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Improve performance and graphics settings!

By N3OA™

Monster hunter world is one of the most graphics immersive games of the decade. The sheer creativity and graphics of the monsters was the prime reason for the success of the game. That being said the game lags a lot on systems who do not have a very high-end graphics card. So what can we do to get the boost fps without dropping the gameplay experience? So here are the best performance and graphics settings for the monster hunter world.

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Guide Index

Overview

Graphics settings

Advanced Graphics settings

Steam Launch Options

Comments

Graphics settings

Screen mode: Fullscreen

Fullscreen is the best choice for the monster hunter world. You will get the best gameplay experience especially if you have a large screen.

Resolution settings: Max

Higher resolution gives the best gameplay and graphics experience. It also has a high cost in terms of FPS. So the best recommendation would be your max resolution. We will be saving resources in other sections.

Frame rate: No limit

No limit for FPS is the best setting if you have a system. However, if you have a laptop then set it to the same value as your monitor.

refresh rate.

Higher fps cause heating issues with some laptops.

Vsync: Off

Vsync should be off on all systems focused on FPS. It tends to drop fps and cause lag in many of the games.

Aspect Ratio: Default

The default is the best. Regular monitors have a 16:9 aspect ratio. Widescreen monitors generally have a 21:9 ratio.

Advanced Graphics settings

Image Quality: Medium Or High

This setting has the highest impact on gameplay and FPS. I recommend medium or high to get the best gameplay experience in the game. Without this set to at least medium game looks quite bad. So I recommend Medium or High.

Texture Quality: Full or 1024

This is the most important setting of the game. It depends on VRAM actually. 4GB and above should choose Full. Everyone should choose 1024 as the texture quality.
Full will ensure that you get the best gameplay experience and amazing fights with monsters.

Ambient Occlusion: Off

Useless and unnecessary effects in the game. Turn it off to save FPS.

Volume rendering quality: Off

Better turn this off. It gives a volumetric fog effect which has no real gameplay advantage. Actually you can see further with this setting off. Turn it off for FPS Boost

Shadow quality: Low

Low is the best graphics setting for monster hunter world. The game actually looks much better. Shadows are still quite good at low settings. This will give you a good FPS boost while playing the game.

Anti-aliasing: Off

This setting should be off to disable the extra filtering effects. It does not impact the game visuals that much. Turning this off gives a very good FPS Boost.

LOD Bias: Low

This setting sets how close you have to be for objects to switch to their detailed models in the game. A lower setting will give you the best FPS.

Max LOD Level: -1

This setting gives models a more detailed and natural look. Objects such as rocks and leaves. -1 is the best setting to save FPS.

Foliage Sway: Off

The sway of grass effect. You won’t notice it frankly speaking. Makes little difference turn it off to save in-game performance.

Screen space reflection: Off

Turn it off. It gives a reflection effect that we never notice. So best to turn it off for FPS.

Anisotropic filtering: Low

Low is the best setting performance-wise. You don’t notice much filtering quality difference unless you set it to max settings. It’s better to use texture settings to the max rather than this.

Water Reflection: Off

Not important to the gameplay. It takes a lot of graphics resources so best to disable.

SH Diffuse Quality: Low

It has minor impacts on graphics. But you can turn it off to get some extra FPS in-game.

Dynamic Range: 64bit

The best color effects and the game looks pretty on a big screen. Not much FPS impact.

Motion Blur: off

Turn it off. Save FPS and why do you want to blur things.

DOF Depth of field: off

Unnecessary depth of field effects that are hardly noticeable turn it off for best performance.

Vignette effects: Off

Unnecessary effects turn it off. Boost FPS

Z-prepass: Off

Turn it on if you have a GPU with 4GB or higher VRAM. Turn if off to save graphics resources and boost performance.

Steam Launch Options

How to set steam launch options for Monster Hunter World:

Open Steam
Go to the Library tab
Right-click on Monster Hunter World
Select Properties and then General tab
Click “Set Launch Options”

Now type the following in the steam launch options dialogue box:

-high -USEALLAVAILABLECORES

https://store.steampowered.com/app/582010/Monster_Hunter_World/

17 Comments

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The Why Button 5 Sep, 2024 @ 4:28pm

I appreciate the effort, but it may be more helpful to explain what is improved, or not, for each setting, or even just what's changed. Telling people that Vsync can reduce FPS without telling them that it prevents screen tearing doesn't tell them much, since the whole point of that setting is preventing screen tearing.

Abysswalker 8 Mar, 2024 @ 3:54am

@† Dakøta † It's probably the anti-aliasing. I've heard the game's options cause blur whenever there's movement, so try turning it off.

† Dakøta † 19 Jan, 2024 @ 2:39pm

i finally fixed my graphics but everything gets blurry and soft when it moves or when i move my camera and then become crisp again when they stop moving. i turned off motion blur but thats not it. how can i fix it? idk what to turn off

Snackable 8 Jan, 2024 @ 7:50am

I got an i9 12900k, 3070ti, 1440p 144hrz refresh rate monitor, and 32 GB of ddr5 RAM. At max settings, I could only punch in at 104 fps, causing noticeable player stuttering. So I used this as a guideline and read through disabling the true dumb stuff, and now my game looks amazing and runs at a stable capped 144fps. Thank you for the guide; simple and fixed my game.

Who?Me?Butt of Course 6 May, 2023 @ 10:15am

I can't say anything about the individual settings, but it would probably help to give people a guideline.. "If you have a GPU of roughly this and that, set it to High, if it's older, set it to medium"

Anti-aliasing.. I'm not happy with that explanation.. AA does help a lot.. UNLESS you increase the resolution. Anything above 1080p.. you probably don't need AA, 1080p and below.. you might wanna smooth hard edges.

Also you keep saying "big screen". What is a big screen? 24 inches? 27? 32? 50?

Who?Me?Butt of Course 6 May, 2023 @ 10:15am

I see you're not too savvy with PCs, so let me help you out:
Resolution settings: Max makes no sense. "Set it to your monitor's native resolution, probably 1920x1080 or 2560x1440.
"High resolution has a high cost in terms of FPS".. 4K has roughly twice the pixels as 1440p. Just write "Run the game in native resolution. If your FPS drop below 60, lower it one step.

No FPS Limit.. laptop or desktop doesn't matter. DESKTOP. What matters are the components. Locking it makes no difference. Your GPU will push the frames that it can.

"Higher fps cause heating issues with some laptops." Now that is just flat-out wrong. FPS have nothing to do with a PC's ability to cool itself. The higher the settings, the harder your PC has to work, resulting in more heat output.

ki023ng 8 May, 2021 @ 3:16am

my game is so pixialated

Bat but :> 27 Feb, 2021 @ 2:31pm

thanks for the guide, i can actually get past 50 fps now

CongenialVirus 27 Feb, 2021 @ 12:57pm

"Set fps to unlimited because screen tearing is good"

Varrgas 2.0 12 Jan, 2021 @ 7:34pm

@PhoenixTheDuck So it's a guide about lower settings for better fps ? People really need a guide to understand that lowering a settings give more performance ?

well... ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

BTW there are settings in this guide that decrease FPS... but the goal is to increase them... hmm...

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