There’s still some work for them to do, so let’s hope they continue to follow up. But overall, I agree, I’m impressed they bothered to fix their mistakes!
@2B Or not 2B in an ideal world you’d be correct, but far too often companies can just release games that are incredibly subpar and then never return to them and they’d still sell well. In fact, Nier Automata is a perfect example of a game with a frustrating amount of issues on the PC port that have never been patched by the devs. The community had to take it upon themselves to fix the game. So, when the devs DO take the time to patch the game, the community should thank them and encourage them to do so, that way other companies can see it’s worthwhile to put in the effort.
@@mersimh its not odd at all, like Alex said in the video, its the fact that this game uses a bespoke game engine designed primarily around the PS4. It would require the devs hundreds if not thousands of hours to rewrite their engine to take full advantage of PC hardware and all its countless architectures. It seems they have just brute forced it to run and then patched up the small issues of stutter, and broken graphics settings. This game doesn't need more than 60fps anyway. This also could of been a trial run to see how their engine performs on PC and give them feedback on what needs improving for future releases such as maybe Killzone, which I am sure uses the same engine.
I feel like every PC game should just have a dynamic resolution setting at this point. Really helps those of us when framerates fluctuate between like, 50-60 fps.
is such a game changer, specially nowadays that games fluctuate so much in load, in Assassins Creed Origins there were times that I was 70fps and times where there was 40fps and I had to manually change the resolution
Unreal Engine 4 has DRS on Mac OSX and consoles, but for some reason, NVIDIA and AMD haven't reached out to Epic in regards to getting the needed changes implemented for dynamic resolution scaling in UE4 games. It's been years since the feature was implemented, yet it's only supported on intel iGPUs in Windows. The only UE4 games that I've seen with DRS are the Gears games, and those use Microsoft in-house forks of the engine.
@@e2rqey I can understand that. This was my first-ever PS4 game and I bought it at its launch as a bundle, took me a good 2 months to finish it because I was very new to gaming back then. Now it's been 4 years since and I just got a PC a while ago so this game was on the top of my list. Finally got time and downloaded it yesterday. I was still blown away by how gorgeous it looked and felt even 4 years after its release, especially on PC.
I just recently beat it on PC and its sooooooooo good. Especially the frozen wilds DLC is absolutely fantastic, especially since the facial animations are perfect and not so unrealistically, weirdly jittering anymore
interesting...i just played it and everyone's eyeballs are vibrating and they move their faces a lot. Did you play with a limited fps or only at 60 or something?
DF finds things I would never notice and that's even after 20 or so years playing videogames. There's one reason these guys are the go to place for technical analysis on videogames. Thank you for the update!
Alex: "Do you see what is odd here?" Me: "Uhh... No.. that looks nornal.." Alex: "There is a black frame around the image!" Me: *Sitting a little over 2 meters away from my 43 inch TV*
Watching on my phone with its AMOLED screen where the video doesn't fill up the whole screen, I have black bars on the edges so I was not gonna see it lol
I appreaciate the 1060 (or was it 1660?) in the testing bench. Once DF starts using only the high end cards I can no longer rely on the "optimal" settings.
@@Banter-vw7ck I know it might sound like BS, but my gaming mates always had the worst issues either on the extreme low end or the extreme high end of the HW spectrum. That is why I always stick with 60ti or 70 cards. Basically the more people have the same stuff I do the better is the optimization. But that is just my theory.
Got my 3080 PC done about a week ago, and this is one of the first games I wanted to play on it, but wasn't sure since I heard the game was a rough port. Glad to see its playable now. Thank you devs for fixing it
It at least shows they care about the PC community, they could have just left it in a shit state and run all the way to the bank. I'm definitely looking forward to Days Gone which I tried on base PS4 but it was so laggy I had to stop, I think it's going to be incredible at 144Hz with KB+M.
@@KurosuKirie No, but running on an SSD seems to cut it down. Still exist, not as noticeable on a WDBlue SATA connection. I'm playing on PS4 pro so idk if I utilize this patch or not. I paid half attention tbh
I just got done spending 71hrs to complete this game. This is easily one of my favorite games I have played. Luckily I didn't buy it at release. This was amazing
The sequel is coming out on the ps4, ps4 pro, and ps5. No visual gap is required, to get more hype on this game they will forsure come out with a ps5 patch, 60FPS native 4k simular to what God of war did!
