The success ofMonster Hunter Wildspositions it as a front-runner for being one of 2025’s most important games, but looking at the title’s Steam user score tells a different story. While console performance ofMonster Hunter Wildsis, by all accounts, consistent and mostly hiccup-free, the PC version is anything but, with players reporting issues ranging from texture pop-in to frequent game crashes. It’s an unfortunate blemish on what’s otherwise been one of Capcom’s most successful launches, and the Steam player counts forMonster Hunter Wildsonly serve to highlight that updates and fixes to the PC version need to come sooner rather than later.
Despite selling over 8 million units in a week and boasting record-breaking numbers on Steam, the more than 70,000 user reviews forMonster Hunter Wildshave landed on the title receiving a “Mixed” score. Many of the negative reviews for the title center around the PC version’s poor optimization, which seems to be fairly common even among players with higher-end PC builds. Triple-A games developed for consoles have a bit of a spotty history regarding the performance of their eventualPC ports. Capcom needs to buck that trend to continue endearing goodwill from fans and avoid repeating history withMonster Hunter Wilds.
Monster Hunter Wilds' PC Version Woes Explained
The major issues that most players seem to be having with the PC version ofMonster Hunter Wildsboil down to two areas: performance and stability.Monster Hunter Wilds' minimum and recommended PC specscall for players to have fairly robust builds to be able to run the game properly, but even players with high-end hardware are reporting issues related to connectivity, frame rate stuttering, screen tearing, texture pop-in, and other visual inconsistencies that the console versions ofWildsare seemingly absent of. More concerning than these issues, though, are the hard crashes that many players report experiencing.
For several players, attempting to join or post a quest results inMonster Hunter Wildsexperiencing a crash, which is unfortunate for a game that so many play in co-op. Capcom’s current solution to these issues — aside from allowingMonster Hunter Wildsto submit a crash report — is for players to go into their PC and game settings, update drivers, tweak CPU power settings, or even uninstall and then reinstall the game. While these are helpful temporary fixes, something more permanent related toMonster Hunter Wilds' PC performanceand optimization is needed if the game is going to continue its hot streak.
Issues With Monster Hunter Wilds' PC Version Are Reminiscent of Dragon’s Dogma 2
Unfortunately, the situation withMonster Hunter Wilds' PC version is surprisingly familiar to anyone who picked upDragon’s Dogma 2at launch. Despite it performing well on consoles,Dragon’s Dogma2’s PC portwas subject to several issues related to its performance and stability, especially for players running the game using the minimum hardware specs. And although Capcom reassured fans that it had plans to better optimize the PC version,Dragon’s Dogma 2still sits at a “Mixed” 61% positive Steam user rating, largely because of the performance issues players still have almost a year later.
Monster Hunter Wildsis already a major success forCapcom, but the game’s PC community still awaits fixes that offer more permanent and reliable solutions to the PC version’s technical issues. Given how few updates Capcom has provided toDragon’s Dogma 2, though, those same players are justified in worrying that such optimization efforts won’t ever bear fruit. Hopefully, Capcom will useMonster Hunter Wilds' success as justification for a more targeted approach to PC version performance improvement than it delivered forDragon’s Dogma 2.
