Players thought fixing a simple typo in Monster Hunter Wilds’ game files was improving its performance and increasing frame rates. But according to some game developers, that’s not actually the case.
Monster Hunter Wilds is one of the biggest games of the year, and it had an absolutely massive launch. With over a million players jumping in on day one, expectations were sky-high. But while console players seem to be having a smoother time, PC players have been running into some pretty annoying issues, crashes, frame rate drops, and stuttering, even on high-end setups.
Recently, players found out that there was a supposed typo in the game’s configuration file. Instead of “Resolution,” the file had “Resoltuion.” Some players claimed that fixing this typo actually improved performance, leading to smoother gameplay.
It sounded like a weird but simple fix, but now, actual game developers are chiming in, and according to them, this isn’t actually a mistake at all.
The Monster Hunter Wilds Typo Might Not Be a Mistake After All
The latest update on this whole situation comes from a discussion on Reddit, where experienced game developers and software engineers are saying that the typo isn’t really a bug, it’s just how the game is coded.
One user pointed out that the same typo appears in the game’s executable file, meaning that the game is actually programmed to recognize “Resoltuion” as a valid setting. In other words, correcting it doesn’t actually fix anything, it just makes the game unable to find that specific setting, which could result in it defaulting to another value.
A software engineer with over 15 years of experience in game development backed this up, saying:
“The typo is not a mistake—you can open up the game in a hex editor and confirm this. I’d bet money on it being an enum that has simply been declared with a typo. This happens all the time – I’m a software engineer/game dev with 15+ years exp.
“By fixing the typo in the config settings, you’re likely forcing the setting to whatever its default value is. I’d argue they’re one and the same. I’m not seeing any performance boost with a 7800x3d / 4080 Super”
Another user added:
“Likely placebo. The executable also has the typo, so it actually refers to a node named that way in the config. It’s not an error. By ‘fixing’ the typo, that makes the game not find this one specific config key/value, so perhaps it’s defaulting to some other value.”
A third reply, from another game developer, further explained:
“Speaking as a game dev, this probably doesn’t work as people think it does. Config files are usually generated by the game code, so an incorrect spelling here means the game is also running with an incorrectly spelled variable.
“All you’re probably doing is renaming something that now no longer loads anything in the game, so when the game runs and can’t find that variable anymore it will create a new one at the default value – most likely the lowest it can be.”
Basically, players who thought they were “fixing” the game might have just been making it default to another setting. That could explain why some people saw a difference, while others noticed no change at all.
So far, Capcom hasn’t commented on this issue, so there’s no official word on whether this setting actually does anything meaningful or not. Until then, it looks like the idea of a “typo fix” improving performance might have been more of a hopeful guess than an actual solution.
What do you think? Have you tried changing the setting yourself? Let us know if you noticed any difference!
