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PC Performance and Hotfix 1.0.2

What Rebel Wolves shipped on Sep 3 2026, the known stutter and shader crashes, and the fullscreen workaround. Not a settings fantasy list.

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Launch-week PC is messy. This page only repeats what the studio posted and what multiple reports agreed on by Sep 4 2026.

Hotfix 1.0.2 (Sep 3, 2026)

Steam news for app 3751260, 5:06 PM EDT:

Quests

  • Coen can talk to Farkas after killing everyone around him.
  • Lunka no longer gets lost leading the tutorial.
  • The uriashi blacksmith learned how to craft a certain holy sword. If Forge It Anew was stuck, patch and go back.

Gameplay

  • Controller dead zone and sprint input on PC.

Known issues they are still looking at

From the same post:

  • Stutter in Windowed / Borderless. Workaround: Full Screen.
  • Crash while compiling shaders. Check BIOS is current. They linked a support note from the news post.
  • PS5 gamepad button mapping missing on PC.

Community reports on the same day (mp1st roundup, not a patch note): flickering lights, tiny UI font, sprint dying on angles, cursor vs controller, tearing, menus dead after a fullscreen switch, crashes on console and PC.

What to actually try

  1. Run Full Screen, not Borderless, if the frame time spikes when you turn.
  2. Update GPU driver and BIOS before you assume the game is bricked on shader compile.
  3. If Forge It Anew cannot finish at the smith, confirm 1.0.2 is installed. That bug is named.
  4. Do not spend a day of hourglass testing a quest that a hotfix already names. Check the patch first.

System floor from the August 2026 sheet, as repeated in launch wikis: GTX 1060 / 16 GB RAM / SSD. That is the floor, not a 60 fps promise at 1440p.

Consoles

Launch patch added 60 fps Performance on PS5, PS5 Pro, and Series X. If your build predates that, update before you blame the fight.