A Monster Hunter Wilds participant might have found an uncommon motive for the sport’s efficiency points on PC.
Reddit consumer de_Tylmarande posted a prolonged message on the Monster Hunter Reddit web page (as noticed by 80 Stage), suggesting that the sport performs higher on PC when all of the DLC is put in.
The participant first seen a discrepancy once they logged into their pal’s account and seen that the fixed FPS drops they’d been experiencing had been all of a sudden gone and the sport was performing a lot better.
Confused, they logged again into their very own account and the problems returned.
“Okay, I delete the save, replay the very same situation 1:1, run by way of the intro/tutorial once more, go to the hub – and efficiency is on the ground,” they wrote. “I relog again into my pal account – and every thing is okay. Nonsense. Shock. I refused to consider what I used to be seeing.”
de_Tylmarande quickly realised that the one distinction between their account and their pal’s account was that their pal owns all of the DLC for Monster Hunter Wilds, whereas they solely personal the usual base version.
After performing extra assessments, de_Tylmarande got here to the conclusion that “the extra DLC you personal, the higher efficiency you get within the sport”, resulting from what they allege is an “aggressive DLC possession verify operate”.
Based on their speculation, the sport regularly checks to see if DLC is current, doing it so ceaselessly that it has a extreme impact on efficiency. As soon as it sees the DLC, the sport stops checking and efficiency improves.
Based mostly on this idea, the extra DLC the participant has put in, the less checks the sport makes (and the higher the sport runs), and if the participant has all DLC put in, the sport stops making checks completely.
To check this, de_Tylmarande arrange two completely different accounts on the identical PC – one with the bottom Monster Hunter sport put in and nothing else, the opposite with all DLC purchased – to see how they carried out.
“On the account with no DLC I get heavy and steady FPS drops down to love 20-25 in hubs, whereas on the account with all DLC purchased it’s 80+ FPS,” they claimed. They then ran the check on a separate PC and obtained the identical outcomes.
Moderately than spending $500 on all of the DLC to verify their idea, the participant created a small mod for the sport that made it suppose all of the DLC was current. This mod doesn’t truly give the participant the DLC – it doesn’t pirate it, in different phrases – however merely skips the DLC verify.
“And sure, efficiency went by way of the roof,” they claimed. “Sure, with none CPU increase, in Steadiness mode. On any settings. The sport actually flies.”
de_Tylmarande warned that they didn’t advocate creating or utilizing comparable mods with the sport, and was solely doing so to check the speculation. They’ve handed their findings on to Capcom within the hope it should look into the difficulty and modify the DLC verify operate.
Additionally they careworn that, so far as they see it, Capcom didn’t intentionally hamper the sport’s efficiency with the DLC verify, and that “it’s only a bug within the code they should repair”.
In idea, nonetheless, if Capcom can change the way in which the sport checks for DLC, it might remedy efficiency points for a lot of gamers on Steam, the place the sport at the moment solely has 49% constructive consumer opinions.
“I additionally need to publicly state this upfront,” they added. “If Capcom don’t repair this mess, I’ll end the ‘mod’, however will probably be launched strictly as open supply, and it gained’t be distributed in a closed (binary), not to mention encrypted kind. And once more, that’s solely a final resort possibility if Capcom find yourself ignoring the difficulty.”
Throughout a monetary outcomes Q&A in November, Capcom stated it foresaw little danger of its subsequent large sport, Resident Evil Requiem, experiencing efficiency points on PC like Monster Hunter Wilds.
“Resident Evil Requiem differs from Monster Hunter Wilds when it comes to gameplay, system structure, and community options,” it stated. “At current, we don’t anticipate comparable dangers. We’re growing the sport to supply a easy gaming expertise throughout a variety of PC specs.”
