Report claims Black Myth: Wukong is suffering from a memory leak, stopping it coming to Xbox

While
PC
and
PS5
users
have
been
loving
Black
Myth:
Wukong’s
monkey-based
mayhem,
Xbox
gamers
have
been
left
waiting
for
news.
The
game’s
Xbox
port
was
delayed
earlier
this
year
due
to
developer
Game
Science
“optimizing
the
Xbox
Series
S/X
version
to
meet
our
quality
standards.”
Since
then,
it
hasn’t
been
talked
about.

So,
what
exactly
is
the
issue?
Most
people
assumed
it
was
something
to
do
with
trying
to
get
the
game
running
on
the
weaker
Xbox
Series
S,
and
based
on
this
new
report,
it
looks
like
that
may
be
true.

👀🔥
BREAKING
🔴💥

En
la
Gamescom,
conversé
con
personas
relacionadas
con
Xbox
y
con
desarrolladores
que
me
informaron
sobre
un
problema
técnico
que
está
afectando
el
lanzamiento
de “Black
Myth:
Wukong”
en
las
consolas
Xbox.

Al
parecer,
el
juego
sufre
de
un
error
conocido
como…

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—
eXtas1s
🎮
Noticias
&
Rumores
(@eXtas1stv)

August
25,
2024

According
to
insider
eXtas1s,
who
is
usually
very
reliable
when
discussing
all
things
Game
Pass
but
less
reliable
outside
of
that,
the
issue
is
that
Black
Myth
is
suffering
from
a
memory
leak.
Please
keep
in
mind,
all
quotes
from
eXtas1s
are
translated,
so
may
not
be
completely
accurate.

Talking
to
people
at
Gamescom,
eXtas1s
says:
“The
game
is
reportedly
suffering
from
a
bug
known
as
“Memory
Leak,”
which
can
cause
significant
crashes
that
could
compromise
the
performance
of
your
Xbox
console.
Due
to
this
issue,
the
game
has
not
passed
Xbox’s
bug
detection
tests
and
has
therefore
been
indefinitely
delayed
until
they
manage
to
optimize
the
game
for
Series
X|S.”

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

A
memory
leak
occurs
when
data
is
loaded
into
the
RAM
but
isn’t
cycled
back
out
correctly,
resulting
in
the
RAM
becoming
fuller
and
fuller.

The
reason
this
sounds
believable
is
become
the
PS5
version
also
appears
to
suffer
from
this
issue.
Based
on
my
own
experience
and
from
numerous
reports
on
Reddit,
the
game’s
performance
will
get
worse
the
longer
it
is
left
running.
To
fix
the
issue,
the
game
needs
to
be
properly
turned
off.
Some
PC
users
have
also
noticed
the
game
gobbling
up
RAM.

This
could
be
causing
problems
for
the
Xbox
Series
S
because
that
console
has
6GB
less
RAM
than
the
Series
X
and
the
PS5,
meaning
it
would
get
effected
by
the
memory
leak
far
quicker.
That’s
pure
speculation,
though.