Exactly, we need the 60 fps upgrade for sure. Hopefully soon, to bridge the gap to the sequel. I tried it the other day on PS5 and it looks beautiful, just that the 30 fps makes it look choppy.
Played this in launch with normal ps4 and got platinum, now replay whole game and dlc with pc. OMG Running 3080 + 10900k ultrawide 3840 x 1440 all setting ultra getting 80fps seems amazing god damm 💪😆😆
I've been playing the game since it launched and I have seen every issue shown in the video and the improvements across different patch releases. 1.03 version fixed a lot of the issues including the lack of rumble feature when using a controller. The stuttering was almost gone but traversing the world still showed performance issues. Patch v1.04 / 5 or 6 (I don't remember) almost solved everything regarding performance, all I noticed was a stuttering lock up when I was assaulting a settlement, and I had to restart the game to fix it, but it only happened once, and after playing for long (days). Since patch v1.09, which was the lastest one I tested, I can say the game works flawlessly. No performance issues even when fighting the biggest enemies. The only few drops I had were inside the Cauldrons and it was due to hardware limitations. I'm running the game on a hard drive with optane memory, and noticed some drops when I stopped playing the game for a while and other applications. So I would probably recommend an SSD, otherwise it works fine enough this way for me. I'm not sure if it is the same thing that Alex talks about in the video, I mean the camera stutter that the performance metrics didn't capture. But I haven't tested v1.10 because 1.09 works perfect for me, so I leave it there and I'm playing disconnected. I have had enough with Gears 5 spoiling my 60 FPS perfect performance on the first title update, and also messing up the text language (Spanish). But in that case, you can't choose, it must be updated to play online modes. Back to Horizon: Zero Dawn... I don't think the camera issue is only on 1.10, but you never know, and I don''t know how often that issue happened to Alex either, but I suppose it is just a minor thing. My setting are similar to Alex Optimised Settings, with the following exceptions: Model Quality: Medium Shadows: Medium Dynamic Resolution Scaling: On Frame Rate: 70 (because 60 presented performance issues when the pixel count dropped, so I changed to 70 and it was solved) Resolution: 3840 x 2190 I use a 60hz TV - HDR Enabled. Original settings, (which is all medium I think). I changed Anisotropic Filtering to Ultra. My Specs: CPU: I7 8700K RAM: 16 Gb DDR4 GPU: GTX 1080Ti W10 - Default settings on Nvidia Control Panel. Energy on Windows Control Panel is set to Maximum Performance. I hope it helps you.
post makes no sense... death stranding pc is amazing and extremely well made with no problems, this is just a lazy port with zero effort and they only fixed it because of backlash
@@vale_recca does not mean anything. Usually different games made with the same engine are comparable in performance. You can't have death stranging running at 150fps and hzd at 40fps with stutter and issues. It's just made poorly. You could have 5 times the things in ds and it would still run better than hzd
On a small screen it might, but compared to PC on a 55" 4K screen or above, it will literally be night and days difference, not even a contest. Not even the same sport.
Been playing on my 3080/i910900K absolutely love this game. It runs at a flawless 4K 60+, game is drop dead gorgeous and the gameplay is insane. Sony needs to release more ps exclusives on the ultimate platform the PC.
I'm crying, I am running the game now indeed better on the GTX 1650. This card can handle almost any game, the more if the GPU is overclocked (giving me an extra 8-10 fps) and an undervolted CPU (giving me an extra 2-3 fps). I could barely run the game on 35-40 fps and that was w/even lower settings compared to the optimization settings, now I am getting close to 40-50 fps and it's amazing!
When it’s a tenna like the PS version I’ll buy it, I’ve already bought the game twice and the dlc so I’m not paying more than that for the PC one. Hopefully it’ll get a PS5 60fps update, then I’ll not need to bother getting it on PC at all.
Bought this game a few days ago and i've been loving it! Runs great on my PC. Pretty much always over 100fps at 1440p Ultra. The port is fantastic now.
I just bought this game and it looks like all is fixed. Running RX 6900 Xt, 4K Ultra setting and averaging 90fps. For an old title, the overall graphic and game play is just amazing, one of the best looking title. Glad Sony is releasing this for PC and looking forward to more releases.
I've been playing this on an RTX 3080 and it's honestly hard to believe that HZD was made for the PS4. It would pass for a 2022 release, the asset quality and presentation is incredible.
