Nixxes and Iron Galaxy are back with another PC port of a PlayStation exclusive, this time with The Last of Us: Part II Remastered. The PC port is in better shape than The Last of Us: Remake, but it’s not perfect and there are several technical issues in the release.
Beyond poor performance and frame-pacing issues, if you’re using an AMD GPU, you might be running into stability problems as well. If The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered is constantly crashing on your AMD hardware, here is how you may fix that.
Update AMD GPU Drivers to 25.3.2
If you’re still on the Adrenalin driver version 25.3.1, chances are you’ll run into a crash while starting The Last of Us: Part II Remastered. This is a known issue by Nixxes and AMD, and both recommend updating to the latest optional driver version 25.3.2 to fix the crashing issue.
You candirectly download these optional drivers from the AMD website. According to Nixxes, this particular driver contains optimizations and crash fixes for this game
This should fix any major crashing and stability issues but not everything else wrong with the release.
Verify Game Files
If updating the drivers doesn’t do the trick, it’s possible that your game files aren’t in order. Something might have been corrupted during the download or installation process, which can lead to crashes and stability problems. Thankfully you may just verify the files through the Steam client.
Once you’re done, Steam should redownload and patch anything missing or broken.
Generic Troubleshooting
Apart from that, you may try the following generic troubleshooting suggestions.
Nixxes Software and Iron Galaxy Studios clearly have their work cut out for them, as The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered isn’t exactly in the state we’d expect from such a competent porting studio. That said, it’s still a vast improvement over The Last of Us: Remake, which was hard to recommend on PC.
Ali Hashmi
Ali has been writing about video games for the past six years and is always on the lookout for the next indie game to obsess over and recommend to everyone in sight. When he isn’t spending an unhealthy amount of time in Slay the Spire, he’s probably trying out yet another retro-shooter or playing Dark Souls for the 50th time.
