New Monster Hunter Wilds Update Finally Addresses Poor PC Performance

Monster Hunter Wilds gamers on PC have been making their displeasure identified on Steam by leaving a string of unhealthy opinions over some efficiency points with the sport. The variety of concurrent gamers has dropped so quickly that Wilds’ predecessor, Monster Hunter World, has a better rely. As we speak, Capcom is trying to handle PC gamers’ points as a part of the large Free Title Update 2. The writer has additionally shared a glimpse on the subsequent two free updates past this one.

Whereas Free Title Update 2 does not make any adjustments to Wilds’ minimal or beneficial system necessities, the Steam model has been adjusted to quantity of VRAM utilized in texture streaming to decrease the quantity of VRAM general. One of many bug fixes may even make the Estimated VRAM Utilization show the right amount in Show Settings and Graphics Settings.

It is too quickly to say whether or not these adjustments alone will flip issues round for Wilds on Steam, however Capcom notes that additional efficiency and optimization enhancements are nonetheless within the works. Throughout all platforms, Free Title Update is including two new monsters, Lagiacrus and Seregios, in addition to underwater fight.

A few of the smaller adjustments on this replace embrace simpler entry to the map, which might now be opened even when main chat notifications are on the display. Wilds will not be mechanically switching to space hierarchy when gamers are centered on the big monsters on the map.

Weapon stability adjustments have been made for Twin Blades, Searching Horn, Lance, Mild Bowgun, and Heavy Bowgun, with extra changes to be added in August. Looking forward to Free Title Update 3, Capcom expects to launch it in September with a brand new stage of quest issue with distinctive rewards which can be utilized for a brand new Talisman crafting system. The Talismans will be “assigned all kinds of abilities,” together with some associated on to weapons and armor. Free Title Update 4 will comply with within the winter with one other new monster and “more difficult parts.”

Monster Hunter Wilds Free Title Update 2 is now reside throughout Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. The total notes for the replace are beneath:

Monsters

• Lagiacrus has been added and is obtainable in an additional mission. To unlock the additional mission, you have to be not less than HR 31 and have had accomplished each the principle mission “A World Turned Upside Down” and the aspect mission “Forest Doshaguma.”
• Tempered Lagiacrus has been added and can seem if you find yourself HR 41+ after finishing the Lagiacrus further mission.
• Seregios has been added and is obtainable in an additional mission. To unlock the additional mission, you have to be not less than HR 31 and have had accomplished the principle mission “A World Turned Upside Down.”
• Tempered Seregios has been added and can seem if you find yourself HR 41+ after finishing the Seregios further mission.
• Arch-tempered Uth Duna has been added. (It is going to be made accessible in a future Occasion Quest.)
• Tempered monsters will now seem in monster herds.

Participant

• New gear and abilities have been added.
• New pendants and stickers have been added.
• New voice strains, pose units, and gestures have been added.
• New Seikret decorations have been added.
• Hunter and Palico layered weapons have been added.
• The β units of hunter armor have been added to layered armor settings. For any α variations you might have already unlocked, additionally, you will mechanically get hold of the β variations.
• Added new backgrounds, poses, nameplates, and titles to hunter profiles.
• Added new Assist Hunters—Mina (Sword & Protect) and Fabius (Lance)—which is able to develop into accessible to affix quests after finishing the principle mission “A Hunter’s Delight.” Fabius will solely be accessible throughout a limited-time seasonal occasion.
• Added a function on the Quest Counter that enables the participant to pick which Assist Hunters will be a part of you when utilizing an SOS flare.

