Monster Hunter Wilds sleuth has seemingly uncovered bizarre reason for performance drops: "I refused to believe what I was seeing"
PCGamesN • • technology
Key Points:
- Monster Hunter Wilds continues to face persistent performance issues on PC nearly a year after release, despite Capcom's multiple attempts to improve the game.
- A Reddit user, de_Tylmarande, discovered that the game's frame rates improve significantly when all available DLC is installed, suggesting that performance issues may be linked to DLC ownership.
- The user conducted tests across multiple Steam accounts and PCs, finding that accounts with all DLC had much higher and more stable frame rates compared to those without DLC.
- De_Tylmarande created a mod to simulate owning all DLC, which also resulted in better performance, and has reported these findings to Capcom and Digital Foundry for further investigation.
- Capcom has not yet commented on the issue, but if
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