Hogwarts Legacy Patch Improves Stability and Performance on PS5, Fixes Crashes

Portkey Games and Avalanche Software have released a new patch for Hogwarts Legacy, which focuses on improving the performance and stability. PS5 players should also see connection improvements, specifically more connection retries to the WB Games server before an event session expires.

Issues with Achievement data being pushed to the Wizarding World portal after linking are also resolved. An issue that prevented the Collector’s Edition Trophy from not updating correctly is also fixed, so it should retroactively unlock and showcase all Trophies earned thus far. Other fixes are crashes that could occur when World Events spawned, NPCs respawned, and so on. Fidelity mode should also see improved performance.

Check out the full patch notes below. Hogwarts Legacy is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5 and PC. It releases on April 4th for PS4 and Xbox One, and July 25th for Nintendo Switch. Check out our official review for our thoughts and stay tuned for more updates.

FEBRUARY 17th, 2023 Patch

Build Version – 1121649

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

Bug Fixes:

PS5 Patch 01.000.004

Online

• Fixed issues with achievement data being properly pushed to 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 Editiontrophy not updating correctly. This will retroactively unlock and display 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 a sequential mission

World Events

• Fixed rare crash around certain locations where in-game World Events spawn

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 Cabinet

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