NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 unable to run Monster Hunter World with 60fps on highest settings at 1440p

Monster Hunter World releases next month on the PC and it appears that some people have already gotten their hands on it. Resetera’s ‘FluffyQuack‘ who got access to it has shared some initial performance impressions, and shared some PC screenshots that you can find below.

[SegaGamer]

If it's struggling on a 1080 then that is a sign that it's poorly optimised.

[kevnb]

That’s not struggling...

[PurpHerbison]

A $600 dollar GPU unable to max out at 1440p 60fps is a sure sign of poor optimization.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Do people forget how big of a difference there is between a 1080 and a 1080ti? 1440p and 60fps with these settings is still very playable and very comfy. Plus we don't know how much AA if any was used, you don't really need it for 1440p. Plus these are lowest fps and not averages.

This article is just written in a suss way for any with a technical background in computers. CPU limited? I'd bloody hope you're not when your running 1440p, unless your using like a dual core or 10+ year old CPU.

[Hungryalpaca]

Yea it is. BF1 gets over 120fps at 1440p with a 1080 dude.

[chris235]

like with almost every third party game

[Vegamyster]

Most 3rd party games run fine this generation.

[shauzy]

you mean most japanese games since they're new to the pc market

[Shiken]

What a dull life you must lead...

[Srhalo]

@shauzy

Capcom has been making games on PC for at least 20 years.

[shauzy]

@Srhalo

"most"
damn, i hate wiseguys

[Vegamyster]

Reading the article it doesn't sound as bad as the title makes it appear.

"Do note that the aforementioned numbers appear to be minimum framerates as the user provided a comparison between the Highest settings with and without Volume Rendering Quality, and the game was running with 78fps."

That said the game was all over the place performance wise on consoles including the Pro/X, can't say i'd be shocked if it's challenging to run with everything cranked, hopefully the Min/Required recommendations are more accurate.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I don't think people in this thread actually read the article...

[Vegamyster]

Doesn't seem like it given the disagrees, it's a poorly worded title that the user who posted the numbers even stated it was not supposed to be used as the average performance of the game.

[kookwes]

or that the new driver release from Nvidia could be night and day.

[Orionsangel]

Time for a TITAN!

[NarooN]

Time for a BETTER OPTIMIZED GAME!

[Orionsangel]

That too. lol

[Razzer]

Meh.....I'll play it on high settings then for 60 FPS.

[ChrisW]

Exactly! Anyone smart enough would do this.

Besides, it's not worth over-stressing and potentially shortening the life of your GPU just for a couple extra nice looking pixels.

[Razmiran]

Unless the game looks leaps and bounds better on pc, its poorly optimized
The game looks good, but not THAT good

[kevnb]

The one x has something a little better than a 1060 and can’t run it at 1080p 60 FPS... the 1080 can do high at 1440p and 60fps.

[riibhu]

One x also have crappy cpu so that's why it can't do 60fps. PCs don't.

[roland82]

I was afraid of this when I saw the recommended specs

[Sy_Wolf]

Ok so they didn’t optimize for PC.

[kevnb]

Why do you say that? What platform are you comparing to?

[Lynx0207]

To be honest it is just as optimized as it is on consoles. I play on PS4 (pro) more than on PC but in this game framerate on consoles is complete s**t.

[SCW1982]

That's a poorly optimized game if that's the case.

[Larrysweet]

Its completely optimized for 1080p 980 can do highest settings 60 plus watch benches

[XxSPIDEYxX]

It's the teams first PC game. That being said the game will be great regardless.

[Sgt_Slaughter]

That's no excuse for releasing a game unoptimized if it is the case.

[XxSPIDEYxX]

Game hasn't even been released yet on PC, but its being flagged as an "unoptimized" game. Guess this "unoptimized" games going to sell a lot more than most optimized games.

[Hungryalpaca]

That’s not an excuse.

[Hungryalpaca]

Now that’s unoptimization.

[Sokol]

Badly optimized..

