Will do. You might also want to look into your customer support service, few of your agents are relaying false information that Atlus isn't releasing patches by claiming the issue is hardware.

Appreciate the fixes. =b

Slow patch and not even official yet (aka thanks for beta testing). This probably gives you an inkling of why they are afraid of releasing mainline Persona on PC and won't be prepared for it for a while.

Originally posted by 000000000:

Slow patch and not even official yet (aka thanks for beta testing). This probably gives you an inkling of why they are afraid of releasing mainline Persona on PC and won't be prepared for it for a while.

It's not because of bugs, they feared releasing persona games on PC because of the chance that it won't sell well. They have been under the impression for a long time that their fanbase was strictly on consoles only and it's taking Catherine Classic and Persona 4 Golden being successful on Steam that gives them the confidence to release on PC.

Still the same freeze/hang issues.
I'm now at the fifths jail at the save point where Zenkichi gets released from the real world jail and invades the jail with Futaba. The game is still freezing/hanging, either in the cutscene before I'm in the jail or right after I control Zenkichi in the jail. Every time the game freezes/hangs my CPU uses literally every power which isn't in use by another program. My CPU is always at 100 % usage when the game freezes/hangs. Also the game never recovers and just stays frozen. I tried playing the game 4 times so far and every time it freezes randomly after a short time.

Before jail five I could avoid all freezes/hangs by simply playing in Borderless Window mode. Now nothing helps. The hotfix1 didn't fix anything for me. Yes, I have installed the hotfix1 and the game in Steam even added the [hotfix1] tag to the Persona 5 Strikers name.

PC hardware:
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
RAM: 64 GB DDR4-3600
HDD: M.2 SSD Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB

Everything is up to date: Windows 10 (installed the newest update a few minutes ago), NVIDIA driver (updated to the newest driver 461.92), BIOS, AMD chipset driver for x570 motherboards, and even GPU tweak from ASUS.

I had zero issues with Persona 4 Golden or any other game I have played with this hardware, but Persona 5 Strikers is just randomly freezing and I can't do anything.

EDIT: Found the solution to solve my problem. I had to disable SMT (Simultaneous multithreading) in my motherboard BIOS. Game hasn't crashed since then. Please fix this bug, so I can play Persona 5 Strikers with all 32 threads of my CPU and not only with 16 cores.
Also pretty ironic that SMT can also stand for Shin Megami Tensei. Who would have guessed that rejecting SMT solves all of your problems.

EDIT 2: Finished the game with Fullscreen and all other settings on max in 4k resolution. After I disabled SMT the game was 100 % working without any problems. I tried everything and P5S was maybe even the most flawless game I have ever played since I disabled SMT in my BIOS.

Originally posted by Fyuun:

Still the same freeze/hang issues.
I'm now at the fifths jail at the save point where Zenkichi gets released from the real world jail and invades the jail with Futaba. The game is still freezing/hanging, either in the cutscene before I'm in the jail or right after I control Zenkichi in the jail. Every time the game freezes/hangs my CPU uses literally every power which isn't in use by another program. My CPU is always at 100 % usage when the game freezes/hangs. Also the game never recovers and just stays frozen. I tried playing the game 4 times so far and every time it crashes randomly after a short time.

Before jail five I could avoid all freezes/hangs by simply playing in Borderless Window mode. Now nothing helps. The hotfix1 didn't fix anything for me. Yes, I have installed the hotfix1 and the game in Steam even added the [hotfix1] tag to the Persona 5 Strikers name.

PC hardware:
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
RAM: 64 GB DDR4-3600
HDD: M.2 SSD Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB

Everything is up to date: Windows 10 (installed the newest update a few minutes ago), NVIDIA driver (even updated to the newest beta driver 461.81), BIOS, AMD chipset driver for x570 motherboards, and even GPU tweak from ASUS.

I had zero issues with Persona 4 Golden or any other game I have played with this hardware, but Persona 5 Strikers is just randomly freezing and I can't do anything.

The hotfix1 is a beta, this will be expected since it's not a finalized patch. Sucks that you have issues still but that's why you reporting this is good. Hopefully they also fix the game booting up on windowed as a forced default. That annoys me quite a bit.

After almost 40h of play this game has run almost perfectly for me in to different setups. No crashes, no stutter, no freezes.
I won't use the hot fix, however I really hope you keep solving problems and get to the point Persona 4 Golden port is after some patches (wonderful port).
Thank you Atlus, P5S is so good and I have really enjoyed it, but please, give us Persona 5 Royal once for all 🙌🏼

Originally posted by Joker28CR:

After almost 40h of play this game has run almost perfectly for me in to different setups. No crashes, no stutter, no freezes.
I won't use the hot fix, however I really hope you keep solving problems and get to the point Persona 4 Golden port is after some patches (wonderful port).
Thank you Atlus, P5S is so good and I have really enjoyed it, but please, give us Persona 5 Royal once for all 🙌🏼

If only everyone else were so lucky.

Crashed after ~20mins on my GPD Win Max, but at least it left an application error in the event viewer.

