✅RenoDX: MH Wilds

[green jackal]

mklink /h "re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak.patch_008.pak" C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\MonsterHunterWilds\dlc\re_dlc_stm_3308900.pak.sub_000.pak

[robust phoenix]

OH youre writting

sorry

[green jackal]

XD

[robust phoenix]

its incorrect or i did some shit

[green jackal]

Lemme double check this shit is complicated

mklink /h re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak.patch_008.pak dlc\re_dlc_stm_3308900.pak.sub_000.pak

You'll have to repeat all of this next update, but instead of hardlinking to "re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak.patch_008.pak" it will have to be the next new number (so if the next patch adds two files, 008 and 009, it will be 010, etc.)

[trim tangle]

#1347155473266114580 message

[robust phoenix]

oh ok 1 sec

ok i did it once

do it again?

OH

[green jackal]

Nah that's it

[robust phoenix]

next update

yeah

[green jackal]

Now you play the game and be happy

😄

[robust phoenix]

ok gotcha, also, do i do this for the normal textures?

or not worth it?

[green jackal]

1. Not worth it, 2. Seems currently bugged according to Nexus users and crashes for some reason on launch

[robust phoenix]

gotcha

well, lets test it

seems like it works

no sturtters!

[green jackal]

There you go 😄

[trim tangle]

Normal textures are only bugged if you don't hardlink the decompressed DLC textures appropriately

[green jackal]

huh

you mean the crashes?

or the not loading the high res ones?

[trim tangle]

I think so ~ but those are usually linked more to not have REFramework installed so the game ignores hash checks

[green jackal]

Oh

I thought as much but without anyone responding on Nexus that I could see I was like "welp"

[trim tangle]

Ah... might also be due to outdated natives files or pak mods which conflict

Game just dies without explanation in that case

Which is precisely the point of this mod, actually:
https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/1651

REFramework scripts will always be compatible

[green jackal]

Gotcha

[trim tangle]

Though, REFramework plugins can be incompatible and causes crashes, which is fun...

Which is why I turned to using a mod manager which makes it easy to categorize mods and disable the most probable broken ones

Manual mod management for Wilds just became painful

[green jackal]

to be fair in my case it's just reframework and the DLC textures so I manage easily thankfully, but I can see how difficult it can be to keep track of it all

[magic pawn]

Hi ! Is 3.8.1 still the latest version?

[shut violet]

it is

[fading cape]

my god why would they ever get rid of pretty backdrops like this for a black background and volumetrics

[trim tangle]

Because photo-realism, or something.

Even World was much closer to this in artistic intent

[thin fjord]

There are some pretty god awful ones too. But yeah I miss this.

[fading cape]

looks much better than i thought looking at the trailers

[dawn harness]

Wilds was my first RenoDX experience, and it's easily one of the most 'wow' factor mod out of RenoDX list.

[fading cape]

for some reason i didn't like it it felt too bright and dark at the same time

but that's just cause i was used to raised blacks and sdr lol

I wish there was a proper photo mode

[violet helm]

are you using one of the presets or your own grading?

[fading cape]

basic filmic preset

[fading cape]

the hide ui button unhides it with the press of a button but better than having chracter in the way ig

i can just change reshade kebind to a single button

anyone know if there's a unbound key that people can use?

i used scrlock sometimes since it doesn't seem to do much but i feel like there's gotta be a better way

[thin fjord]

is the high res texture still buggy?

[pine slate]

if you're talking about them taking forever to load

direct storage is broken so yeah

until thats fixed they're gonna suck

[trim tangle]

On my end, yep... still stutters. Decompression eliminates the stutters, but causes low-res textures to appear before the high-res textures quickly fade in as they stream in proper.

[trim tangle]

The only fix is in them deimplementing DirectStorage entirely, I think, lmao

[pine slate]

how the hell have they not fixed it lmao

[thin fjord]

from the way they talk online they think it's not a problem

[thin fjord]

do you only decompress the dlc or everything?

[trim tangle]

Everything + DLC hardlink

[thin fjord]

ok got it, how many paks is the game now?

[trim tangle]

Patch 7

Textures are only in sub paks, apparently

[thin fjord]

so I gotta do all 7 then the dlc

need to write a script that redoes this

[trim tangle]

Nah, just these ones:

008 is the DLC hardlink

Other sub paks are just dummies

[thin fjord]

hoping it doesn't cause stutters on my 4080

[trim tangle]

Decompressed textures themselves can't, because there's nothing for DirectStorage to decompress

But I occasionally get stutters in camps on loading still

No bloody idea what that's about

There's no background shader cache going on there, either

But it's still far smoother than with vanilla compressed textures

[thin fjord]

false true? or true true?

[trim tangle]

True / true

Just make sure you have the drive space

[thin fjord]

got plenty space 4tb ssd half filled

[trim tangle]

I just used MO2 to put the decompressed files on another drive 🙃

Also make sure to backup your pak files

[trim tangle]

👌

[shut violet]

no stuttering on my 4080

[carmine hare]

What exactly does the fixed exposure mean?

[thin fjord]

feel like I am getting a lot more textures not fully loading now

going back to normal high textures

[trim tangle]

Did you decompress properly and do the hardlink?

[valid mirage]

Is it possible to benefit from decompression while using the hd texture pack?

I had decompressed my pack 00 earlier today, but deleted the file when the description on the mod page indicated that hd texture pack users weren't able to benefit from it

It wasn't clear to me -

1. How to benefit from decompression while using the hd texture pack dlc
2. Where to put or name the file that resulted in using the decompression tool
3. Whether I should have used it on more than just the 00 pack

[trim tangle]

I think so

[trim tangle]

Decompress these files with true / true

And hardlink the decompressed DLC as 008

Backup the originals for when the game wants to update

[valid mirage]

I'm back home now and about to start - is this the tool you used for decompression? https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/951

[trim tangle]

Yeah

[valid mirage]

what does "hardlink" mean in this context?

[trim tangle]

Hardlinking creates a file that just directly references the file-in-question's address on disk, so it occupies no extra space

[valid mirage]

oh, fascinating

I didn't know that was a thing

So is it only pack 8 that I should bother hardlinking? or all of them?

[valid mirage]

1. once I have decompressed, do I need to remove the original files from the game directory?
2. and I'm guessing I need to hardlink the decompressed files to the game directory itself, rather than trying to use them through fluffy mod manager or some such?

[thin fjord]

I thought so at least

[valid mirage]

Do you perhaps know the answers to my 1st and 2nd question right above your message?

[trim tangle]

1. No ~ I'd back them up ~ the game will overwrite the decompressed files on an update, probably...
2. Only the decompressed DLC pak needs to be hardlinked as 008. The rest are just replaced.
   I use Mod Organizer 2 with some tweaks to avoid having to directly replace them.

[valid mirage]

oh, perfect

so Fluffy will be able to handle them just fine as well, I bet

I see an issue in that my re_chunk_000.pak.sub_00.pak.patch_008.pak is only 1kb instead of multiple gigs like yours. 🤔

Does that mean something screwy happened to my pak files perhaps?

[trim tangle]

Fluffy directly replaces files, I think?

[trim tangle]

How did you hardlink it?

[valid mirage]

Didn't, yet

trying to figure out which files to use the decompression tool on

[trim tangle]

#1347155473266114580 message

[valid mirage]

Looks like I probably want to go for re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak and re_dlc_stm_3308900.pak.sub_000.pak?

[trim tangle]

Decompress all of the sub paks

They all have textures

[valid mirage]

Oh, I see.

so 1 on up to 26?

[trim tangle]

Then you hardlink dlc/re_dlc_stm_3308900.pak.sub_000.pak as the 008 pak

[valid mirage]

Ooh.

fascinating

[trim tangle]

No, the ones I showed you above

[valid mirage]

what do I do with the original dlc pak?

just leave it there?

[trim tangle]

I back them up with a .bak suffix before renaming the decompressed files in their place

[valid mirage]

so in the dlc folder I rename that with a .bak and then I hardlink the dlc not as a replacement of itself, but as 008?

[trim tangle]

You don't want to have to redownload it on a game update :|

[trim tangle]

Yeah

[valid mirage]

Do I need to turn off the high res option in the settings of the game?

[trim tangle]

No, keep that on

Game is just a bit wacky with the decompressed DLC pak not showing some textures properly without the hardlink

No idea why, but it works

[valid mirage]

this is insane

why can't capcom make a normal game that doesn't need this kind of optimization 😭

[trim tangle]

Capcom probably forced the MH devs to use RE Engine. DirectStorage also appears to be deeply integrated enough that decompression is the only real solution.

[valid mirage]

speaking of direct storage - the nexus mod page claims that it is obsolete because capcom implemented it - is that true?

[trim tangle]

None of those updates solve DirectStorage's underlying issues

[valid mirage]

Oh, wow. So it's actually that capcom screwed up direct storage really badly in the last patch as to why the author said that...

[trim tangle]

It's a fundamentally broken technology that only means anything for console-based hardware

PC hardware doesn't have the limitations of console hardware, so DirectStorage just breaks stuff in strange ways

[valid mirage]

I kind of tuned out after the "for historical purposes only" and assumed it was no longer needed, rather than "holy shit capcom made it worse"

[trim tangle]

Even the updates solve nothing. We're up to DirectStorage 1.3, but that also solved nothing.

[valid mirage]

That's terrible

[trim tangle]

RE Engine + DirectStorage memes

[thin fjord]

seems to be working I think

[trim tangle]

Nice. :)
(Where's 004?)

