Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition PC Performance Thread
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Yeah, I had massive chunks of geometry popping in at the beginning of the benchmark. I feel like there is some insane streaming bottleneck (yes, my card is in a full PCIe 3.0 x16 slot). My machine is quite dated at this point (4790k, GTX 1080, 16GB RAM), but I've never seen anything like that happen before.
There's a profile folder in Documents > Horizon Zero Dawn that contains a binary config file if that's what you're looking for.
Interesting - your specs are very similar to mine and in the other thread I suggested that G-Sync might be the answer but was shot down (I don't actually have the game yet, till I get a better handle on these issues).
The thing is.. I don't think that its the day 1 patch.. Why? Because It was in testing and development a two days before the release of the game according to steamDB. Either they modified that patch and re-released it or its another patch and not the one Dictator tested because this patch was constantly being tested and improved upon side by side in steamdb.
There's no reason to suspect the patch isn't part of the current public branch, and it was last modified on the 5th.
Ryzen 3600, RX580 (oc'd to 1490/2250), Alex's optimised settings. 40-50fps at 1440p, usually hovering around 44, which is smooth enough with LFC Freesync.
The game looked really washed out in fullscreen and borderless modes, only looking properly saturated in windowed mode. Turning on HDR in Windows before loading the game and boosting the saturation a bit in the driver game profile helped a lot with that. This seems to be a common problem for AMD owners with HDR-capable screens, from looking at the Steam forum.
I've not had any crashes or game-breaking bugs yet, so I'm good to play on for now. The only visual weirdness I've had were these floating tree branches:
The game looked really washed out in fullscreen and borderless modes, only looking properly saturated in windowed mode. Turning on HDR in Windows before loading the game and boosting the saturation a bit in the driver game profile helped a lot with that. This seems to be a common problem for AMD owners with HDR-capable screens, from looking at the Steam forum.
I've not had any crashes or game-breaking bugs yet, so I'm good to play on for now. The only visual weirdness I've had were these floating tree branches:
So you think that this is a separate patch then in dev? Cause this build was being constantly QA tested and being worked upon for for one or two days until the game got pushed out for public release.
Yeah. Presumably, it'll address the high-priority issues mentioned in the launch FAQ, and maybe some other things.
Maybe, I haven't checked the successive launches.
WTF. Thanks for not using the PC power button for this I guess?
I mean, the game runs kinda okay'ish, it's certainly playable and all. It's just performing about 50% lower than you'd expect for such graphics on modern h/w and is incapable of holding 60 fps without hitches which are happening rather often and sometimes are very severe.
It's a "lazy port", yeah, without proper PC optimization. They've added some options but even these don't work properly for some part - like the AF and the aspect ratios.
I've got it during the first launch, was fine after that. Streaming isn't too great either it seems.
The pop in has already been that way on PS4 :( I was hoping that it would be history on pc.
Presumably found a fix that fixes a lot of stuttering for Nvidia GPU users!
Most likely placebo. Doesn't seem to make any difference to me and i didn't really have major issues with stuttering in the first place.
Your GPU should always run at maximum performance while in a 3D application anyway, i got mine set to Optimal Power globally.
Well its just a fix i heard, just want to know if it can help with reducing the stutter by a lot for those who experience it.
Oh it did? Nice. Good to know. Wanna know from more people who are still facing stuttering in-game.
Does anyone else get constant crashes? I get a crash like every hour.
Also does anyone else notice a weird small "mechanical" like sound in peoples' voices?
Also does anyone else notice a weird small "mechanical" like sound in peoples' voices?
I have a similiarish set up (1080, 7700k) and im okay with the performance. But the hourly crash is really getting tiresome.
Don't know about this particular game, but "prefer maximum performance" most definitely isn't a placebo setting and it has many benefits in various games. It really does prevent GPU from downclocking too much in certain games which in return solves stuttering when GPU is switching between high and low GPU power states too frequently.
Personally, I set every game to "max performance" so I know GPU will never downclock too much.
This worked for me too (max performance). Not a placebo thankfully :)
Seems like for those having issues with UI stuttering, this MIGHT not the a fix but still worth a try for anyone who hasn't tried it yet.
Do we know who actually did the port for this game?
And have they spoken out yet about how they are going to fix it?
And have they spoken out yet about how they are going to fix it?
Steam :: Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition :: Quick Update regarding Player Reports
We’re aware that some players have been experiencing crashes and other issues, which we are actively investigating.
At least they are not staying quiet.
2070 Super, 16GB Ram, Ryzen 3600, 1440p. At
This worked for me on stutters that I had.
2070 Super (slight OC), Ryzen 3600, 16GB Ram
1440p
Textures, models at Ultra
Reflections and AO at medium
Everything else on high
Forced 16x AF
75-90fps average, but with drops into the 60s / 50s on occasion for a few frames, but these are well masked with the gsync display thankfully.
