Mortal Kombat X PC Port – Possible FPS Fix

Now as I got my hand on the most waited game, but believe me, the same way it given me excitement has also pissed away my mood. No doubt it is one my favorite games of all time with all the new character like Erron Black, new ailities, arenas and game play has driven me crazy. I just can’t put my controller down as there is always a new experience. But one thing that has sort of taken 30% of my happiness and that is the bad porting of this game. I am PC gamer myself, never owned a PS4 because I find PC much more fun. I’ve played all NetherRealm Studios games (formally known as Midway) but none of them had any issues at all. Before I begin my complaints, let’ first have a look at the specs of Mortal Kombat X.

Minimum:

OS: 64-bit: Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom X4 965, 3.4 GHz
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 | AMD Radeon HD 5850
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 25 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: 64-bit: Windows 7, Windows 8
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, 3.4 GHz | AMD FX-8350, 4.0 GHz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 | AMD Radeon HD 7950
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 40 GB available space

Now this is from Steam page and official WB requirement. My specs might be old but still I know it can play the game. I play this game on Quad Core 2.3, 8GB requirements and a HD 7750 GPU which I believe is old but can still play it. I play this game on medium resolution of 1360x768 but still I get choppiness even when I turned everything to low. I don’t like playing games on low but here I just want smooth FPS. After spending almost 12 hours working on the issue of this game, I come up with many things. This game is not properly using all the resources from GPU but instead is relying totally on CPU. The reason of stuttering, fps drops and choppiness on some stages like Sky Temple is because it using only few % of GPU power and totally putting it’s pressure on CPU.  After some research on various Steam forums and other websites, there are indeed solutions there but still this game needs proper fix from the developers.  Even though many guys who has Killer PC’s are facing the same problems which I believe is totally strange.  One FPS fix that I found a little effective was deselecting one of the processor in the task manager then “set affinity”. Note that this only works on Quad Core Processors or more. This indeed reduced the fps drops but still it stutters a little bit in some stages like Outworld Marketplace, Emperor’s KourtYard and Sky Temple but still it is playable somehow. There are many working fix but still I voted to contact WB to instantly patch this game. The new Jason update somehow managed to make the game work on good speed but WB still needs to make something better in order to play the game properly.

I hope the developers will take this matter seriously as many gamers including myself want to get full smooth experience of the game.