Well, whatever, game probably loads whatever it needs at the moment

[thin fjord]

yeah I have seen it show up

but I think I legit just run out of vram at 4k with that high res textures

[trim tangle]

Oof

[valid mirage]

@trim tangle does this seem accurate and did I miss anything?

And, if it's up to snuff, would it be appropriate to get it pinned?

[trim tangle]

You don't hardlink anything but the DLC pak

[valid mirage]

Why not?

Are you loading those in with your mod manager or something? 🤔

Is there any downside to hardlinking them? The upside seems to be that you can also insulate them from being overwritten by safely storing them in a different directory

[trim tangle]

Because it's entirely redundant and pointless. You hardlink the decompressed DLC pak as the 008 patch because the decompressed DLC pak has missing textures in-game otherwise

You achieve nothing by hardlinking the others, because they're being replaced anyways

Just backup the vanilla files

[valid mirage]

It's very unclear what you're saying here - are you suggesting that just uncompressing the other files and leaving them in the Wilds directory is enough?

If so, why bother to backup those vanilla files?

[trim tangle]

Yes, but it makes no difference other than I can have the files on a different drive without overwriting the originals, because Mod Organizer 2 uses virtual overlays, meaning the game sees the virtual files as the originals instead.

[valid mirage]

Hm.

[trim tangle]

You decompress and rename as the originals. You don't need to hardlink.

[valid mirage]

I suppose it's not necessary if you use that particular mod manager, but by hardlinking everything, it is agnostic to a particular mod manager program

In my case I use Fluffy, for example

[trim tangle]

Because they will probably be overwritten on an update, and you don't want to redownload them

[trim tangle]

It doesn't work like that

Hardlinking just makes a filename pointing to the original data

[valid mirage]

Right, so why not do that for everything we compress?

[trim tangle]

So if you alter the original, the hardlink is also affected, because it's the same data

[trim tangle]

Because you don't achieve anything

You only need to hardlink the decompressed DLC pak for a specific reason ~ saving space

You don't need 2 copies of 126GB of data

Hardlinking skips that, letting you have two separate references to the same data

The game just sees it as two different files

But the filesystem knows that it's the same data, with just two different files referencing it

[valid mirage]

Isn't there also benefit to doing this for the 000 pak, in that case, as it's 35gb?

if the game overwrote re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak, for example, would I need to redo my hardlink?

[trim tangle]

You need to understand what the hardlink's purpose is ~ saving space while making the game load the high res textures via the 008 patch

So there's absolutely zero purpose to hardlinking anything else

[valid mirage]

ok so for the 000 pak, it is 35gb. It is unclear why the saving space rationale would not also apply to it.

[trim tangle]

Because you save no space at all

You're renaming re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.uncompressed.pak to re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak anyways, so hardlinking does achieve any savings

[valid mirage]

Let me rephrase this differently.

[trim tangle]

You still need to backup the original as re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak.bak or something

[trim tangle]

You're just not understanding what the point of hardlinking is

Or what it does

[valid mirage]

I know exactly what it does by this point.

It creates one file with two address references

[trim tangle]

Clearly not, if you believe you get anything out of hardlinking re_chunk_000.pak.sub_000.pak ~ you just don't.

You just have two filenames pointing to the same data, which means that if one is overwritten, so is the other

[valid mirage]

Yes, that's very clear.

What is unclear is why you are suggesting a need to hardlink the largest file but none of the others.

[trim tangle]

No ~ it creates another file pointing to the same data address. Two files, one data address.

[valid mirage]

ONE actual file that has two addresses pointing to it.

[trim tangle]

Because you hardlink the DLC pak to make the game load it as a patch file

[valid mirage]

If it was two files as you suggest, it would be twice the size.

[trim tangle]

That's not how file systems work

[valid mirage]

couldn't you just rename it for the same effect?

[trim tangle]

No, because you need the decompressed DLC pak in place

[trim tangle]

A file is a pointer to an address with data in it. We need another filename to point to the same address, but the game doesn't know or care, so thinks it's a separate set of data.

[valid mirage]

It sounds like that's just a nomenclature issue

[trim tangle]

No, it really isn't.

File / filename ~ same thing

[valid mirage]

We are both aware that a hardlink results in
1 instance of data
with 2 instances of addresses pointing to said data

[trim tangle]

Now you're just going to confuse yourself

[valid mirage]

How?

[trim tangle]

The addresses are a filesystem thing ~ where in the filesystem the data is stored.

[valid mirage]

Yes

[trim tangle]

A filename is just a reference to that address internally.

[valid mirage]

ok it is one set of data that counts as being on two places and can be manipulated from either location

[trim tangle]

So we need two filenames that reference the same address, to save on having to duplicate data.

[valid mirage]

Please stop telling me I misunderstand it

Unless that understanding is actually wrong, rather than using incorrect jargon

[trim tangle]

You need to understand the terminology of filesystems to not confuse yourself, because that's what you were in the process of doing

If you have the incorrect terminology, you'll confuse yourself down the line if you encounter it again

Better to understand it the first time

Hardlinking has one purpose ~ saving filesystem space

[valid mirage]

Is this the correct way to describe it?
A File is an Address that points to Data.
A Hardlink creates two Files that each have their own Address, but which point to the same Data.

[trim tangle]

No, the two files point to the same filesystem address that the data is at

It's like if you had "55 Franklin Place" and "Local Antique Shop" ~ if you know where "Local Antique Shop" is, you're just going to same location.

Likewise... if you hypothetically wreck destroy the example antique shop, "55 Franklin Place" isn't going to be unaffected, because it's the same location.

[valid mirage]

According to the documentation there is only one file in a hardlink, and the distinguishing feature is that it can be referenced by more than one path.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-links-and-junctions

[trim tangle]

Microsoft's documentation is simplified for the novice

[valid mirage]

Hrm.

May I ask what a better or more accurate source might be?

[trim tangle]

But in technical terms, a file is a filesystem pointer to filesystem address

[trim tangle]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system

[valid mirage]

Actually I think a better point to raise is that - it seems as though the only real reason to hardlink at all is because the uncompressed high res trexture pack needs to be in the dlc folder? 🤔

Since I don't have the uncompressed pack stored there, does that mean that I'm actually missing out on the high res pack atm?

[trim tangle]

The one in the DLC folder is so the game gives you the option to enable the high res textures at all, and the hardlinked 008 patch is to fix missing texture errors that the decompressed DLC pak can produce.

[valid mirage]

Admittedly I did have an incorrect understanding of hardlinking prior to your comments, as I thought it was a method of stopping the game from overwriting the files that were hardlinked there.

[trim tangle]

That's literally the entire point

That's all there is to it

[trim tangle]

No, it wouldn't stop that at all

With a hardlink, you have two files pointing to the same address. So affecting one affects the other.

[valid mirage]

I am able to turn the high res pack on without having that in my dlc folder 🤔

[trim tangle]

That doesn't make any sense

Did you remove it while in-game?

[valid mirage]

nope

I did all my fiddling with the packs while the game was closed

[trim tangle]

Rename the dlc folder, keep the 008 hardlinked file

[valid mirage]

and have relaunched the game numerous times

[trim tangle]

Still, you'll want the original around for game update time

You don't want to redownload 77GB

[valid mirage]

this is fascinating

And that's a good point that I hadn't considered.

I wonder if it's just a bugged menu that says the high rest texture is enabled but it isn't, due to the file not being in the dlc folder

I deleted that post, btw, so that there's no bad advice floating around for people to inadvertently follow.

[trim tangle]

I have no idea. Wilds is a cursed game that requires cursed solutions.

Otherwise, shit breaks weirdly

[valid mirage]

@trim tangleThank you very much for bearing with me through all of this.

[trim tangle]

It's fine. I just have that annoying inner perfectionist within. 🙃

[fading cape]

all from one fight with him lmao

[crisp steppe]

im thinking im going to try wilds again

i want to check the new content

[fleet frost]

@merry tartan @dense knot can one you guys try to incorporate this fixed output. it will mess with your predefined options so, i can't just push it. but it has useful reference code for other mods (i'm fixing cyberpunk's lut scaling at the moment)

[zinc sapphire]

https://fxtwitter.com/monsterhunter/status/1950139099160949156

Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter)

An update on release date and content of update Ver.1.021
︀︀
︀︀The expansion of endgame content which was originally planned as part of Title Update 3 in late September will now be released ahead of schedule as part of the Ver.1.021 update. To accommodate this change, this update will be moving slightly out of its planned early August window to the date below:
︀︀
︀︀Ver.1.021: Wednesday, 13 August 2025
︀︀
︀︀The main content of this update is as follows (more details will be released in the near future).
︀︀
︀︀💪 New level of quest difficulty
︀︀🏅 New rewards system for the above quests featuring Talismans with random skill combinations
︀︀🛠️ Weapon balance adjustments (will cover more weapons than originally planned)
︀︀⚙️ Other improvements and adjustments
︀︀
︀︀Thank you for your patience as we prepare this update.
︀︀
︀︀x.com/monsterhunter/status/1938591901378040197

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[silk blaze]

👀 more hunting horn improvements please.

[robust phoenix]

we need LS balance changes to be more agressive, it changed nothing how the weapon is played

Crimson spam

Switch Axe needs to be buffed all around besides frs

Lance needs oomph

Gunlance needs to give LONG shell type some love

CB needs to buff sword mode a bit

[silk blaze]

I am not familiar with how they work since I am HH main. I really need to expand my knowledge of using the weapons because the special arena missions are annoying to get good times.

When someone comes out I am basically yolo mode.

