PC optimization that has been causing issues with several games lately. Will Sony show a different look, as previous PC ports did? Naughty Dog is its representative title, The Last of Us Part 1lowered the game’s recommended requirements ahead of its PC release.
Naughty Dog released detailed specifications of the PC version of The Last of Us Part 1, which will be released on the 29th on the 9th (local time). At the time of publication, the minimum specifications are AMD Radeon 470, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or 1050 Ti, and in the case of recommended specifications, RX 5800 XT, RX 6600 XT, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 3060 were written as requirements.
However, Naughty Dog has since posted a new image and corrected the content of the recommendation. In the case of the Radeon XT 5000 series GPU, it was downgraded to RX 5700 XT instead of RX 5800 XT. It can be seen as a correction of a simple typo, but there are also expected parts. This is because the logo of Iron Galaxy, which specializes in game porting (porting) along with game platforms such as Steam and Epic Games Store, has been newly included.
Iron Galaxy is one of the places where ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ was heavily criticized for PC porting. However, after that, the original company’s lack of communication, extremely insufficient manpower support, and the publisher’s pressure on the release date were later revealed. Rather, works with companies that emphasized active communication, such as Bethesda and Blizzard, Nintendo Switch versions of The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim, Diablo 3, Overwatch, and Fallout 4 VR versions were successfully ported and received positive reviews from Iron Galaxy.
The relationship with Naughty Dog, which belongs to PlayStation Studios, is also friendly. Iron Galaxy was previously responsible for the PC porting of Uncharted 4: The Pirate King, The Last Treasure, and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, the first PC Uncharted, and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection. Optimization was also followed. Sony Interactive Entertainment also cites the release of PC versions of a number of PS exclusive titles as one of its core businesses, and is moving swiftly to optimize PC, such as acquiring Nixxes, a porting specialist.
Naughty Dog did not simply list the level of each PC configuration requirement regarding the detailed specifications of the PC version, but also presented the expected performance according to each requirement. You can enjoy 1080p 60fps games with 720p 30fps for the lowest specification and 1080p 60fps for the recommended specification on the high setting, so you can check the direction and play provided by the game. Performance is 1440p, Ultra is a requirement aimed at driving 4K.
In addition to this, Naughty Dog said that it would try to provide the optimal setting value for the player situation with upscaling technologies such as FSR 2.2 and DLSS, wide aspect ratios of 21:9 and 32:9, and an option menu that can be set more diversely. revealed
Meanwhile, the requirements for The Last of Us Part 1 presented higher requirements than those of recent large titles called AAA. Among these titles, relatively low specifications were marked as requirements, and there were many titles that failed to optimize in actual game play, so it can be expected that the high requirements of The Last of Us Part 1 were not a gimmick, but a reference to the specifications required for the actual game. may be
Can The Last of Us Part 1 overcome the persistent PC optimization problem? The results can be confirmed through games that will be released on Steam and the Epic Games Store on the 29th.
