The performance of Monster Hunter Wilds is, as is well known, a problem. A Reddit user put forward a theory about an absurd bug and says he wants to fix it himself if Capcom does not act.
What is this absurd bug? The Reddit user de_Tylmarande wrote a post claiming that Monster Hunter Wilds would run at a higher FPS if you had purchased more DLC.
He says he discovered that Monster Hunter Wilds performs an aggressive DLC check, which significantly hurts performance if you own none or only a small portion of the game’s 190 DLC items. He ran his tests in one of the game’s hubs, an area where many players are present at the same time.
In an update to his post, the user wrote: “This wasn’t intended by [Capcom] it’s simply a bug in the code.”
Experts confirm the bug
Who confirmed the bug? The bug was reportedly confirmed on the forum resetera.com. The user TeenageFBI said he received a marketing email from Digital Foundry, the experts known for technical analyses of video games.
In the email, Digital Foundry allegedly wrote: “First, we’ll be looking at the latest drama surrounding the PC performance of Monster Hunter Wilds and the supposed CPU load caused by DLC checks. Yes, it’s true, and we have the numbers from our reliable entry-level PC with a Ryzen 5 3600.”
The ResetEra user adds that Digital Foundry plans to discuss the topic in their next podcast.
The player wants to fix the bug himself if Capcom doesn’t
How does the player plan to do that? In his Reddit post about the bug, de_Tylmarande writes that he used a custom mod that could trick the game into thinking he owned the DLCs. This allowed him to confirm his theory and he even found that FPS increased the more DLCs were “owned.”
If Capcom does not fix this DLC bug, the player says he intends to finish the mod and release it as an open-source project. Open source means the mod’s source code is publicly viewable and can also be used by anyone.
With the fourth update for Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom has already been tweaking performance. According to Digital Foundry, it has genuinely improved even on graphics cards with only 8 GB of VRAM: With Update 4, Monster Hunter Wilds tackles its biggest problem and finally brings more than 100,000 players back into the game.
