhibits off the sport operating on three completely different machines, a PS5, a top-of-the-line PC with an RTX 4090, and a extra modest setup with a RTX 2070 Tremendous. All through the piece, Digital Foundry notes that the sport’s steep VRAM necessities successfully lock out many PC customers completely, with 8GB playing cards unable to ship something approaching a playable expertise.
The Final Of Us Half 1 performs significantly better on a GPU with 10 or 11GB of VRAM, however its extraordinarily excessive CPU necessities are additionally a difficulty, inflicting hitching and dropped frames on all however essentially the most highly effective PCs. The video additionally contains a number of bugs that gamers have reported, together with lacking lighting and an outright crash.
The evaluation says that although there have already been a number of hotfixes issued for the port, fixes for the extra critical points will possible take a big period of time. The general conclusion of the piece is obvious: Until you’ve got a supercomputer, this port just isn’t a great way to play The Final Of Us Half 1.
In GameSpot’s The Final Of Us Half 1 evaluate for PS5, critic Jake Dekker praised the remake’s visible enhancements, whereas noting how far gaming has come within the intervening years.
“All these enhancements taken by themselves could appear minor, however collectively they make some of the memorable video games of the PS3 period even higher. In some methods, the 2 components of The Final of Us are actually higher aligned, making transitioning between them a lot smoother. Nevertheless, in different methods, the years of progress in recreation design and improvement are all too obvious. However whereas a number of the degree design might not have aged all that nicely, the vivid forged of characters and noteworthy story are extra poignant than ever.”
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