Bonus Material: The Last of Us Part 1 Background Loading Makes CPU Problems Worse

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Wondering about immensely variable performance in TLOU Part 1 on PC? It can be loading and decompressing assets at any given point - and that has a big impact on performance, as you'll see here with Ryzen 5 3600 vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D.

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