Bases and Amenities

• Added merchandise containers exterior of the hunter’s tent in every base camp and the Grand Hub.
• Added an out of doors merchandise field as a camp gear choice that may be set at Pop-up Camps.
• The Change Foyer Menu can now be accessed at your tent in base camps or Pop-up Camps.
• Now you can select to change your handler from Alma to Erik, or vice versa. This function is unlocked after finishing the Lagiacrus mission.
• A operate has been added to the Provisions Stockpile that lets you commerce for seasonal occasion gadgets.
• A brand new Competition of Accord occasion will probably be held from July 23 to August 6, 2025.
• The next options will probably be quickly modified through the Competition of Accord: the Handler’s Outfit; Seikret ornament; the Diva’s music record; the Grand Hub decorations; the Canteen menu; Barrel Bowling and Barrel Bowling Bombs. (Erik’s and Gemma’s outfits will also be modified.)
• Barrel Bowling now has extra reward slots, in addition to new particular preparations for seasonal occasions. Barrel Bowling Bombs throughout seasonal occasions additionally behave in another way than regular Massive Barrel Bombs, making for a novel problem.
• New restricted bounty sorts have been added (“Analysis Assist: Fishing” and “Analysis Assist: Endemic Life”).
• New rating classes have been added (fish, endemic life).
• Added a function that mechanically selects Armor Spheres when upgrading armor on the Smithy, which additionally converts extra factors into Armor Spheres.
• Added a function that mechanically selects reinforcement supplies when reinforcing Artian weapons on the Smithy, which additionally converts extra factors into supplies.

Miscellaneous

• The additional mission “Trembling Blue Currents” has been added. (This mission turns into accessible after leaving the Scarlet Forest and going to a different locale, after having accomplished the principle mission “A World Turned Upside Down” and the aspect mission “Forest Doshaguma.”)
• The additional mission “Clear with a Likelihood of Sandstorm” has been added. (This mission turns into accessible after having accomplished the principle mission “A World Turned Upside Down.”)
• The aspect mission “New Style, Previous Emotions” has been added. (This mission turns into accessible after having accomplished the principle mission “A World Turned Upside Down” and the aspect mission “Smithy’s Seal of High quality.”)
• A brand new space has been added to the Scarlet Forest. (This space turns into accessible at a sure level within the further mission Trembling Blue Currents.)
• A brand new key dialogue has been added for Ferdinand within the Windward Plains Base Camp. Communicate with him and full the situations to get a brand new pendant.
• The Surroundings Overview can now be checked within the Grand Hub, and consists of notifications on when occasions are at present being held, such because the Competition of Accord.

Steam

• Warning dialogue now seems when making an attempt to launch the applying when your GPU drivers are old-fashioned, your OS isn’t supported, or you’re at present utilizing compatibility mode.
• New customizable keyboard configuration controls have been added.
• DLSS4 and FSR4 is now supported for graphics upscaling. DLSS4 requires an NVIDIA RTX 2000 collection or larger GPU, and FSR4 requires an AMD Radeon 9000 collection or larger GPU. [Updated 2025/06/27]
• NVIDIA DLSS now supported for multi-frame era within the body era graphics settings. In case you are utilizing an NVIDIA RTX 5000 collection or larger, you may set the body enhance to 2-4 occasions, or to “NVIDIA DLSS Auto” which dynamically turns the body era operate on or off relying on the load.
• The upscaling and body era settings within the graphics settings have been separated, so body era can now be set whatever the upscaling setting. For instance, with NVIDIA RTX 3000 {hardware}, you could possibly doubtlessly select NVIDIA DLSS upscaling with AMD FSR body era, and different related combined settings.
• Now you can copy the Foyer ID/Hunter ID by way of the Begin Menu.
• Now you can copy the Squad ID by way of the Squad Menu.
• A brand new graphics setting was added that lets you disable the display distortion results attributable to underwater or lava areas.
• Added a function that permits you to shortly restock the merchandise pouch and ammo pouch.
• The ammo pouch is now mechanically restocked when activating an merchandise loadout.
• Added a “Take All” function to Nata’s Materials Retrieval facility.
• Added a “Take away All Decorations” operate to the “Edit Decorations” sub-menu.
• Added the power to verify the Squad Chief’s hunter profile from the Squad Card.
• Added an choice that lets you show the elapsed time of enviornment quests (and associated time-attack-type quests) within the targets. Now you can additionally verify your earlier finest occasions.
• Gear Look can now be seen by way of Gear Data or Palico Data within the Begin Menu.
• The Dialog Log can now be accessed by way of the Begin Menu.
• Added choices for “Results” and “Character Show” in photograph mode. Gestures and poses can now even be chosen whereas in first-person view.
• Added an “All Non-Enviornment Quests” class within the hunter profile quest completion rely web page, which excludes complete weapon utilization from the rely. The present “All Quests” class has been moved to the underside of the record. We have additionally added performance to reset weapon utilization counts from the goal quest class.
• Now you can delete your “Finest Occasions” knowledge for enviornment quests recorded on the hunter profile and quest board. (Occasions submitted to the Expedition Report Board’s rankings can’t be deleted.)

