Beast of Reincarnation PC Problems and Fixes

Q: How do I turn off film grain in Beast of Reincarnation?

Set Post Processing to Low. Film grain and chromatic aberration are bundled into that one slider with no individual toggles, and no config-file editing is needed. There is no way to keep one effect and drop the other.

Q: Why does Beast of Reincarnation stutter even at a high frame rate?

It is asset-streaming stutter — the hitch is the game waiting on a read. Capping the frame rate below your average, lowering the VRAM limit, and moving the install to an NVMe SSD all shorten the hitch. None of them removes it, and no patch has claimed to address it.

Q: Is 8 GB of VRAM enough for Beast of Reincarnation?

It is the official minimum rather than a comfortable target, and both published spec tiers assume DLSS or FSR is doing real work. The VRAM limit setting is what decides whether you stay under the ceiling — at its top setting the game reached close to 8 GB on a 3060 Ti in per-setting testing.

Q: What is the difference between this page and the best settings guide?

This page is for when something is broken. The settings guide is for when the game works and you want more frames, and it is built on per-setting benchmarks. They are kept apart so that measured numbers do not lend their credibility to community workarounds.

Ultrawide black bars, film grain, traversal stutter, VRAM crashes and launch black screens — pick the symptom and get the steps, each marked for how well attested it actually is.

Applies to 26 October 2026 updateUpdated October 2026

By Beast of Reincarnation Guide Editorial Team

Image: Official pre-launch screenshot (GAME FREAK inc. / Fictions), via the Xbox store page

Symptoms are ordered by what the official Steam forum is actually arguing about, measured by reply volume rather than picked by feel — and on that measure display and resolution problems outweigh everything else, including the pinned bug-report thread. Every step says how well attested it is before it says what to do.

Black bars down both sides on a 21:9 or 32:9 monitor

Update first. Official ultrawide support shipped in PC v1.0.9, and v1.1.0 later fixed the Skill Tree layout on ultrawide displays. There is still no field-of-view slider in the official settings, so FOV changes remain a community-mod feature.

Why it is on this page: Display and resolution complaints were the loudest launch-week Steam forum cluster. The official patch notes have since moved the black-bar answer from “mod only” to “patch the game first”.

Check that you are on v1.0.9 or newerOfficial
The 24 August v1.0.9 notes are the line that changed this page: they state that ultrawide support is now built in. If your client is still on v1.0.8 or earlier, black-bar advice from launch-week forum threads and mod pages is describing an older build.
If the Skill Tree is the broken screen, update to v1.1.0Official
The 1 October v1.1.0 notes specifically say the Skill Tree screen received proper ultrawide-display support. That is narrower than “every UI element is perfect”, but it does close the best-documented ultrawide UI break on this page.
Do not treat an ultrawide patch as a FOV sliderOfficial
No official note opened here adds a field-of-view control. If the picture now fills your monitor but the camera still feels too close, that is the separate FOV complaint, not a failure to enable ultrawide support.
Use community mods only for what the patches still do not coverThird-party mod
The four launch-window ultrawide mods are no longer the first answer for black bars on a current build. They may still matter if you want an FOV control or a mod-specific cutscene/camera behaviour, but they are third-party hooks that can break after official display patches.
If a current-build UI element is still wrong, report the exact screenOfficial
v1.1.0 names the Skill Tree screen, not every menu. A report that says which screen, aspect ratio and build you are on is stronger than a generic “ultrawide is broken” post that could refer to three different patch eras.
Keep the mod comparison as a fallback, not the baselineThird-party mod
If you still choose a mod for FOV or camera behaviour, use the mods page to compare loaders and claimed side effects. Do not install an old black-bar fix before checking whether the official patch already solved the symptom you have.

Still unknown

The official notes do not define the supported aspect-ratio range, publish FOV values, or state whether pre-rendered video cutscenes or every menu now render natively. This page no longer claims black bars are mod-only on current builds, but it also does not invent the missing scope.

Read the badges

What each confidence tier means

A benchmarked measurement and a forum rumour set in identical type is a page telling you they are the same thing. They are not, and which one you are reading changes whether it is worth reinstalling a driver over.

Official

Stated by the developer, the publisher or the platform holder.

Measured

Someone benchmarked it on camera and the number is quotable.

Community

Players report it works. Plausible, widely repeated, and not verified by us.

Third-party mod

A fix that exists only as a community mod. It modifies the game and carries the usual risks.

Deliberately absent

Advice this page will not give you

Half the value of a troubleshooting page is telling you which of the things you already found is worthless. A page that silently omits a popular fix looks incomplete rather than careful.

"Update to Nvidia driver 560.xx or newer — it contains optimizations for this game."

