First Main Hogwarts Legacy Replace is Right here, PS5 Patch Delayed

The primary main Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy patch is right here… should you’re taking part in on PC and Xbox Collection X|S. PS5 house owners must wait a bit longer for an replace as a consequence of “unexpected points.”

Warner Bros. launched patch notes on its official web site, together with fixes for efficiency, cinematics, and saved video games. You will discover the complete patch notes proper right here.

Xbox Collection X and PC gamers, anticipate a patch right this moment that resolves quite a lot of bugs and efficiency points!

PS5 gamers, as a consequence of some unexpected points, we’re focusing on later this week to get your patch to you. Thanks to your endurance! https://t.co/hPF39oNyGz

— WB Video games Avalanche (@AvalancheWB) February 14, 2023

Bug Fixes:

• Common
  • On-line
    • Fastened points with achievement information being correctly pushed to Wizarding World portal after linking.
  • Gameplay
    • Owl Mail
      • Fastened a difficulty with mail not correctly triggering sequential mission.
    • World Occasions
      • Fastened uncommon crash round sure places the place in-game World Occasions spawning.
    • NPC
      • Fastened a uncommon crash when respawning NPCs on the planet.
      • Fastened crash with some NPC schedules.
    • Characters
      • Fastened points with flickering occurring with a clear head whereas hair continues to be current.
  • UI
    • Up to date localization textual content for added content material objects.
    • Added Construct model to first time EULA.
    • Fastened uncommon incidence of mission descriptions not being displayed accurately.
  • Cinematics
    • Corrected VFX presentation of gown transformation.
    • Fastened a stability problem when skipping cutscenes.
    • Fastened a crash when taking part in cutscenes and cinematics.
  • Save Recreation
    • Fastened error of rewriting final autosave slot.
    • Fastened a difficulty when restarting from final save round not with the ability to speak to a vendor after preliminary dialog. Resolves the next reported points: HL-412, HL-494, HL-246, HL-1063, HL-590, HL-542, HL-976, HL-965, HL-1158, HL-1184, HL-1089, HL-1240, HL-1031, HL-1490, HL-1433, HL-89, HL-1930, HL-1086, HL-1636, HL-1585, HL-1028, HL-1933, HL-2606, HL-2062, HL-1587, HL-488, HL-498, HL-162, HL-1706, HL-2626, HL-2865, HL-2888, HL-2804, HL-2910, HL-2944, HL-3000, HL-3043, HL-3024.
  • Efficiency and Stability
    • Improved efficiency on Constancy mode.
    • Fastened uncommon crash round hovering over the map.
    • Fastened problem with wind inflicting distortion and stretching of world belongings.
    • Fastened a uncommon incidence with materials swapping.
    • Fastened a uncommon crash with map belongings state.
    • Fastened Uncommon crash occurring with in-game world occasions.
    • Fastened a reminiscence leak with international lighting system HL-313.
• XSX
  • Efficiency and Stability
    • Improved crash assortment to assist chase uncommon crashes.
• PC Steam/PC Epic Video games
  • Cinematics
    • Fastened audio points lacking or not correctly taking part in.
  • Controllers
    • Swap Professional controller help updates HL-346.
  • Upscalers
    • Allow body era whereas DLSS is disabled.
    • Anti-Aliasing and Display screen decision settings disabled when utilizing DLSS and never Tremendous Decision.
  • Raytracing
    • Fastened problem with RTAO trying worse than SSAO.
    • Adjusted default setting to Medium High quality.
  • Efficiency and Stability
    • Shader kind compilation optimization.
    • Shader compilation efficiency updates and performance enhancements.
    • Fastened a crash affecting Text2Speech usability.
    • Resolved points with world belongings abruptly being stretched which resolves the next reported points: HL-305, HL-265.
    • Resolved a difficulty with Nvidia GPUs having decrease body price in comparison with AMD.
  • DirectX Model 12
    • Please be aware DirectX Model 12 is required to run Hogwarts Legacy on PC. We don’t recommend making an attempt workarounds to run the sport with DirectX Model 11 as this may trigger stability points with launching the sport and the participant expertise.

PS5 house owners, for his or her half, will have to wait until later this week for a patch, WB says. It features a repair for the Collector’s Version Trophy, which is obtained by finishing Hogwarts Legacy’s numerous collectibles (of which there are lots of).

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy has seen sturdy gross sales out of the gate, however its reception has been controversial owing to collection creator J.Okay. Rowling’s outspoken anti-transgender views. Our overview famous that the sport itself is weighed down by technical points, however that it is in the end a well-executed open world fantasy recreation.

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