Monter Hunter: World to hit Steam on August 9

Game2k
Monday, July 9, 2018 | 10:34 PM
3 comments

Trailer PC

Released in January for consoles, Monter Hunter: World will hit PC (Steam) on August 9th has announced Capcom. Trailer and full specs after the jump.

■RECOMMENDED
OS ：WINDOWS® 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
Processor ：Intel® Core™ i3 8350 4GHz or Intel® Core™ i7 3770 3.4GHz or AMD Ryzen™ 5 1500X
Memory ：8 GB RAM
Graphic ：NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (VRAM 3GB) or AMD Radeon™ RX 570X (VRAM 4GB)
DirectX ：Version 11
Storage ：20 GB available space
Sound card ：DirectSound compatible (DirectX® 9.0c or higher)
Additional Notes: Mouse, keyboard and game pads (both DirectInput and XInput) are supported.
30FPS at 1080p on HIGH graphic settings.

■MINIMUM

OS ：WINDOWS® 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
Processor ：Intel® Core™ i5-4460, 3.20GHz or AMD FX™-6300 above
Memory ：8 GB RAM
Graphic ：NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 OR AMD Radeon™ R7 260x（VRAM 2GB and above)
DirectX ：Version 11
Storage ：20 GB available space
Sound card ：DirectSound compatible (DirectX® 9.0c higher)
Target: ：Mouse, keyboard and game pads (both DirectInput and XInput) are supported.
30FPS at 1080p on LOW graphic settings.

High quality stream and download

PC Trailer

Sdarts

Commented on 2018-07-09 23:29:24

Finally! Looking forward to getting addicted like millions of players on consoles.

Though the System Requirements are very demanding, specially since the Recommended specs are for only 1080p@30fps on High settings. Some settings can go a level further to Highest.

An Action and Co-Op Multiplayer game like this is better played at 60fps, but if even a GTX 1060 can only do 30fps, requiring a GTX 1070 for 1080p@60fps at High settings is a lot. Hopefully, there will be a good compromise between Medium and High settings to achieve 1080p@60fps on a GTX 1060.

There are many images of the settings and of the game running on PC on Capcom's Unity blog:

Monster Hunter: World coming to Steam on August 9th:
http://www.capcom-unity.com/monster_hunter/blog/20...

In reply to

Commented on 2018-07-09 23:50:58

Monster Hunter: World's producer, Ryozo Tsujimoto, told PC Gamer that:

"When the game launches the visuals will have parity with the console versions, but we’re considering releasing a free update after launch."

PC Gamer - Monster Hunter: World PC visuals 'will have parity' with console versions:
https://www.pcgamer.com/monster-hunter-world-pc-vi...

Which just exacerbates the System Requirements issue. Needing a GTX 1060 to do what a base PS4 - a console released in 2013 - does without any substantial visual upgrades is just a waste of power of the newer hardware.

Seems like an unoptimized game, which is weird since Capcom's latest games' PC versions are very optimized - like Resident Evil 7.

KORNdog

Commented on 2018-07-10 14:56:07

apparently this franchise is at risk despite being capcoms best selling game ever. that's some broken sales estimates on their end if that's the case.