Monday, April 8th 2019
Monster Hunter: World Gets High-Res Texture Pack Update
Capcom's "Monster Hunter: World" opened to generally positive reviews on the backs of strong gameplay mechanics, inventory system, and an addictive yet simple RPG quest, although we found it falling slightly short in the eye-candy department, as its visuals and texture-quality felt dated and a good 3-5 years behind what's considered cutting-edge today. Capcom alleviated some of this criticism by releasing a free and optional high-resolution texture pack for the game. The "High Resolution Textures Pack" is an optional feature-update that adds not just significantly higher resolution textures for the game, but also the new "TAA+FXAA" anti-aliasing mode under graphics settings. Rock Paper Shotgun comments that it has also observed some refinements in some of the visual effects. You can get the update from the "DLC" section of your game's Steam page, or this page.
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Rock Paper Shotgun
20 Comments on Monster Hunter: World Gets High-Res Texture Pack Update
These cards have even less ram than a console. Sure for PS4 the 8GB of GDDR5 is shared between the entire system, but given how lightweight the Console's OSes are they uses less than 1 GB of ram.
Leaving 7GB of ram for the game to run on.For modern high end cards, it makes almost no difference in performance, they have enough TMU / VRAM / Bandwidth for that.
Only if you have something like a 1060 3GB that you run out of VRAM.
They had VRAM to burn, even with those lower targets in mind. And if youre gaming at 1440p or up and have less than 6GB of VRAM, its time to upgrade.
*E: Just turned it on for a bit to see how it looks. As far as VRAM goes, 4K maxed out goes from 6.6 to 8 (estimated in the menu). FPS in 50s to low 60s in town. I turned off fog, never liked it (and my VRAM went to 6.8 - nearly cancelling out the "hi res" textures), FPS was bouncing between 66-78 while running around outside. Playable, but not stellar, and Im sure there would be dips with actions and effects flying around. Game does look a little better, but not a huge improvement. And WTF is up with having to restart in order to turn on HDR, which is weak sauce in this title I must say (didnt even know this game had it, and will forget it has shortly.)