Monster Hunter Wilds‘ performance on PC has been notoriously bad going back to launch, and nobody is quite sure why. One new theory suggests part of the problem could be related to all of the game’s DLC add-ons and the way it checks for them. It sounds wild, however video footage has made it some of the convincing prospects but.
Yesterday, consumer u/de_Tylmarande revealed a quite prolonged put up on the r/MonsterHunter subreddit titled “MH Wilds – Bad performance mystery (Solved?)” As they clarify, they found the problem by mere likelihood after taking part in Monster Hunter Wilds by means of a good friend’s Steam account. They instantly observed that, although they have been utilizing the identical machine, Monster Hunter Wilds’ FPS was dramatically higher when taking part in the sport by means of their good friend’s account than on their very own.
After some testing, u/de_Tylmarande got here to a weird conclusion: the one distinction was that their good friend had purchased all of Monster Hunter Wilds’ downloadable content material on Steam. As they defined, “on the account with no DLC I get heavy and stable FPS drops down to like 20-25 in hubs, while on the account with all DLC bought it’s 80+ FPS.”
Clearly, this declare was somewhat arduous to consider for some customers on the subreddit, so u/de_Tylmarande provided a video of themselves using a customized mod they created that basically bypasses Monster Hunter Wilds’ DLC checks. The speculation has gone viral on-line consequently.
However the story will get even weirder, as a result of u/de_Tylmarande revealed that this isn’t the primary time they’ve found a efficiency repair for one in all Capcom’s PC video games. In line with them, they contacted Capcom with an FPS repair for Dragon’s Dogma 2 again in 2024. They declare that repair was then integrated into the following patch for the open-world RPG on Steam.
It’s additionally price noting that Monster Hunter Wilds gamers on PC have felt like efficiency retains getting worse with every new replace. Every new replace for the sport additionally comes paired with new DLC. As of writing, 190 individual pieces of DLC can be found for the sport on Steam. This new concept would clarify so much.
Capcom hasn’t but confirmed the modder’s findings or substantiated how a lot of the efficiency points may be attributable to the DLC checks. The Reddit sleuth additionally made clear that they don’t suppose Capcom is doing any of this on objective to incentivize gamers to purchase DLC. “I did NOT mean Capcom did this on purpose,” de_Tylmarande wrote in an addendum. “No, no, and again no…it’s just a bug in the code they need to fix.”
No phrase from Capcom’s finish but on the veracity of de_Tylmarande’s findings, however it is going to be attention-grabbing to see if the problem is immediately resolved as soon as the following patch for Monster Hunter Wilds drops on PC.
