Capcom explains the reasons why Monster Hunter World is CPU heavy


Monster Hunter World releases in a few days and Capcom’s WBacon has shared some details about the engine powering it, and explained why the game is CPU heavy. As WBacon said, Monster Hunter World is powered by the MT Framework Engine which was able in past titles to use multiple CPU cores/threads.

While the MT Framework engine has been around for ages, it does a good job in distributing CPU cycles and load-balancing tasks across all available cores and threadssaid WBacon and continued. “The engine itself is optimized for x86 CPU instruction set, is highly scalable, and loosely speaking, is platform agnostic regardless of PC or console platform so as long as it conforms to the x86 instruction set.”

But what exactly will be eating your CPU cycles? WBacon said that the game will load the entire level into memory and that – among other things – it will keep track of monster interactions, health status, environment/object changes, will calculate collision detection and physics simulation, and more.

“To eliminate interstitial loading during active gameplay, MHW loads the entire level into memory. In addition to managing assets loaded into memory, it keeps track of monster interactions, health status, environment/object changes, manages LOD & object culling, calculates collision detection and physics simulation, and tons of other background telemetry stuff that you don’t see yet requires CPU cycle. This is in addition to supporting any GPU rendering tasks.”

WBacon claims that the engine will scale on multiple CPU cores/threads, so it will be interesting to see how the game will perform on our Intel i7 4930K.