Monster Hunter Wilds hasn’t had a good time since launch, and a lot of that issue is down to the game’s performance on PC. Capcom has tried multiple times to get the thing running a little bit more smoothly, but this has only led to more disappointment and subsequent review bombs, such as what happened with Title Update 4 back in December.
However, earlier this month, it was discovered by a random modder that one of the potential reasons as to why the game runs so poorly on Steam is because it’s constantly checking how much DLC you have installed. If you own more DLC, the better your game actually ran, and the modder backed up their theory with some pretty conclusive evidence.
Fast-forward to now, and it seems as though Capcom has pretty much confirmed this. In a new update dropped on the game’s Steam page, it’s explained that it will “include optimization improvements for Steam-specific processes and options to reduce processing load”, and that it’s been rolled out today. That sounds a lot like a fix for this modder’s findings, and low and behold, it seems to have worked.
Monster Hunter Wilds Is Finally Running Better On PC
Over on the Monster Hunter Wilds subreddit, you can find several threads full of fans rejoicing that the game has been practically fixed, and that it’s running a lot smoother than it was before. For example, a user called Lb_Vv simply posted an image of their game captioned “the game runs on PC now”, followed by “we are so back baby.”
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In the comments, you can see people sharing the good news, claiming that this is the first time since launch that their rigs have been able to run the game at 60fps. There are also reports that this update has fixed loads of stuttering issues, letting people use high-res texture packs with little to no problems.
Not only that, but it’s also recently been discovered that Monster Hunter Wilds can now actually run on lower-end systems too, meaning more people should theoretically be able to jump in than ever before. So, if you’ve ever felt like jumping into Monster Hunter, but couldn’t because your PC wasn’t built by NASA, then you could potentially give it a go now that Capcom appears to have got its act together.
- Released
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February 28, 2025
- ESRB
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T For Teen // Violence, Blood, Crude Humor
