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Hogwarts Legacy PlayStation®5 and PC Patch Notes | 2/17/2023
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WB Games Support

5 hours ago Updated

PlayStation®5 Patch 01.000.004

Build Version?- 1121649

Developer Note?- This patch addresses overall gameplay performance and stability as well as online connection improvements primarily for PS5.


Online
Fixed issues with achievement data being properly pushed to the Wizarding World portal after linking
Added additional retry connections to WB Games server in the event session expired
Gameplay
Trophies
Fixed a trophy cap limit resolving the Collector's Edition trophy not updating correctly and retroactively unlocks and displays all earned trophies earned by the player. This resolves the following reported issues: HL-1191.
Owl Mail
Fixed an issue with mail not properly triggering the sequential mission
World Events
Fixed rare crash around certain locations where in-game World Events spawning
NPC
Fixed a rare crash when respawning NPCs in the world
Fixed crash with some NPC schedules
Characters
Fixed issues with flickering occurring with a transparent head while hair is still present
UI
Updated localization text for additional content items
Added Build version to first time EULA
Fixed rare occurrence of mission descriptions not being displayed correctly
Cinematics
Corrected VFX presentation of robe transformation
Fixed a stability issue when skipping cutscenes
Fixed a crash when playing cutscenes and cinematics
Save Game
Cleaned up autosaves properly when closing game
Corrected a crash when save system was writing data
Fixed error of rewriting last autosave slot
Fixed an issue when restarting from last save around not being able to talk to a vendor after initial conversation. Resolves the following reported issues: HL-412, HL-494, HL-246, HL-1063, HL-590, HL-542, HL-976, HL-965, HL-1158, HL-1184, HL-1089, HL-1240, HL-1031, HL-1490, HL-1433, HL-89, HL-1930, HL-1086, HL-1636, HL-1585, HL-1028, HL-1933, HL-2606, HL-2062, HL-1587, HL-488, HL-498, HL-162, HL-1706, HL-2626, HL-2865, HL-2888, HL-2804, HL-2910, HL-2944, HL-3000, HL-3043, HL-3024
Performance and Stability
Improved performance on Fidelity mode
Fixed rare crash around hovering over the map
Fixed issue with wind causing distortion and stretching of world assets
Fixed a rare occurrence with material swapping
Fixed a rare crash with map assets state
Fixed Rare crash occurring with in-game world events
Fixed a memory leak with global lighting system HL-313
Fixed a crash when trying to solve a Flying Key mini-game

PC Steam/PC Epic Games

Save Game
Fixed rebuilding of Save Game list if manually deleted.
Performance and Stability
Improved crash collection to help chase rare crashes.





Hogwarts Legacy Xbox Series X|S and PC Patch Notes | 2/14/2023
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WB Games Support

2 hours ago Updated

Build Version - 1120320

Developer Note - This patch addresses overall gameplay performance and stability as well as online connection improvements.

Bug Fixes:

General
Online
Fixed issues with achievement data being properly pushed to Wizarding World portal after linking.
Gameplay
Owl Mail
Fixed an issue with mail not properly triggering sequential mission.
World Events
Fixed rare crash around certain locations where in-game World Events spawning.
NPC
Fixed a rare crash when respawning NPCs in the world.
Fixed crash with some NPC schedules.
Characters
Fixed issues with flickering occurring with a transparent head while hair is still present.
UI
Updated localization text for additional content items.
Added Build version to first time EULA.
Fixed rare occurrence of mission descriptions not being displayed correctly.
Cinematics
Corrected VFX presentation of robe transformation.
Fixed a stability issue when skipping cutscenes.
Fixed a crash when playing cutscenes and cinematics.
Save Game
Fixed error of rewriting last autosave slot.
Fixed an issue when restarting from last save around not being able to talk to a vendor after initial conversation. Resolves the following reported issues: HL-494, HL-246, HL-1063, HL-590, HL-542, HL-976, HL-965, HL-1158, HL-1184, HL-1089, HL-1240, HL-1031, HL-1490, HL-1433, HL-89, HL-1930, HL-1086, HL-1636, HL-1585, HL-1028, HL-1933, HL-2606, HL-2062, HL-1587, HL-488, HL-498, HL-162, HL-1706, HL-2626, HL-2865, HL-2888, HL-2804, HL-2910, HL-2944, HL-3000, HL-3043, HL-3024.
Performance and Stability
Improved performance on Fidelity mode.
Fixed rare crash around hovering over the map.
Fixed issue with wind causing distortion and stretching of world assets.
Fixed a rare occurrence with material swapping.
Fixed a rare crash with map assets state.
Fixed Rare crash occurring with in-game world events.
Fixed a memory leak with global lighting system HL-313.
XSX
Performance and Stability
Improved crash collection to help chase rare crashes.
PC Steam/PC Epic Games
Cinematics
Fixed audio issues missing or not properly playing.
Upscalers
Enable frame generation while DLSS is disabled.
Anti-Aliasing and Screen resolution settings disabled when using DLSS and not Super Resolution.
Raytracing
Fixed issue with RTAO looking worse than SSAO.
Adjusted default setting to Medium Quality.
Performance and Stability
Shader type compilation optimization.
Shader compilation performance updates and functionality enhancements.
Fixed a crash affecting Text2Speech usability.
Resolved issues with world assets abruptly being stretched which resolves the following reported issues: HL-305, HL-265.
Resolved an issue with Nvidia GPUs having lower frame rate compared to AMD.
DirectX Version 12
Please note DirectX Version 12 is required to run Hogwarts Legacy on PC. We do not suggest attempting workarounds to run the game with DirectX Version 11 as this can cause stability issues with launching the game and impact the player experience.