Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin optimization guide – Fix Lag, FPS Drops and Stuttering

As I have mentioned in some of my other articles, the listed official requirements look quite weird to me. It has GTX 960 and RX 560 under both Minimum and Recommended. And it says that the “game is expected to run at 1080p/30 FPS” under both the sections. Don’t know what sort of testing the devs did. But this has to be incorrect.

Monster Hunter Stories: Wings of Ruin – Best Graphics Settings

The graphics options available for the game is quite lackluster in my opinion. I can understand that games that have this kind of art style don’t need a lot of settings. But come on, even Genshin Impact has more settings than this. Anyway, let’s get right to the settings:

• Window Mode: Full Screen
• Resolution: 1920×1080
• Frame Rate: 60 (You don’t need more in a game like this)
• V-Sync: Off
• Anti-Aliasing: On (I personally like to keep this off. I don’t like the blurry visuals that come with anti-aliasing)
• LOD: Off
• Texture Quality: Medium
• Shadow Quality: Low (The in-game shadows have a flickering issue at the moment)

Note: If you are using a GPU similar to GT 710 or Intel HD, or any low-end laptop graphics. Then don’t bother tweaking anything. Just set everything to Low.

I have personally tried the game on a RTX 3070, RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 ti, and it ran flawlessly on all of these GPUs. So if you have something similar to these cards, then you shouldn’t have any performance issue.

Turn off Steam overlay for this game

I would recommend that you turn off Steam overlay for MH Stories 2. Overlays can sometimes cause stutters. All you have to do is:

1. Go to your Steam library
2. Right-click on Monster Hunter Stories Wings of Ruin
3. Select Properties > General
4. Uncheck ‘Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game’
   

Close all the different overlays that you have enabled on your system. That includes Steam, Discord, Nvidia GFE, AMD. Overlays are known to cause stutters in many games. So try to avoid them if your system is not high-powered.

For Laptop users

Since Wings of Ruin is a turn-based RPG, I am guessing that a lot of Laptop users are going to play this game. If you are using a laptop that has a dedicated Nvidia GPU, then make sure that your laptop is using the dedicated GPU and not the integrated one.

To do that, just open Nvidia Control Panel, click on Manage 3D Settings and set ‘Preferred graphics processor’ to ‘High-performance Nvidia processor’. Restart your system.

AMD users can also do the same. You actually don’t need your GPU control panel for this. Here is what you need to do:

• Type ‘Graphics Setting’ in your Windows search bar, and click on the first result that comes up
• Set “Choose an app to set preference” to Desktop app
• Click on browse
• Go to the installation folder of Monster Hunter Stories Wings of Ruin
• Select the .exe file or the executable
• Click on Options once the .exe file is added
• You should see three options: Let Windows decide, Power Saving (Integrated GPU) and High Performance (Dedicated GPU)
• Choose High Performance
  
• Restart your PC

Heavy background applications and services

Windows 10 has plenty of applications or Windows services that often tend to eat up a huge chunk of RAM without you knowing anything about it. As a result, people with low-end CPUs and low RAM capacity start facing stutters and freezes in almost every game. I used to face this issue a lot on my i3-8100 system.

So check whether you have useless applications running in the background or not. You can also decide which applications you want to automatically start when you boot your system and prevent the useless ones from starting.

1. Open Task Manager
2. Click on the Startup tab
3. Keep the applications that are important, Enabled
4. Disable the rest

Community Fixes

First one comes from Steam user /mchlk:

I had constant stuttering, even in the menu after starting the game.
For me the solution was to turn on Steam input (right click on the game in the library list -> properties -> controller -> enable Steam input). After that my game runs smooth.

Second one comes from Steam user /Noodles:

I was having the same problem, found out it was DS4Windows that was causing the stuttering. Steam controller support seems to work.

I am still keeping an eye on the Monster Hunter Reddit and various forums. And as soon as I notice something new, I will update the list of fixes.

If you think this guide had helped you, then let us know in the comment section below. And for more Monster Hunter Stories 2 guides, keep an eye on Frondtech. We will be covering every single technical issue of the game on the launch day. Good luck!

That’s all folks!