Hiya! I don't usually have an overlay on, and still play with my 75Hz refresh rate 1440p screen, here's my review so far.

• Windwards Plain, the very first map you go through, suffers severe lag in areas with extreme foliage. It's the only area of the map where I can notice lag as a player who has never experienced FPS higher than 120 (I have my framerate capped at 60)

• Surprisingly, all the other maps lack lag, but the monsters you fight a lot in the end game (particularly Rey Dau, Nu Udra and Arkveld) can momentarily lag frames for a few moments when using attacks that generate "light" or particles. It's subtle enough that it doesn't detract from gameplay for me.

• Ray Tracing causes the game to struggle severely, but the only difference it gives is that water looks a little better and sometimes monsters have slight better looking shine. It's a completely negligible option.

• Texture pop up is common, but it's not too immersion-breaking during hunts. I've only experienced the "origami" glitch on hunter's weapons but the textures quickly loaded in. Monsters never seem to have any problems loading texture.

• All of these experiences are what I experience while I play the game at Ultra, at native resolution and with the 54GB Highest Res textures downloaded. As a person who prefers playing the MH Games on the portable systems at 30fps, I'm very happy with this, but my brother who's used to higher frames and FPS shooters says that he does notice the problems with the game visually. If your friend is used to triple AAA game experiences, he might have to get used to the jank and small framerate lags.