[crisp steppe]

really? sword mode hasn't really been the point of the weapon

i would like elemental saed meta like sunbreak tbh

but im not really playing wilds so

[robust phoenix]

yes, but buffing it means increasing playstyle variety

every cb has to use it to charge at some point

so buffing that damage also helps everyone

[thin fjord]

if element was better in this game the CB sword could be better

[trim tangle]

Finally! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3885660/Monster_Hunter_Wilds_Original_Soundtrack/

Steam

Monster Hunter Wilds Original Soundtrack

Experience the Epic Soundscape of Monster Hunter Wilds!

Following the phenomenal success of Monster Hunter Wilds, which sold over 10 million copies within its first month of release, the highly anticipated original soundtrack is finally here!

This album features the majestic main theme, “The Beautiful Order of the World,” and a powerful new…

Price

$74.99

That price, though... https://steamdb.info/app/3885660/

[fading cape]

i never understood sound tracks

isn't everything on youtube anyway

[trim tangle]

Youtube's audio quality can be very spotty at times

It's why I prefer either official release, or a copy from Tidal or Qobuz or Bandcamp if I can get it, because quality is nice

[dense knot]

Can't get it to look good

Though MH Wilds issue isn't lut scaling (Their LUTs don't have raised blackfloor) but their artistic intent is bad

[fleet frost]

@dense knot this is how I matched what was default. The lut sampling is clipping yellows

[dense knot]

Sliders are really different tho 😅

[fleet frost]

yeah, the defaults are very far apart from vanilla

[crisp steppe]

that's a crazy price

i would wait for a physical release with that price if i wanted to buy the ost

[trim tangle]

Base game is 105 AUD for me. OST is fucking 110 AUD?????? Like, actually what the fuck is that?!

[green jackal]

Listen to them with a pair of good headphones on lossless and you can totally understand :3

[green jackal]

Was also surprised but it's 7 discs with many lengthy tracks. Still highly priced, but not as surprising

[trim tangle]

Or good speakers with decent bass. Adds a lot of depth that headphones usually can't muster alone.

[trim tangle]

Yeah ~ but I can, with a bit of effort, rip them from the game files and mix them myself into something quite listenable.

A pricetag that high just feel like being curbstomped ~ especially after the deluxe versions of the game only offer cosmetics, and even then, not all the cosmetics, that you still need to pay extra for!

[green jackal]

I should check what DMC5 was like because I'm certain it was half the price

[trim tangle]

You end up paying 110 USD for Premium Deluxe, probably 30 USD for the rest of the cosmetics, and then 75 USD for the OST???

That's a scam and a half

[green jackal]

Yup it was 30€ for 5 discs

[trim tangle]

The MH devs clearly don't care for paywalling gameplay, but they can't do anything about Capcom nickel-and-diming cosmetics and OSTs.

[green jackal]

I think the OST price might be on the record label

What I believe is they've 1:1 the physical release pricetag if there is any

Which is always a mistake

[trim tangle]

DMC5 ~ 30 USD for the base game, 40 USD for Deluxe + Vergil, 30 USD for the OST

And the game had a lot of high-quality content, gameplay mechanics and story

[trim tangle]

Yeah, it's the sort of thing I'd pay for a premium deluxe physical copy

[fading cape]

Apparently the soundtrack on steam isn’t even lossless

All in mp3

And they’re nammed in Japanese

[trim tangle]

Which is complete bullshit

75 USD for MP3? That truly is a scam.

[fading cape]

you'll consume their slop and you'll like it

[trim tangle]

I'd actually want 24-bit 96KHz flac at that point

[crisp steppe]

crapcom did it again

[trim tangle]

Actually, you can get the 24-bit uncompressed audio here: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/monster-hunter-wilds-original-soundtrack-capcom-sound-team-/we55nqm6la2cb

Their Steam version is very fucking weird, along with the price

[green jackal]

weird, they usually bundle up MP3 + FLAC + WAV. The heck they're doing

[rustic bridge]

that's why i prefer square enix which release actual bluray ost

i bought many FFXIV osts

[silk blaze]

I was playing the other day and noticed the game lighting was constantly changing from light to dark in fights. I noticed this started happening with the recent update we had. Feels like the volumetric fog is having a stroke at times clipping with no fog and then fog all a sudden.

I haven't had time to check but it might be the post processing mod with issues probably.

The game runs even more booty now too since their DLSS frame gen change for x4. I am not sure what they did but the game stutters more than before. I have to use DLSS + FSR frame gen to get no stutters at the cost of lower frames.

[fading cape]

delete shader cache if you haven't already

[silk blaze]

I did at the time but I plan to do it again. I updated my drivers today to the latest nvidia version so it probably will redo the shader by itself once I load the game. I will delete it regardless.

Idk how many times this game has made me had to delete shaders for updates and stuff lol.

Had to get those up to date booby mods for the latest armors 😎

[fading cape]

bro hit me with the wombo combo

idk how that killed me

mf outran my sekiret

[halcyon kernel]

Does Wild Hearts has a renodx mod?

[shut violet]

I don't think so

It's not UE, so the universal mod is not going to work either

[zinc sapphire]

if there is a mod for nioh 1/2 or wolong you can probably get it to work with minimal dev work

all their games are the same, iirc?

also the open world one where I forgot the name

oh wait

that game is not from team ninja lol

just the same publisher I guess

[shut violet]

the game engine is different too

[white wyvern]

Haven't played MHW in like 4-5 months. Whats the overlay? YURI or cat's? Looks quite decent now.

[fading cape]

hunterpie

[white wyvern]

Wait, what? HunterPie available for MHW?! I haven’t played MHW in way too long then.

[shut violet]

I’m waiting for the expansion at this point

I can’t really find the will to continue the game

And I was super hyped

[trim tangle]

Same ~ the performance issues just burn me out, personally :(

[shut violet]

Testing for 80 hours burned me out

haha

I’m still HR lvl 10 or something

[trim tangle]

Yeah, that would burn you out

[fading cape]

https://fxtwitter.com/monsterhunter/status/1954936019385520409

Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter)

Hunters, tomorrow we’ll be sharing our next #MHWilds Director’s Letter, as well as the patch notes for Ver.1.021, arriving August 13.
︀︀
︀︀Get ready for all the details on what's coming in the update, including an expanded endgame, weapon balance adjustments and more!

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FxTwitter · Aug 11, 2025, 4:00 PM

[crisp steppe]

https://www.monsterhunter.com/wilds/es/topics/letter-2508/

[scarlet fossil]

its a longshot but i it cant hurt to ask; does anyone have a backup from this guide? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3459623843 "make game look good" I used the reshade and mod presets from this but this guide got deleted

[silk blaze]

Detailed notes https://info.monsterhunter.com/wilds/update/en-us/Ver.1.021.00.00.html

[coral notch]

surprising that they even mentioned anti-cheat affecting performance

[trim tangle]

RenoDX + DLSS4 / FSR4 is all you really need

[scarlet fossil]

and mods that remove certain prost processing that mhw does, and push the fog away. Luckily I still have all the mods on my hdd but not the exacts configs

[trim tangle]

Well, it tends to be personal preference at that point

[thin fjord]

"improved texture loading" they just changed the directstorage dll and fixed nothing

it sucks so bad

[zinc sapphire]

and DLSS is broken too

[thin fjord]

I will be honest tho, preset K sucks half the time in almost every game

tired of the pixelated fogs everywhere and people pretending like it's not a problem

[white wyvern]

SK had a fix for that.
I haven’t had performance issues with MHW in a while. But I’m just bored of the game. I think I overplayed it since launch. Hopefully the expansion will make it interesting and I’ll go back.

[thin fjord]

I mean that the high res texture pack is pretty much unusable, causes a lot of micro stutters. Don't think SK fixed that, but maybe I should try again.

[white wyvern]

I don’t know the situation now but I was using the texture decompression mod earlier and high res pack worked fine with that.

[thin fjord]

It worked for me, got rid of stuttering but ran out of vram with my 16gb 4080 at 4k so textures would often never finish loading

[silk blaze]

Pretty sure they updated it in TU1 and it had no effect lol.

[thin fjord]

That is indeed my experience

[silk blaze]

I don't think I've ever seen pixelated fogs. The only time was when that one variable option was enable. I cannot remember the exact name. It is one of the last options in the graphic settings.

Having that option made things like fog and fire have pixelation.

Nexus mod has a direct storage file but it is pretty much the same version MHW runs now.

[silk blaze]

With the new DLSS 4x change they broke something. I have to use FSR or I experience tons of stutters. I think their frame Gen broke. People suggest using DLSS to upscale and FSR for FG for now.

[graceful zephyr]

Preset k has volumetric artifacts in every game, it's not mhw specific. You might just be lucky enough to not have noticed them

Once it was pointed out I couldn't unsee it in every game

[silk blaze]

Ah I didn't see it was with that preset. I just use latest but tbh I forgot which is uses.

[graceful zephyr]

Latest is k

But idk which mhw shipped with, probably j

It's in j too but much less obvious

[silk blaze]

Then idk... I probably just don't focus too much on stuff then 🙄 I barely focus on halo glow for things.

I personally need to try with SK and see if it improves my performance issues. I never quite learn how to use the Renodx addon with SK. I know how to use reshade with it.

[graceful zephyr]

It's kind of annoying to do

[graceful zephyr]

Tbh every preset has pros and cons so if it looks good to you then don't look for the flaws lol

K still looks the sharpest

[silk blaze]

I figured you just plop the addon folder in the SK profile for the game. I'll mess around with it later.

