Hogwarts Legacy patch notes: first update for PC and Xbox

It may have made a few things worse

The first update for Hogwarts Legacy is out now for PC and Xbox Series X|S, addressing various bugs and performance issues in the open-world RPG. A PS5 update is being worked on as well, but will need a few more days in the oven before it can be released. Going by what the players have been saying about the PC and Xbox patch, this might also have been true for that update.

Reports are coming in from all directions about how the patch didn’t really help resolve most of the performance issues and, indeed, made some of them even worse. As is the nature with a lot of PC games, much depends on the particular hardware configuration a player uses, so these experiences are not to be generalized. While some players have more problems than before, for others not much seems to have changed.

We didn’t notice any real differences using our best Hogwarts Legacy PC settings on the different game versions.

Hogwarts Legacy patch notes: build 1120320

This patch was released on February 14, 2023 for the PC and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game. Here are the full Hogwarts Legacy patch notes.

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-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.
• Xbox Series X
• 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.
• Controllers
• Switch Pro controller support updates HL-346.
• 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 the player experience.

For anything you might want to know about the game, check out our complete Hogwarts Legacy walkthrough.