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Captain_Yuri said:

So Horizon Zero Dawn PC performance reviews are coming in. For the most part, it's not very optimized across the board. I'd wait for some post launch patches before buying it. The weird thing is that the FAQ from the devs themselves said:

"We recommend an Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.5GHz or an AMD Ryzen 5 1500X @ 3.5GHz CPU, 16 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 480 (4 GB) graphics card to run Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC at the original settings in 1080p at 60 frames per second."

However most previews atm don't see that as the case at all so there's something weird going on.

That is in ultra settings so the visuals are higher than what you would get in the original ps4 pro. The other thing that makes these reviews also a big urghh worthy is that a lot of them don't have the day 1 patch applied as most of these went out prior.

https://www.computerbase.de/2020-08/horizon-zero-dawn-benchmark-test/

One interesting thing is:

"The game makes significant use of PCIe bandwidth. Having your GPU connected via fewer than 16 PCIe lanes reduces performance to a larger degree than any other game either of us is aware of."



https://www.ign.com/articles/horizon-zero-dawn-pc-port-analysis

Some reviewers did manage to get 1080p 60fps on their 1060 but it's unclear as to how.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/05/horizon-zero-dawn-on-pc-comfortably-outperforms-ps4-in-this-brilliant-port/

But yea, I'd wait till they get their optimizations sorted out as it doesn't make any sense for Vega 64 to perform worse than a 590 amongst a ton of other performance issues.

The main problem I'm seeing here, is that we've already seen a comparison drawn between the trailer of the PS4 version (using the Pro) and the PC trailer, and the differences appear to be rather minute, so we know the game is more or less going to use PS4P texture detail, and shadows get a bit of a bump, as well as some LoD's, but not insanely drastic as to call it night and day, which going by the above benchmark at a mere 1080p, is making me actually believing the game to being a bad port job, because even a 2080ti is only somehow managing 80fps, just 20 more fps than 60 and this is still at 10-80p, never mind what performance is going to be like at 1440p and 4k.

I sport a 1440p monitor and use a 1080ti with an i7-6700k, so I'm not even going to expect good performance at near ultra with this port, going by those benchmarks. No wodner they jacked up the price in the end though. This is just going to end up being a shitty Sony PC port without the love and care (ayy Japanese companies tho, amarite?).

I know it still needs the day 1 patch, but I'm not expecting godlike miracles, to get that 2080ti test result going from 80-100+ fps, let alone 1440p benches seeing huge boons (like it should, because this god damn game is old already and we've got new hw now).

Last edited by Chazore - on 06 August 2020