Yeah, I'm probably blind to that stuff. I personally still cannot tell to much difference with 60hz vs 120+ unless I see a side by side lol 😂

But speaking of MH, isn't the update in about 5 hours or something.

I main the hunting horn and I was confused by its description change. I have to mess around with it.

[marsh bone]

latest mh update seems to have broken whatever renodx is doing to disable/override the game's default sharpening

[silk blaze]

Just had my first crash on this game so this should be fun.

[silk blaze]

This new pendant update is actually pretty nice. The skills are RNG but it has a decoration 3 slot. It allows me put my earplug decoration on the new pendant replacing my earplug pendant with added skills.

[paper lodge]

anything i can use to only disable the sharpening?

i used to use this https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/13?tab=files&file_id=583 but it doesnt work anymore

rednox and disable post process mod on nexus disable the sharpening with local exposure

[merry tartan]

Renodx disables the sharpening

[paper lodge]

only when i use fixed exposure

[merry tartan]

it should disable it all the time now. Are you using the latest release?

here

[paper lodge]

i will try

[merry tartan]

wait, as old as that build is you should download the latest snapshot instead

https://clshortfuse.github.io/renodx/renodx-mhwilds.addon64

[paper lodge]

still only on fixed exposure sadly

[merry tartan]

weird

maybe the shader changed

[paper lodge]

probably since this patch broke the mod i was using

i mean the mod work but disable sharpness broke

[merry tartan]

yeah seems it's a new shader permutation now

[merry tartan]

• fix sharpening bypass with vanilla exposure

@paper lodge

hopefully this won't cause additional problems, I haven't tested past character selection

[paper lodge]

thanks, ill try it when i get home

[marsh bone]

looks fine ingame, all renodx sliders are working

[paper lodge]

thank you! it all works

[light crest]

I forgot how terrible vanilla sharpening is, genuinely ruins the entire image.

[glacial plank]

did you guys encounter stutter issues after the latest update?

It did shader compilation for me and now the game is a stuttery mess

any advice?

[robust phoenix]

yeah, me too. performance got worse this patch for some reason, for me

i'll rebuild shaders

and recompress the textures

redecompress*

[glacial plank]

let me know if it helps, seems weird that it was buttery smooth before

[robust phoenix]

gotcha

[glacial plank]

and now it's stutterfest all of a sudden

[light crest]

Stuttery mess is this games natural state

[glacial plank]

it was fine for me pre-patch so maybe it broke something

[light crest]

If it's shader compilation, you can try deleting the cache in game directory and updating the drivers to clear the other cache

[tender frost]

For some reason after I update my plugin it, reshade does not load it, I can see reshade window, but under loaded plugins I can't see renoxd, it is working fine in previous version. Any ideas?

[merry tartan]

using latest reshade?

[tender frost]

Should I update reshade version? I also use specialK, maybe I should change loading mechanism (early vs plugin etc.)

[tender frost]

no, I will try to grab latest version

v6.4.1

Latest version of reshade fixed it, thanks

[silk blaze]

Not sure if a patch is out but to the crashes https://x.com/MHStatusUpdates/status/1955552138089664533

Monster Hunter Status (@MHStatusUpdates)

⚠️ Known Issue ⚠️

We are aware of the following issue being reported in Monster Hunter Wilds on all platforms and are currently working on a fix. Once the fix is complete, we plan to release a patch ‘Ver.1.021.01.00.’

We have confirmed that the game may crash when you faint and

X · Aug 13, 2025, 8:48 AM

[tender frost]

Is this crash happening during fast travels or only if getting carted, I wonder?

Because I played 2 hours or so yesterday and there were no crashes at all. But I don't get carted much in general, although I fast travel a lot.

Also I did not notice any performance differences or extra stuttering for the better or worse and I always have a frame time graph overlay open when I play this game to see if things get better or not.

But, I don't use dlc highest quality textures and I always re-decompress all of the new and old ".sub" pak files again after an update if this information helps

So it might be related to highest quality textures.. if you guys are using it

[queen girder]

This update seems to break something, there is heavy sharpening going on when using reno

[shut violet]

#1347155473266114580 message

[silk blaze]

I crashed yesterday but I did not die or teleport. It happened during a 9* fight but I did get to low health to the point I was going to die. Let's see how long it takes them to release a fix.

[marsh bone]

the patch is out

[trim tangle]

Is this part of upstream RenoDX yet? Or is going through more testing?

[merry tartan]

Not yet.

[merry tartan]

This one just has some SDR fixes and is unimportant to HDR users

• Hide more sliders that don't work in SDR
• Expose hidden sliders that do work in SDR

[sonic thicket]

Does any1 else have the issue with the Texture Decompressor Tool completely crashing their pc?

[trim tangle]

The old versions work just fine ~ the Pak file format hasn't changed.

Haven't encountered it crashing on my end, though, at least...

[sonic thicket]

Was thinking it might be hw related since it maxes out cpu, but its a 9800x3d on stock settings so idk.

It was working fine for me before

[trim tangle]

Motherboard? The 9800X3D is known to be unstable on certain motherboards, alas, due to vendors being lax with quality control.

[shut violet]

Really? I never heard of this. People usually forget to reinstall the chipset driver after installing a new CPU and that can cause issues like system/game crashes

[sonic thicket]

Maybe it’s something to do with the new windows update

Apparently an issue with writing large amounts of data at once

I’ll roll back and test it later

[trim tangle]

Didn't some stupid 800-series motherboards either fry or destabilize some 9800X3D's?

[shut violet]

You mean the Asrock motherboard issues? I think that they fixed that, but that caused the PC to crash and never boot again or fail to boot after a shutdown. There were no instability issues afaik

[trim tangle]

Those were user-misdiagnosed issues, then?

[shut violet]

If people reported instability issues then those issues were unrelated yea

The CPUs just failed

But I’m pretty sure that most of the reported CPU failures were user errors in some way

People are not the smartest

they call -40 PBO stable because the PC does not crash immediately

and overclocking the 9800X3D can cause issues too

[trim tangle]

Overclocking modern Ryzen CPUs is entirely pointless unless you're a professional overclocker chasing benchmark scores

[shut violet]

Yea I agree

[trim tangle]

Didn't Gamer's Nexus investigate some of these claims?

[shut violet]

Just the failures

[trim tangle]

In one case, the user just mashed it into the slot while the motherboard was vertical

[shut violet]

it was PBO issue but then they fixed that

aka if you overclocked the CPU using PBO it killed it

[trim tangle]

Was it determined if that was actually killing the CPUs?

[shut violet]

yes

it could potentially kill it

[trim tangle]

Wasn't that certain motherboards setting absurd defaults for PBO?

[shut violet]

thats the reason why AMD replaces all failed 9800X3Ds for free

[shut violet]

enabling PBO and using positive values was enough

[viscid yoke]

I had it happen to my 9800X3D on the Asrock B650E Taichi. Turned my PC off at night, then the next morning it was dead when I went to turn it back on. I never messed with PBO settings or anything though, so no idea if that was the issue

[shut violet]

No idea, Asrock said that it was a PBO issue, but there are/were probably more than one issues

I use an Asrock B650E board with a 9800X3D I also undervolted the CPU with PBO

And I had zero issues

It’s been running fine for 9 months now

[shut violet]

The memory controller dies and it fails to train the memory

I’m not sure how widespread the issues with Asrock boards are

but if you use a 9800X3D with an asrock board then update the bios

[sonic thicket]

To clarify, I was using the decompressor since it came out without issues even with my -30 under volt. Suddenly it starts crashing every time, even when I reset to stock settings. There was a reported issue in the new windows update with some ssd’s having issues when writing large amounts of data at once (and when already above ~60% storage). These are all true for me and given the timing that is possibly the issue here.

[trim tangle]

Of course it's Windows' stupid updates fucking shit up :|

[rustic bridge]

alright guys, i've booted mhwilds and found out some shaders changed

here's my new shader toggler with updated toggles

for the forced sharpening disabled at start

[magic tartan]

never played any mh games period but every screenshot i see of this game looks incredible so i might have to bite the bullet

[fading cape]

i love the game but there's a lot of issues i'd atleast wait till a sale

[marsh bone]

buy world

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-monster-hunter-bundle get base + iceborne and you have over 2x the game wilds currently is

[magic tartan]

i definitely plan to wait yeah

i think i have world from steamshare hold on this might be the move

[marsh bone]

its not really a wilds-specific issue either these games have always felt undercooked until they get their g-rank expansions

literally from the very first game

[merry tartan]

World is still a phenomenal game

[marsh bone]

if you have a switch, generations ultimate goes on sale for $10 like every month on the nintendo eshop

youre set for life with that one

[rustic bridge]

wilds is just too taxing on performance and it looks blurry out of the box

world is better imo, it's a better to start with MH World if you're new

[thin fjord]

Wait until they release the expansion to play wilds. Just play world for now until then.

[graceful vale]

Been following pax news and watching capcoms presentation showing off Onimusha, the visuals looks EXACTLY like wilds did with that washed out loss of contrast. Granted that game is kinda gray-coded anyway but the total effect I believe is still something backend making it look that way imo

[fading cape]

It’s the fog

Theres mods to fix it if you want

[fading cape]

Gotta cover up the shitty textures and flickering

[graceful vale]

I’ve been using the wilds stuff (here) I’m saying this next game they’re pumping out could likely benefit exactly the same way, and to me looks identical to the issues wild has had. Pragmata on the other hand, looks great as is

[fading cape]

yeah it does have the fog idk why they don't just push it back

it's still the same effect but it doesn't muddy the screen

gameplay looks fun though

hopefully it was just one foggy map

[graceful vale]

Agreed, the game looks really cool

[trim tangle]

Pretty much what they use it for. They rarely resorted to fog in World or Rise, for example.