[Redlife2g]

Sorry, but I've played monster hunter on the ps4... If this game can't reach 60fps 1440p using a 1080 it's terrible optimization plain and simple

[kevnb]

It can on high settings, meanwhile the ps4 pro can’t hit 60 FPS at 1080p and neither can the Xbox one x. I wish people knew what they were talking about... it’s not like the consoles even run highest settings either.

[PurpHerbison]

I get it, you like PC, I like PC as well but I'm not going to sit here and pretend like it isn't poorly optimized just cause consoles can't hit 60fps.

[Vegamyster]

PurpHerbison

The game runs like crap on all platforms, DF even stated when switch to performance mode on the Pro/X the game drops down into the low 30's and has large visual drawbacks. This is a engine problem rather than a optimization issue, there is also no driver support at the moment so i'd wait and see.

[Redlife2g]

So you're trying to tell me this game isn't terribly optimized? Lol 1080 should do it with ease at 1440p resolution. Your inexperience with pc hardware is showing.

[kevnb]

What are you guys on about? Buddy that originally posted these numbers did so by getting the frame rate in the most demanding area of the hub. If he turned off one of the settings the game looked better and frame rate jumped over 70 FPS. So basically you are telling me I know nothing but you don’t even know what the settings are or how much the game scales to different hardware. It’s not uncommon for developers to add in demanding settings intended for high end or future hardware.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

A low of 60 is not "can't reach 60fps 1440p".

[Blu3_Berry]

So, were people expecting to run it at 1440p with everything maxed out? Sorry but that is some unreasonable expectations for PC. Most current gaming PCs can't run the more recent games at 4K with high settings at 60 fps, even 1440p.
You can't go in with a gaming PC thinking you can run everything at maxed with 4K resolution. Makes no sense whatsoever, and you gotta think 1440p is still more demanding then 1080p.

Long as I nailed high settings at constant 60 fps at 1080p I'm more than happy.

[kevnb]

Highest settings usually looks almost the same as high, consoles usually run a mix of high and medium (even the one x).

[riibhu]

You know what people were expecting? They were expecting it to run at 1440p with 60 fps on a GTX 1070 at ultra.
Why? Because a lot of games that looks and are technically miles away from this game already do run at 1440p/60 at ultra on a GTX 1070.
Now if a GTX 1080 can't run it at what a 1070 should've been able to do then yes it's a badly optimised game.

[kevnb]

That logic is simply wrong and makes no sense.

[AspiringProGenji]

I have a GTX 1080 and Witcher 3 runs at constant 55-60 fps wth everything on, maxed, and ultrawide resolution (3440p 1440p). I will be very heartbroken if MHW doesn’t feature ultrawide or can’t perform as expected with this card. I have been waitig for this game forever to come to PC and even stopped playing on PS4 so I Can start a little fresh on PC at least

[AspiringProGenji]

Nvm There’s no ultrawide support after all. I can deal with the bars I guess, but I hope the game performs as it needs to with 1080

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I can get 90fps with 1080ti on rise of the Tomb raider and still can't Max all the settings, using a much faster card, I expect the same result if I bought Monster Hunter World on pc. Plus the article states a low of 60fps, not an average.

[Vanakka]

Well my ti will be fine then

[Orionsangel]

My 1060 6gb runs it just fine.

[Parasyte]

It isn’t out yet on PC.

[kevnb]

Why is everyone so quick to call it unoptimized? It runs at 60 FPS 1440p on high, there is currently no way to run the game anywhere near 60fps even on the Xbox one x.

[PurpHerbison]

It is common knowledge that PC games perform better than their console counterparts. That in no way shape or form excuses the PC version from being poorly optimized.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

People are definitely not reading the article, a low of 60fps at 1440p is not what I would call unoptimised.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

I'd wait to see how it performs with the nvidia driver updates that usually come out the same day as high profile titles before calling it unoptimized

[kevnb]

Even as is I wouldn’t call it unoptimized just because it can’t hit 60 FPS at max settings 1440p on an old 1080. It can get 60 at high settings.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

AC Origins maxed out on my setup runs around 80-110fps 1440p, FFXV maxed out with all the nvidia bells and whistles runs around the same fps as that at 1440p and those are open world games. I figured this game would run better since it's not as open as those games and those games have alot going on usually. Although I have an 8700k and a 1080ti I expect this game to have roughly similar fps as those games or a little better.