30fps animations randomly seen in the game are just plain bad. It really takes me out of the experience since it looks so obviously off. I'd still prefer this over locked 30fps though so I appreciate the effort to at least do this much.
Steam Input implementation is so bizarre I believe the devs never read the documentation. It can still work well but is quite limited vs other native implementations and very confusing to utilise
Overall, now the brunt of the problems worked around and performance is bareable enough, I'd say I'm at least finding I can just get into playing the game. Still to see if I'll enjoy the actual game part.
Not played a port of this inconsistent quality in several years
This worked for me on stutters that I had.
2070 Super (slight OC), Ryzen 3600, 16GB Ram
1440p
Textures, models at Ultra
Reflections and AO at medium
Everything else on high
Forced 16x AF
75-90fps average, but with drops into the 60s / 50s on occasion for a few frames, but these are well masked with the gsync display thankfully.
30fps animations randomly seen in the game are just plain bad. It really takes me out of the experience since it looks so obviously off. I'd still prefer this over locked 30fps though so I appreciate the effort to at least do this much.
Steam Input implementation is so bizarre I believe the devs never read the documentation. It can still work well but is quite limited vs other native implementations and very confusing to utilise
Overall, now the brunt of the problems worked around and performance is bareable enough, I'd say I'm at least finding I can just get into playing the game. Still to see if I'll enjoy the actual game part.
Not played a port of this inconsistent quality in several years
I very surprised by the performance I am getting on my old computer.
It's a i5 4670k @ 4,4 GHz, 8gb ram (xmp) and a gtx 1660 super, and the game is on SSD.
With the DF recommended settings I am getting 55+FPS at 1440p with dips to low 40 fps, but its still inside the GeForce range of my LG C9, so it feels smooth.
I am still only a few hours in but so far it's been good, but I do have the quest update stutters.
It's a i5 4670k @ 4,4 GHz, 8gb ram (xmp) and a gtx 1660 super, and the game is on SSD.
With the DF recommended settings I am getting 55+FPS at 1440p with dips to low 40 fps, but its still inside the GeForce range of my LG C9, so it feels smooth.
I am still only a few hours in but so far it's been good, but I do have the quest update stutters.
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Update from Guerilla games regarding them listening to reports of players
would been great if they had just said, "we watched the digital foundry video and, well, sorry, our bad. Fixes coming soon."
I feel like this is seriously downplaying just how many technical problems there are and how bad this port is.
They make it sound like its just a couple of bugs instead of a minefiled of technical issues.
Yes the locked framerate animations are fixable, will they though is the question
So I took everyone's advice and set AF to x16 and power management to performance at the driver level before running the game for the first time.
I've got a bunch of issues right off the bat. For one, I don't understand why there isn't a standalone script for the shader compilation so that we don't have to sit through it after deciding to launch the game. But then, the opening credits launch as soon as the compilation is done without you having to confirm anything, so if you went to go do something you might miss part of the story!
Anywho, I just ran the benchmark on my 1080ti. I got some pretty annoying screen tearing in exclusive fullscreen despite using G-SYNC, and then after the demo was over, the game crashed so I have no clue what my performance was actually like.
So yeah, shit kinda sucks.
I've got a bunch of issues right off the bat. For one, I don't understand why there isn't a standalone script for the shader compilation so that we don't have to sit through it after deciding to launch the game. But then, the opening credits launch as soon as the compilation is done without you having to confirm anything, so if you went to go do something you might miss part of the story!
Anywho, I just ran the benchmark on my 1080ti. I got some pretty annoying screen tearing in exclusive fullscreen despite using G-SYNC, and then after the demo was over, the game crashed so I have no clue what my performance was actually like.
So yeah, shit kinda sucks.
I always have mine at max perf. That being said this would not be the first game that the particular setting does make some improvements on.
afx16 on nvidia breaks the textures...making them flicker all over...i used turned that off and used rivatuner to limit to 60, disabled in game fps limiter and now i have a buttery smooth experience with no stutter, but the pop in issues still remain.
I assume your stutters might be related to UI also? or am i incorrect? If you have still have them occurring that is.
I thought I saw a post that mentioned that the flickering was caused by changing the driver setting after compiling the shaders, so I set it first.
I didn't have any during my review nor after. I was just saying that the setting suggested wouldn't surprise me if it does change something as we have seen a couple games in the last 2 years where it has
Yeah i never used a dedicated Nvidia GPU since 15 years ago so idk about this lol but yeah iam surprised that more people haven't tried this fix and pointed it out if it helps nvidia users out with this stuttering bs in games.
Ya. Its in there for a reason is usually my thought! I remember a year ago or maybe 6 8 months we had another game where that setting and low latency ON also caused stuttering.
Turning hdr on seems to makes all inputs disable and no way to confirm that you want it on :/
have to alt f4 out
Edit: can enable it after you get your first checkpoint. This is the most broken port in a long long time lol
have to alt f4 out
Edit: can enable it after you get your first checkpoint. This is the most broken port in a long long time lol
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