Can I Run Monster Hunter World PC?
CAPCOM Co., Ltd. released Monster Hunter World PC in 2018. It is an action game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Critics scored it 88 on Metacritic. Its Steam review count passes 318 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Its 8 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam lists support for 14 languages. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. The game ships for Windows alone. There are 100 achievements to chase.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5 4460 or Core™ i3 9100F or AMD FX™-6300 or Ryzen™ 3 3200G |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA®GeForce®GTX 760 or GTX1050 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x or RX 560 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 52 GB HDD |
| OS | WINDOWS® 10 (64-bit required) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7 3770 or Core™ i3 8350 or Core™ i3 9350F / AMD Ryzen™ 5 1500X or Ryzen™ 5 3400G |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (VRAM 3GB) or GTX 1650 / AMD Radeon™ RX 480 or RX 570 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 52 GB HDD |
| OS | WINDOWS® 10 (64-bit required) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Monster Hunter World PC places its action in a fantasy world, and the player works through one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Monster Hunter World PC has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The view is from a third person view. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Monster Hunter World PC is demanding
Monster Hunter World PC is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (VRAM target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Monster Hunter World PC. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Monster Hunter World PC at the floor and Monster Hunter World PC at the recommended tier are not the same experience. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Disk footprint is light, near 52 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Monster Hunter World PC?
Older hardware holds up here: Monster Hunter World PC runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA®GeForce®GTX 760 or GTX1050 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x or RX 560 enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.24x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.26x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.56x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Monster Hunter World PC's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Monster Hunter World PC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Monster Hunter World PC?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 4460 or Core™ i3 9100F or AMD FX™-6300 or Ryzen™ 3 3200G; GPU: NVIDIA®GeForce®GTX 760 or GTX1050 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x or RX 560; 8 GB RAM; OS: WINDOWS® 10 (64-bit required).
How much storage does Monster Hunter World PC need?
Monster Hunter World PC needs about 52 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Monster Hunter World PC?
The RTX 3060 runs Monster Hunter World PC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Monster Hunter World PC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Monster Hunter World PC is the GPU.