[fading cape]

such a shame

held back by a shitty engine

the game is good creative wise just technically it's a mess

probably would've been better to just use unreal

[trim tangle]

No thanks. We have enough poorly-performing games on that engine.

RE Engine was used far too soon ~ it just wasn't ready for open worlds or lots of concurrent AI.

[wintry shell]

I mean, nobody actually knows if it's the engine's fault or if it's the game's fault.

you can have the best engine in the world and that won't save you if the content itself is unoptimized.

[trim tangle]

The engine is clearly at fault if we but look at Dragon's Dogma 2, and notice many similar issues surrounding slowdowns with lots of concurrent AI.

Wilds has an additional problem on top of that with the implementation of DirectStorage being absolutely awful.

If we look at what we see in-game... there's not really too much more happening than was happening in World.

Yeah, there are more monsters, but that doesn't explain much.

The visuals are not much better than what we've seen in World, either, overall.

The maps sizes aren't that significant a difference, either.

[dawn harness]

You think World and Wilds visuals are same same?

[wintry shell]

World also runs like fucking shit too.

[trim tangle]

Everything seems to come down to DirectStorage being trash, and RE Engine's awful handling of lots of concurrent AI.

[trim tangle]

World looks better in many regards, I would argue. It looks cleaner, crisper.

Maybe Wilds has more detail, but it is ruined by the streaming issues, along with all the fog effects.

[trim tangle]

Not when you disable the pointless CRC checking with plugins. Wilds gets better when REFramework disables that shit, but it has much worse issues ~ maybe Denuvo has a role to play too...

[wintry shell]

even with that shit disabled it still runs like shit for what it looks.

[trim tangle]

Played both games start to end

[wintry shell]

Well guess what, i did too, i was there day 0

for both games

LMAO

[dawn harness]

Yeah, only two MH games I've ever played, and played them both day one.

[wintry shell]

the only reason World runs "fine" now is because we have the hardware to brute force it

run it on period-specific hardware or things like PC handhelds and it does not scale lol.

[dawn harness]

And they both had their fair share of issues.

Only difference this time was that I had DLSS/FG saving me and much higher-end gear.

[dawn harness]

I was watching my friend stream it few weeks ago on her old hardware.

World, that is. And she had to lower a lot of it, it looked so ass.

lmao

[wintry shell]

also, i'm not entirely sold on the AI explanation because uh, Monster Hunter Rise exists

and it has literally copy and pasted AI code from World

(which was then copied and pasted into Wilds)

also regarding Dragon's Dogma 2: that game actually runs significantly better for me than Wilds does.

[merry tartan]

Yeah basically this. The MH team has never shipped a game that actually ran very well. Rise was probably the best result that wasn’t a handheld port to home consoles.

[wintry shell]

especially after updates, it's still isn't perfect, but outside of large NPC concentrations, it actually runs pretty well on my system without FG, something that Wilds...never manages to do.

[trim tangle]

World's performance apparently improved quite a bit once they removed Denuvo

[wintry shell]

it didn't, it's cope

i actually benchmarked that

[trim tangle]

And yet it runs significantly worse, because there's more happening than ever did in Rise

It's a volume issue

[trim tangle]

DD2 absolutely chokes in areas with lots of AI

[wintry shell]

well, yes, it does, i know, i played it.

[trim tangle]

That's why the open world is less awful ~ much fewer instances of concurrent AI

[wintry shell]

but GUESS WHAT

I ACTUALLY GET CPU BOUND ON DD2 WHEN THAT HAPPENS

i never get CPU bound on MH Wilds

i'm more GPU bound than anything else LOL

[trim tangle]

Have you checked usage of each of the cores? The game doesn't scale well with CPU either.

[wintry shell]

I did it, the game does use a lot of CPU

[trim tangle]

In camp areas, the framerate just chugs: ~55fps with a 7800X3D.

It's fucking awful.

In the wilderness areas, the GPU is being utilized a lot more, because there's more happening visually, more visual stuff being streamed in.

So GPU usage might be masking any CPU bottlenecking.

Because there's still a lot of concurrent AI in the wilderness areas ~ just spaced further apart.

[wintry shell]

but if i look with SpecialK or presetmon my GPU usage, it's always at 100%, and that is my main limiting factor.
and that is on the camp.

i'd need to drop down to 1080p or lower to get CPU bound.

[trim tangle]

That's very strange. What CPU, GPU, monitor resolution?

7800X3D / 7900XTX / 2560x1440 on my end.

[wintry shell]

i'm on a 12600K, RTX 3070, 3440x1440

[trim tangle]

I wonder if your GPU is the bottleneck here...

I had a test system that used similar specs, and it was always CPU-bound or GPU-bound in camps or wilderness ~ never really got it above 50fps.

In camps, it managed 40fps.

My more powerful system manages ~75 in the wilderness areas, but the frametimes are a mess at best.

[trim tangle]

What does GPU wait show with PresentMon? Something can be 100% busy, but really be waiting on the CPU.

Noticed that camps and villages were awful with the GPU waiting on the CPU.

[wintry shell]

the game does use a lot of CPU (especially since they broke DirectStorage GPU decompression and CPU decompression is very CPU-intensive), but i don't think most people are CPU-bound outside of high end systems with high-end GPUs or people with old CPUs.

[wintry shell]

I'll need to reinstall the game to give precise values, but i didn't spend much time waiting on the CPU from what i recall.

but that was back when directstorage actually worked

[trim tangle]

I've experienced exactly that ~ it was drawn to my attention by Daniel Owen pointing out GPU wait metrics when in Kunafa or the base camp, so I went around testing it.

But I was also using high res textures without having decompressed them, so that may have contributed, perhaps.

[wintry shell]

I never used the high res textures because uh, 8GB of VRAM.

that shit ain't happening LMAO

[trim tangle]

Ah... there's another thing that might distinguish our experiences.

DirectStorage memes yet again, perhaps...

And whatever the fuck RE Engine is doing behind the scenes

I have no idea what that engine is even doing at times

[wintry shell]

anyway my point is just that this game is fucked in more ways beyond CPU utilization.
this game is just very GPU-demanding for some reason

something that DD2 wasn't

[trim tangle]

The game is very CPU-demanding in certain areas ~ I've experienced that myself

Daniel Owen found that a 9800X3D was necessary to bruteforce past certain issues

[wintry shell]

I'm not saying the game isn't CPU-demanding but that the game is also GPU-demanding for some reason

even though it shouldn't be for the graphics being displayed.

[trim tangle]

Yeah, I've experienced that too ~ it flip-flops, depending on the area

DD2 had these issues too ~ but it fared much better in wilderness areas with low NPC counts

So I don't know how Wilds is fucking it up, despite not having playable areas nearly as large

Does DD2 use DirectStorage, I wonder?

[wintry shell]

it doesn't

[trim tangle]

Ah, yeah, there we go

MH Wilds without DirectStorage would probably be an awesome experience...

Relatively speaking

[wintry shell]

I mean, you can nuke the bad parts of DirectStorage with that tool to remove GDeflate compression

[trim tangle]

But I sort of suspect that they've plugged it too deeply into their code to make it optional

[trim tangle]

Yeah ~ but that doesn't help nearly as much as I would have thought

The frametimes are definitely improved ~ even if there is visible texture streaming

[wintry shell]

i don't think DirectStorage is the biggest thing that kills performance

[trim tangle]

I agree

[wintry shell]

what DirectStorage GPU decompression does is kill frame times lmao

[trim tangle]

There are many issues ~ and that was just one of them

[trim tangle]

CPU decompression is also relatively awful

[wintry shell]

well, yes it is

[trim tangle]

There's just no substitute for decompressing the paks, alas

[wintry shell]

correct.

[trim tangle]

I can only hope and pray that they make DirectStorage optional at some point

[wintry shell]

they kinda can't unless they make an alternate download that isn't compressed lol

[trim tangle]

That is, let you disable it

[trim tangle]

You can decompress without DirectStorage

Many games have decompression and streaming systems that don't use DirectStorage

[wintry shell]

yes but the problem is GDeflate lol

[trim tangle]

World managed, after all

[trim tangle]

The Paks also seem to use ZStd

[wintry shell]

GDeflate is the compression algorithm that you need to use in order to use DirectStorage GPU decompression

[trim tangle]

But the real issue is just DirectStorage, not the compression algorithm

[wintry shell]

no, it is the compresson algorithm.

so uh

[trim tangle]

How do you know for certain?

Maybe it is DirectStorage's implementation of the algorithm?

Because DirectStorage is still being used even with decompressed files ~ for streaming.

So it is still very much at fault.

[wintry shell]

Ok I'm sorry dude but you don't know how directstorage works

gimme a second

[trim tangle]

I know enough to know that PC games just don't need it, unlike consoles

I know that decompressed paks still use DirectStorage for streaming in textures

[wintry shell]

ok so, hear me out here.
there is two parts of DirectStorage, the API that allows you to access files through batch operations using nvme command queues and bypasses things like NTFS file system filters that significantly slow down I/O.
THIS IS FINE, it's not a massive improvement, but it's better than the regular Win32 file system APIs, and doesn't have a negative impact on performance.
Lots of games use it with perfectly fine results.

The problem is GPU DECOMPRESSION, this is also a part of DirectStorage and what this does, is define a compression format that is efficient to be decompressed on the GPU through a compute shader, this is GDeflate, and DirectStorage both provides a GPU compute shader to decompress GDeflate or a CPU decompressor as fall back in case the compute shader fails to run or in case running decompression on the CPU is preferable in case of lower-end GPUs.

