The Last of Us Part I launched on PC in rough shape last month, with players complaining of exceptionally long shader loading times, crashes, camera jitters, poor performance, and other assorted issues. Thankfully Naughty Dog and port developer Iron Galaxy have made some progress via a series of updates, and today they’ve released their biggest patch yet.

　　The Last of Us Part I PC update 1.0.4 promises to optimize CPU and GPU use, boost the game’s fidelity on lower settings, improve shader building, deal with various issues connected to AMD processors, and more. The update is a beefy one, weighing in at over 25 GB, so it's likely packing even more tweaks than Naughty Dog explicitly spells out. You can check out the full patch notes for The Last of Us Part I 1.0.4, below.

　　General

　　Optimized CPU and GPU use throughout the gameImproved texture fidelity and resolution on in-game Low and Medium settingsImproved graphical fidelity on the in-game Low graphics preset, particularly water surfaces no longer appear blackFixed a crash that may occur during shader buildingFixed a crash that may occur when quitting to the Main MenuFixed a crash that may occur when dying after combatFixed an issue where, on first boot, players may experience longer wait times to load into the gameAdded an option for players to lock and unlock performance stats simultaneously in the HUD menu (Options > HUD)Added descriptions in the Graphics menus to better explain when certain settings may affect another (Options > Display)Added a Texture Streaming Rate setting (Graphics > Texture Settings)Fixed an issue where skipping cutscenes during a critical load may cause the game to hangFixed an issue where the shader load warning did not appear while relaunching the gameUpdated the VRAM bar to more accurately display the OS+Apps usageFixed an issue where the Screen Reader read values for locked settings which may imply those same locked setting were activeFixed an issue where aiming downward while using keyboard and mouse (KBM) may increase camera sensitivityRefined the handling of certain commands that are assigned the same KBM keybindingCorrected Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, LATAM Spanish, Spanish, Thai, and Traditional Chinese translations for multiple menu options[Ultrawide Displays] Corrected the Rangefinder reticle position for the bowAMD

　　Fixed a crash that may occur on AMD CPUs with affinity limited to X3D coresFixed an issue where textures may render incorrectly on AMD GPUsSteam

　　Fixed an issue where the “It Can't Be For Nothing” achievement did not trigger, despite acquiring all other achievementsSteam Deck

　　Fixed an issue on Steam Deck where resetting Display settings to Default no longer enabled AMD FSR 2 (Options > Display)The Last of Us Part I can be played on PC and PS5. Naughty Dog is promising “additional CPU optimization, framerate and texture fidelity improvements” in future patches. You can check out our review of the PS5 version of the game here.