Digital Foundry revisits the controversial PC port for The Last of Us Part 1, discovering big improvements for 8GB GPU users - but a range of issues that still need to be addressed:
The Last of Us Part 1 on PC arrived towards the end of March in a pretty desperate state - a good experience only available to those with more powerful hardware, with profound issues facing gamers on more mainstream components. Progress has been made, however, across a series of patches and we thought it might be a good time to check in on the port to deliver an update on the game's current quality level.
So, how was this achieved? Based on the difference in medium textures, it looks like there are completely different mipmaps showing up when the game is set to medium. It's as if the game had an art pass carried out for the medium textures to keep resolution higher and to retain more detail - so textures that may not have even existed before. On top of this, there's also a change in how texture streaming works, to accommodate GPUs with different memory sizes.
A selection of head-to-head comparisons, stacking up medium quality textures from the launch code vs how they present today. Honestly, it's a night and day improvement. Click on the images for higher resolution shots.
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