Black Myth: Wukong Patch Makes Significant Performance Improvements, but Brace Yourself for a 93GB Download on PS5

A caller update for Black Myth: Wukong makes important show improvements, but brace yourself for a mammoth 93.3GB download.

On PS5, you'll request the instal abstraction to download the immense update, but during the instal process that follows the crippled itself is rewritten, resulting successful the aforesaid instal footprint oregon possibly adjacent little than before. As a result, if you're playing connected PS5 and abbreviated of space, it whitethorn beryllium worthy uninstalling the crippled past downloading it again, alternatively than downloading the update connected apical of the crippled itself.

For the PS5 version, spot 1.0.20.21756 improves the game's loading speed, the clarity of definite textures, CPU and rendering show successful galore scenarios, representation usage, and the prime of question blur to mitigate the aliasing issues that hap erstwhile the camera pans.

On PC, the spot adds integrated AMD FSR4 support, improves Compatible Mode, and "significantly" improves the lighting prime erstwhile Global Illumination is acceptable to low, making it person to the effect erstwhile Global Illumination is acceptable to high.

In a speedy overview connected societal media — and a much elaborate outline connected developer Game Science's authoritative website — the workplace advised that, arsenic good arsenic the accustomed bug fixes, the "considerable fig of underlying changes" coming successful to boost show not lone impacts PS5 hard drives, but besides PC mods, which "may origin compatibility issues" and "prevent you from launching the crippled oregon triggering mistake pop-ups during gameplay." Consequently, the squad recommends players uninstall each mods and verify the integrity of files earlier restarting the crippled aft you use the latest patch.

The update rolls retired crossed each platforms from contiguous (October 13). Here's the afloat database of changes.

Black Myth: Wukong Patch Notes 1.0.20.21756

What to Know Before Patch Installation

Due to the platform's update mechanism, your machine volition request to reserve a definite magnitude of escaped disk abstraction (not needfully connected the aforesaid disk if you are a Steam user) for impermanent retention of the update files. (PC)

• If you person installed immoderate mods successful the game, installing the spot whitethorn origin compatibility issues. This could forestall you from launching the game, loading your saved games, oregon triggering mistake pop-ups during gameplay. We urge uninstalling the installed mods and verifying the integrity of the crippled files earlier restarting the game. (PC)
• The show optimization this clip involves a sizeable fig of underlying changes, which results successful a comparatively larger spot size. If the update fails owed to insufficient retention oregon different reasons, delight effort redownloading the game. (PS5)
• If you brushwood unusually ample update sizes during spot installation, oregon if the crippled gets stuck, crashes, oregon fails to commencement aft installation, delight notation to the Installation/Patch FAQ connected our authoritative website.
• This update whitethorn necessitate shader recompilation. If you acquisition crashes during shader compilation, delight effort restarting the crippled until the compilation is implicit oregon skip shader compilation.

Experience Improvements

Bosses

Improved the combat acquisition against Yaoguai King "Giant Shigandang".

Interaction

• Journeyer's Chart interface volition usher the Destined One to Travel with Keeper's Shrine earlier immoderate Journeyer's Chart has been obtained.
• Improved the readability of the "Cleared" statement successful the "Load Journey" interface.

Performance

• Integrated AMD FSR4. On compatible hardware, it volition beryllium disposable successful the in-game Settings aft updating the operator and enabling FSR4 successful the operator settings. (PC)
• Improved Compatible Mode. Now, with Compatible Mode enabled, ray tracing, framework generation, and immoderate super-resolution functions volition beryllium temporarily disabled to assistance players debar crippled motorboat failures caused by driver, hardware, oregon strategy abnormalities. (PC)
• Adjusted the default graphics settings for definite graphics cards to lucifer the assorted graphical changes successful the existent crippled version. (PC)
• Significantly improved the lighting prime erstwhile Global Illumination is acceptable to low, making it person to the effect erstwhile Global Illumination is acceptable to high. (PC)
• Adjusted Performance Mode backmost to 60Hz, reducing input latency and achieving higher solution than before. However, the lighting prime level has been adjusted to heighten performance. The archetypal Performance Mode is inactive retained and renamed "Performance Mode (Legacy)". (PS5)
• Improved the game's loading speed. (PS5)
• Improved the clarity of definite textures. (PS5)
• Improved CPU and rendering show successful galore scenarios.
• Improved representation usage successful galore scenarios.
• Improved the prime of question blur to mitigate the aliasing issues that hap erstwhile the camera pans.

Localization

• Added connection enactment for Czech.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an contented wherever Yaoguai Chief "Top Takes Bottom & Bottom Takes Top" became undefeatable nether definite conditions.
• Fixed an contented wherever the robust shot failed to show decently during battles against Yaoguai Chief "Top Takes Bottom & Bottom Takes Top" nether definite conditions.

• Fixed respective issues that caused surface ghosting and borderline flickering. (PS5)
• Fixed an contented wherever XeSS 2.0 failed to alteration framework procreation connected immoderate displays. (PC)
• Fixed an contented wherever the crippled mightiness clang connected motorboat erstwhile some DLSS 4 framework procreation and ray tracing were enabled. (PC)
• Fixed aggregate rendering errors successful NXSR that caused ghosting and borderline flickering, and improved NXSR's rendering quality. (PC)

• Fixed substance overlapping successful the "Make Medicine" interface for definite languages.
• Fixed voiceover and subtitle errors successful definite cutscenes.
• Fixed an contented wherever immoderate substance successful Settings was not decently localized.
• Corrected translation errors and fixed issues with spelling, capitalization, and terminology consistency successful respective languages.

IGN's Black Myth: Wukong reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: "Despite immoderate frustrating method issues, Black Myth: Wukong is simply a large enactment crippled with fantastic combat, breathtaking bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beauteous world."

It enjoyed tremendous occurrence and acceptable income records. A follow-up is successful the works, though it's aboriginal days.

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