This is no PC-melter, and its system requirements arent exactly aForspoken-styleshopping list of premium components.

Or, if youve got the rig for it, ultrawide and4K monitorsupport awaits as well.

Theres even DLSS, which I can confirmno longer makes your pets bald.

A happy one-eyed Palamute in Monster Hunter Rise.

Older kit, like the Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, should be fine as well.

In practice, this has a remarkably similar effect to the Processing Reduction setting above.

Low, or 75%, is simply too low-res when using 1080p as a starting point.

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Leave this on 150% unless youre trying to use integrated laptop graphics or something.

Surprisingly, there was no performance gain at all when I disabled them, so keep them on.

The Low setting also bumped performance up by 3%, so its not no biggie either way.

A hunter speaks to a woofing Palamute in Monster Hunter Rise.

Then again, it can help at the highest of resolutions.

Foliage Sway:Determines whether foliage, uh, sways.

Motion Blur:Nope.

A warrior sits proudly on her Palamute dog in Monster Hunter Rise on PC

Or, in the case of the Heavy setting, the whole screen.

Leave this on Off or Default to avoid overdoing it.

Depth of Field:Adds a pretty strong DoF effect at all times.

A screenshot of Monster Hunter Rise on High image quality.

Luckily, its off by default.

Film Grain:Another optional aesthetic tweak, this time with no performance hit.

It still makes everything slightly darker, mind.

A screenshot of Monster Hunter Rise on Average image quality.

None of these will noticeably help or harm performance.

A screenshot of Monster Hunter Rise on Low image quality.

A warrior fights a bird-like lizard in Monster Hunter Rise

A comparison screenshot of two Palico cats from Monster Hunter Rise, with and without DLSS enabled

A village scene in Monster Hunter Rise with the Warring States filter on.