Played this about a month ago and it was honestly one of the best looking, best running games I have ever played. I was truly baffled by all the negative things I heard because they were seemingly not apparent on my playthrough
I ran into no problems either with a 3600/5700xt system...I know the game does run on AMD GPUs better on average, but I saw no real issues and ended up running the game at 1800p with high settings at around 60 fps.
The interesting thing is the more PS games to PC, this suggests the HZD to PC experiment has worked as far as Sony is concerned and so they see the value of bringing their other exclusives over if they can be converted at a reasonable cost. The other fascinating thing for me is how they managed to get games like HZD, GoW, GoT and TLOU 2 to run so well on PS4 and the insights DF are getting on the way the various custom engines work to wring every last drop of performance out of that ancient and weak hardware is something I'm looking forward to seeing at some point in the future.
@@tomjerry1170 the tech was old in 2013, so by 2021, it’s ancient. That’s why the achievements are so great, to get games that play that well from such ancient tech
Horizon Zero Dawn looks absolutely amazing at 4K on PC. With a 5900X and an RTX 3080 I get between 75-85FPS with the Ultimate Quality Preset. In the in-game benchmark with the same settings I get an average of 84FPS with a score of 15231
@@MzaM Tbh you have no idea what you are talking about. The base PS4 runs the game at 1080p 30FPS and the PS4 Pro is rendered at 1500p 30fps and is upscaled to 4K. On PC we are talking about native 4K rendering with no upscaling or dynamic resolution. So compared to the PS4, im running the game at 4X the resolution and nearly 3X the framerate. Let me repeat that, *quadruple the pixels* with *3 times the framerate* . If you find that pretty dissapointing then you're an idiot and I have some bad news to tell you about the next-gen consoles. Oh, and that's all basically via brute force as the game was designed from the ground up to run on the PS4. So in a situation where optimization-wise the PS4 has every possible advantage and the PC has every disadvantage, you still get 3X the framerate at 4X the resolution. What a dumb comment 🤣
I got it from steam a few days ago as i finaly upgrded to win 10, i have a 1080ti rig and its running very nicely at 1440p with textures on ultra and everything else on high and it looks gourgous. in my expreance i would say its worth buying now. update 2023 i have a 2080ti and it runs in 4k 60fps maxed out. i would recomend wideing your point of veiw in the settings as the game looks so much better. normaly you would get a fisheye effect when you do this which is why i dont normaly use it but in this game it gives you a more panoramic view which compliments a game like this. i would recomend it big time but would advise watching a few you tube vids to see if its a game for you.
What about PS5 Native 4K 60fps and Remaster Patch for HZD? Edit: And I still want Gravity Rush 2 & Bloodborne PS5 4K60 FPS Patch! Edit 2: Oh and I don't even have a PS5 yet.
I'd say it's not worth it unless it's on sale and you really wanted to replay it. Besides the ability to go higher than 1080p and increased framerate it's not drastically visually superior to the console version and there is no new content.
@@devilmikey00 yea I feel it. If it’s on sale I might get it just to see how my pc can handle it. Other than that I have no reason to play again. Especially cause I platinumed it
The best you can expect from console is either visuals, or framerate at the compromise of visuals - you can't have both. The PS5 is simply not powerful enough, its graphics card is already obsolete. Hope never got results - if you want to actually get visuals AND performance, you need to invest in a gaming PC, it's as simple as that. Otherwise stick with consoles, get wallet slapped AND get an inferior product.
@@Longlostpuss did you even see demon souls remake and spider man remastered and Miles too! PC is great but ps5 is also capable to run every graphic intensive games with higher frame rates! Ps4 generation is over this one is ps5's!
Hey Digital Foundry, if you read this could you please take a look back at Red Dead Redemption 2? I know this game is tons of work every time but I'd love to see you guys comments after over a year since the PC release
I've had RDR2 installed since it released and the only updates it gets are for the multiplayer. The core game only got one visual change, which was the addition of tree tessellation. The rest of it looks and works the same as it did on launch.
@@krazyfrog This is true and false. Plenty of performance patches were released. The TAA sharpening filter was also altered to allow a lot more tweaking, going way beyond it's original slider bar. That's what I'm here for, performance and such. I play the game still so I have an idea but I also would enjoy their opinions
From what I remember, DF's feelings on the RDR2 PC port were rather positive. Although from what I've seen, it performed horribly on Pascal. Hopefully that's cleared up
I just played through this on pc for the first time recently. I played the ps4 version at a friend's house. It is a night and day difference. Fantastic game I cannot wait for the sequel!
