PC Port Analysis by Durante
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Thanks to Much for the gifs, and Uzzy for the thread title nudge!
Durante article: https://www.ign.com/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-pc-port-analysis
Durante article: https://www.ign.com/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-pc-port-analysis
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Great job on the OT!
I'm hoping they can fix the issues by the time the price drops and I can double dip.
I'm hoping they can fix the issues by the time the price drops and I can double dip.
Initial Shader Compilation
In order to improve performance during play, we've implemented a one-time initial shader compilation before the game starts for the first time. This can take an average of 10-15 minutes for most systems to complete. Once it's completed, you won't have to do it again unless you make a significant hardware change or update your video drivers. We're looking into ways to further optimize this process.
Known Issues
In order to improve performance during play, we've implemented a one-time initial shader compilation before the game starts for the first time. This can take an average of 10-15 minutes for most systems to complete. Once it's completed, you won't have to do it again unless you make a significant hardware change or update your video drivers. We're looking into ways to further optimize this process.
Known Issues
- Anisotropic Filtering settings are not working. This is a high priority issue for us to resolve.
- Some systems may experience a brief stutter during general world traversal, UI updates, quest updates, or camera swaps in cutscenes. This is a high priority issue for us to investigate.
- Some animations are designed to only refresh at 30fps even if the game is running at a much higher frame rate. We are exploring how we can improve this with a future update.
What is the reason for the initial shader compilations with these PS4 ports? Is it that wildly different than a normal PC game?
Nice. Is there going to be a performance thread? Either way, I think linking Durante's article in the OP is a good idea, since it gives a good run-down on graphics options.
Good to know, but not that unusual - iirc, No Man's Sky does much the same thing.
Good to know, but not that unusual - iirc, No Man's Sky does much the same thing.
I may start a photography thread for the game this weekend too. There is an old one for the PS4 version here, but starting it again with all the PC improvements seems apt, especially for such a gorgeous looking game with a built in camera mode.
One of my favorite games! The backstory and lore are super fascinating, and I loved the combat. Hopefully patches will fix the awful performance issues. I'll double dip then.
I have decided to like this game even if the performance sucks. Hell, I'll like it even if I hate it. Fight me.
red head redemption 2 would have been a mad boring and uninspired title for the forbidden west OT
it's way better here
yeah detroit, battlefront 2 and MW too, starting to become a bit more common, think it's a DX12 thing
MW does it a bit too often for my liking tho lol
Nah, the game itself is awesome.
I hope people are going in blind and take their time to listen to the audiologs and holo conversations.
The overarching world story is one of the best sci fi stories in video game territory.
I wish I could go back in blind again.
Beautiful OT! Gonna wait for one or two patches before buying, not really feeling it after reading the impressions
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Enjoy the machine combat and those beautiful vistas, my man. Hella smooth.
Yep, I agree. This is just a port, so it's fine if the title is derivative of the last, but Forbidden West is an all-new game.
You're in for one hell of a time! One of my favourite games of all-time. It's so cool many others now get to enjoy it for the first time, too. :P
It's a shame port is rough, but it's not like they can't continue to address fix issues.
I wonder why GG didn't trade notes with Kojima Productions when doing the port? I'll still give it a whirl and see how it goes on my system.
I wonder why GG didn't trade notes with Kojima Productions when doing the port? I'll still give it a whirl and see how it goes on my system.
Yeah I ain't seen nothing about this game, just a couple gameplay snippets here and there.
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ahh man, it's been a while since i've played an open-world with a day/night cycle. i'm a really big sucker for a good photo mode so being able to change the time of day through it is so cool. definitely one of the big things i'm excited to check out outside of those robo fights.
I hate it when they only offer double-buffered v-sync. I don't care when playing on my FreeSync monitor, but when I play on my non-VRR TV I usually have v-sync activated and would have preferred triple-buffered v-sync.
Still not sure and convinced to double dip on this one. I've played the original on the PS4 Pro for nearly 70hours and it looked great. I'm not sure if I want to spend 50 EUR on the same game that won't offer DLSS2.0 with significantly better visuals, resolution/image quality and performance. What I've seen looks good but they haven't fundamentally changed the visuals as would have ray-tracing. So all things considered I might be better of waiting for a sale.
Still not sure and convinced to double dip on this one. I've played the original on the PS4 Pro for nearly 70hours and it looked great. I'm not sure if I want to spend 50 EUR on the same game that won't offer DLSS2.0 with significantly better visuals, resolution/image quality and performance. What I've seen looks good but they haven't fundamentally changed the visuals as would have ray-tracing. So all things considered I might be better of waiting for a sale.
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Appreciate it, y'all.
Durante's article has been linked and threadmarked in the first post.
Performance discussion appears to be taking place here:
Horizon: Zero Dawn - PC version footage
www.resetera.com
That sounds like a great idea! Gonna be wild seeing the high fidelity screenshots and gifs that this game will now result in.
Guerilla's support for H:ZD on PS4 was pretty legendary. They should be pretty good for fixing any problems on PC.
All the fixes/updates the PS4 version got
There's a lot about Horizon that I love, and it's photo mode is definitely amazing, so you should have a lot of fun there also. The story is incredible!
Wouldn't that entail playing a great deal of the base game first?
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I almost went with that. Almost! It's always hard picking OT titles, not just because I'm no good at them myself and have to solicit community suggestions, but because I then have to pick from the multiple that come up, and the title won't always please everyone.
Doesn't it let you create a savefile to just play through it or am I mixing it with another game? I finished HZD before going into Frozen Wilds so no idea.
Yea you can't really ask somebody to push through hours of a game they're not enamored with just to get to DLC they might find better. I loved the base game when I played it on PS4 back in 2017, but I never got to play Frozen Wilds since I sold my PS4 Pro before it came out. Excited to be able to finally get to it provided poor performance doesn't lead to me refunding it.
I'm not seeing a big improvement over Pro that I completed the game and dlc on so with the comments about stutter I'm going to double dip when the game drops in price.
I bought it at the originally listed price, here's hoping I get a case of it running better than I expect it to.
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