Black screen on launch with AMD GPU

[4outof5dentists]

On attempting to launch the game on my desktop with AMD GPU, the game screen becomes dark grey, my cursor does not change, and then the game completely freezes.
I have tried:
1) waiting (to see whether shader update is going on behind it)
2) updating my graphics driver, including to the optional 25.2.1
(also, tried factory resetting the driver)
3) confirming the file integrity
4) running in administrator mode
5) running in compatibility windows 7 mode
6) adding to bitdefender exceptions
7) uninstalling then re-installing the whole game file
8) deleting crashreport.exe, crashreportdll.dll
Yet nothing has helped.

Additionally, each time this crash on launch occurs, on steam it appears that the game is still running, and attempting to stop it takes ~10 minutes for it to truly stop and the monster hunter wilds crash pop-up to be generated.

I have tried to see whether it was a problem with FSR and tried to see whether I could turn it off on the config file, but the config file is bare, only containing:
[Render]
AliasBarrierWorkaround=Enable
AllowMeshSHader=Enable
Capability=DirectX12
CentralUpdateTileMapping=Disable
ForceAliasBarrier=Disable
ForceMeshShader=Disable
ParallelBuildCommandList=Enable
ParallelBuildProcessorCount=8
RenderWorkerThreadPriorityAboveNormal=Disable
UsingIndepentRenderWorker=Enable
[RenderDeviceDirectX12]
EcoShaderCache=True

Basic System specs
Ryzen 5 7600X
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Windows 11

However, strangely enough, it works completely fine on a different laptop with NVIDIA 4060. While I know it's a better GPU, 6700XT is still ahead of the recommended graphics, so I'm confused as to why this works but the desktop doesn't.

[MadSoulGee]

I cannot help much, but I am having a similar issue on launching the game on Linux.
I found a 1 config file with many of the fields listed if you want to give that a try:
```
[Graphics]
AOSetting=LOWEST
Algorithm=FSR3
AllowOverCommitMesh=True
AntiAliasing=NONE
Bloom_Enable=False
Bloom_ReductionLevel=2
ColorSpace=SRGB
ContactShadowSetting=OFF
DOF_Enable=False
DPGIQuality=LOW
DeinterlaceType=Fine
EnableUserSettings=True
Fog_Enable=False
FramerateSetting=VARIABLE
FullScreenDisplayModeIndex=41
GIPointCloudMinLod=0
HDRMode=False
IBLPartialDrawFrame=10
IBLRaymarchResolution=OneThird
IBLRaymarchScale=0.75
ImageQualityRate=1
MainRaymarchResolution=OneFifth
MaxFPS=120
MotionBlur_Enable=False
NormalWindowResolution=(1920,1080)
Quality=Quality
SSAO_HalfResolution=False
SSR_Enable=False
SSSSS_Enable=False
SamplerQuality=Bilinear
ShadowCacheEnable=False
ShadowCastDistanceType=NEAR
ShadowQuality=LOWEST
ShrinkShadowmapFilterSampleWidthMax=64
SolidGBufferPrepassEarly=False
SpeedTreeSmallObjectCulling=32
SpeedTreeWindLOD=True
SpeedTreeWind_Branch=0
SpeedTreeWind_Global=0
SpeedTreeWind_Leaf=0
StreamingMeshMinimumLOD=3
StreamingMeshMinimumLODSpeedTree=3
UseLowGround=True
UseLowResolutionSDF=True
UseLowShellFur=True
UseLowWaterSimulation=True
UseLowWindSimulation=True
VRSSetting=Performance
VSync=False
VolumetricFogControl_Enable=True
VolumetricFogControl_TextureSize=W160xH90xD64
WindowMode=Borderless
[Graphics/DLSS]
EnableSharpness=False
FrameGenerationMode=Off
Sharpness=0
[Graphics/ExperimentalRayTrace]
FrustumMaxExpand=0
RayTracingResRatio=1
TransparentMultiplier=0
[Graphics/FSR2]
Sharpness=0
[Graphics/FSR3]
EnableFrameGeneration=False
EnableSharpness=True
Sharpness=0.3
[Graphics/RayTracing]
Enable=False
[Graphics/Reflex]
LatencyMode=On
[HID]
KeyboardCooperativeLevel=Foreground
[Render]
AliasBarrierWorkaround=Enable
Capability=DirectX12
CentralUpdateTileMapping=Disable
ForceAliasBarrier=Disable
ForceMeshShader=Disable
ParallelBuildCommandList=Enable
ParallelBuildProcessorCount=8
RenderWorkerThreadPriorityAboveNormal=Disable
UsingIndepentRenderWorker=Enable
[RenderConfig]
AOSetting=LOWEST
AntiAliasing=NONE
AutoRangeCompression=true
AutoRangeCompressionBaseEV=15
BakedResourceTextureSizeOffset=0
BaseAutoRangeCompression=64
BloomEnable=false
ChromaticAberration=true
ColorSpace=SRGB
ContactShadowSetting=OFF
DeinterlaceType=Fine
DepthOfFiledEnable=false
DownsamplerSetting=FidelityFXSPD
DynamicResolutionScaling=false
DynamicResolutionScalingImageQuality=1
DynamicShadowEnable=true
EffectRayTracingVolume=0
EffectVolume=0
FilmGrainEnable=false
Fov=40
FovHackEnable=false
FramerateSetting=VARIABLE
FullScreenDisplayMode=41
FullScreenMode=false
GIPointCloudQuality=Normal
GodRayEnable=true
ImageQualityRate=1
LensDistortionSetting=false
LensFlareEnable=false
MeshQuality=STANDARD
MinimumStreamingTextureResolution=MinimumStreamingTextureResoltuion_256
MotionBlurEnable=false
NormalWindowResolution=(1920.000000,1080.000000)
PerPrimitiveVRSEnable=true
RangeCompression=1
RangeCompressionForCommon=1000
RayTracingAOSetting=CUSTOM
RayTracingGIEnable=false
RayTracingQuality=NONE
RayTracingReflectionEnable=false
RayTracingShadowEnable=false
RayTracingSpecularRoughnessThresholdQuality=NONE
RayTracingTransparentEnable=false
RenderingMethod=Normal
SSRSetting=OFF
SSSSSetting=OFF
SamplerQuality=Bilinear
SecondarySamplerQuality=Anisotropic4
ShaderLodGlobalValue=0
ShadowQuality=LOWEST
TransparentBufferQuality=LOWEST
UpscaleAlgorithm=None
UpscaleType=None
Use16bitNormalBuffer=false
VRSSetting=Performance
VSync=false
WindowMode=Borderless
[RenderDeviceDirectX12]
EcoShaderCache=True
```

I'll keep playing around with it & post back if I have any luck.

[Blumen89]

Does the benchmark tool load up for you?