{
  "id": 3539224,
  "title": "I've Tried Star Wars Zero Company on Five Different PCs, and It's Been a Nightmare",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/ive-tried-star-wars-zero-company-on-five-different-pcs-and-its-been-a",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-26T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IGN",
    "slug": "ign",
    "url": "https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-zero-company-is-a-mess-on-pc"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The article discusses the technical issues experienced by the author while playing Star Wars: Zero Company on five different PCs. Despite generally positive reviews for the game's story and visuals, the author has encountered numerous problems across various hardware configurations.\n\nOn a Razer Blade 16 laptop with an RTX 5090 GPU and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, the game showed decent average frame rates at 1600p but suffered from microstutters and driver crashes when loading gameplay. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 running Bazzite had even worse performance, requiring a significant drop in resolution and frame rates to remain playable. Crashes during mission endings were frequent, often requiring hard restarts and losing progress.\n\nOn a Steam Machine, the game crashed at the same level, but an error report was generated for the developer. Even on a high-end rig with AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU, 32GB RAM, and RTX 5090 GPU, performance was only around 70-80fps at 4K with Ultra settings, and the game froze during a turn after a few hours of gameplay.\n\nThe author acknowledges that Bit Reactor has released a day-zero patch to address some issues, but crashes, freezes, and frame drops persist. Despite these challenges, the author remains hopeful that the game will eventually become stable, as they are excited about two upcoming Star Wars games, Zero Company and Galactic Racer. The author's enthusiasm for the Star Wars prequel era is evident, but they express frustration at the frequent headaches that come with playing the game.",
  "summary": "Star Wars Zero Company is an incredible game, but it's marred by all kinds of technical issues on PC, particularly at the hands of Epic's Unreal Engine 5.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "IGN",
        "title": "Star Wars Zero Company Review",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/star-wars-zero-company-review",
        "published": "2026-08-26T13:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Star Wars Zero Company review",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/star-wars-zero-company-review-3517169",
        "published": "2026-08-26T13:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Polygon",
        "title": "Star Wars: Zero Company Is One of the Best Reviewed Star Wars Games of All-Time",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/star-wars-zero-company-is-one-of-the-best-reviewed-star-wars-games-of",
        "published": "2026-08-26T14:28:05.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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