HD Texture Pack Issues

[Pocahawtness]

For some time I have been trying to work out why the performance collapsed on my PC. I found some old notes on MHW and realised that since the game came out the load on my GPU had risen from an average of 70% to firmly 99% all the time.
I just couldn't work out what was causing it.
Today I went through all the settings again and even going nuts and setting almost everything to low it was still up at 88%.
The HD texture pack wasn't being used in the configuration, and I remember at the time when it installed it actually made no difference to the load on the PC, but I thought hey, lets try uninstalling it. GPU Loading dropped by 30%.
My question is, how could this possibly be?? The textures were not being used. I am absolutely certain they were not. Not only that, but when the pack first downloaded there wasn't a noticeable increase in loading, so why had that changed?
Although I have eventually found a solution I am totally baffled by the solution. Help! Someone please tell my why this has happened!!!

[Rashed UAE5]

your GPU should have 6GB VRAM or more to run the HD Texture pack

[Pocahawtness]

I have 8gb, and I am not even trying to run it. It was downloaded but not set to use it.

[Rashed UAE5]

there is a bug that cause some texture to be low quality, but with the texture pack it was solved.

so i think having the texture pack installed without using it will fix the bug and load normal texture to their full resolution.

and when you uninstalled, the bug returned and now half the textures are low resolution. which decrease the load on your GPU.

[Crowley42]

I have 8 GB as well, HD textures make my PC melt and I am certain this wasn't the case when they released it, luckily I dont care much for looks.

[Rashed UAE5]

Originally posted by Crowley42:

I have 8 GB as well, HD textures make my PC melt and I am certain this wasn't the case when they released it, luckily I dont care much for looks.

My GPU 980 ti has 6Gb and it runs better with the texture pack, used VRAM with the pack is 5.80/5.95 GB

[cruste]

Originally posted by Rashed UAE5:

Originally posted by Crowley42:

I have 8 GB as well, HD textures make my PC melt and I am certain this wasn't the case when they released it, luckily I dont care much for looks.

My GPU 980 ti has 6Gb and it runs better with the texture pack, used VRAM with the pack is 5.80/5.95 GB

shop page says you need 8gb vram to run hd pack so your whole talking makes no sense.

[Shichiya]

Originally posted by cruste:

Originally posted by Rashed UAE5:

My GPU 980 ti has 6Gb and it runs better with the texture pack, used VRAM with the pack is 5.80/5.95 GB

shop page says you need 8gb vram to run hd pack so your whole talking makes no sense.

Ah yes, the recommendation tab. Always best to trust them. Having a 1050ti? dang this game certainly can't run on it. Lets just drop this game

[Wicked]

Originally posted by cruste:

Originally posted by Rashed UAE5:

My GPU 980 ti has 6Gb and it runs better with the texture pack, used VRAM with the pack is 5.80/5.95 GB

shop page says you need 8gb vram to run hd pack so your whole talking makes no sense.

With it enabled I get 5.4gb of vram usage on a 1080Ti.

Steam/ developer recommendation is never accurate, they recommend more in order to be safe than sorry.

[Grottowalker]

hmmm. so my guess was right, but at the same time not really.

Originally posted by Rashed UAE5:

there is a bug that cause some texture to be low quality, but with the texture pack it was solved.

so i think having the texture pack installed without using it will fix the bug and load normal texture to their full resolution.

and when you uninstalled, the bug returned and now half the textures are low resolution. which decrease the load on your GPU.

^ this is my guess too.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Wicked:

Originally posted by cruste:

shop page says you need 8gb vram to run hd pack so your whole talking makes no sense.

With it enabled I get 5.4gb of vram usage on a 1080Ti.

Steam/ developer recommendation is never accurate, they recommend more in order to be safe than sorry.

pretty much this, a top end GPU of either the 900, 1000 or 2000 model can run the game at max or near max with certain unoptimized things turned off, and the high res texture pack.

ideally, you want your GPU usage at 100% or close to it most of the time, it means its getting used all the way through and your not bottlenecked by your CPU, which, the game also uses heavily so thats where you want extra breathing room.


i dont know about the whole HD pack download fixing the low res textures, i'd think that would be in a base patch rather than make everyone download a 60-80GB pack that also contains a much needed patch. if a modder knows or knows of a way to look into it, i'd be curious what exactly changes by having the HD pack installed as opposed to not. it just seems, weird to have done things that way.

[Pocahawtness]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Wicked:

With it enabled I get 5.4gb of vram usage on a 1080Ti.

Steam/ developer recommendation is never accurate, they recommend more in order to be safe than sorry.

pretty much this, a top end GPU of either the 900, 1000 or 2000 model can run the game at max or near max with certain unoptimized things turned off, and the high res texture pack.

ideally, you want your GPU usage at 100% or close to it most of the time, it means its getting used all the way through and your not bottlenecked by your CPU, which, the game also uses heavily so thats where you want extra breathing room.


i dont know about the whole HD pack download fixing the low res textures, i'd think that would be in a base patch rather than make everyone download a 60-80GB pack that also contains a much needed patch. if a modder knows or knows of a way to look into it, i'd be curious what exactly changes by having the HD pack installed as opposed to not. it just seems, weird to have done things that way.

