Monster Hunter Wilds confirms the release of a performance optimization update

Capcom announces upcoming patch for Monster Hunter Wildsfinally addressing the game's performance and stability issues, including Steam-specific options. While Monster Hunter Wilds The game rocketed to market in early 2025 and continued to be heavily criticized for its poor optimization, especially on PC. It may have taken longer than expected, but it looks like there is finally hope for gamers, especially on PC.

Although Monster Hunter Wilds became Capcom's fastest-selling title at launch to date, ultimately falling short of the company's sales expectations or quite reaching the heights of one of its predecessors in The world of monster hunters. While Wilds continues the franchise's legacy of crossover content with Capcom and third-party franchises, including Square Enix Final FantasyThe experience was largely marred by lingering technical and performance issues, many of which continued to be a problem even after the 4 updates to the title that Capcom had already released. However, the upcoming patch seems to aim to finally fix these issues for players.

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Monster Hunter Wilds Reveals Performance Patch Release Dates

Steam Specific Update: January 27, 6:00 PM PST / January 28, 2:00 AM GMT
All Platforms Update: February 18, 2026

While many fans agree that Monster Hunter Wilds has some of the best combat the series has seen, with a greater emphasis on the game's storytelling elements, player reviews on marketplaces such as Steam continued to hover around “Mixed” due to various stability and performance issues limiting the experience. These issues have been previously confirmed Monster Hunter Wilds” director Yuya Tokuda, who confirmed that further updates will continue to be released in an effort to address these concerns.

Despite Title Update 4 being a massive patch Monster Hunter WildsCapcom isn't done fixing the game's overall performance issues. In a new post, the online studio confirmed that it plans to release Patch Ver.1.040.03.01 to Steam players starting on January 27, 2026. The main focus of this patch will be to reduce the processing load while adding new optimization improvements. This includes things like improving the shader compilation process, reducing stuttering, improving VRAM usage, and much more. The update is part of a previous sketch Capcom made in December, revealing a short-term plan to improve stability and performance.

While the January update will be for PC players, Capcom has also confirmed another patch planned for February to improve the experience for players across PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Known as Ver. 1.041, the update is scheduled to launch on February 18th and will further improve stability and performance along with other improvements such as adding a “level of detail” to the polygon mesh on 3D models. More details will be shared closer to the patch release date.

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The issues surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds' performance issues have seemingly gotten to the head of its community, who instead of waiting on Capcom have resorted to trying to fix the issues themselves. In fact, the breakthrough seems to have happened only recently, after one player discovered Monster Hunter Wilds performance was seemingly tied to forced DLC control. After running the tests on several different computers, the result was the same. Running the mod that prevented Monster Hunter Wilds from controlling DLC, the game's frame rate went from 20-25 to over 80, a huge performance boost. Players have begun to theorize that Monster Hunter Wilds may repeatedly scan files for any owned DLC, with the scan seemingly requiring CPU bandwidth, directly leading to a performance drop. If the player already has them installed, checks are faster and less resource intensive, leading to better performance and inadvertently improving the experience for those spending money.