Overview
- Digital Foundry measured the game performing thousands of DLC ownership checks that add CPU load and cut frame rates, chiefly near Support Desk Felyne NPCs in hubs.
- A Nexus Mods workaround that reduces these checks, using REFramework, yielded roughly 11–26% higher performance in DF’s tests depending on settings.
- Capcom scheduled Steam patch Ver.1.040.03.01 for January 27–28 to optimize Steam‑specific processing, and it has not confirmed a fix for this DLC‑check behavior.
- Reddit user de_Tylmarande first flagged the anomaly after comparing DLC‑empty and DLC‑complete accounts and tested a mod that spoofed ownership to bypass the checks.
- Independent retests report varying gains by hardware and location, with some systems seeing only small improvements and effects mostly limited to base‑camp proximity.