Modders release Star Wars Jedi: Survivor stutter fix mod for PC
Modders have made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor a little bit better
Following Digital Foundry‘s discovery of a camera/animation fix for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, a PC gamer has created a mod that makes it incredibly easy to apply this fix in-game. By using a custom variable, players can enable animation interpolation, a feature that can reduce visible stutter in Jedi Survivor and increase the game’s framerate in CPU-limited scenarios.
For users of lower-end PCs, this tweak can greatly improve the game’s camera movements and animations by removing visible stutter. This makes the game feel better to play, especially for those who find stutters/judders more noticeable. That said, this fix does have a few downsides, though these downsides are worthwhile if you find this game’s stuttering hard to ignore.
This mod enables a custom variable that helps with camera and animation stuttering in the game. No additional tools needed.
The existence of this variable was discovered by Alex Battaglia from Digital Foundry’s team. You can read the full article and watch the video about it here
Unzip and drop the files in the game’s executable folder (
\SwGame\Binaries\Win64). The fix comes enabled by default but you can use SurvivorAnimationStutterFixLite.ini to disable / enable the fix or the logging. This mod is developed for Patch 9. Thanks to ThirteenAG for Ultimate ASI Loader as it is used as dll injection method.
The lifelong battle against stuttering is a heavy burden, but it ultimately yields magnificent results.
For CPUs like AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600, this mod can deliver 20% higher framerates. However, the interpolated nature of this animation setting does have a latency penalty. Furthermore, the framerate gains that this tweak delivers are lower for higher-end CPUs. Additionally, this tweak may have negative consequences for users of 8GB GPUs.
While this tweak isn’t for everyone, it is a useful feature for those who want higher framerates and increased smoothness on PCs with lower-end CPUs. Even so, this mod isn’t a magic bullet. Not all stuttering is eliminated, and this mod does nothing to address this game’s other issues.
You can join the discussion on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s stutter-fixing mod on the OC3D Forums.
