The release date for Monster Hunter Wilds is just under a month away. And being a successor to Monster Hunter World, it’s got a lot of fans on PC with the date marked on their calendar.
But with a platform like PC, comes a lot of variance. Beyond just looking at a list of needed specs, how do you know if your PC can run Monster Hunter Wilds?
If you don’t want to go through the hassle of downloading and test-driving a demo, you might be looking for a PC benchmark tool – something that Capcom has talked about, and is releasing! …maybe?
A hunter on a Seikret readying a bowgun in Monster Hunter Wilds
This information comes to us through the official german Capcom account on X, releasing a statement on the matter before giving a correction later on, due to a translation error.
For those not looking to translate from German: The initial statement was mainly about various tech optimizations that Capcom is applying to the release version of Monster Hunter Wilds, hoping that it’ll run much better than it did for those beta tests it ran before.
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While improvements like those are certainly appreciated, it does reopen the question of “how well will this game run on my PC?” An answer of “better” isn’t especially specific.
That question would be easily solved by a PC benchmark tool, and the statement said that they’d be releasing one.
They might not be releasing one. Another statement, also in German, specified a lack of certainty about how soon they’d be able to release a tool like that, if at all. They’re looking into it, and don’t want to imply much more.
Handy as they are, it might not be the end of the world if Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t launch with a PC benchmark tool.
They’re not a standard part of the PC gaming scene, with many games releasing each year that forgo them altogether.
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For those with general knowledge of their computer, it’s not especially difficult to read about a game’s hardware requirements and judge whether it can operate on your setup.
But that method has its flaws. First, not everyone has that knowledge. And second, while it’s good at giving you a general idea of how ready your system is, that may be too vague for some.
If either of those categories resonate with you, then you may want to keep an ear open for news about this new tool. Otherwise, you can focus on more typical methods.
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