
Already, the Wizarding World game has broken Twitch’s single-player streaming records with over 1.2 million viewers tuning in to streams today. But this has done little to slow Hogwarts Legacy’s momentum. Protestors have boycotted the game and gone after streamers who stream it. Rowling and transgender debate are lobbing grenades at one another.

Controversy Intensifiesīeyond this, the game has sparked enormous controversy online where both sides of the J.K. You can see my tips for improving your game’s performance right here. The graphical hit is minimal, and I plan on increasing specific settings from High to Ultra one by one. Turning off ray-tracing and changing the settings from Ultra to High ended up working wonders, however, and my game is running without a hitch now. I experienced stuttering and framerate dips, and when I tested out ray-tracing my FPS dove into unplayable territory–despite having a fairly high-end gaming PC with an RTX 3080 GPU and an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU with 32GB of RAM and fast SSD drives.

happened and it wasn’t until several hours after Early Access began that many PC players were able to actually play.įrustrations continued when PC performance ended up being fairly bad for many players. Regardless, some mix-up between Steam and Warner Bros. According to some gamers, product support told them that Warner Bros Interactive had failed to activate the Early Access keys for these customers. It appears that anyone who purchased a key from a third-party retailer, such as where you can buy the game, at launch, for a discount, were having trouble loading in. For me, simply restarting Steam did the trick and I was able to login to my PC copy of the game (I was playing on PS5 but soon realized it would be a competition between myself and my children for play time!). The ‘Play’ button was grayed out even when the game was downloaded.

The first technical issue to greet PC players on Steam was the inability to actually launch the game when Early Access began at 10am PT / 1pm ET. An array of technical problems faced Early Access PC players today, lending credence to the notion that Early Access–while a paid privilege for pre-order customers of the Collector’s and Digital Deluxe Editions of Hogwarts Legacy–are often little more than canaries in the coal mine.
