Hogwarts Legacy [PS4, 4PRO, PS5, XO, XOX, XBSX|S, PC]

So what kind of game is this? CP2077/GTA5/RRD2/Witcher3 type ish kinda?

I have no relationship with Harry Potter, I was to old and I have no kids so :)
 
Major patch released today, and while I haven't yet bought this game, it seems like they've made a lot of performance improvements.

Here's just some of them pertaining to performance and I bolded some of the more important ones:

Raytracing

  • Improved stability and performance after long play throughs.
  • Improved VFX performance with raytracing.
  • Also improved performance by batching and caching raytracing buffers.
  • Removed fog volumes for better BVH performance.
  • Fixed RTAO making decals black.
  • Fixed directional light shadows.
  • Also fixed shadows on trees.
  • Fixed performance of the culling of lights in the frontend.

Performance and Stability #1

  • Fixed streaming issues throughout Hogwarts.
  • Fixed crash when common room is being shown to the player.
  • Also fixed crash with skeletal mesh.
  • Fixed crash with deflection impacts.
  • Fixed crash when reading dictionary files.
  • Also fixed performance when using ancient magic squash finisher on elevated Thornback Ambusher in Rune Door arena.
  • Improve rendering performance of translucent objects.
  • Fixed crash during a story graph.
  • Fixed streaming of plants in the Slytherin Common Room.
  • Also fixed several memory leaks.
  • Fixed crash with map icon state.
  • Fixed crash with invalid UI.
  • Also fixed streaming out of the Great Hall while navigating Hogwarts.
  • Fixed crash during audio occlusion checks around player.
  • Fixed crash when using explosive barrels.
  • Also fixed crash when using Incendio spell.
  • Fixed crash when using Accio, Confringo, or Stupefy spells.
  • Fixed crash when updating gear items.
  • Also fixed crash recursive crash with Solomons shields.
    Fixed crash with mount zones.
  • Fixed crash during combat cursed lifetime.
  • Fixed crash during and spawning race on broom
  • Also fixed occlusion culling with doors opening and closing.
  • Fixed occlusion culling issue.
  • Fixed a crash when travelling to Professor Fig’s classroom.
  • Also fixed crashes related with Niagara and destructible related VFX.
  • Fixed a crash with damage over time not registering correctly.
  • Fixed crash spawning actor not being stored correctly.
  • Also fixed crash with spawning actors correctly.
  • Fixed crash during character creation.

Performance and Stability #2

  • Fixed optimization animation instancing.
  • Fixed crash with moving stairs.
  • Also fixed crash with VFX after prolonged play throughs.
  • Fixed crash related transformations in Overland.
  • Fixed crash dealing with object state.
  • Also fixed crash with parry in combat.
  • Fixed crash with VFX AOE.
  • Fixed crash with hints.
  • Also fixed crash with achievements with an invalid online userid.
  • Fixed crash while speaking to Rackham.
  • Fixed crash when using Wingardium.
  • Also fixed performance drops experienced during longevity of the game.
  • Fixed performance drop in Divination classroom.
  • Improve VRAM usage specially for video cards with reduced memory.
  • Fixed raytracing lighting performance in the frontend.
  • Fixed using Ansel while a spell is being cast.
  • Also fixed using Ansel while the avatar is riding a broom.
  • Updated shader compilation with latest PSO cache.
  • Fixed lighting optimization with Nvidia drivers.

Display

  • Resolved 32:9 aspect ratio issue when using an Ultrawide monitor.
  • Fixed Ansel issue when FOV is set too high.

Miscellaneous

  • Updated “Special Thanks” credits and legal lines.
  • Updated minimum Nvidia and AMD video driver recommendations.


 
Ignoring the controversy around the game, how valid are Yahtzee’s takes on the gameplay? Does a fondness for the books/movies paper over some cracks?
 
Major patch released today, and while I haven't yet bought this game, it seems like they've made a lot of performance improvements.

Here's just some of them pertaining to performance and I bolded some of the more important ones:

Raytracing

  • Improved stability and performance after long play throughs.
  • Improved VFX performance with raytracing.
  • Also improved performance by batching and caching raytracing buffers.
  • Removed fog volumes for better BVH performance.
  • Fixed RTAO making decals black.
  • Fixed directional light shadows.
  • Also fixed shadows on trees.
  • Fixed performance of the culling of lights in the frontend.

Performance and Stability #1

  • Fixed streaming issues throughout Hogwarts.
  • Fixed crash when common room is being shown to the player.
  • Also fixed crash with skeletal mesh.
  • Fixed crash with deflection impacts.
  • Fixed crash when reading dictionary files.
  • Also fixed performance when using ancient magic squash finisher on elevated Thornback Ambusher in Rune Door arena.
  • Improve rendering performance of translucent objects.
  • Fixed crash during a story graph.
  • Fixed streaming of plants in the Slytherin Common Room.
  • Also fixed several memory leaks.
  • Fixed crash with map icon state.
  • Fixed crash with invalid UI.
  • Also fixed streaming out of the Great Hall while navigating Hogwarts.
  • Fixed crash during audio occlusion checks around player.
  • Fixed crash when using explosive barrels.
  • Also fixed crash when using Incendio spell.
  • Fixed crash when using Accio, Confringo, or Stupefy spells.
  • Fixed crash when updating gear items.
  • Also fixed crash recursive crash with Solomons shields.
    Fixed crash with mount zones.
  • Fixed crash during combat cursed lifetime.
  • Fixed crash during and spawning race on broom
  • Also fixed occlusion culling with doors opening and closing.
  • Fixed occlusion culling issue.
  • Fixed a crash when travelling to Professor Fig’s classroom.
  • Also fixed crashes related with Niagara and destructible related VFX.
  • Fixed a crash with damage over time not registering correctly.
  • Fixed crash spawning actor not being stored correctly.
  • Also fixed crash with spawning actors correctly.
  • Fixed crash during character creation.

