PlayStation recently released their single-player title- Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut for PC on Steam. The game became an instant hit registering more than 50k concurrent players every day since release. On May 19th, the game even hit 77154 concurrent players surpassing the numbers of God of War on the same day.
It has now been discovered that the game can run into a snag which can cause it to crash or stutter. There are a lot of reasons that can cause this problem. Fortunately, we have found some remedies that may be able to help you with your game.
- Verify the integrity of the files in the Steam
- Everyone who has been playing games through Steam knows that the easiest way to fix any problem with the game is to verify the Integrity of the game files.
- Turn off Frame Generation
- Considered to be the best way to increase frame rate in the game, Frame Generation is being named the biggest culprit for crashes and stuttering issues. Turning it off in the game settings can help you with the issue. You should find this setting under Display settings in the game.
- Turn off Upscaling
- This is a setting that can improve the visuals of the game. Since Upscaling is a GPU-intensive process, turning it off for now should help your case. You should find this setting under Display settings in the game.
- Disable PlayStation Overlay
- For many players, the PlayStation Overlay has been the reason for crashes and stuttering. Unfortunately, there is no on/off switch for the overlay, but there is a way we can disable it. Follow the steps below.
- Go to the Program Data folder in your system’s installation directory. (Usually, it’s the C drive)
- Go to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc
- Delete PSPC_SDK.
- Launch the game in offline mode.
If the issue does not get fixed even after trying all the steps above, then you will have to wait for an official fix by the developers of the game. Many are blaming this issue on Nexes Software- the studio behind porting the game to PC. We are sure the developers are already notified about the issue and a fix is expected anytime soon.