I've also found that this game scales extremely well with increased power limits at least on the RTX 3080. When using the 450watt TDP VBIOS for the EVGA 3080FTW3 Ultra, I saw around a 13% increase in performance. The GPU would pull ~420watts during gameplay. I've found some games are unable to take advantage of the power limit increase and will still not pull higher amounts of power even if the power limit is set higher.
What FPS are you getting on the benchmark? Because my RX 6800 non-XT is hitting 95 FPS at 171 W, I think the peak was 181W, but I'm not sure if that was only inside the game or in the benchmark as well. Just on default, not overclocked. There's also the possibility that my 6800 is a 6900 XT that didn't have all its CUs functional, and was harvested as a 6800 with better than expected TDP.
@@filipealves6602 what resolution are you talking about. And at 4K with the Ultimate preset (everything maxed) I got 84FPS and a score of 15213 with a 5900X + RTX 3080. The benchmark power draw was basically the same as in game.
@@e2rqey sorry, I forgot to mention that, my bad. I also forgot to mention that I made some custom adjustments. I'll need to set it back to Ultra for apples to apples comparison. The resolution is 3440x1440. I prefer higher FPS than 4K, and then I discovered that I like ultrawide a lot more than I ever expected. This game is absolutely great for ultrawide, very immersive. I'll try to rerun my benchmark aligned with your settings. However I suspect that there won't be any change in power consumption, just a drop in performance.
I'll also point out on my 3080 @ 4k and 1440P I noticed zero FPS difference between optimized settings shown here and just setting it to the ultimate preset.
Ofc it does. Letting the card draw more power increase performance. It's not just this game, is a general overclocking rule lmao. It also increases voltages and therefore heat tho.
Probably reused the skull/body adult models shrunk down to kid-size to save time on modeling and mocapping. Of course shrinking them down doesn't change the overall skull shape, so it has that weird kid/adult face thing going on.
I had issues and crashes with this game on release until I turned on hardware accelerated GPU scheduling in the control panel. It was butter smooth and no more crashes after that. Maybe I just got lucky, but if this helps anyone than I'd like to share :) Amazing game by the way!
Excellent, I was always hoping you will do an update on Horizon Zero Dawn PC port since Guerilla released update patch 1.07 and I am glad that the video came out finally. Keep up the phenomenal good work guys - I love it.
I'll never get the fanboy mindset that could be upset at this... this only builds the player base and increases the eyes on some of their favorite software for future iterations.
@@dayko. hardcore ps famboys have been in denial about the inevitability of ps exclusives coming to pc. I kept telling them it was gonna happen for all, but they wouldn't buy it. Well, here we are.
I'm just impressed that it runs on my old Dell 7559 from 2016. I have to play it on the lowest settings, but it's surprisingly stable when I do. (Except that shader optimization never saves.)
@@hoti257 I would rather pay more to support GOG and have zero copy protection. Buy once, own it forever on as many machines as I want. Steam is good, but I avoid purchases there when I have the choice.
@@hoti257 I've never seen GOG versions there before, but I'll check. You can also use a VPN to buy the games direct from GOG in a cheaper foreign currency which can save a lot too.
I started this game a few weeks and I finished with absolutely no issues. Guerrilla have done an amazing job. They are an example of what studios should do with their games.
Look forward to seeing more Playstation games moved over to P.C... especially with the recent leaks indicating Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, Bloodborne, and the Uncharted collection potentially coming to the platform sooner than later.
@@kyzersoze8408 bruh he said potentially. Meaning it's just a hypothetical statement. Having your older games ported over to another platform with millions of users especially when you're about to push out another title in the franchise is greatly beneficial. Not only do you get millions of more sales aka millions of more revenue, you also automatically market the next game by having people play the previous one.
@@kyzersoze8408 I saw an article on Gamerant recently.. it's a twitter leak so it's very much taken with a grain of salt. I don't see anything unrealistic about these games coming to PC over time though.
