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PC Gamer
Stevie Bonifield

Is Monster Hunter Wilds' borked PC performance because of a spelling error in the game's config files? Probably not

An NPC from the Monster Hunter Wilds beta who's been turned into a lo-poly nightmare by a graphics issue.

Monster Hunter Wilds players are so desperate to improve the game's atrocious performance issues that many jumped on a supposed fix this weekend, claiming repairing a typo can result in an FPS boost. But based on our own testing, as well as follow-up conversations on social media, a true fix for Wilds' issues lies elsewhere.

It's been a rough launch weekend for Wilds with a wave of complaints about poor PC performance, especially when it comes to graphics quality. Capcom released a troubleshooting guide on February 28, but the unusually poor graphics performance doesn't appear in the developer's "Currently known issues" page at the time of writing.

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