This is the questionable part of DirectStorage, thanks to GDeflate being a format optimized for GPUs, it destroys CPUs, but at the same time, running decompression on the GPUs is kinda questionable, since you are using GPU compute time that could be used by rendering.

The thing though, is that DirectStorage only really supports decompressing GDeflate if you want to support GPU decompression, because other compression algorithms don't really scale well on GPU compute cores (aka they are slower than the CPU at the same task.)

so it's kinda like an all-or-nothing approach.

If you want to support GPU decompression, you have to compress your game with GDeflate.

[wintry shell]

this is fine, it doesn't matter, that part is actually beneficial.

[wintry shell]

Because i actually implemented DirectStorage elsewhere.

now they could remove GPU decompression entirely (they kinda did that anyway with a patch where they broke it)

and recompress the paks with something else

but what negative side effects will that have are kinda of an unknown to us.

how big will the game get if compressed as zstd? what are the downsides of using zstd decompression:? (is it slower or faster than GPU decompression?)

but there isn't an easy way for them to offer GPU Decompression and not offer GPU decompression

(unless you provide two different downloads, one using GDeflate and another using something else.)

you can get rid of directstorage entirely, but if you keep GDeflate compression, you will still have the same issues as using DirectStorage, because the problem isn't DirectStorage

but the compression algorithm being used.

[thin fjord]

Game still runs bad, not even current hardware can me it run above 120fps well. Not even going to bring up how it launched

[trim tangle]

THIS IS FINE, it's not a massive improvement, but it's better than the regular Win32 file system APIs, and doesn't have a negative impact on performance.
Except for all of the games that don't, and actually get worse with DirectStorage enabled.
It's because DirectStorage was developed with console architectures in mind ~ whereas PCs never had any of those limitations, so only suffer.

[trim tangle]

And yet it runs better on CPU for Wilds... which is a further insight into the fucked up nature of whatever's going on.

Games do not need to use DirectStorage for compression or streaming ~ games have been doing both for decades without it.

Yet DirectStorage is just worse than games doing it all themselves...

[trim tangle]

Oof.

[wintry shell]

(citation needed)

the only games where directstorage has issues are the ones with gpu decompression lmao

(which is for the record, this game and ratchet and clank)

I`m going to be very real and very rude with you, if you can't separate GPU Decompression from the rest of DirectStorage, you are an idiot and i'm done talking to you.

Because i literally explained to you how this works

and you just ignored it

[wintry shell]

ok while i wasn't looking, it looks like Spider Man 2 released with GPU decompression, you can add it to the pile.

GPU decompression is kind of a questionable idea that so far hasn't proved itself, but the rest of DirectStorage is fine.
For instance, Forspoken, New World, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Ghosts of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West (and Zero Dawn) don't have issues caused by DirectStorage lol. (and those are the ones i can remember from the back of my mind, i'm certain there is more that i'm forgetting.)

[dawn harness]

R&C would crash for me on 'ultra' textures, on 4090 and 5090, both. Apparently a known Nixxes BS.

Is it related to DirectStorage shenanigans, too?

[wintry shell]

no

that's just Nixxies nonsense

[dawn harness]

RIP, okie

[wintry shell]

the issue with R&C is that NVIDIA users lose frame rate with GPU decompression

[dawn harness]

Was weird and would only happen in very weird instances, but no other way to counter it (that I could find) but put it on high. Thankfully, game still looked great.

[wintry shell]

(but this is true of any game using GPU decompression)

[dawn harness]

How big is a hit to frames loss?

[wintry shell]

5-10% slower?

i don't remember exactly

[dawn harness]

[dawn harness]

We have a total of 3 games using it, as far as we know rn? For conversation's sake.

Wilds, R&C, and Spider-Man 2?

[wintry shell]

Final Fantasy 16 also uses it sometimes.

[dawn harness]

Man

[wintry shell]

but i don't recall anyone having issues on that game.

[dawn harness]

FF16 loaded freakishly quick!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1020816837589618790/1287485665373585448/IMG_8882.mov?ex=68b73bf6&is=68b5ea76&hm=918a96080d8c5157c8ca71697087065ba6a68f5f4bfdeb073e7e13007b2894ff&

I still have this, LMAO.

[wintry shell]

but it's just those 4 to my knowledge

[dawn harness]

I think I did apply something to it, not sure what it was. I know I was using Optiscaler for some sharpening stuff and something regarding DirectStorage.

[dawn harness]

Ran very well for me, other than the ... quirks the game had itself, not so much performance related.

[wintry shell]

actually there is some RTX Remix games that do also have GPU decompression through a thing called RTX I/O that also use GDeflate, but that's like, Portal 1 and Half-Life 2 lmao.

so uh, who cares?

(that's also not DirectStorage)

[trim tangle]

Sorry, but even when there is no GPU or CPU decompression happening, DirectStorage-streamed textures still look awful ~ I got obvious fade-in upon loading the game, even on NVMe.

Besides, neither of us knows exactly what Wilds is doing, so we're speculating over very little.

[wintry shell]

Dude play other games I BEG OF YOU

[trim tangle]

You have good experiences with the game ~ I do not.

[trim tangle]

I have???

Wilds' gameplay is great, but the performance and visual issues gradually wore me down.

Very few games seem to use DirectStorage anyways...

[wintry shell]

according to the internet, these games have DirectStorage, and like, nobody else is saying these games have shit textures.

so uh have you considered

that perhaps monster hunter wilds is just shit?

and it's not a problerm with directstorage?

[trim tangle]

It can be both?

[wintry shell]

Well what is your evidence about it being both because i'm not finding it.

and contrary to you, i actually wrote code that uses directstorage

no other game with DirectStorage has this issue, there is no evidence about it being both

it's literally a shit game being shit issue

[trim tangle]

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/explorer/diy-builder/storage/the-state-of-microsoft-directstorage/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1895880/discussions/0/3801652295724009526/

https://www.rxddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1j2qbsz/what_happened_to_directstorage_why_dont_more_pc/

[wintry shell]

I specifically mentioned R&C being a problematic title

i don't get the rest of the posts?

[trim tangle]

Forspoken is mentioned is being a very barren game, so it probably doesn't suffer much.

[wintry shell]

it's just pointless speculation that doesn't matter

[wintry shell]

sure whatever

what about the uh other games

[trim tangle]

Talking about issues in games that use DirectStorage

[trim tangle]

I am curious how they actually utilize DirectStorage if they perform well

Maybe they're not using it for everything? 🤔

[trim tangle]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2420110/discussions/0/4355617421472784811/?l=english&ctp=2

[wintry shell]

i'm sorry but this seems like snakeoil

[trim tangle]

So, the game doesn't actually hard-require it...

[wintry shell]

it's just ONE DUDE saying that

it reeks of engine.ini UE tweaks

[trim tangle]

It worked for them ~ so what's your counter? "Snake oil".

[trim tangle]

Did you actually read the comment chain...?

[wintry shell]

yes, i did, it to me looks like shader compillation stutering that got fixed by a second run

like i'm sorry but i'd like to see more conclusive testing than "thx dude it works 👍 "

did someone test the previous version against the new version on the same place?

[trim tangle]

Some say they have no issues ~ but that doesn't mean DirectStorage is being utilized for much

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2609584/what-happened-to-directstorage-why-dont-more-pc-games-use-it.html

Frankly, DirectStorage is not the magical thing Microsoft touted it to be

It was designed for consoles first and foremost

[wintry shell]

Sure, it isn't, i never said it was.

[trim tangle]

Which is why it probably runs amazingly well there, and produces little for PC

The fact that it slows some games down is concerning

[wintry shell]

AGAIN this is only an issue with games that use GPU decompression.

THAT'S 4 GAMES

OUT OF 15

[trim tangle]

If DirectStorage's whole deal is GPU decompression, and it fails at that, something is fundamentally wrong with the technology

On PC

On console, the CPU and GPU share the same pool of memory, so of course it goes fast

[wintry shell]

that is not the whole deal about the technology

that's how it was sold to gamers

[trim tangle]

That's its main appeal ~ decompress and stream textures via the GPU, without involving the CPU

[wintry shell]

but it actually does more than that

[trim tangle]

Then that was a lie

It deceives and angers

[wintry shell]

well perhaps it was, go complain to microsoft, not me.

[trim tangle]

And then gamers are blamed for not eating it up

I hate the blame gamers get for getting angry about being deceived ~ "they should have known better"

[wintry shell]

I couldn't care less about gamers

the only thing i'm interested in talking about is technology.

But yes gamers don't understand DirectStorage

the thing about DirectStorage is that you can batch file system reads ahead of time, allowing the drive to find an optimal route to the files quickly, and have those commands be mapped directly to native commands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing), which cuts down on overhead

[wintry shell]

but anyway, the actual reason why not many games have adopted DirectStorage isn't because the tech is bad, but because as i said, it requires you to batch reads ahead of time.
an engine needs to know ahead of time what files it will load so it can batch them when performing work submission.
not every engine is going to have that information ahead of time, so that requires extra work to implement, and provinding that information ahead of time might not be viable depending on how your engine is setup.

it also needs to be mentioned, that neither Unreal or Unity have implemented DirectStorage support yet, that's partially why we don't see it as much.

most games are using an off-the-shelf engine, and not many devs are going out of their way to add DirectStorage to an off-the-shelf engine, after all, they bought an engine in order to avoid dealing with this shit.

until UE and Unity get support for it, we probably won't see it very often.

