Wukong is affected by a reminiscence leak, stopping it coming to Xbox – WGB

Whereas PC and PS5 customers have been loving Black Fantasy: Wukong’s monkey-based mayhem, Xbox players have been left ready for information. The sport’s Xbox port was delayed earlier this 12 months because of developer Sport Science “optimizing the Xbox Sequence S/X model to fulfill our high quality requirements.” Since then, it hasn’t been talked about.

So, what precisely is the difficulty? Most individuals assumed it was one thing to do with making an attempt to get the sport operating on the weaker Xbox Sequence S, and primarily based on this new report, it appears like that could be true.

In line with insider eXtas1s, who’s normally very dependable when discussing all issues Sport Go however much less dependable outdoors of that, the difficulty is that Black Fantasy is affected by a reminiscence leak. Please remember, all quotes from eXtas1s are translated, so might not be fully correct.

Speaking to individuals at Gamescom, eXtas1s says: “The sport is reportedly affected by a bug often called “Reminiscence Leak,” which may trigger important crashes that would compromise the efficiency of your Xbox console. As a result of this concern, the sport has not handed Xbox’s bug detection assessments and has therefore been indefinitely delayed till they handle to optimize the recreation for Sequence X|S.”

eXtas1s goes on to say that the sport has already failed Xbox certification twice

A reminiscence leak happens when information is loaded into the RAM however isn’t cycled again out accurately, ensuing within the RAM turning into fuller and fuller.

The explanation this sounds plausible is turn into the PS5 model additionally seems to undergo from this concern. Based mostly alone expertise and from quite a few studies on Reddit, the sport’s efficiency will worsen the longer it’s left operating. To repair the difficulty, the sport must be correctly turned off. Some PC customers have additionally observed the sport gobbling up RAM.

This might be inflicting issues for the Xbox Sequence S as a result of that console has 6GB much less RAM than the Sequence X and the PS5, which means it might get effected by the reminiscence leak far faster. That’s pure hypothesis, although.

Regardless, Sport Science’s continued silence on the Xbox model is a bit worrying.