The version number appears on optimization blogs and traces back to no Nvidia release note, no game-ready driver announcement and no developer statement. A specific version number is a checkable claim, which is exactly why publishing an unsourced one is worse than publishing none. Clean-install your driver; ignore the number.

Per-setting frame numbers copied from launch-week "best settings" articles.

The measured figures this site does publish come from one tester who changed one setting at a time on camera. Most articles quoting percentages for this game do not say what was tested, on what hardware, or at what resolution.

Registry edits and engine .ini tweaks for stutter.

Nothing establishes these do anything here, and they are the hardest change for a player to reverse before filing a clean bug report.

Beast of Reincarnation PC problems FAQ

Does Beast of Reincarnation support ultrawide monitors?

Not natively. It pillarboxes to 16:9 on 21:9 and 32:9 displays, there is no field-of-view slider, and no in-game setting changes either. A developer named ultrawide support as targeted for a fix in the launch bug megathread on 3 August, without giving a date or a scope. Until it ships, the only workaround is a community mod on Nexus Mods, which needs UE4SS installed first.

How do I turn off film grain in Beast of Reincarnation?

Why does Beast of Reincarnation stutter even at a high frame rate?

Is 8 GB of VRAM enough for Beast of Reincarnation?

What is the difference between this page and the best settings guide?

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Sources for this page

Beast of Reincarnation official Steam Community discussions — The demand signal behind this page’s ordering, and the primary record for the ultrawide, film grain, Steam Machine and AMD reports. Reply counts are visible without an account.
Steam Community Announcement — Beast of Reincarnation PC Patch Notes: v1.0.9 — Official — the 24 August 2026 patch that moved ultrawide support from planned to shipped. Read again during the 2026-10-06 monitor run via the checked-in patch record.
Steam Community Announcement — Beast of Reincarnation PC Patch Notes: v1.1.0 — Official — the 1 October 2026 patch that specifically says the Skill Tree screen received proper ultrawide-display support.
Nexus Mods — the four Beast of Reincarnation ultrawide fixes — Third-party mods. Re-read 7 August 2026, when the single mod this page originally cited had become four with different feature sets. The current page now treats these as fallback/community-FOV tools rather than the first answer for black bars on patched builds.
Beast of Reincarnation official Steam Community discussions — Where the developer reply naming ultrawide and frame generation as targeted for fixes was posted, on 3 August. The claims in that same post about 4K and subtitles are disputed by players in the thread — our ultrawide question page carries both sides.
Steam Community — Message from Game Freak [08/04/2026] — Official pinned thread, read 2026-08-06 — reposts GAME FREAK's patch statement and adds the direct developer reply "Ultrawide fixes planned." It also confirms the first patch is being finalised around PC-specific issues before later cross-platform fixes.
Prima Games — how to disable film grain and chromatic aberration — Named publication, and the source for both effects sitting behind the Post Processing slider.
Beast of Reincarnation official Steam store page — Official. The published minimum and recommended specifications, both of which name upscaling as part of the target.
Daniel Owen — PC Performance Tested — Hands-on measurement, uploaded 2026-08-04 — the second independent PC measurement, and the only one that tests native rendering against the published spec sheet. Its creator-typed chapter list is a test matrix, so every figure below cites a named configuration rather than "in testing": RTX 3060 with a Ryzen 5600X at native 1080p medium holding roughly 60fps, the same card at DLSS Quality nearer 70, an RTX 5060 Ti with a 9800X3D at 1440p highest with ray tracing and DLSS Quality around 90–100, and an RX 9070 XT at 4K highest with FSR Quality in the mid-70s. Also the source for the game defaulting to FSR 1 Performance on every one of those three systems, the FSR 4 driver override reporting inactive, there being no DLAA option, and cutscenes having no skip button on either controller or keyboard. Its conclusion that the recommended tier is overstated contradicts the reading this site published from the store page, and both are on /pc-fixes/.
BenchmarKing — Optimization Guide: Every Setting Tested — Hands-on measurement, uploaded 2026-08-04 — per-setting performance costs measured individually at 05:00–08:30, including the finding that ray tracing costs 2–7% for a barely visible difference and in places disables screen-space reflections without replacing them.

Checked 5 August 2026, two days after release. Forum reply counts move; the ordering of this page is meant to move with them.

Which ultrawide fix to install — four mods compared Best PC settings — every setting measured individually OptiScaler — frame generation and FSR 4 the menu will not give you Steam Deck and handhelds — including the unresolved black-screen report Ultrawide: what the developer said, and what players said back Patch tracker — what was promised, and what was left off Known issues: official fixes and community watch Official Steam update timeline Difficulty and Story Mode Report a correction