[dawn harness]

Didn't she say that to begin with, like from the very start?

That we don't know for sure it's the engine's fault or not.

[fading cape]

gotta love starting a conversation then immediately falling asleep to wake up to 30 minutes of reading lol

[trim tangle]

We can witness the results ~ and we can compare it to DD2, which has similar issues in areas populated with NPCs.
This is a distinct issue from the texture streaming issues, and decompression stuttering, but it adds to the overall brokenness people report with the game.
The results appears as stuttering, visual issues and poor performance, which can be figured out to some degree.
What I mean is that we just don't know what the engine is doing internally for NPCs to cause lowered frametimes or why it blocks, resulting as stutter, on decompression, even if it doesn't on just texture streaming.

RE Engine is good at one thing ~ Resident Evil games, which have neither big open areas nor lots of intensive NPC stuff happening all at once.

[dense knot]

@wintry shell Do AMD GPUs fare better at GPU decompression? I remember reading that somewhere

[wintry shell]

they do

GPU decompression is performance neutral on AMD GPUs from what people tested at R&C

[dense knot]

Do AMD GPUs handle compute shaders better?

[wintry shell]

not really?
they used to handle async compute workloads better but that was solved with modern NVIDIA generations.

[dense knot]

Feels weird for Nvidia to ignore perf issues on it

Some of their own tech use gpu decompression

[wintry shell]

yeah it's weird but uhh it's what it is lmao

[trim tangle]

I'm not sure it does, but on a system with a 12700K + 3060Ti, I could never get the game to go above 50fps, even on lowest settings, with an NVMe.

At maximum settings, maybe 30-ish fps? 40, if I was lucky.

It's weird how oddly bottlenecked it was.

Nothing I tried helped ~ I tried mods, configs, barely made a difference.

[dense knot]

Not really weird. Maple already explained why

[trim tangle]

I mean, there are definite performance issues ~ maybe just not entirely related to DirectStorage for whatever god-forsaken reasons.

If it wasn't CPU-bound in Kunafa or base, it was GPU-bound in the fields.

I had to stop playing on that system, as the game just didn't run well.

[shut violet]

to measure CPU/GPU limit you need to monitor the GPU wait / CPU wait graphs

if the GPU wait value is high then you are CPU limited

[silk blaze]

Yeah that texture pack is for mainly people with 24GB+ tbh. The minimum is 16GB but people say it uses around 20-22GB

[fading cape]

i haven't tried it since launch maybe it's better now

they fixed some issues with cpus and there's been a bunch of new dx updates so who knows

[silk blaze]

My game still stutters sadly with a 9800X3D/3080/3440x1440 the new DLSS change they did messed me up since.

I do not dare to try that texture pack because even on a good card it still has bad optimization on top of the already game bad optimization.

[fading cape]

"still stutters" the 3080 is pretty old now lol

[silk blaze]

Yeah but the game itself has microstutters and bad frame drops when fighting stuff.

[fading cape]

the new dlss sucks with 30 series and below so that's pretty rough

[silk blaze]

DLSS performance + framegen I am sitting around 110 fps

[fading cape]

not bad

same for me but at 4k

been a lil bettter recently tbh i can use max settings now while staying around 60fps no fg

[silk blaze]

My friend who has the same stuff except a 5090 says his game stutters and frame drops like crazy lately

[fading cape]

probably shader cache issues

the frame drops atleast

stutters i can see

[rustic bridge]

that's bummer that RE engine doesn't scale well to big open world

because RE2 and RE4 look good and perform very well

[fading cape]

the new re looks amazing

[rustic bridge]

want more performance? turn on upscaling

want to push graphics? turn on RT

mh wilds is just too big for RE engine

[fading cape]

i feel like re atleast has decent lighting performance

[rustic bridge]

or devs couldn't get the best out of it

[fading cape]

the new re looks like it's gonna go crazy with rt so i hope it does atleast

[rustic bridge]

studios are chasing photorealism while players demand fps and decent visuals

[tender frost]

For that matter I am tired of people complaining about "RE engine is not optimized for open worlds hence the performance is shit" I understand the strong correlations across wilds and DD2, but guess what those games are coming from the very same developers. Maybe it is developer problem maybe both who knows. Also RE engine was always on the heavier side for the CPU even for the praised games such as Resident evils, Devil May Cry 5 or monster hunter rise.

That is the CPU side of the things, that you can maybe tie to engine fault to some extent, but wilds is also extremely heavy on GPU in a weird way, because how unbalanced the assets are, some textures are so bad not aligned well with the actual geometry, some are pointlessly high resolution. And some models have too less polygons and some models are out of proportionally high number polygons it is very inconsistent mix of stuff all over the place. I wonder if all of the textures and models are coming from within Capcom or not? Maybe they off-load some asset creations other small independent studios or something. It is glaringly inconsistent quality wise.

They also seems to slap lazy but costly local light sources, global illumination techniques without doing proper shadow mapping/light mapping which were backbone video game optimization before new ray tracing hype has taken over the industry...

[tender frost]

For the direct storage thingie, It is in the name its main selling point was the bypassing traditional filesystem boundaries by directly(well, more directly at least) accessing storage reducing the overhead of file access operations. It was still all about CPU, GPU decompression was not even in the loop then.

Soon after, people realized the potential, with direct access, it meant data would be streamed directly into GPU provided GPU has the capability of processing it effectively because standard file access always went over CPU. Which should be obvious since we have 2 different devices but, GPU and CPU have different compute units, as such you can't slap the CPU logic to GPU and make it query and access SSD storage. So they slowly developed GPU logic. G deflate is one form of it, to decompress the data after it has been read, on GPU hence "G"deflate.

So one might even argue, gdeflate algorithm should not be an official part of direct storage, but I guess they go hand in hand so they lump them together under the same library...

[crisp steppe]

seems updates have removed stutters on my machine now i can farm end game in peace

[tender frost]

The real problem with Gdeflate is that, it will reduce your render performance in a GPU bound scenario, because you are using your shader units to do file access and afterwards decompressing that said data if it was in a compressed format. So it eats your GPU.

If you are heavily bound by CPU then it can help to reduce the burden on your CPU by offloading it to the GPU. Then you can argue in which place is technically more efficient to do it, and I would still say CPU most of the time because algorithms are much more mature for it on CPU instructions given that it is also compressed accordingly in the first place.

But as you can see it is a case by case thing. Depends on the situation really.

Ideally it would be better to have a dedicated and specially designed compute units on GPUs to do those file access and decompression stuff. Because that is how CPUs were evolved, modern CPUs have a dedicated IO controllers for example, but for GPUs all those stuff are foreced on the shader units that makes it questionable indeed.

[trim tangle]

Always had some measure of GPU wait in villages or towns ~ basically, anywhere with lots of NPCs. In fields, GPU wait was basically nothing.

[shut violet]

✅RenoDX: MH Wilds

[scarlet fossil]

anyone else started crashing on the lateset nvidia driver?

[lime temple]

nah

[mellow turret]

It seems like reframework is not working after TU3

[fading cape]

uh oh

i wonder what they changed to make it break

[zinc sapphire]

oh the update is out?

but isn't it normal that the updates break ref?

since it works with some memory address that they jump over or w/e

[dry whale]

Update is breaking RenoDX as I uninstalled all mods

[dry whale]

Going to actually confirm this with a fresh install.

[dry whale]

Nope, can't get any of it to work

[lime temple]

make sure dxgi.dll is also deleted. reshade will crash your game without reframework

[marsh bone]

no

[dry whale]

Can't seem to get reframework to work right now though. Am I the only one?

[zinc sapphire]

this is what we were talking about

see my screenshot

[dry whale]

You're right, sorry, was flipping between this and work and confused myself

[shut violet]

I will just wait for the DLC and final update lol

[fading cape]

reshade doesn't even work for me

[zinc sapphire]

it can't work without ref

so that's expected

unless you mean reshade without addon support, that might work

but then you don't have Renodx...

[fading cape]

why would reshade need ref

good lord i forgot how awful this game looks without mods

this is unplayable

[light crest]

Because this game has a billion layers of shitty Capcom DRM that REF disables

[fading cape]

im not sure how drm works but im pretty sure its not something you can just disable lol

i was talking about visually anyway

[zinc sapphire]

reframework just jumps over all of it

enabling all mods and stuff like reshade/renodx

it's not really drm, it's their Capcom anti tamper code

people just call it that

[crisp steppe]

https://github.com/praydog/REFramework-nightly/releases/tag/nightly-01186-c40e0c599e6bd3bebd0b7de7fce827265108f802

[zinc sapphire]

the commit: https://github.com/praydog/REFramework/commit/c40e0c599e6bd3bebd0b7de7fce827265108f802

[undone hare]

is reno still borked for the update? not working for me currently and i dunno if bork or me having skill issue

[zinc sapphire]

did you install REFramework nightly?

[dry whale]

I'll download it after work and see how I get on, after making a backup of the game first.

[zinc sapphire]

praydog pushed another update

download: https://github.com/praydog/REFramework-nightly/releases/tag/nightly-01188-4c533495fad53bcbd5a3b3adceb0bf808fa8dff6

[alpine tree]

and does it work again? did somebody try it out?

[tawny birch]

I can get the game to start with reframework, but not with RenoDX installed

[alpine tree]

I just tried it myself and well it works? With both reframework and renodx no issues so far

[tawny birch]

Yea i figured it out. Had to update some old files

[merry tartan]

Worked do me after updating reframework

[fading cape]

it loaded for me so that's an improvment

compiling shaders rn gonna try with renodx and all my mods now

yeah works fine now\

[coral siren]

What setings do people use for renodx? Are default good? I have a qd oled monitor if that makes a difference

[light crest]

Default Vanilla present and set your preferred brightness. Filmic present can also look nice but it breaks some scenes so I wouldn't recommend it for general use.

