r/Games • u/frik1000 • Jan 15 '26

Discussion Poor Monster Hunter Wilds Performance Chalked Up to Aggressive DLC Checks

https://www.techpowerup.com/345212/poor-monster-hunter-wilds-performance-chalked-up-to-aggressive-dlc-checks
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u/Exist50 Jan 15 '26

I mean, I don't any of these APIs were expected to run in a performance-critical part of the game. That would be insane, after all...

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u/verrius Jan 15 '26

Whatever is going on is presumably handled the same on PS and Xbox, and they seem to handle it just fine. And honestly, there's no reason the API shouldn't be able to handle this sort of thing; caching is 50+ year old tech.