Performance and Stability #2

  • Fixed optimization animation instancing.
  • Fixed crash with moving stairs.
  • Also fixed crash with VFX after prolonged play throughs.
  • Fixed crash related transformations in Overland.
  • Fixed crash dealing with object state.
  • Also fixed crash with parry in combat.
  • Fixed crash with VFX AOE.
  • Fixed crash with hints.
  • Also fixed crash with achievements with an invalid online userid.
  • Fixed crash while speaking to Rackham.
  • Fixed crash when using Wingardium.
  • Also fixed performance drops experienced during longevity of the game.
  • Fixed performance drop in Divination classroom.
  • Improve VRAM usage specially for video cards with reduced memory.
  • Fixed raytracing lighting performance in the frontend.
  • Fixed using Ansel while a spell is being cast.
  • Also fixed using Ansel while the avatar is riding a broom.
  • Updated shader compilation with latest PSO cache.
  • Fixed lighting optimization with Nvidia drivers.

Display

  • Resolved 32:9 aspect ratio issue when using an Ultrawide monitor.
  • Fixed Ansel issue when FOV is set too high.

Miscellaneous

  • Updated “Special Thanks” credits and legal lines.
  • Updated minimum Nvidia and AMD video driver recommendations.



DO we know if it works? In other news, Returnal also got a patch today aimed to reduce stuttering in RT mode.
 
New patch is out, with a huge list of updates, spanning everything from memory to shaders to ray tracing to upscalers, most prominent ones:
  • Resolved memory leak with object state
  • Added general streaming optimization and updates
  • Resolved hitches happening multiple times a frame
  • Resolved poor performance occurring when certain trees are on-screen while Ray-Tracing is enabled
  • Resolved general proxy and LOD updates/optimizations
  • Improved minimum pool sizes to prevent textures from getting too blurry
  • Shader type compilation optimization
  • Shader compilation performance updates and functionality enhancements
  • Update DLSS to 3.1.2
  • Updated to FSR 2.2
  • Updated to XeSS 1.1
  • Fixed issue with RTAO and decals being black
  • Adjusted RT lighting and shadows
  • Resolved Ray tracing making odd or extremely bright visual effects on affected textures in certain areas: HL-9198
  • Resolved Ray Tracing shadows creating a hitch when moving in a specific area of Hogsmeade at night
 
Makes me wonder whether the QA already reported the issues and management simply thinks the game is already good enough for release, and will patch later. Or QA didn't catch the issue, thus gamers became QA testers.
 
So how's the game on last-gen consoles, now that it's released for them?
 
New patch is out, with a huge list of updates, spanning everything from memory to shaders to ray tracing to upscalers, most prominent ones:
  • Resolved memory leak with object state
  • Added general streaming optimization and updates
  • Resolved hitches happening multiple times a frame
  • Resolved poor performance occurring when certain trees are on-screen while Ray-Tracing is enabled
  • Resolved general proxy and LOD updates/optimizations
  • Improved minimum pool sizes to prevent textures from getting too blurry
  • Shader type compilation optimization
  • Shader compilation performance updates and functionality enhancements
  • Update DLSS to 3.1.2
  • Updated to FSR 2.2
  • Updated to XeSS 1.1
  • Fixed issue with RTAO and decals being black
  • Adjusted RT lighting and shadows
  • Resolved Ray tracing making odd or extremely bright visual effects on affected textures in certain areas: HL-9198
  • Resolved Ray Tracing shadows creating a hitch when moving in a specific area of Hogsmeade at night

Thats quite a patch. I'd love to see the game re-looked at with this but I'm afraid as with all these games that get fixed after launch they are now branded with the "another shitty PC port" label that's going to stick.
 
Hogwarts native 4K Ultra RT settings benchmarks using the latest patch:

4090: 48 fps
4080: 37 fps
3090: 30 fps
7900XTX: 24 fps
2080Ti: 19 fps
6900XT: 15 fps


 
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New updates regarding memory and hitches:
  • Optimization to overall lighting
  • Also resolved memory optimization
  • Resolved single-frame hitching throughout the game
  • Also resolved landscape streaming issues during Hogwarts
  • Resolved crash VRAM memory leaking
  • Resolved improper shadowing around the vines of dungeons

 
New updates regarding memory and hitches:
  • Optimization to overall lighting
  • Also resolved memory optimization
  • Resolved single-frame hitching throughout the game
  • Also resolved landscape streaming issues during Hogwarts
  • Resolved crash VRAM memory leaking
  • Resolved improper shadowing around the vines of dungeons


I wish review sites would actually test this and tell us if and how the patch has improved things rather than just reading the patch notes back to us. It's cool to know the patch is there of course, but I want to know if it lives up to it's claims.
 
Polished game with much content but finished only because I paid full price. If you are not fan of universum dont recomand as its little snoozefest. Kudos for 40fps mode.
 
Polished game with much content but finished only because I paid full price. If you are not fan of universum dont recomand as its little snoozefest. Kudos for 40fps mode.
Is this uncapped like Spider-man with lowered VRR window trick or capped at 40fps?
 
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