Capcom’s latest action role-playing game, Monster Hunter Wilds, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Monster Hunter Wilds on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Monster Hunter Wilds Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
DISPLAY
- Screen Mode: Windowed Fullscreen
- Screen Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Uncapped Frame Rate: uncapped on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On capped to preferred frame rate
- Cutscene Frame Rate: Off
- Background Frame Rate: Off
- V-Sync: Enable on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise Disable
GRAPHICS
- Cutscene Graphics: Do Not Adjust Separately
- Upscaling: NVIDIA DLSS 3 if supported by GPU, else FSR 3
- Upscaling Mode: Quality
- Ray Tracing: Medium
- Texture Quality: High on GPUs with 10 GB or higher VRAM, Medium on GPUs with 8 GB or lower VRAM
- Texture Filtering Quality: Highest (ANISO x 16)
- Fur Quality: High
- Ambient Occlusion: Medium
- Sky/Cloud Quality: Medium
- Grass/Tree Quality: High
- Grass/Tree Sway: Enable
- Wind Simulation Quality: High
- Water Effects: Enable
- Shadow Quality: High
- Distant Shadow Quality: High
- Shadow Distance: Medium
- Ambient Light Quality: High
- Contact Shadows: Enable
- Bloom: High
- Motion Blur: Off
- SSS Scattering: On
- Depth of Field: On
- Volumetric Fog: High
- Variable Rate Shading: Off
Does Monster Hunter Wilds Run On Steam Deck?
As seen in the video above, even at the lowest settings, Monster Hunter Wilds runs at a highly variable frame rate on Steam Deck that usually hovers in the 20 to 30 fps range during gameplay, occasionally dipping into the 10s during stressful instances with a lot of on-screen activity. As such, the game isn’t particularly playable on Valve’s handheld device.
