Monster Hunter Wilds looks unplayable on Steam Deck but good on Desktop Linux

Looks like Monster Hunter Wilds could also be simply an excessive amount of for the little Steam Deck, after testing out the newly launched Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark mode. However Desktop Linux is wanting good.

We’re quickly approaching the discharge on February twenty eighth, so little doubt loads of persons are eager to know the way it runs. On condition that Monster Hunter is an extremely standard sequence of video games. I am right here to save lots of you a little bit of time shopping for and downloading to some potential disappointment.

CAPCOM launched this benchmark mode on February fifth which they stated offers you a “near-launch model of the sport” inside it. You do not play something, it is only a benchmark to point out the way it will run. It does provide to allow you to change varied settings to see how your system runs so you will discover that candy spot. Nonetheless, the benchmark is slightly misleading, because it contains cut-scenes within the scores. As soon as it goes into the correct gameplay, the efficiency drops a good bit.

Steam Deck

Let’s get the unhealthy information out of the way in which we could? Testing with Proton Experimental (and Proton 9.0-4), for the Steam Deck the scenario is simply plain unhealthy. I am not going to sugarcoat it for you, this seems to be just about unplayable going by the benchmark. The shader optimization stage earlier than you even get to the menu takes a lifetime too.

Setting it into the lowest potential settings with out body era and with out upscaling gave a transparent sub 30FPS expertise (it hovered lots round 20FPS), with fairly a couple of stutters and massive drops. In locations it nearly seemed like a slideshow because it went proper all the way down to 10FPS and beneath.

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Steam Deck, no Upscaling and no Body Era

So subsequent up, making an attempt it with AMD FSR upscaling set to Extremely Efficiency. Right here, we do see it get slightly higher however nonetheless not very playable, nonetheless continuously beneath 30FPS with some large dips down and the visible high quality after all is even worse. It appears really hilarious.

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Steam Deck, with AMD FSR Extremely Efficiency however no Body Era

Chances are you’ll suppose “what about Body Era everyone seems to be hyping up on Steam Deck”, which is an choice you’ll be able to attempt, and does improve the FPS. The issue with Body Era although is that if the sport is not performing significantly effectively to start with, it is going to trigger varied different issues like large spikes within the body timing leading to a very poor expertise. Simply have a look at the mess on the body timings within the beneath photos (inexperienced wiggly traces), you need that to be as low and flat as potential

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Steam Deck, with AMD FSR set to Extremely Efficiency and Body Era On

Not solely that, even simply the benchmark on my Steam Deck LCD prompted the Steam Deck to abruptly reboot.

Until one thing occurs, just like the developer doing a little particular low-end optimizations, Monster Hunter Wilds is just about unplayable on the Steam Deck.

Desktop Linux

How about Desktop Linux? The scenario there’s, fortunately, a lot better. There appears to be no situation with Proton working the sport. As anticipated actually. My system is an AMD Ryzen 5800x with an AMD Radeon 6800 XT on Kubuntu 24.10 at 2560×1440 decision.

On the Excessive preset, with none upscaling, it averaged 62FPS. A bit misleading although, as talked about beforehand, since there is a lengthy cut-scene included.

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Desktop Linux, Excessive Settings, No Upscaling

Precise gameplay right here had loads of elements that had been above 60FPS, however there’s additionally numerous clear drops beneath 60FPS on these settings.

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Desktop Linux, Excessive Settings, No Upscaling

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Desktop Linux, Excessive Settings, No Upscaling

For instance, altering over to utilizing AMD FSR on Balanced whereas maintaining it on Excessive settings gave about an additional 10FPS in a few of the decrease performing scenes. Numerous different scenes had been hitting effectively over 80FPS.

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Desktop Linux, Excessive Settings, AMD FSR Balanced

So nonetheless not a gentle 60FPS, it is a sport that with my GPU (Radeon RX 6800 XT) on Linux, at 2560×1440 will most likely must drop to Medium to have a greater general expertise.

Dropping it to Medium with AMD FSR additionally bumped to Efficiency and we’re a lot nearer to 60FPS right here.

Pictured – Monster Hunter Wilds on Desktop Linux, Medium Settings, AMD FSR Efficiency

So Steam Deck is certainly a nope for now, however Desktop Linux it is going to completely run with Proton it simply relies on your settings. When you use the proper settings to match up along with your system, you have to be good to go on Linux at launch day.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.