YouTuber Skill Up has a good reputation among gamers as a tough and objective critic. He has looked at the new 80€ game “Wild Hearts” (PC, PS5, Xbox Series X) from EA and praises the game after 20 hours, even calling it “almost excellent”. But he warns about how poorly Wild Hearts performs on PC. The developers also admit: Wild Hearts has a “CPU bottleneck” issue.
What does Skill Up say about Wild Hearts? Many MeinMMO readers know Skill Up from his videos on The Division. He enjoys an excellent reputation in the gaming scene.
Skill Up now says about Wild Hearts (via twitter):
- He has played 20 hours of Wild Hearts – the game is “very good, almost excellent”
- It is very much like “Monster Hunter,” but brings new ideas and the core gameplay loop feels faster while still being strategic
- He warns players that the game runs absolutely poorly on PC.
Wild Hearts performs poorly on 2080 TI, says YouTuber
What about PC performance? Skill Up states: On a 2080 TI, Wild Hearts barely reaches 40 frames on medium settings. While it is stable and playable, it gets worse in multiplayer.
As you progress further into the game, it becomes significantly uglier and runs even worse. In a group, the game becomes almost unplayable:
“Great game, but the PC performance is shockingly poor”.
How is this being discussed? Skill Up’s comment is being discussed on reddit . Apparently, the issues of Wild Hearts on PC are already known:
- A user says the game has a “bottleneck” on PC because it only uses one CPU core
- Generally, people wonder how this could be and why the game is released in this condition – this should have been noticed during quality assurance
The frustration is certainly also intensified by the relatively high prices EA charges for the game (70 € on PC, 80 € for consoles).
Developers announce patch for better PC performance
Is there hope? The development team behind the game, Omega Force, has announced (via reddit) that they plan to release a patch next week to fix the “CPU bottleneck” issue discovered by the team.
It is said that this should improve performance on medium and high-end CPUs.
They are also working on supporting DLSS and FSR – these improvements are expected to come with further patches to Wild Hearts.
Do all PC players have problems? As MeinMMO author Benedict Grothaus states, Wild Hearts ran perfectly on PC for him – the issues seem not to be universal but occur depending on the hardware configuration of the PC.
Wild Hearts is the game for those who feel a void after Elden Ring – you don’t die as often there
