As Monster Hunter Wild’s PC players battle horrible polygons and struggle to reach 60 FPS, Capcom says the game is “already in a more improved state compared to the beta”

On November 2, 2024By Littum

The Monster Hunter Wild’s beta has officially opened on all platforms and some PC gamers have found the game’s performance to be the true monster.

This doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering the scary Monster Hunter Wilds system requirements that Capcom previously releasedhowever I didn’t have nightmarish texture breaking models on my bingo card. The good news is that this nightmare appears to be bug and not performance related, and Capcom says the full game is already in better shape, plus it has some decent debugging options for struggling players.

“The afterimage noise issue that occurs in certain environments when Frame Generation is enabled will be fixed in the full game, which is already in a more improved state compared to the beta test,” the official said. Monster Hunter Twitter account sayslinks for a list of solutions and known issues for Steam players.

There are also a much more in-depth post outlines some common troubleshooting options step by step. Excellent includes adding the game to antivirus exceptions, giving it permission and Steam admin rights, updating your graphics drivers or operating system or DirectX, and verifying the game’s Steam cache.

A few other specific solutions are also worth noting. “If you’re experiencing game stability issues, delete your shader cache files,” advises Capcom. Much less helpful, “if you experience crashes caused by insufficient VRAM while performing shader warmup, please contact Intel Corporation or the PC vendor.” More helpfully, Capcom adds that “if the Frame Generation option is grayed out and cannot be enabled, turn on ‘GPU Scheduling’.”

Speaking of frame generation: “When using NVIDIA DLSS and repeatedly changing the upscaling mode, VRAM usage may increase, causing the framerate to drop or the game to crash on some PCs. If this happens, please restart the game. ” Turning it off and on again is a classic PC gaming fix, but with how many DLSS and VRAM reports I see on forums, this feels worth mentioning.

Finally, Capcom is addressing the players who have said that the beta won’t even start. “If this is not resolved by updating your graphics card driver to the latest version, please try a clean reinstall of the driver,” it advises.

Monster Hunter Wild's beta and trailer screenshots

(Image credit: Capcom)

This comes alongside widespread reports of performance issues, from graphical issues to frame rate issues, and let’s not forget the Nintendo 64 polygons. Data is scattered and anecdotal at the moment, but several threads across Reddit and Steam forums suggest that many gamers cannot reliably maintain or even hit 60 FPS at 1080p or 1440p on any settings if their PC is even slightly outdated.

There seems to be a huge reliance on frame-gen and upscaling to even get by, which is fast becoming the norm for taxing PC releases. By and large, the 60+ FPS reports I’ve seen have come from users with an RTX 3080 or 4070 GPU or equivalent. Your CPU can also be a serious limiting factor, just like it was in Monster Hunter World. The frequent weather effects in Monster Hunter Wilds seem to be particularly top-heavy.

I’ve personally been hovering around 40 – 50 FPS on medium-low settings at 1440p with DLSS set for performance, but I’ll admit my PC is no slouch with a 2080 Super, Intel i7 9700k and 16GB of RAM. After five years of faithful service, I was already eyeing this year’s Black Friday gaming deals for a new PC build after games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Space Marine 2 pushed mine to its limits. Wilds only plunges me deeper into the abyss of building your dream PC in a shopping cart, one “if it’s discounted enough” at a time

Beta builds are always outdated, and Capcom still has four months to optimize the game, so there’s no need to sound the alarm just yet. Monster Hunter World plodded along at launch, but picked up a bit after a few patches, but good performance at launch should be the expectation. Monster Hunter Rise, the series’ latest release, ran pretty perfectly on PC from the get-go, but it notably started out as a less demanding Nintendo Switch game (which, for the record, ran poorly on the Switch).

Just like it did with Monster Hunter World, we can safely expect Capcom to host another beta test in December or January, and that should give us a better idea of where the game stands. For now, follow the troubleshooting tips above where applicable, complete the beta feedback surveyand make sure that lowering some graphics settings actually improves your frame rate before turning everything down. You may find that some added details don’t actually hurt your FPS, so a less ugly experience may be possible.

After 500 hours in Monster Hunter World, Monster Hunter Wild’s beta feels like a new pair of shoes: fresh and stylish, but a little uncomfortable.