The next choices have been added:

• A “Well being Gauge Warning” choice.
• A “Mounted” show choice underneath “Show Elapsed Time for Some Quests”.
• An “Activate Ability/Merchandise Results” choice.
• An “Geared up Talisman Impact” choice.
• A “Assist Hunter Harm Show” choice.
• An “Extra Merchandise Gathering Settings” choice.

Bug Fixes and Stability Changes

Bases and Amenities

• Mounted a difficulty the place performing sure steps whereas Barrel Bowling might trigger the sport to not settle for inputs.
• Made it much less possible for a similar Barrel Bowling pin setups to happen on consecutive days.
• Mounted a difficulty the place stumps would generally seem floating within the sky within the Grand Hub.
• Materials Retrieval merchandise requests can now be carried out throughout Inclemencies in Kunafa and Azuz , and merchandise gathering will nonetheless proceed to progress throughout Inclemencies.

Monsters

• Adjusted how usually monsters will uncover Pop-up Camps.
• Mounted a difficulty the place sneak assaults carried out within the enviornment would generally not deal regular injury.
• Tempered wounds in future Free Problem Quests will now be present in mounted areas.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the dimensions of the goal monster would change when accepting an investigation with just one remaining try.

Normal

• You now regain management of your character barely sooner after beginning a quest.
• Participant gathering actions have been adjusted to be extra responsive general, significantly whereas driving the Seikret.
• Crouched motion now additionally advantages from sooner restoration time for the bleeding standing impact.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the impact of the ability Slicked Blade wouldn’t disappear when coming into or exiting the coaching space.
• Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might have a number of forms of Massive Barrel Bombs of their merchandise pouch in the event that they retrieved a beforehand positioned Massive Barrel Bomb whereas in possession of a Blossom Barrel Bomb.
• Mounted a difficulty the place if the sprint management had been switched to a single press, then dashing from a crouching place would consequence within the character beginning a “run” movement as an alternative of a “sprint” when standing up.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the webbed state wouldn’t be correctly eliminated by Purewasp Supply.
• Different minor fixes and associated changes have been made for all weapon actions.

Sword & Protect

• Protect Assault, Protect Bash, and Onerous Bash uncooked injury and stun values have been barely elevated.
• Good Rush’s ending portion has had its uncooked injury barely elevated.
• Adjusted it to make it tougher to consecutively chain the Guard Slash transfer into itself.
• Barely elevated the evade window for Sliding Swipe.
• Barely decreased the invulnerability window for Sliding Swipe. [2025/06/27 – Revised to correct previously inaccurate information]
• Chop and Aspect Slash uncooked injury have been barely decreased.
• Counter Slash uncooked injury has been decreased.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Focus Strikes might be unintentionally carried out on the identical wounds greater than as soon as on sure monsters.

