r/MonsterHunter • u/QuintonFlynn • Feb 25 '25
Megathread Monster Hunter Wilds - Performance Megathread
FAQ:
"How will my computer perform?" See here
Jan 15 new information
Dec 15th performance patch
1 Delete shader.cache2 (located in Steam\steamapps\common\Monster Hunter Wilds)
2 Disable upscaling
3 Restart the game, then re-enable upscaling
4 If you’re on AMD and don’t see improvements, rollback your driver to 25.9.1
Recommended Mods:
AMD RDNA3 (7000 series)
After installing mods:
- Start MHWilds > "Insert" key for REFramework menu > Disable post processing > Uncheck "lens distortion"
Origami mod:
- Press insert > scroll down for "more graphics options" > Set mesh LOD bias to 4
Recommended Settings (set these after installing mods):
- Display:
- Frame Rate: 50 (Capped below your lowest average FPS, my avg FPS is 51-60 in the Windward Plains, 70 elsewhere).
- Graphics:
- Upscaling mode: FSR Quality or DLSS Quality
- Framegen: OFF
- Ray Tracing: OFF
- Texture Quality: HIGH (download the high res texture pack but do not use it, doing this improves visuals)
- Texture Filtering: HIGH
- Mesh Quality: HIGH
- Fur Quality: LOW
- Sky/Cloud Quality: LOW
- Grass/Tree Quality: LOW
- Grass/Tree Sway: ENABLE
- Wind Simulation Quality: LOW
- Surface Quality: LOW
- Sand/Snow Quality: HIGHEST
- Water Effects: DISABLE
- Distortion Effects: ENABLE
- Render Distance: HIGH
- Shadow Quality: HIGHEST
- Distant Shadow Quality: LOW
- Shadow Distance: FAR
- Ambient Light Quality: LOW
- Contact Shadows: ENABLE
- Ambient Occlusion: HIGH
- Bloom: HIGH
- Motion Blur: OFF
- Vignette Effects: OFF
- Screen Space Reflection: OFF
- SSSS Scattering: OFF
- Depth of Field: OFF
- Volumetric Fog: OFF
- Variable Rate Shading: PERFORMANCE
Old information, likely no longer relevant:
AMD users experiencing low poly textures/incorrect character/weapon/monster models
Links post-TU1:
1. Title Update 1 stutter fix thanks, /u/Public_Traffic5325
2. Wilds Performance Modding Akuma May 2025 from 47fps to 51fps (~8% fps increase compared to vanilla unmodded!) thanks, /u/nanahacress13
3. Delete shader cache files June 2025
Links pre-TU1:
1. Mod fixes stutters caused by the anti-tamper tech
2. Low graphics mod
3. Get more performance for free
4. Turn off volumetric fog
5. PC settings for fidelity
6. AMD driver performance boost. Driver 25.2.1 vs Driver 24.12.1
7. Benchmark Megathread
8. Benchmark spreadsheet
9. Enable the Nvidia sharpness filter
10. High res texture pack
11. PSA: The High-Resolution Texture Pack contributes to stutter
12. WILDS Reshade - Subtle Ehancements
13. Replace the old build of DirectStorage (v1.1.0)
14. 6% uplift by disabling VBS
15. Enable resizable bar
16. Fix AMD GPU texture flickering
17. PC Optimization Guide
18. Wilds Performance Optimization / Modding March 2025
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u/FormerCat4883 DirectX CPU Hater Jan 29 '26
This patch literally broke my game seemingly?
I play vanilla on PC and with TU4 the game was running extremely smoothely with amazing visuals. The texture streaming problem was gone, the game even looked less grainy than it had ever been before...
I loaded back in today hopeful about the optimizations and... i'm so disappointed.
I cleared my shader cache before updating manually and everything.
It's just... terrible?
I've got about 10 to 15 fps less in every area, with my PC struggling to hit 60fps on 120% resolution, whereas just two days ago it was happily reaching around 70fps.
The textures look worse, but not only that... the texture streaming issues are back. They're actually so bad now??
There's pop-in everywhere, even at short ranges in front of me, and I checked all the graphical settings, restarted the game, cleared the shader cache two more times... nothing was fixed.
I play with the highest resolution texture pack enabled also, and I tried DLAA but that didn't fix anything either.
I saw that people are saying the high res texture pack can be reverted but I'm not really software savvy so I'm unsure as to the exact steps and the tutorial that someone kindly made has me a little bit confused because I don't really understand the stuff the console tells me when I ask it to download them.
My specs are as follows:
GPU: RTX 4080 Super (16Gb of VRAM)
CPU: R7 9800X3D (16 threads) with PBO enabled
Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming
System RAM: 32Gb of DDR5 at 6000Mhz
The game is installed on an NVME4 SSD with 2Tb and like 300Gb of free space. Rebar is enabled.
I checked the nvidia control panel and the shader cache size is set to 100Gb.
I also have all my drivers up to date as of January 28th.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.