Last week, Sony released The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC. And, as I wrote in my PC Performance Analysis, the PC launch version is in a better state than the one for the first game. Still, this doesn’t mean that it is flawless. And, surprisingly enough, there is a really easy way to significantly improve your PC performance.
For whatever reason, the game performs horribly on NVIDIA GPUs with Rebar enabled. And while the NVIDIA driver has Rebar disabled by default, it appears to be bugged at the moment.
What you need to do is go into your BIOS and disable Rebar from there. And that’s it. Once you’ve done it, you will get a much better performance. NXGamer showcased this fix in his latest video. And yes, I can verify that this does work. I also saw a significant performance boost on my main PC gaming system when I disabled it.
My main issue here is that Rebar can be beneficial in other titles. So, it’s a pain in the a*s to disable it just for one game. Thus, I hope that Nixxes and Iron Galaxy will do something to fix this awkward behavior. Either that, or NVIDIA should step in and force Rebar to be disabled for this game via its drivers. For real this time.
Another issue that NXGamer spotted was the fact that The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered can run worse when you lower the in-game settings. My guess is that this is without restarting the game. Because I haven’t witnessed these issues on both the NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. Then again, I was usually restarting the game during each and every change. So, I don’t really know what’s going on here, and why NXGamer had these issues. Still, this is another thing that Nixxes and Iron Galaxy should take a look at.
In a way, this scalability issue reminded me of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Pretty interesting that these two games suffer from somewhat similar scalability issues. So, let’s hope that Nixxes and Iron Galaxy will address them. Because right now, Ubisoft has done nothing about them.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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