Twin Blades

• Now you can change your motion path mid-movement when coming into Demon Mode proper after a dodge.
• Whereas in Demon Enhance Mode (throughout Demon Mode), chaining a dodge right into a Blade Dance now chains right into a Blade Dance II as an alternative. (Nonetheless, it will default to a Blade Dance I if there’s not sufficient Demon Gauge left.)
• Blade Dance II responsiveness has been improved.
• Motion velocity throughout Demon Mode has been elevated.
• Fundamental strikes like Sixfold Demon Slash, Demon Flurry Rush, and Demon Flurry have had their uncooked injury elevated.
• Screw Slicer uncooked injury, elemental scaling, and ailment scaling have been tremendously elevated.
• Focus Strike: Turning Tide uncooked injury has been elevated.
• Heavenly Blade Dance uncooked injury has been elevated.
• Blade Dance elemental scaling and ailment scaling have been barely decreased, and uncooked injury has been elevated.
• The uncooked injury enhance from Demon Enhance Mode has been barely decreased, and the fundamental scaling enhance has been elevated.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Energy Prolonger ability was making the length of Demon Enhance Mode buffs last more than meant.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the digital camera would shake unintentionally throughout Demon Mode.

Lengthy Sword

• Elemental scaling for Crimson Slash II has been considerably elevated.
• Uncooked injury and elemental/ailment scaling for Crimson Slash III has been elevated.
• Crimson Slash III now chains sooner into Spirit Blade I.
• Spirit Launch Slash uncooked injury has been barely elevated.
• Spirit Roundslash uncooked injury has been elevated when the Spirit Gauge is crimson.
• Spinning Crimson Slash uncooked injury has been elevated.
• Iai Spirit Slash uncooked injury has been elevated when the Spirit Gauge is white and yellow.
• Elemental/ailment scaling for Crimson Slash I has been decreased.

Hammer

• Now you can chain right into a particular follow-up transfer after a monster has been considerably staggered from a profitable offset assault.
• Now you can chain from a Focus Blow: Earthquake right into a Charged Aspect Blow.
• Offset results have been added to Charged Upswing and Mighty Cost Upswing.
• Cost ranges now enhance sooner after chaining right into a Charged Step from a dodge.
• Charged Large Bang uncooked injury has been elevated.
• Mighty Cost Slam uncooked injury and elemental scaling have been elevated.
• The hit containers for sure assaults, reminiscent of Large Bang, have been adjusted.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the injury show would seem twice for Large Bang IV.

Searching Horn

• Performing Focus Strike: Reverb with exact timing now performs an extra notice on the finish of the assault.
• Performing Focus Strike: Reverb with exact timing now units an Echo Bubble on the finish of the assault. (You possibly can forestall the Echo Bubble by holding R2 (PS5) / RT (Xbox) / R key (default, PC) on the finish of the motion.)
• Hitting a monster with a single hit of Resounding Melody now triggers a soundwave.
• Your Seikret not stops when performing whereas mounted.
• The injury hitbox for Echo Bubble has been considerably elevated.
• The evade window for Offset Melody have been elevated.
• Mounted a difficulty the place switching from one looking horn to a different would incorrectly show melodies that had not been performed as an Encore.
• Mounted a difficulty the place connecting with Offset Melody would generally fail to efficiently offset assaults.
• Mounted a difficulty the place stocked notes wouldn’t correctly reset when chaining right into a Particular Performance.

• Lance

• Now you can chain right into a Cost Counter from Focus Strike: Victory Thrust.
• Adjusted the hitbox of Focus Strike: Victory Thrust to make it simpler to land.
• Mounted a difficulty the place sure protect assaults throughout Focus Strike: Resolve might unintentionally break monster wounds.

Gunlance

• Mounted a difficulty the place, when a vital hit happens throughout a number of hits of sure actions, reminiscent of Multi Wyrmstake Full Blast, there was an unintended excessive likelihood that subsequent hits would even be vital hits.

Change Axe

• It’s now simpler to regulate your distance to monsters when utilizing Unbridled Slash and Full Launch Slash whereas in Focus Mode.
• The backward motion triggered by Aspect Discharge Finisher can now be decreased barely by tilting the left stick within the participant character’s path.
• Considerably elevated the fundamental scaling of follow-up explosions from sword assaults when utilizing Aspect Phials.
• Considerably elevated the fundamental scaling of follow-up explosions from Unbridled Slash, Full Launch Slash, and Axe: Comply with-up Morph Slash when utilizing Aspect Phials.
• Axe: Comply with-up Heavy Slam and Axe: Comply with-up Morph Slash uncooked injury has been elevated.
• The quantity of Change Gauge recovered when performing fundamental assaults in Axe Mode has been elevated.
• Elevated the uncooked injury and Amp Gauge restoration of Axe: Morph Rising Double Slash, and decreased its Change Gauge consumption.
• Sword: Triple Slash uncooked injury and amp gauge restoration quantity have been elevated.
• The quantity of Change Gauge consumed when performing Sword: Overhead Slash has been decreased.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the injury scaling from the Fast Morph ability was not being utilized to Leaping Morph Slash when carried out upon touchdown.

