The Last of Us Part I PC Port Receives 77% negative ratings on Steam, due to poor optimization

If you're using DLSS, the game is rendered at a lower resolution and "upscaled" to native. It's not even remotely the same as rendering at native resolution. If you're playing at 1440P but rendering at 720P, you're reducing required resources dramatically.

 

Someone needs to cover badly optimized games. How else will devs ever get a reason to fix them? If the media can drive people away from badly optimized or buggy games, maybe studios will feel more inclined to fix issues.....

 

ND already got the message with the 77% negative Steam reviews.

 

Media coverage should have forced them to fix it before it got that far. If the D4 beta had been an absolute dumpster fire, I'd expect the game reviewers to completely trash the game and Blizzard until they fixed it.

 

The game is playable with 8GB. You just have to be realistic and chose high or medium settings instead of ultra.

 

Nah. Choose DLSSp 1440p or DLSSq 1080p. Leave everything ultra. I had no problems, butter smooth and the game was beautiful.

 

I read a credible report that there are still bad slow-downs with high textures on 3070 in 1440p, so you really need to switch to blurry medium textures.

That being said, the game now runs relatively fine on my system with maxed out settings and mouse stutter really is fixed. Far more enjoyable game than stupid Uncharted.

 

Well it must have not been very credible, because its inaccurate.

 

Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but I rather consider opinions that I know aren't totally deformed by some unhealthy bias.

 

If I could record video of ALL of these games running absolutely fine, I would. I would in fact challenge you to tell me the DLSS mode. It just costs significant fps and OBS is a black screen.

Tell me a proper way to record video, as I only know how to use xbox game bar recording... Consider that it runs 25 percent faster (in the case of Cyberpunk PT at least) when not recording and I will make individual videos of everything.

1440p DLSSp is key. It is a nice sweet spot.

 

It could be a performance monitor keeping OBS from showing anything but a black screen. Try closing them first.

 

I bet your virtual memory is either set to "auto" or too low. I had these crashes on 16gb RAM during shader compilation, I upped my Virtual mem from 10gb to 25gb and never crashed again.

Anyway, the game runs "fine" - its not heavy on the GPU power, quite heavy on VRAM (but 10gb is ok) and very heavy on CPU, but r5 3600 is enough for 60fps (but u get "nice" 90% utilization almost everywhere)

All in all, GREAT game, and the optimalization is not THAT bad, ppl just went nuts on the poor game
Wonder what rating Hogwards has? It look 10x worse and runs like crap.

 

Many Playstation studio games to PC have rough starts but they get much better over time. Horizon Zero Dawn is a prime example. I've seen the game run smooth as butter across many systems after being updated.

The Last Of Us is still a huge title with Sony and Naughty Dog. Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy will work out the woes. I'm testing the game on my previous system and it is running very well.

3090
10900k
64gb DDR4 3600
Samsung 980 Pro Nvme

In my opinion this system STILL ROCKS! It can still play anything with great framerates.