The arrival of Monster Hunter Rise’s Sunbreak growth has introduced a swathe of high quality of life enhancements to Capcom’s beast-bashing motion recreation, together with assist for Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech. Introduced earlier this week as a part of the sport’s 10.0.2 patch notes, enabling DLSS does deliver some welcome body fee enhancements to proceedings, but it surely additionally, err… has the quite surprising aspect impact of shaving off everybody’s hair / fur. And in a recreation about felling all method of feathery, scaly lizard animals, that is not precisely superb.
First noticed by Reddit consumer TsukiEmil, I’ve additionally had a gander at Monster Hunter Rise’s DLSS assist now it is correctly out, and yep, my palico cat buddies, trusty palamute doggos and Rise’s slathering fluffy monster fiends all appear to be they’ve had a hasty buzzcut when DLSS is switched on, no matter whether or not I opted for High quality, Efficiency or Balanced mode.
Within the Reddit publish’s replies, one other consumer mentions that Rise’s fur rendering appears to return from the sport’s TAA anti-aliasing setting and, with DLSS changing TAA when it is enabled, that sadly means it nixes all of the hair results within the course of. Hopefully Capcom have a repair on the best way, as it is a disgrace to should sacrifice Rise’s visible constancy simply to get that tasty body fee bump. I imply, simply take a look at poor Arzuros right here. Like a brand-new teddy bear that is been put by the washer, I say.
In fact, provided that Monster Hunter Rise is a bit lighter on the previous graphics necessities in comparison with its demanding predecessor Monster Hunter World, you might not truly have to allow DLSS in any respect to get a gentle body fee, permitting you to bypass this quite unlucky aspect impact altogether. Certainly, {hardware} editor James discovered that even his “GTX 1050 Ti averaged 76fps when out within the discipline, with barely higher efficiency throughout the hub village” when operating on Excessive at 1080p, so until you’ve got received a excessive refresh fee monitor at your disposal and also you’re actually determined to push into these prime body charges, you are most likely all proper leaving DLSS switched off.
For what it is value, my PC (composed of an RTX 3080, Intel Core i9-11900K CPU and 16GB of RAM) runs Monster Hunter Rise at round 90-110fps on Excessive at 4K, which is completely loads, however sticking DLSS on did see a bump to the area of 180-190fps. A large enhance, for positive, however contemplating my monitor’s refresh fee caps at 60Hz, it made no distinction to my monster looking in any way.
Both means, this is hoping Capcom nonetheless handle to repair it up within the subsequent patch, as a result of it is at all times good to have the most effective of each worlds, is not it?