It is perhaps April Fools’ Day immediately, however Helldivers 2 has recieved an precise patch. It is just a bit one, is patch 01.002.202, however there may be one repair in it that is caught my eye, given what’s been happening with the sport on PC these days.
As a fast refresher, because the final massive patch, 01.002.200, made some modifications to how the sport does AI calculations, some PC gamers on older techniques have reported that they are now unable to play the sport with out crashes. Arrowhead confirmed final week that it is engaged on a repair for this “AVX2 difficulty”.
Enter patch 01.002.202, and the repair it makes that caught my eye. “Mounted sport crashing on legacy {hardware} when participant drops right into a mission,” the road laying out that tweak reads.
As of writing, we will not make certain that this repair is particularly geared toward that AVX2 difficulty, because it clearly does not point out AVX2 particularly, however using “legacy {hardware}” would seem to probably match what’s been happening, because the AVX2 drawback has primarily affected of us utilizing older CPUs manufactured previous to round 2013/2014.
VG247 has reached out to Arrowhead by way of electronic mail, in addition to neighborhood supervisor Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin (who posted each the announcement of immediately’s patch and that Arrowhead was engaged on an AVX2 repair) and one among Arrowhead’s participant assist brokers by way of Discord so as to attempt to get concrete affirmation as as to whether this repair is said to or designed to rectify the AVX2 difficulty.
For now, attempting to learn into what numerous gamers are posting within the channels of Helldivers 2’s Discord server, it is tough to inform for 100% sure whether or not this patch has modified something for everybody who was struggling to run the sport on their older PCs. That mentioned, I’ve seen a few gamers indicating that it has improved issues of their particular instances.
“AVX2 drawback appears to be fastened. Taking part in issue 4 bot mission. Was by no means capable of go above 2”, one with the deal with Wendigoez/SEAF Hellbomb Producer who claims to be utilizing a 12 12 months previous CPU has written, whereas one other with the deal with Anoth/SES Sword of the Stars has asserted: “Arrowhead made it.. I can play the sport once more with my previous ass CPU.”
We’ll need to see if these grow to be remoted instances or if this patch has quietly fastened the AVX2 difficulty. Are you able to now play Helldivers 2 once more in your previous ass PC? Tell us under!
