A new hotfix will be provided for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on September 18th for Xbox One X. This is intended to temporarily reduce the graphics to cope with the performance issues on the console.
The battle royale shooter PUBG is currently only available on consoles for Xbox One. However, players on the Xbox One X still suffer from performance issues: Notably, the unstable frame rate is under criticism. A new hotfix is expected to provide at least temporary relief next week.
Stability through graphical downgrade
How will the hotfix help? On September 18th, a hotfix for PUBG will be released on Xbox One that aims to address the frame rate issues on Xbox One X. This will involve disabling some graphic options or reducing the intensity of certain features. This is expected to temporarily lead to performance improvements.
The following changes will be introduced with the hotfix:
- Shadow quality (both dynamic and static) will be reduced
- Post-processing
- Motion blur will be disabled
- Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) quality will be reduced
- Depth of field will be disabled
- Lens flare will be disabled
- Eye adaptation quality will be reduced
- This option affects the time needed for eyes to adjust to darkness when moving from a bright to a dark place
- Effects
- Screen reflection (SSR) will be disabled
- This affects the reflection from windows and similar surfaces
- Refraction will be switched off
- This affects light refraction
- Subsurface Scattering (SSS) will be disabled
- This refers to light fields in objects that make objects appear more lifelike
- Particle lighting will be disabled
- This affects the dynamic lighting of various effects, such as explosions
- The number of generated particles will be reduced
The resolution and textures, on the other hand, are expected to remain unchanged.
A long-term solution is being sought: The developers apologized in the blog post, as they know some players experience no issues at all.
The hotfix will affect all players, albeit only temporarily.
In the meantime, work will continue on a long-term solution. The developers anticipate offering two paths for different target groups in the future: one path for players who prefer better graphics and one for gamers who prefer better performance.