Faulting application name: game.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0x604ad2ac
Faulting module name: game.exe, version: 1.0.0.1, time stamp: 0x604ad2ac
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000001657819
Faulting process id: 0x14ac
Faulting application start time: 0x01d71a25a90a9259
Faulting application path: E:\PC Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\P5S\game.exe
Faulting module path: E:\PC Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\P5S\game.exe
Report Id: 64e4e164-7bb4-4492-9271-4d4a2167eacc
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Started at arrival in Sapporo, crashed the a few seconds after the investigation phase began. Was just walking around, not in a cutscene or anything. Running borderless, medium settings, 720p, as administrator, fullscreen opt disabled, off of a WD Blue 3D NAND 2TB internal ssd. Win 10 Home 1909, 18363.1379. Computer itself is a Core i5-1035G7 with 16GB RAM. Iris Plus gfx.

I still get the infinite black screen after the initial loading, after I launch the game. Please release an official patch to fix this. I cannot play the game. I have video evidence that this is still a problem for me. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3fat8LiZjMcRQzYDVEXdbo8mX6bmR_o/view?usp=sharing

The game still consistently crashes upon entry of the second Jail after seeing the cutscene and choosing to explore the jail (in window/borderless window/fullscreen). The only reason I've been able to even make it to the second jail in the first place is because of the most recent NVIDIA driver update (and the first Jail STILL had its fair share of crashes). Hotfix applied, I still run into the same issue of the game crashing. This has overall been an extremely frustrating experience since the pre-ordering with the benefit of the extra days to play before its official release.

PC Specs:
GPU: NVIDIA 980TI
CPU: i7 6700K
RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB
OS: WIN 10

Originally posted by DigitalAlucard:

Originally posted by 000000000:

Slow patch and not even official yet (aka thanks for beta testing). This probably gives you an inkling of why they are afraid of releasing mainline Persona on PC and won't be prepared for it for a while.

It's not because of bugs, they feared releasing persona games on PC because of the chance that it won't sell well. They have been under the impression for a long time that their fanbase was strictly on consoles only and it's taking Catherine Classic and Persona 4 Golden being successful on Steam that gives them the confidence to release on PC.

Japanese publishers in general have always been pretty ambivalent and wary towards the PC as a platform. It's not really until the last few years that a lot of Japanese games have been finding their way over here.

Please Atlus, solve this problem:

When I run the game in "windowed mode", perfect.
But if I run it in "fullscreen mode" or "bordless mode", the game doesn't load cinematics and the game turns black.

Por favor Atlus, arreglad este problema:

Cuando arranco el juego en "modo ventana", todo bien.
Pero si lo abro en "modo pantalla completa" o "sin bordes", el juego no carga las cinemáticas y el juego se queda en n egro.

Even with hotfix, I have infinite grey phone screen.
Tried all: re-instailing my drivers (as a HAD and HAVE all the newwst versions) and the game (4 times in a row), alt+enter a lot, lowering/improving the quality of graphics. But still, no dice.
The game itself and the tutorial battle until the particular moment with EMMA downloading and 2d-sprite of a hand with grey phone runs perfectly, on 60 fps. Because of that, i assume that there are some problems with 2d graphics. Because turned on cutscenes are causing infinte black screen to me.
And yes. Please, do something with your SEGA-support service. People were very scared, when "Dean" said that there will be no patch and it's player's problems (and on my issue, where i had written that i have all the newest drivers, he said to update my drivers. That's just ridiculous)

PC specs:
OC - Windows 10 x64 (The most recent update)
CPU: Inter Core I3-7020U @2,30GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon 530 (with the most recent drivers)
Memory: 4 GB.

The same thing had happened with Persona 4 Golden on pc. I'm talking about softlocks in the end of all-out-attack, when you can see camera rotates around the field and half-transparent character sprites. The game just stucks and won't let you go until you re-launch it.
As you can see by me 8-hours of ingame time and only one achivement, re-launching P5S is no help to me.

Originally posted by Fyuun:

Still the same freeze/hang issues.
I'm now at the fifths jail at the save point where Zenkichi gets released from the real world jail and invades the jail with Futaba. The game is still freezing/hanging, either in the cutscene before I'm in the jail or right after I control Zenkichi in the jail. Every time the game freezes/hangs my CPU uses literally every power which isn't in use by another program. My CPU is always at 100 % usage when the game freezes/hangs. Also the game never recovers and just stays frozen. I tried playing the game 4 times so far and every time it freezes randomly after a short time.

Before jail five I could avoid all freezes/hangs by simply playing in Borderless Window mode. Now nothing helps. The hotfix1 didn't fix anything for me. Yes, I have installed the hotfix1 and the game in Steam even added the [hotfix1] tag to the Persona 5 Strikers name.

PC hardware:
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
RAM: 64 GB DDR4-3600
HDD: M.2 SSD Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB

Everything is up to date: Windows 10 (installed the newest update a few minutes ago), NVIDIA driver (updated to the newest driver 461.92), BIOS, AMD chipset driver for x570 motherboards, and even GPU tweak from ASUS.

I had zero issues with Persona 4 Golden or any other game I have played with this hardware, but Persona 5 Strikers is just randomly freezing and I can't do anything.

As weird as this sounds, that particular jail seems to crash if you have more than 16 logical cores on your system. Disabling simultaneous multithreading in Ryzen Master is a workaround, but I hope Atlus addresses this in an actual patch.