The Last of Us Part I disappoints with its performance on PC and Naughty Dog promises solutions

The debut of The Last of Us Part I on PC has been a disappointment for many gamers due to the fact that the game has severe performance issues and numerous bugs. This disappointment has been felt in forums, including EOL, pages like Reddit and Steam user reviews, which are “mostly negative.” Faced with this situation, Naughty Dog, the study responsible for the franchise, has spoken to announce that after receiving the reports from the players, it is investigating the situation.

The Last of Us Part I went on sale for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store not even 24 hours ago, enough time for players to report all kinds of technical incidents ranging from performance problems to sudden closures through a plethora of bugs and graphical glitches. There is a very curious one that causes the characters get wet for no reason in the middle of a cinematic generated by the game engine. Regarding optimization and performance, there are drops in the frame rate even on computers with an RTX 4090 and memes about the time it takes to load the shaders.

The abundance of bugs and poor performance in The Last of Us Part I on PC comes despite the fact that the game delayed its release to ensure its debut on this platform was “the best it can be.” “These additional weeks will allow us to ensure that this version of The Last of Us lives up to your and our standards,” Naughty Dog said when announcing that the game’s PC release would be moving from March 3 to March 28. When the requirements for PC were revealed, the studio commented that it was an optimized version “with quality improvements specific to this platform.”

“The Last of Us Part I PC Players: We have heard your concerns and our team is actively investigating the multiple issues you have reported.” says Naughty Dog on Twitter. “We will continue to report, but our team is prioritizing updates and will address issues in future patches.” In the support page of the study there is a section of known incidents where it talks about the loading time of the shaders and the performance problems when they are loaded in the background, the instability caused by the drivers old and a possible memory leak.

The PC version of The Last of Us Part I has been developed between Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy Studios and is not the first example of a PlayStation Studios game experiencing performance issues. Horizon Zero Dawn didn’t debut in the best possible way either, while the port of Uncharted: Thieves’ Legacy Collection for PC could be more ambitious. On the other hand we have highly rated versions, including Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and God of War.