[coral siren]

Thank you

So I can just leave everything like this?

[shut violet]

This is my Vanilla+ preset, I used it to "fix" the colors and cutscenes

[coral siren]

Thank you

[shut violet]

Np, you should use the mod that removes the vanilla sharpening too btw

[light crest]

Doesn't Reno do that already?

[fading cape]

I don’t remember anything about a mod that removes sharpening

[shut violet]

ah you are right Jon fixed it, my bad

they changed the shader with one of the previous patches and Jon had to fix it, but yes Reno should disable it

[final sphinx]

these are great thanks for posting them :D

[undone hare]

just did and it's still not working. game launches fine and i can open reshade, but none of the sliders work for renodx

[undone hare]

figured it out, I had to turn compatibility mode off in SK

[smoky heath]

Damn at least it launches with SK for you, if i try to shit just crashes with dxgi error but without works fine lmao

[undone hare]

sk's always worked for me. I just somewhat recently did a clean windows install and forgot I had to turn off compatibility mode for this game

[silk blaze]

My god been trying to kill Omega savage for about 2hrs... people just keep dying and dying and leave the match.

I might be better off with the NPC and doing it alone.

[viscid yoke]

The support hunter NPCs are goated

[silk blaze]

I might have to try. I finally got a random squad that was able to beat it. I am a HH main so I been healing and giving everyone the buffs. People still find a way to died immediately lol.

Yikes 3 2.0 tickets need... only two more kills to go I guess

[silk blaze]

I been getting this all day. Is it due to the latest reframework nightly build.

[light crest]

SK, Reno and REF have been pretty stable from me. Had a single crash, but it's probably just Wilds being Wilds.

[rain sigil]

MHW still can't enable HDR with FreeSync Premium Pro, any suggustions?

I can force the use of FreeSync Premium with CRU, but the display effect on my QD-OLED is not as good as when FreeSync Premium Pro is enabled.

[silk blaze]

I am not sure really. I have premium pro enabled with native hdr + renodx with no issues. Is the option white out or something. Dumb question but do you have it enabled through windows.

[rain sigil]

When my display say premium pro on, the MWH can't enable HDR. windows HDR is always on. my monitor is samsung g85sd.

[rain sigil]

No problem, I quit again.The graphical quality of Monster Hunter Wilds is even worse than before; the NPCs in the camp appear blurry even at a short distance

[silk blaze]

I remember in the past and not sure if it is still an issue but AMD gpu were having issues with enabling HDR in-game. I did see CRU was one way to fix it. Does changing HDR on through the config.ini do anything?

Probably a shader compiling (delete shader.cache2 to recompile) issue or your texture settings is too low. The game needs a few fixes, especially the streamline texture mod if the normal version doesn't fix it. There was a recent renodx MHW fix above to fix the sharpness or something. People above were stating the sharpness was messed up. This could be your issue if you are using an older version of the renodx for MHW.

[vivid pendant]

been getting this crash ever since the update but i'm not sure if it's mod related or not - have you narrowed down the cause for this at all?
i took out everything except reframework itself and haven't crashed yet but the timing is pretty random so i'm not sure if i'm just lucky
i'm thinking it might actually be renodx related at this point

[silk blaze]

I haven't since the crash has happened less and I feel there is no way to tell which mod is doing it. RE is needed to run most mods and I also need it to make proper use of ultra wide compared to native. I personally think it is due to RE with a few comments mentioning the same error. I searched and the error happens when the game attempts to use more VRAM than the system can handle. There may be a memory leak with RE.

The crashing does seem really random. I have only been doing Omega fights and sometimes it crashes mid fight after 30 minutes to 1hr or not at all. Other times I crash if someone withdraws from the mission and I am left.

[vivid pendant]

hmmmmm
i guess i might just have to play for an extended period and see if it happens again
or maybe just leave the game open for a while if it's a memory leak potentially

[silk blaze]

I think 01189 version worked fine before but some people said they were getting errors booting the game related to .pak not being able to load.

I was on that version but I updated to the latest as usual. I might go back and see if I can even boot my game at all. 01189 booted fine into the game and a lobby. I will have to run this one and see if I crash still or not as I play later today.

[vital falcon]

coming back to MHW for TU3 after not playing for a hot minute

do we need a specific version of reshade/renodx now?

[silk blaze]

Latest 6.5.1 works fine for me but I do not use it with SK so not sure if you do. The latest renodx works fine.

@vivid pendant Also reframework nightky 01189 seems to be stable with no crashes yet in a few hours.

[vital falcon]

Accidentally activated the vanilla+ preset on renodx when I'm trying to run the game in sdr

How do I set it to the sdr mode?

Or is this just automatic if I turn off automatic hdr in the game settings (windows sure does love to turn hdr back on after you manually turn it off)

Ugh, now turning off HDR ingame makes everything look hideously saturated for some reason

I am so sick of tweaking to get this game looking right again after every major update

[merry tartan]

the mod should work in SDR just fine with vanilla+

[vivid pendant]

is there a way to completely turn off auto-exposure? i'm using Fixed exposure but there's definitely still auto-exposure in some form, it's very obvious when looking up at the sky and back down to the ground
i haven't seen a mod for it but maybe i missed it

[shut violet]

you mean the eye adaptation?

fixed exposure is different

[vivid pendant]

oh i guess it's the eye adaptation yeah
not a fan of that

[vivid pendant]

Here's a preset using Fixed + Post-Grade exposure for anyone who's having trouble getting that combo looking how they want - I've spent a fair amount of time fiddling with this, and on my display it doesn't hinder gameplay too much while still getting quite dark.
I found it effective to start with getting Exposure Strength right - I got what felt like realistic values for the darkest and brightest scenes I could find and took the midpoint of that, then used Exposure to raise it to where I could comfortably see in all conditions.
Everything else is basically just adjusted to taste, with Contrast lowered a bit because the game's eye adaptation makes it difficult for me to see in some specific areas unless I do that (probably impacted by my monitor's black crush...).

Here's shots of the Plains in each weather condition (Day and Night)

And the Forest:

[shut violet]

fixed looks great, but it looks kinda/really bad during cutscenes

I see you like using "unorthodox " settings too 😄

but those game brightness/exposure values are not going to work with a higher peak brightness setting unfortunately

#1347155473266114580 message those clouds look clipped here

[fading cape]

Pro tip get the volumetric fog mod and move that shit back

[vivid pendant]

i think they're clipped in that image because of the eye adaptation being weird but i'll check later, might have to do more tweaking

[vivid pendant]

didn't know about that one, will have to try it out

[fading cape]

I really don’t like the fog but it also hides a lot of artifacting so it’s hard kinda finding a balance

[shut violet]

I don't recommend removing the volumetric fog entirely

[fading cape]

I said move it back not remove it

Plus I just sent screenshots where I clearly didn’t do that lol

[shut violet]

it's completely removed on one of the screenshots tho

[fading cape]

It’s not

It’s just pushed back

[shut violet]

to oblivion xD

[fading cape]

It’s more obvious at other spots

[shut violet]

seeing the line where the fog starts looks bad imo

[fading cape]

Don’t use it then

Those were just two random screenshots

[shut violet]

I tested the mod

the fog in the jungle can be a little annoying but the game looks worse without the fog imo

[fading cape]

Wait till you see stormy weather

That’s what I based the settings off of

That’s when it looks the worst

[shut violet]

stormy weather should be stormy with low visibility

[fading cape]

And it is

It doesn’t affect rain

[shut violet]

that fog is actually dust/sand

[fading cape]

You do you but I don’t want a shitty grey filter covering my screen making everything dull

[shut violet]

[fading cape]

Mfs got category 5 hurricanes every week sucks to live in the monster hunter universe ig

[shut violet]

for sure xD

[stoic lynx]

What's the best preset for this game?

[shut violet]

there is no best preset, but if you want a vanilla like experience with correct looking cutscenes then you can use mine

[glacial plank]

there's no preset that would fix their atrocious color schemes in some locations/lighting

unfortunately

god curse the souls of whoever designed some of that shit

😸

[stoic lynx]

mind if i ask how you have some of these extra settings such as Highlight Saturation? I downloaded the latest one on github and dont have all this

[shut violet]

switch to advanced settings mode

[stoic lynx]

maybe ive installed the wrong version 💔

oh btw is US CRT essential to your preset or can I use JPN Modern without leaning too far away from the aesthetic you were going for? I find it kind of balances out the warm filter the game seems to have over everything

[violet helm]

Do you have HDR turned on in Windows?

I’m no expert, but I believe your image is what the settings for the addon look like when you’re in SDR

[shut violet]

yes, turn on HDR in-game

[shut violet]

It is essential if you want more accurate colors

[stoic lynx]

ooh yes I see, thank you

[stoic lynx]

if i switch back to my SDR rig, would you recommend the same preset? (minus the extra HDR settings)

[graceful vale]

coming back to this game. but with an SDR monitor. not sure if that really matters. But anyways, i can successfully load reno via reshade through SK but.....nothing is happening. no changes to the image with any toggles or anything. Any ideas?

[graceful vale]

god this game kills me i swear. this fixed from sk dc. which i remember doing eons ago

[shut violet]

Don’t inject ReShade through SK if you want to use RenoDX

[shut violet]

Nope, SDR is different

[merry tartan]

Since people that frequent this would probably be interested, just put out a mod for MH World.