Capcom Finally Reveals Why Monster Hunter World PC is so CPU Intensive

Monster Hunter World has been Particularly Taxing on the CPU

Monster Hunter World PC has been one of the most anticipated games of 2018 on the PC side of things. One of the biggest and most successful companies in the gaming community Capcom hyped up Monster Hunter World PC saying that Capcom has made it for the PC from grounds up. Monster Hunter World on the PC is similair to GTA V’s old gen vs current gen version of the game. Capcom has hyped up the game and for the most part, it seems like the hype is real at least as far as we know from the DEMO and trailers. 

CAPCOM’s William Yagi-Bacon, Vice President of Digital Platforms and Marketing, wrote a post on a thread discussing the CPU issues in Monster Hunter World PC.

WBacon said, “To eliminate interstitial loading during active gameplay, MHW loads the entire level into memory. In addition to managing assets loaded into memory, it keeps track of monster interactions, health status, environment/object changes, manages LOD & object culling, calculates collision detection and physics simulation, and tons of other background telemetry stuff that you don’t see yet requires CPU cycle. This is in addition to supporting any GPU rendering tasks.

While the MT Framework engine has been around for ages, it does a good job in distributing CPU cycles and load-balancing tasks across all available cores and threads. The engine itself is optimized for x86 CPU instruction set, is highly scalable, and loosely speaking, is platform agnostic regardless of PC or console platform so as long as it conforms to the x86 instruction set.

For example, screenshots from the post below shows CPU load per core/thread.”

CPU intensive games are a nightmare for many PC gamers as most cheap out on the CPU but instead buy a very powerful GPU. Capcom will likely improve some of these issues by future patches but, in most cases, these kinds of issues can’t be fixed.

You can pre-order Monster Hunter World for the PC right now from Steam for $59.99. Monster Hunter World is going to be released on PC on August 10th. 

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