Here's how Monster Hunter: World runs on PC

Earlier this year, Monster Hunter: Earth took the gaming community past storm, selling over five million copies during the class of its weekend debut and earning countless positive review scores. Now, it has been ported to the PC, and Steam users tin can go their hands on one of 2022's biggest hits. Yet, many PC ports in recent times have been poorly optimized, and so I decided to cheque it out to see how it ran.

Here's what I institute.

Armed with an Intel Core i7-8700K processor, an NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti graphics carte, and 16GB of RAM memory, I dove into Monster Hunter: World at the highest settings with 1920 x 1200 resolution. With no framerate cap selected (you can cap at xxx or 60 if you desire), Monster Hunter runs at 70 to fourscore frames per second (FPS) on average. However, things get tricky during rare intensive moments. When exploring vast open areas or fighting gargantuan beasts, my FPS dipped down to effectually 45, with 38 marking the lowest point.

Subsequently tweaking settings, I discovered that the cause for this was volumetric lighting. Due to how high quality this lighting is, it would take a GTX 1080Ti to keep a consistently high framerate during the intensive moments. Thankfully, though, the game still looks fantastic with volumetric lighting off, and if you make up one's mind yous want it, the occasional drop to 38 to 45 FPS isn't that jarring.

No stutters in sight

While the framerate had a few minor issues, 1 area where Monster Hunter didn't suffer at all is stuttering. During all of my hours of testing, my game never froze or struggled to render the game world in front end of me. Because stuttering is a adequately mutual occurrence in games ported to PC, this was a pleasant surprise.

Unfortunately, it tin crash ...

While most of what I said has been positive, there is a flaw with this port that I would be remiss non to address: crashing to desktop. Thankfully, the crashes are few and far between (my game crashed 3 times over the course of the eight hours I spent with Monster Hunter) but the issue has the potential to screw up your game at whatever fourth dimension.

Unlike the typical freezing or error popups that precede crashes, Monster Hunter simply closes itself abruptly. Two of my three crashes happened in non-intensive areas, so I'm ultimately non sure what is causing the problem. If you save often, you lot should exist OK, though. Hopefully any is causing the crashes is patched soon.

Final thoughts on Monster Hunter: World's PC port

Despite the rare crash and the occasional dip in framerate, Monster Hunter: Globe runs well on PC overall. People who have lower specs than I do will be able to lower their settings in society to conform their needs thanks to the title's in-depth graphics options, and people with college specs than me probably won't accept much problem with FPS at all.

Monster Hunter: Globe is available now on Steam and Xbox 1 for $59.99. Make sure to check out our review of the game on Xbox One, as well.

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