It could be April Fools’ Day as we speak, 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 occurring with the sport on PC recently.
As a fast refresher, for the reason that final large patch, 01.002.200, made some modifications to how the sport does AI calculations, some PC gamers on older programs 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 problem”.
Enter patch 01.002.202, and the repair it makes that caught my eye. “Mounted recreation crashing on legacy {hardware} when participant drops right into a mission,” the road laying out that tweak reads.
As of writing, we won’t make sure that this repair is particularly aimed toward that AVX2 problem, because it clearly does not point out AVX2 particularly, however using “legacy {hardware}” would seem to doubtlessly match what’s been occurring, because the AVX2 downside has primarily affected people utilizing older CPUs manufactured previous to round 2013/2014.
VG247 has reached out to Arrowhead by way of e-mail, in addition to neighborhood supervisor Katherine ‘Baskinator’ Baskin (who posted each the announcement of as we speak’s patch and that Arrowhead was engaged on an AVX2 repair) and certainly one of Arrowhead’s participant help brokers by way of Discord in an effort to try to get concrete affirmation as as to if this repair is expounded to or designed to rectify the AVX2 problem.
For now, making an attempt to learn into what varied gamers are posting within the channels of Helldivers 2’s Discord server, it is troublesome 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 stated, I’ve observed a few gamers indicating that it has improved issues of their particular instances.
“AVX2 downside appears to be mounted. Enjoying issue 4 bot mission. Was by no means in a position to 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 transform remoted instances or if this patch has quietly mounted the AVX2 problem. Are you able to now play Helldivers 2 once more in your previous ass PC? Tell us beneath!
