Your mileage may vary.
Monster Hunter Wilds is somewhat infamous for its performance woes, leading its Steam user rating to drop to « Mixed » since release thanks to a host of reported technical issues. However, redditor de_Tylmarande recently posted a potential fix—a homebrewed mod that skips a DLC check, which is said to massively boost performance.
They claim to have first noticed the performance improvements when swapping between a friend’s account with all the DLC enabled and their own, and noticing that the game ran significantly better on the former. According to de_Tylmarande, their mod doesn’t actually unlock any of the DLC, but instead skips the check confirming it is present, subverting a system-heavy process and leading to a major frame rate boost.
« The more DLC you own, the better performance you get in the game », claims the redditor. « On the account with no DLC I get heavy and stable FPS drops down to like 20-25 in hubs, while on the account with all DLC bought its 80+ FPS. »
To test out this DLC-boosting theory, I performed some benchmarking runs of my own, both on a fresh, DLC-less copy of the game, and one with all 189 (!) DLC options installed. Actually, there are technically 190 DLC entries for Monster Hunter Wilds, but like de_Tylmarande, I left out the high resolution texture pack.
And the results? On average, over multiple runs around the first camp area, I gained a whole. six frames per second on average, boosting my results from 61 fps to 67 overall.
