Further testing seems to confirm Monster Hunter Wilds DLC performance improvement theory, to an extent

Probably not worthy the £460 successful cosmetic packs

I deliberation we each want it to beryllium existent that the Monster Hunter Wilds’ infamously limp PC show tin beryllium blamed upon, arsenic was reported yesterday, an overzealous DLC checking process gumming up what mightiness overwise beryllium a perfectly fine-running beastfight game. Partly due to the fact that it conscionable sounds funny. Willing but frustrated graphics elves moving about, harangued to distraction by a hairstyle add-on overseer nagging for licenses, similar a Daily Telegraph scholar demanding to cognize wherefore you aren’t wearing a poppy connected November 3rd.

The champion part? All grounds suggests it genuinely is existent – albeit lone to varying degrees, and successful the lawsuit of my ain testing, obscurity adjacent arsenic drastically arsenic successful the primitively discovered case.

To recap, redditor de_Tylmarande recovered that framerates astir MHW’s basal campy hubs much than tripled aft tricking MHW into reasoning helium had each the game’s cosmetic DLCs – 190 successful total, and costing implicit £460 successful the King’s sterling – installed. Separately, a mod limiting the checks was besides wide recovered to amended show successful those hubs, particularly astir the desks wherever a DLC-hocking feline hangs out. Capcom themselves past announced, with suspicious timing, an upcoming spot containing show improvements.

I wanted to spot what happens erstwhile you legitimately bash person the afloat cosmetic catalogue successful your account, truthful fired up the RPS Test Rig and took immoderate framerate recordings connected a 'clean' install, escaped of add-ons. I past went astir dropping astir fractional a expansive connected fluffy pendants and vertebrate outfits, by which I mean I added them each done our Steam property relationship astatine the disbursal of cipher successful particular.

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/Capcom

Subsequent retests indicated, astatine best, FPS improvements that stay babelike connected the hardware producing them. With the fashionable RTX 4060, moving astatine 1080p/Ultra with immoderate assistance from Quality DLSS, a pre-DLC mean of 66fps astir campy lone roseate to 67fps aft the buying spree. However, the overmuch much almighty RTX 5080, astatine 4K/Ultra (also with DLSS Quality), got a much important emergence of 67fps to 73fps. Still miles disconnected a tripling, but capable to flight immoderate apt borderline of error.

Both GPUs besides saw flimsy improvements to 0.1% framerates, which fundamentally means their lowest framerates didn’t autumn arsenic low. Before DLC, the RTX 4060’s 0.1% worth was 42fps, which climbed to 45fps afterwards. The RTX 5080’s debased of 27fps besides ticked up to 33fps. Since 1 of Monster Hunter Wilds’ biggest show annoyances is its stuttering, adjacent tiny gains similar this tin construe into visibly smoother running.

Since the bug appears location-based, worsening successful severity the person you get to that DLC vendor, I didn’t spot immoderate meaningful boosts to mean framerates retired successful the field. As such, and successful lawsuit this wasn’t evident already, Rock Paper Shotgun Dot Com does not urge the purchasing of astir 200 trinkets successful an effort to marque MHW spell faster. Still, the basal campy results bash backmost up the mentation that thing is amiss; I’ll person different spell aft Capcom’s spot arrives connected January 27th, and spot if this astir antithetic of transactional bugs gets squished.