Patch 9, a new update for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor that introduces several performance improvements to the 2023 action-adventure game, including fixes for frame rate hitches and optimized ray tracing, is now available for PC players, developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher EA have announced. The new patch, which also includes quality of life changes and bug fixes, also removes Denuvo DRM from the game.
Performance Improvements:
- Framerate improvements for various hardware configurations.
- Fixes for several sources of framerate hitching for smoother gameplay.
- Ray Tracing has been optimized for CPU usage and should now scale better for high-end GPUs.
- Fixes for performance related to using a mouse as gameplay input.
Quality of Life:
- The “Optimizing Game Files” screen has been optimized and can now see speed increases from multiple CPU cores.
- Mouse and keyboard functionality has been improved across a variety of menu screens, including the first time user screens, title menu, game menu, and workbench.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed collision issue where players could fall through elevators at low framerates.
- Fix for a conversation-related crash when walking away from NPC characters.
- Fix for various, intermittent crashes.
General:
- Denuvo DRM has been removed.
Respawn noted:
There is also an upcoming update for PS5 that adds functionality for transferring saves between PS4 and PS5 in anticipation of our upcoming release on PS4. Thank you to all of our fans that have waited for this update. We’re grateful for all your feedback.