[riibhu]

A lot of better looking games out there which run much better than this. AC origins is the latest example of this.
This is going to be shit port.

[chris235]

oh cool. a former ps4 exclusive now getting released on pc. great. not going to replay all these hours i sunk into it beginning of the year. i just hope this port did not take them too many ressources because i can‘t imagine this being a huge hit on pc. average sales at best. this game moved many consoles the past six months. everyone who wanted to play it played ot already.

[SamPao]

yeah its way past 1 million preorders already. Go troll somewhere else

[Tapani]

It’s impossible to still do 4K / 60 gaming on ultra. The 7nm flagship cards (from 1280ti) will finally provide that, and even then it will be High settings instead of Ultra on games that release after a year or two the card is out. For 4K / 30 we are already there, but this is what the next-gen consoles will do so there’s not a very good value proposition for buying a videocard until 7nm flagships come out.

[soulrebel]

What's the point in all this? Nvidia will patch it.

[shauzy]

then it has optimization issues..

[Lynx0207]

First we should see what exactly is "highest"? Isn't it a point of all that PC GPUs to make games that take it's power to the limit? Maybe it is unoptimized, I don't defend it, but maybe there are some really demanding graphics "fireworks"? And it isn't the PC port to blame (not only), on consoles MH was unoptimized too.

[GameHead85]

This is sooo true, with my single 1080, X99 chipset and 32GB DDR4, the best I can get is around 42FPS on 2k (which is 1440p) And the best I can do on 4k is around 31FPS. Everything overclocked, but to be fair, the GTX 1080 is a MIGHTY card and I had it for about 2 or 3 years now, ever sense the 10 series got released.

[MWH]

Well, isn't that BS? 😑

[solidossnakos]

It's no surprise, even the console version suffers from FPS drops.
But if you gonna release a game 8 months after console release, at least make an effort.
I don't know why most Japanese developers PC port are poorly optimized and run like a$$.

[Einhander1971]

Poor optimisation to me, that's the trouble with some games that run on PC the devs can't be bothered to optimise because the tech is strong but then things don't always work out.

[Traingamez]

It’s not even out yet ... There are no drivers created for it specifically yet. This game looks like a PS3 game and if it does not run at 60 frames at 4K on a 1050 it is simply the fault of the developers being lazy hacks that know nothing about PC which beats EVERY console before they even come out

[DarkKaine]

And this is why the game isn't on switch. I played this on PS4 Pro and performance is nothing to write home about compared to the visuals you're getting.
It's true that you can port just about everything to the switch but that statement doesn't apply when the game is an unoptimized resource hog.

[m2stech]

What a surprise another Japanese game thats terribly optimized for PC.

[_LarZen_]

Others testing the game says its running fine.

[rulparra]

bad optimized, just a lazy port.

[leeeroythe3rd]

In other news 1080 ti was able to achieve no problem. 4K 60fps is not a simple feat for a modern AAA title that has not been fully optimized.

[ShockUltraslash]

Can just be an optimization issue, or an isolated thing.
We still have no data on Radeon performance.
Although Capcom is known for making great PC ports.

[Jon_Targaryen]

Doubt... If Witcher 3 a more superior game graphically can go all out then this game is just optimized poorly, no question.

[blanka4545]

waiting to see about 11 series card later on!

[MasterChief3624]

FluffyQuack is the source for this... haha, how serendipitous. I was just browsing the Resident Evil modding forums, and he made a mod manager. Seems like a good fellow. :)

[Miacosa]

Seems like this game needs to be optimized better.

[Arnon]

Good thing I work with a 1080ti lol.