Monster Hunter Wilds gamers are so determined to enhance the sport’s atrocious efficiency points that many jumped on a supposed repair this weekend, claiming repairing a typo may end up in an FPS enhance. But primarily based on our personal testing, in addition to follow-up conversations on social media, a real repair for Wilds’ points lies elsewhere.
It’s been a tough launch weekend for Wilds with a wave of complaints about poor PC efficiency, particularly in the case of graphics high quality. Capcom launched a troubleshooting information on February 28, however the unusually poor graphics efficiency would not seem within the developer’s “Currently identified points” web page on the time of writing.
So, customers are digging into the Wilds recreation recordsdata to seek for a repair and for a second, it seemed like they discovered one. But I’m not so certain after placing it to the check.
On Saturday, a Wilds participant shared a put up within the Steam boards mentioning a typo within the recreation’s “config.ini” file that had “Resolution” misspelled as “Resoltuion.” The put up claimed that fixing the typo appeared to lead to an FPS enhance.
The “config.ini” file is a plain textual content file that is principally used to maintain monitor of settings and preferences within the recreation. The best method to discover it’s to enter Steam and proper click on on “Monster Hunter Wilds” in your library then choose “Manage” then “Browse native recordsdata.” The “config.ini” file must be close to the highest of your principal Monster Hunter Wilds folder. If you open the file and scroll down to almost the top of it, you’ll be able to search for the typo about midway down the [RenderConfig] part in a line that reads: “MinimumStreamingTextureResolution=MinimumStreamingTextureResoltuion_256.”
Some customers on Steam, in addition to Reddit, claimed that fixing the typo on this line noticeably elevated their FPS, however others stated they noticed no vital change or the file reverted again to the typo model after re-launching the sport.
I examined out this repair myself and sadly the latter was additionally my expertise. I averaged about 120 FPS earlier than the repair and bought the very same common after fixing the typo and saving the tweaked “config.ini” file. The typo additionally reappeared after I launched the sport. Some customers have instructed setting the “config.ini” file to “read-only” to power the typo repair to remain in impact, however that blocks Wilds from updating different settings modifications within the “config.ini” file.
On prime of that, it appears to be like like this typo is probably not the difficulty in any respect. Users on Reddit and Steam alike have noticed the identical “Resoltuion” typo within the recreation’s executable file, which means the code within the config file works regardless of the misspelled phrase. Typos occur infrequently in coding and generally programmers merely proceed referring to a misspelled variable moderately than sifting via their code to repair it all over the place, which might be the case right here.
So, sadly it appears to be like like this “repair” is a placebo. Hopefully Capcom addresses the graphics efficiency in Wilds with an official repair quickly, as a result of it actually is shockingly poor, even with the graphics set to “High” and the sport working on high-end {hardware}. For now, the wildest a part of the Monster Hunter Wilds expertise appears to be graphical glitches.