There is no issue with the CPU, that never goes above about 50%. The GPU is capped to 60fps which at 1440p meant it was running at about 70% or so. I did that deliberately to keep the temperatures down because I tend to play the game all day! I clearly remember installing the HD texture pack and there was no difference in load. Then I switched HD on and the load increased so I switched them back off again. I am pretty sure that everything was fine for a while then at some time or other I suddenly started to get problems. What triggered the problem with the HD pack I have no idea. But certainly removing it has fixed the issue. Yep its very possible it was some bug with the original textures, but that's not all the story. I do remember at the time a few people were complaining about 10 series cards having problems and I couldn't understand it, i was getting good fps figures. Well I guess it came back to bite me! At the time the only thing I could work out that might have been different is that I was using an NVIDIA driver that was a lot older than the one everyone else was using. Since then I am sure I updated it, so perhaps that's the other half of the problem.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by ｢C❤️A｣ Pocahawtness:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

pretty much this, a top end GPU of either the 900, 1000 or 2000 model can run the game at max or near max with certain unoptimized things turned off, and the high res texture pack.

ideally, you want your GPU usage at 100% or close to it most of the time, it means its getting used all the way through and your not bottlenecked by your CPU, which, the game also uses heavily so thats where you want extra breathing room.


i dont know about the whole HD pack download fixing the low res textures, i'd think that would be in a base patch rather than make everyone download a 60-80GB pack that also contains a much needed patch. if a modder knows or knows of a way to look into it, i'd be curious what exactly changes by having the HD pack installed as opposed to not. it just seems, weird to have done things that way.

There is no issue with the CPU, that never goes above about 50%. The GPU is capped to 60fps which at 1440p meant it was running at about 70% or so. I did that deliberately to keep the temperatures down because I tend to play the game all day! I clearly remember installing the HD texture pack and there was no difference in load. Then I switched HD on and the load increased so I switched them back off again. I am pretty sure that everything was fine for a while then at some time or other I suddenly started to get problems. What triggered the problem with the HD pack I have no idea. But certainly removing it has fixed the issue. Yep its very possible it was some bug with the original textures, but that's not all the story. I do remember at the time a few people were complaining about 10 series cards having problems and I couldn't understand it, i was getting good fps figures. Well I guess it came back to bite me! At the time the only thing I could work out that might have been different is that I was using an NVIDIA driver that was a lot older than the one everyone else was using. Since then I am sure I updated it, so perhaps that's the other half of the problem.

CPU is only gettin to 50%? nani?!

wth CPU you running?

also latest drivers are advised simply because the game being updated to use DLSS makes the game not play nice with older drivers on most cards, even if they arent DLSS capable. my RTX is but the feature is still undeveloped and ugly. HUGE performance boost though being able to hit up to 140 fps. typically i sit about 90 with everything maxed out @ 2k resolution. i could lock it to 60 and reduce GPU load but, thats not why i bought a 2080ti xD.

[Pocahawtness]

And today it is broken again so it had nothing to do with the textures. I am completely confused by this and about to just bin the game, lol. I have no idea why it is misbehaving like this.

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Wicked:

With it enabled I get 5.4gb of vram usage on a 1080Ti.

Steam/ developer recommendation is never accurate, they recommend more in order to be safe than sorry.

pretty much this, a top end GPU of either the 900, 1000 or 2000 model can run the game at max or near max with certain unoptimized things turned off, and the high res texture pack.

ideally, you want your GPU usage at 100% or close to it most of the time, it means its getting used all the way through and your not bottlenecked by your CPU, which, the game also uses heavily so thats where you want extra breathing room.


i dont know about the whole HD pack download fixing the low res textures, i'd think that would be in a base patch rather than make everyone download a 60-80GB pack that also contains a much needed patch. if a modder knows or knows of a way to look into it, i'd be curious what exactly changes by having the HD pack installed as opposed to not. it just seems, weird to have done things that way.

This is dumb... 100% gpu usage is not what you want at all. Then its a gpu bottle neck. This game could never tax a 1080ti to 100% usage. 100% usage does not mean its a good thing at all. Just means it spitting out frames as much as it can. Vsync helps this as it caps to 60 or whatever your monitor refresh cap is. People spewing 100% usage is a good thing are just dumb and dont understand gpus.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

pretty much this, a top end GPU of either the 900, 1000 or 2000 model can run the game at max or near max with certain unoptimized things turned off, and the high res texture pack.

ideally, you want your GPU usage at 100% or close to it most of the time, it means its getting used all the way through and your not bottlenecked by your CPU, which, the game also uses heavily so thats where you want extra breathing room.


i dont know about the whole HD pack download fixing the low res textures, i'd think that would be in a base patch rather than make everyone download a 60-80GB pack that also contains a much needed patch. if a modder knows or knows of a way to look into it, i'd be curious what exactly changes by having the HD pack installed as opposed to not. it just seems, weird to have done things that way.

This is dumb... 100% gpu usage is not what you want at all. Then its a gpu bottle neck. This game could never tax a 1080ti to 100% usage. 100% usage does not mean its a good thing at all. Just means it spitting out frames as much as it can. Vsync helps this as it caps to 60 or whatever your monitor refresh cap is. People spewing 100% usage is a good thing are just dumb and dont understand gpus.

your right i worded that poorly, you want your GPU near max but not maxed out. but 50% CPU usage still has me confused here, mine typically sits 70-80% usage on any given core and its a 7th gen i7, no slouch either.