{"id":1136006,"date":"2026-02-04T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UaMQtgqUkuteMBiathgJFC"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T16:31:53","slug":"it-runs-awful-it-looks-awful-monster-hunter-wilds-performance-issues-put-a-dampener-on-its-record-breaking-concurrents-as-it-settles-into-an-early-mixed-rating-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/it-runs-awful-it-looks-awful-monster-hunter-wilds-performance-issues-put-a-dampener-on-its-record-breaking-concurrents-as-it-settles-into-an-early-mixed-rating-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It runs awful. It looks awful’: Monster Hunter Wilds performance issues put a dampener on its record-breaking concurrents as it settles into an early Mixed rating on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m now over 100 hours into Monster Hunter Wilds, yet between a respectable rig and a CPU upgrade a few hours into playing, I gotta say: The game runs kinda bum. That seems to be the most commonly shared sentiment among the game’s negative Steam reviews right now too, with the first few hours of launch seeing it dip below 50% positive into a ‘Mixed’ rating.<\/a><\/p>\n

Complaints about crashes, poor optimisation, stutters, and framerate dips are rife across its handful of negative reviews right now. “This game is absolutely amazing\u2014but has the worst optimisation I’ve ever seen,” the top negative review<\/a> reads. “I understand that new games are becoming more demanding and people are expected to upgrade, but this is absurd. I’m aware this isn’t the first instance of new games having poor performance on launch, because the same thing happened with World, but it feels inexcusable at this point.”<\/p>\n

One reviewer<\/a> claimed they were sporting a “beefy rig with a 3080 Super and decent CPU” yet was unable to run the game “at an acceptable frame rate.” Another wrote<\/a>: “Absolutely atrocious performance for how the game looks. Runs even worse than the beta,” adding that they’d gone from 60 – 70 FPS on high settings down to 50 FPS on medium “with noticeable dips.”<\/p>\n

“The game does not look nearly good enough to warrant this performance,” it continued. “Everything is covered in a grimy texture with assets that look like you straight took them out of a PS3 game. If I can run KCD2 and Cyberpunk on maxed out settings comfortably; then there is no reason this game should be running like this. Embarrassing.”<\/p>\n

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The performance-to-graphics ratio is a pervading criticism, with yet another negative review writing: “This game has record shattering performance issues. It runs awful. It looks awful. It crashes for no reason. It freezes for no reason. It somehow won’t even launch on Windows telling me an RTX 4070 is unsupported. The open beta at least managed to boot.”<\/p>\n

Here are some things reviewers said ran better than Monster Hunter Wilds:<\/p>\n