Cost Blade

• Guard factors now have Good Guard detection, and now you can chain into Savage Axe Slash upon a profitable Good Guard from a guard level.
• Explosive phial uncooked injury from chaining into Tremendous Amped Aspect Discharge from sure assaults (reminiscent of Amped Aspect Discharge) has been elevated.
• Uncooked injury for Amped Aspect Discharge and Tremendous Amped Aspect Discharge has been elevated.
• Weak Slash, Return Stroke, and Protect Thrust uncooked injury have been barely elevated.
• Explosive phial uncooked injury for Axe: Aspect Discharge, Axe: Amped Aspect Discharge, and Axe: Tremendous Amped Aspect Discharge have been elevated.
• Impression Phial explosion uncooked injury has been elevated whereas in Sword Enhance Mode.
• Axe: Aspect Discharge now chains extra shortly into different fundamental axe strikes like Axe: Sprint Slam or Axe: Lateral Fade Slash.
• The uncooked injury for multi-hit assaults whereas in Energy Axe Mode has been decreased.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the phial explosion injury enhance wouldn’t be utilized when performing Aspect Discharge I or related assaults with an Impression Phial whereas phials have been enhanced.
• Mounted a difficulty the place sharpness would lower greater than regular when performing a guard level whereas Elemental Enhance was activated.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the injury scaling from the Fast Morph ability was being incorrectly utilized to sure leaping assaults in axe mode.

Heavy Bowgun

• Elevated the quantity of Ignition Gauge recovered when firing Unfold Ammo 1 and Unfold Ammo 2. [Updated 2025/06/27]
• Mounted a difficulty the place it was troublesome to evade after firing Slicing Ammo.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Burst ability would activate with fewer hits than meant when utilizing Cluster Bombs or Wyvernblast Ignition.

Bowguns

• Mounted a difficulty the place the ability Airborne wouldn’t activate accurately for unfold ammo.

Bow

• Mounted a difficulty the place bow coatings would unintentionally change to “Unequip” underneath sure situations.

Assist Hunters

• Mounted a difficulty the place Assist Hunters mounted on Seikret would go away cowl sooner than meant throughout Jin Dahaad’s massive area-of-effect assault, inflicting them to take injury.
• Elevated the assault energy of Assist Hunters for when the search chief is at HR 100 or larger.
• Adjusted the habits of Assist Hunters when mounting a monster.
• Added a follow-up transfer for when Olivia efficiently performs an offset assault.

Seikret

• Improved the velocity of response when calling your Seikret.
• Improved the response velocity for controlling your Seikret after mounting from a Seikret name.
• Mounted a difficulty the place, whereas driving your Seikret in auto-move, they’d circle across the space when you arrived earlier than the big monster.
• Merchandise use inputs whereas mounted on a Seikret have been made extra responsive within the following conditions:
• After switching weapons whereas mounted
• When utilizing an merchandise after closing the map
• When utilizing an merchandise instantly after one other merchandise
• It’s now attainable to dismount from the Seikret whereas drifting.

Palico

• Mounted a difficulty the place Palicoes would cease utilizing Vigorwasp Supply underneath sure situations.

