Tag Archives: Patch

eFootball 2022 launched in a rough state, so rough that it quickly became the worst-rated game on Steam. Plagued with bugs, bad animations, deformed models and faces, eFootball 2022 is definitely in need of some care, so Konami will be releasing the first bug-fixing patch later this month.  Konami announced through Twitter that …

Last week, Deathloop launched to rave reviews on PS5, but unfortunately, the PC version faced some performance issues. Bethesda was quick to confirm that it was working on a patch and now, that update has begun rolling out.  At launch, Deathloop garnered ‘Mixed' overall reviews on Steam, as many users …

Last month, it was confirmed that Resident Evil Village’s dual-DRM system on PC was causing performance issues, including frame spikes and stuttering. The issue was eventually fixed in a patch and now, Capcom has further optimised the game on PC.  Over the weekend, Capcom confirmed that a second Resident Evil …

Apex Legends' new 3v3 Arena mode has been live since early May and during that time, Respawn has been monitoring feedback for balancing and other additions. One major change coming to the mode is a new penalty system to lessen the number of people abandoning matches.  Penalties for abandoning an …

It has been a few weeks since Cyberpunk 2077's massive Patch 1.2 update came out and while it did squash a lot of issues, there were still some lingering problems. Those are now being tackled with Hotfix 1.21, which also aims to make the game a bit more stable across …

Ever since its launch all the way back in 2017, NieR: Automata has suffered from a number of rather significant problems on PC in particular, including stutter and resolution scaling issues, to name a few. Most of these were never resolved, leading to a great deal of frustration from fans. …

Outriders launched last week and while it was hugely successful in terms of day-one sales and concurrent players, there have been on-going connectivity issues with servers and other features like cross-platform play between PC and console. People Can Fly has been addressing these issues in the days since launch and …

A new driver patch may have revealed Intel's upcoming 14th Gen Core series of processors. Linux driver patch notes for the Intel Gigabit NIC mention a new codenamed microarchitecture – Lunar Lake.  Expected to release after Meteor Lake, Intel Lunar Lake was first mentioned in an Ethernet Linux driver (via Coelacanth's Dream) …

Earlier this week, Cyberpunk 2077 modders noticed a security issue with the game, as there was a vulnerability that allowed crafted save files to execute rogue code. This would make downloading any modded save file for the game a risky move. Now two days later, CD Projekt Red has released …

CD Projekt Red has been issuing a series of hotfix patches for Cyberpunk 2077 following its rocky launch earlier this month. This week, patch 1.06 arrived, fixing the save file size limit issue.  Those who like to pick up everything they can find and do lots of crafting in RPGs …

If you've been having issues with Cyberpunk 2077 since its launch a couple of days ago, then you may want to make sure you have the latest patch installed. Last night, CD Projekt Red began rolling out Hotfix patch 1.04, taking aim at some bugs, performance issues and crashes.  The …

We've known for a few years now that Adobe Flash is on its way out, with Adobe planning to end support for at the end of this year. As a send off, Flash got one last update this week, ending an era. The patch began rolling out on the 8th …

It has been a while since we last checked in with the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. Today, Guerrilla released the latest patch, which includes some pretty major upgrades, including a rewrite of the shader system and the ability to skip the lengthy shader optimisation process.  Patch 1.07 for …

The Watch Dogs Legion launch on consoles and PC wasn't as smooth as it should have been, but Ubisoft has been quick to patch things up. Today, a 1.44GB hotfix patch began rolling out on PC to fix performance issues.  The hotfix patch already began rolling out on Xbox One …

Wasteland 3 was well received at launch but many players encountered plenty of bugs along the way. Over the last six weeks, inXile has been working on patches, with the latest bringing a notable boost to load times.  As part of Wasteland 3 patch 1.1.2, inXile has found a way …

While Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs are still quite far from release, work on support for Linux has already started. Intel engineers have started to work on patches for the Linux Kernel so that the upcoming Intel architecture is supported on Linux-based systems out-of-the-box. As noted by Phoronix, the Linux …

Guerrilla Games is continuing to patch up Horizon Zero Dawn for new PC players. The last few patches have focused on crashes – a few more crashing issues are fixed in this week's patch, but we also get general performance improvements, which can bring up to a 10% boost.  The …

It has been a couple of weeks since the last PC patch for Horizon Zero Dawn. During this short break, Guerrilla Games has been able to hone in on even more crashing and freezing issues, potentially making this the patch that many have been waiting for. In Patch 1.02, a …

Shortly following on from last week's patch, the team at Guerrilla Games has released update 1.02 for Horizon Zero Dawn on PC this week. There are still a number of known issues, but this latest patch should fix more crashing issues and implements additional performance improvements.  This patch “aims to …

If any of you are diving back into DOOM Eternal, then you may want to check out the latest update. The game’s second major patch has now dropped, making changes to Empowered Demons, introducing a new map for Battlemode and also adding quality of life improvements and fixes. In a …

Intel released its June 2020 Platform Update on June 9 and included fixes for 25 security vulnerabilities. Two of the vulnerabilities had a CVSS score of 9.8, which means they were rated as critical security flaws. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System – or CVSS – is a way of measuring the severity of a …

At this point in time, Metro Exodus is essentially complete, with the base game now available across consoles and PC, in addition to two DLC expansions being released. With that in mind, there is not much sense in keeping Denuvo in the game for much longer, so 4A Games is …

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has continued to balloon in size since launching late last year. At this point, the full game install takes up over 200GB of HDD space, as another hefty patch has just been released.  The latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare patch is 30GB on PC, …

Square Enix has been making the news recently for accidentally removing important game files when patching games on Steam. Initially, Final Fantasy IX received a patch that seemingly deleted all Steam game files and now, Final Fantasy XII has had a similar screw up.  Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age …

Valve released CS:GO on 21st August 2012, and over the years the game has been extremely popular with fans of competitive multiplier first-person shooter titles while evolving along the way. However, the experience of playing CS:GO, especially in competitive matchmaking can be rather toxic at times. Valve has been listening …

There has been a lot of talk about Warcraft 3: Reforged over the last couple of weeks, mostly due to fan disappointment and an incredibly low user-score on Metacritic. Now, Blizzard has officially responded, saying “sorry to those of you who didn't have the experience you wanted” and sharing plans …

While Monster Hunter World: Iceborne's PC release was hampered by a couple of major issues, Capcom has been quick on the case. Earlier this week, Capcom announced that a patch would be rolling out ‘within a few days' to address CPU utilisation and save error issues. Now, just in time …

It has been one week since Monster Hunter World: Iceborne launched on PC. Unfortunately, while the expansion was well received on consoles last year, the PC version came out with some issues. Capcom has been investigating since then and today, the publisher gave us an update on the upcoming patch.  …

Rockstar has been steadily patching up Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC in an effort to tackle instability issues, crashes etc. This week, update 1.14.1 began rolling out, fixing 12 crashing errors and Vulkan stability, which should further smooth out the stuttering errors. Now we just have to hope that …

Obsidian has created some great RPGs over the years but they’ve not always launched without issues. Fortunately, patches have been swift for The Outer Worlds, with the latest update fixing a late game crashing bug, UI issues and a few other problems. Patch 1.1.1.0 for The Outer Worlds began rolling …