Hogwarts Legacy’s First Major Patch Delayed for PS5 Owners

Hogwarts Legacy’s first major patch is online for Series X and PC owners. Hogwarts Legacy is a new AAA game from Avalanche software and WB games that released to commercial and critical success this month. Despite various controversies around the author of Harry Potter books, J K Rowlings, the game proved to be a major hit among players and critics. The game has over 90k reviews on steam with overwhelmingly positive feedback. One area where the game suffers most is the performance across all machines.

To aaddress those issues, Avalanche Software has released a new major patch for Series X and PC but the patch is delayed on PS5 due to “unforseen issues”. According to WB, the patch will arrive later this week

You can read complete patch notes here. This patch updates the game build to 1120320. Here are the changes Avalanche Software made in the current patch

Build Version – 1120320

Developer Note – This patch addresses overall gameplay performance and stability as well as online connection improvements.

Bug Fixes:

• General
  • Online
    • Fixed issues with achievement data being properly pushed to Wizarding World portal after linking.
  • Gameplay
    • Owl Mail
      • Fixed an issue with mail not properly triggering sequential mission.
    • World Events
      • Fixed rare crash around certain locations where in-game World Events spawning.
    • NPC
      • Fixed a rare crash when respawning NPCs in the world.
      • Fixed crash with some NPC schedules.
    • Characters
      • Fixed issues with flickering occurring with a transparent head while hair is still present.
  • UI
    • Updated localization text for additional content items.
    • Added Build version to first time EULA.
    • Fixed rare occurrence of mission descriptions not being displayed correctly.
  • Cinematics
    • Corrected VFX presentation of robe transformation.
    • Fixed a stability issue when skipping cutscenes.
    • Fixed a crash when playing cutscenes and cinematics.
  • Save Game
    • Fixed error of rewriting last autosave slot.
    • Fixed an issue when restarting from last save around not being able to talk to a vendor after initial conversation. Resolves the following reported issues: HL-412, HL-494, HL-246, HL-1063, HL-590, HL-542, HL-976, HL-965, HL-1158, HL-1184, HL-1089, HL-1240, HL-1031, HL-1490, HL-1433, HL-89, HL-1930, HL-1086, HL-1636, HL-1585, HL-1028, HL-1933, HL-2606, HL-2062, HL-1587, HL-488, HL-498, HL-162, HL-1706, HL-2626, HL-2865, HL-2888, HL-2804, HL-2910, HL-2944, HL-3000, HL-3043, HL-3024.
  • Performance and Stability
    • Improved performance on Fidelity mode.
    • Fixed rare crash around hovering over the map.
    • Fixed issue with wind causing distortion and stretching of world assets.
    • Fixed a rare occurrence with material swapping.
    • Fixed a rare crash with map assets state.
    • Fixed Rare crash occurring with in-game world events.
    • Fixed a memory leak with global lighting system HL-313.
• XSX
  • Performance and Stability
    • Improved crash collection to help chase rare crashes.
• PC Steam/PC Epic Games
  • Cinematics
    • Fixed audio issues missing or not properly playing.
  • Controllers
    • Switch Pro controller support updates HL-346.
  • Upscalers
    • Enable frame generation while DLSS is disabled.
    • Anti-Aliasing and Screen resolution settings disabled when using DLSS and not Super Resolution.
  • Raytracing
    • Fixed issue with RTAO looking worse than SSAO.
    • Adjusted default setting to Medium Quality.
  • Performance and Stability
    • Shader type compilation optimization.
    • Shader compilation performance updates and functionality enhancements.
    • Fixed a crash affecting Text2Speech usability.
    • Resolved issues with world assets abruptly being stretched which resolves the following reported issues: HL-305, HL-265.
    • Resolved an issue with Nvidia GPUs having lower frame rate compared to AMD.
  • DirectX Version 12
    • Please note DirectX Version 12 is required to run Hogwarts Legacy on PC. We do not suggest attempting workarounds to run the game with DirectX Version 11 as this can cause stability issues with launching the game and the player experience.

Hogwarts Legacy is now available for PS5, Series X and PC with Xbox One, PS4 and Switch versions arriving at a later date