Miscellaneous

• Elevated the quantity of Guild Factors awarded for delivering a Wyvern Egg.
• The Ability Data window can now be shortly opened in numerous screens.
• Modified the Investigations sub-menu choice “Delete Investigation” button.
• Modified the Enviornment Quests and Problem Quests sub-menu choice “Out there Gear Particulars” button.
• Meals Expertise can now be seen within the Ability Data window by way of Gear Data within the Begin Menu.
• The detailed results of Meals Expertise can now be seen within the Lively Expertise web page of the Ability Data window.
• Now you can Settle for & Depart (Fast Begin) a quest immediately from a Quest Invite Notification within the vital chat notifications.
• Eliminated the skip operate from vital chat notifications and made it in order that the map can now be opened even whereas the notifications are nonetheless energetic.
• Adjusted the map in order that it not mechanically switches ranges when specializing in a big monster.
• Foyer Data can now be seen within the upper-right nook of the Begin Menu and Quest Counter screens.
• The Monster Subject Information can now be seen within the Quest Menu whereas in your tent.
• Mounted a difficulty the place decorations not meant to be outfitted in sure slots might nonetheless be outfitted.
• Mounted a difficulty the place obtained nameplates would generally not seem within the Hunter Profile settings.

Steam

• Adjusted the quantity of VRAM used with texture streaming, leading to decreased general VRAM utilization.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Estimated VRAM Utilization within the Show/Graphics settings was calculated decrease than the precise worth. (In consequence, the estimated VRAM utilization will seem larger, however due to a separate optimization, precise VRAM utilization has been decreased, so the present minimal and beneficial system necessities stay unchanged.)
• Mounted a difficulty the place the VRAM utilization displayed incorrect values for the Distant Shadow High quality choice in Graphics settings.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the hunter’s chest armor wouldn’t show when deciding on the Show Armor setting in Show Choices within the Change Look menu.
• Mounted a difficulty the place performing sure actions reminiscent of consuming or forging weapons/armor within the Grand Hub would reset the cooldown for mantles.
• Mounted a difficulty the place repeatedly quick touring within the Coaching Space would reset sure statuses, reminiscent of cooldowns for mantles.
• Improved the response time for utilizing gadgets after exiting a tent.
• Mounted a difficulty the place blocked customers weren’t correctly faraway from the Followers record.
• Mounted a difficulty the place incorrect icons would seem for offline members within the Member Checklist.
• Mounted a difficulty within the Gear Look menu in order that focus will now keep on the outfitted layered armor.

Quests

• Accepting and becoming a member of quests will probably be attainable from the search counter throughout an Surroundings Hyperlink.
• Made changes to cut back interruptions when becoming a member of a quest by way of an invitation notification.
• Adjusted the unlock situations for the “Social Butterfly” Hunter Spotlight.
• Mounted a difficulty the place an SOS Flare can be despatched mechanically when beginning a quest with Max Members set to 1 and Automated SOS Flare turned ON.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the departure animation would not end if the goal quest ended at a particular second through the animation, leaving the participant unable to regulate their character.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Fortunate Voucher’s results wouldn’t apply to the goal quest when accepting a quest invitation from a Hyperlink Member throughout an ongoing quest.
• Mounted a difficulty the place, throughout a non-Subject Survey in your individual surroundings, a Nice Hunt (a hunt with a number of monsters) might be generated even when one of many monsters hadn’t appeared in that surroundings.
• Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might considerably cut back a monster’s well being with poison or different related illnesses earlier than beginning a Subject Survey.
• Mounted a difficulty the place finishing a Free Problem Quest whereas offline would forestall the sport from saving correctly, inflicting lower-ranking occasions to show incorrectly on the Quest Counter.
• Mounted a difficulty the place a goal monster would generally fail to look in multi-target Investigations.
• Mounted a difficulty the place, if a number of gamers joined an Enviornment Quest concurrently, the variety of members would register incorrectly within the rankings.
• New preventative measures have been put in place for invalid or fraudulent investigations.
• Quest completion occasions which might be clearly fraudulent is not going to be registered within the rankings, and customers in query will probably be mechanically topic to suspension or function restrictions.

Different

• Mounted a difficulty the place some voice strains wouldn’t set off correctly.
• Mounted numerous textual content points.
• Mounted different miscellaneous points.