As promised earlier this year, Square Enix will be releasing a patch to fix the numerous issues with NieR Automata's PC port. Upon release, the game was one of 2017's biggest hits, though many found themselves disappointed by the game's PC port, which had trouble running for many, with major stuttering issues, unstable framerate problems, and outright crashes when run on certain graphics cards. Today, July 15th marks the release of the long-awaited patch that'll supposedly fix those problems and more, adding HDR and 4K support, as well. A full changelog details other new features, such as borderless fullscreen, 60fps support for cutscenes, and better lighting.

• Borderless Video Settings
Borderless video settings have been implemented.
• Fidelity FX
A Fidelity FX CAS feature has been added.
• HDR
The system will now detect whether HDR has been activated in the Windows display settings, and automatically boot the game in HDR mode if it has.
• Anti-aliasing
Adjustments to the anti-aliasing functionality
• UI textures (4K)
Approximately 270 UI textures for icons, backdrops and UI elements etc. now support 4K resolutions.
• Cut scenes
The bit rate has been improved and all pre-rendered cut scenes adjusted, so they will now play in 60FPS and display in the correct aspect ratio without stretching the picture.
• Global illumination
A new “Global illumination” feature has been implemented. This can be set to three different levels; High, Medium or Low.
• Ambient occlusion/ bloom
The rendering targets for ambient occlusion and bloom effects have been changed to dynamic resolution based on the game’s resolution.
▼ Bug fixes
• It is now possible to switch between recently selected display modes for screenshots, such as between full screen and windowed mode or between borderless and windowed mode, by pushing the Alt + Enter keys together.
• The mouse cursor is no longer displayed when using a game pad controller.
• The frame rate has been stabilized at 60FPS under default settings.
Other stability related fixes have also been implemented.

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[Jiehfeng]

Man all I want is 120fps+ support. I have no idea why with even their new game they still tie things to the framerate, so if it's unlocked it just becomes buggy.

This is still good I guess, using the mod is still probably better though.

 

[linuxares]

wait... what? *checks date*
It's not the 1st of April is it?

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I bet that community-made solutions still will be needed for optimal performance after this patch

 

[GinOkami428]

I never noticed any real issues playing Automata, as I used the fan patch, so I'm not sure how much this will help. I've already 100% the achievements in the game on Steam, maybe its time to replay it.

 

[Jiehfeng]

I've already 100% the achievements in the game on Steam.

So you did this?

sorry

 

[kevin corms]

Nice! I will point out the windows store version didnt have any special fixes, despite what the internet said.

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I never noticed any real issues playing Automata, as I used the fan patch, so I'm not sure how much this will help. I've already 100% the achievements in the game on Steam, maybe its time to replay it.

The issues have been greatly exaggerated, as usual.

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Better late than never?

 

[MasterJ360]

Yup updating now. Maybe we wont need the FAR Mod which was kinda a pain to setup with Reshade in the past... Well G-shade works in place of Reshade.

But honestly if you have a beefy PC running this game 4K/2K max settings you probably haven't noticed much anyway, but hey we are finally not playing the base game.

 

[Hells Malice]

Always ran flawlessly for me, but nice regardless.

 

[MrSandstorm]

Guess this and denuvo no longer being shoved into it mean the damn thing can finally be considered out of early access.

 

[SS4]

Better late than never i guess . . .

 

[Pepsiman94x]

Wow, this is great news. PC port was an awful awful AWFUL mess.

 

[xdarkmario]

I can't believe this magic patch, when I launched the game yesterday I went from 22 fps to locked 60 (this game use to run awfully on modern 30 series without 3rd party party patches) it only this launched like this.

 

[gerardoelputojaj]

efef

 

[TR_mahmutpek]

this is why piracy will exist

 

[Jayro]

Just more bullshit standing in the way of them finishing the FF7 remake...

 

[GinOkami428]

So you did this?
sorry

You know it! What can I say? I'm a simp for that 2Booty!

 

[DKAngel]

I can't believe this magic patch, when I launched the game yesterday I went from 22 fps to locked 60 (this game use to run awfully on modern 30 series without 3rd party party patches) it only this launched like this.

cant say i had a problem with my old rig (i7 - 4790 and a gtx 760) it actually ran pretty darn well

 

[xdarkmario]

cant say i had a problem with my old rig (i7 - 4790 and a gtx 760) it actually ran pretty darn well

my old rig (when the game came out) was a 4690K and a gtx 690. without the help of FAR mod and SLI mod it ran pretty bad for me