The Last of Us Part 1 PC port is finally available. It is based on the PS5 remake, so expect good looking visuals that come at a price in performance and VRAM requirements. In many ways this is a solid PC port with support for ultrawide, FSR2 and DLSS2, and a highly scalable graphics menu. I'm also glad it precompiles shaders, although this takes a massive amount of time in this game. By far the longest shader compilation I have ever seen. I also encountered multiple game crashes during testing on my RTX 3060 Ti, and I saw some very high VRAM requirements, which can be brough mostly under control by reducing settings and/or upscaling. Overall the PC port seems to be a mixed bag rather than an unqualified triumph, but there is definitely a lot to like here, and hopefully we see some more patches in the near future.

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Chapters:
0:00 Discussing the high VRAM usage, and how to read the stats
1:09 Shader Compilation- The longest I have ever seen, and some crashes incoming
2:02 Let's talk a bit about VRAM usage
2:41 RTX 4090 4K Ultra
3:14 RTX 4090 4K High
4:23 There is no full screen windowed mode
4:34 Ultrawide support
4:50 It has DLSS and FSR2, no DLSS 3 Frame Generation
5:09 RTX 4090 4K High DLSS Quality gets CPU limited
5:32 DLSS can reduce VRAM usage as well
5:53 RTX 4090 4K Ultra DLSS Quality
7:19 GTX 1060 6GB default game settings at 1080p
8:55 GTX 1060 6GB 1080p Low
9:45 GTX 1060 6GB 1080p Medium
11:00 GTX 1060 6GB 1080p Medium FSR2 Quality
12:15 GTX 1060 6GB 1080p Low FSR2 Quality
14:22 RTX 3060 Ti 1080p default game settings at 1080p
15:58 RTX 3060 Ti 1080p Ultra
17:13 RTX 3060 Ti 1080p High
18:21 RTX 3060 Ti 1440p Ultra (VRAM related stutters)
19:30 RTX 3060 Ti 1440p High
20:58 RTX 3060 Ti 1440p Medium
21:53 RTX 3060 Ti 1440p Ultra DLSS Quality
22:56 Game Crashed (RTX 3060 Ti)
23:10 RTX 3060 Ti 1440p High DLSS Quality
23:54 RTX 3060 Ti 1440p Medium DLSS Quality
24:34 Game Crashed (RTX 3060 Ti)
24:48 RX 6700 XT 1080p Game Default Settings
25:50 RX 6700 XT 1080p Ultra
26:50 RX 6700 XT 1080p High
27:54 RX 6700 XT 1440p Ultra
28:49 RX 6700 XT 1440p High
29:44 RX 6700 XT 1440p Medium
30:37 RX 6700 XT 1440p Ultra FSR2 Quality
31:41 RX 6700 XT 1440p High FSR2 Quality
32:38 RX 6700 XT 1440p Medium FSR2 Quality
33:26 Final Thoughts and official system requirements