Further testing seems to confirm Monster Hunter Wilds DLC performance improvement theory, to an extent
Rock Paper Shotgun • • technology
Key Points:
- Monster Hunter Wilds’ poor PC performance, particularly around base camp hubs, has been linked to an excessive DLC checking process that hampers framerates, as initially discovered by a Reddit user who saw a tripling of framerates after tricking the game into thinking all cosmetic DLCs were installed.
- Testing with a full legitimate DLC catalogue showed only modest framerate improvements, varying by hardware, with an RTX 4060 seeing almost no change and an RTX 5080 gaining a noticeable but not dramatic boost, indicating the problem is not fully resolved by owning the DLC.
- The DLC-related performance issues are location-specific, worsening near the DLC vendor NPC, and do not significantly affect gameplay in the field, suggesting the bug mainly
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