@@kyzersoze8408 No doubt none of these leakers are 100% correct with the stuff put out there. That said, this wasn't one of those where I immediately dismiss it like talk of a 4k Switch revision. Sony executives have expressed interest in putting more titles on PC. None of the ones listed would step on the toes of PS5 sales imo
Good video. I personally bought the game in December on a big sale, read the reviews on steam and they already said then the game was by and all fixed compared to launch. Regarding shader optimization. TLDR let it finish before you play. And also if you update your drivers, let it finish again. Long version: I played 25hrs on my 3080 before upgrading my driver. As any game that wants to do shader optimization, like COD. If you update your driver the process will happen again. I skipped it, and loaded the game. I noticed that instead of the normal 5-6 second load-time from scratch (NVME SSD) it now was 30 seconds O_o. Performance was great afterwards. But an hour or so later i had my first ever freeze in the game. Restarting the game and letting shader optimizations finish reduced the loadtimnes back to 5-6 seconds and i played 4 hrs after that without any freeze.
There's still some VERY distracting audio glitches that make dialogue sound metallic, almost like it's "clipping" or was very poorly recorded. Haven't had this issue on ANY other games, and none of the patches recently have addressed it. I think they still have a ways to go.
Very few people seem to notice this. For me it's so distracting I had to abandone the game until a fix comes out. They probably used an overly aggressive audio compression method.
@@melu0o Yes, they've forgotten to make their new game fully utilize the capabilities of the PS5 by making it run on PS4. This game wasn't that replayable, so I don't really mind the lack of an update.
It's basically a done deal at this point. Almost every 'PS5 Exclusive' is eventually going to come to PC. This includes the Gran Turismo a and God Of War games.
@@slayerdude212 Nah, Sony spent years researching this now PS is basically a PC. There millions of gamers who will own a Playstation but will not buy a gaming PC and there's almost as many that will buy a gaming PC but will not buy a Playstation. Sony can make considerably more money with little effort when releasing titles on PC, so they will do it.
I remember back then I don't care about this game when it was release, but I saw a gameplay video and got a crush on Aloy, so I bought the game in PS4 just to feast my eyes but then I totally fell in love with the whole game, now it's one of my most Favorite video game. can't wait for the HFW.
One problem not mentioned in either video was that HDR didn't function properly in the launch version and has also been fixed. If you have a TV or monitor with good HDR this is a game you should absolutely play with it on. It was Sony's original HDR showcase game and it shows. Everything is colorful in a way so the HDR really pops. It looks incredible.
played it on my Son's PS4, get amazed by it and then buy the PC Version on launch day, play about 5 hours and get triggered by Texture Optimization and major stuttering and instantly uninstall the game. Then suddenly this video appear in my recommendation, reinstalled the game, and spend almost 30 Hrs enjoying it in the last 2 days. Thank you for the amazingly detailed video, you convince me to subscribe, cheers
I love that more people get to play this amazing game (myself included cause I gave my og copy to a cousin and recently got it on steam) but it's absolutely stupid how many people trashed this game for how bad it was only due to not being able to play it on their pc.
@@aaronsmith7143 PlayStation has confirmed they aren’t porting God of War, Last of Us, or Spider-Man, and other exclusives to pc. And if they do release the sequel to HZD it’ll be years after they released the sequel on PS5.
The game ran fine for me on a RX 5700 XT and a 6800XT build. The differences in performance from a 5700XT to the 6800XT was 200% improvement. Patch 1.10 introduced a bug where it made foliage and trees disappear on RX 5000 and 6000 series GPU's. Guerilla Games ended up releasing 2 hotfixes, one that fixed RX 5000 and another to fix RX 6000 2 weeks after patch 1.10 drop and the game runs buttery smooth. On a 5700XT @ 60fps 1440P maxed out settings and 6800XT 120fps. Good job Guerrilla Games for the quick hotfix.
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Holy shit I wasn't expecting them to actually try to fix this. I love when studios actually fix their mistakes to try and restore some good faith.
2021 is truly the year of 2020 games.
There’s still some work for them to do, so let’s hope they continue to follow up. But overall, I agree, I’m impressed they bothered to fix their mistakes!
@2B Or not 2B in an ideal world you’d be correct, but far too often companies can just release games that are incredibly subpar and then never return to them and they’d still sell well. In fact, Nier Automata is a perfect example of a game with a frustrating amount of issues on the PC port that have never been patched by the devs. The community had to take it upon themselves to fix the game. So, when the devs DO take the time to patch the game, the community should thank them and encourage them to do so, that way other companies can see it’s worthwhile to put in the effort.
@2B Or not 2B all I was saying is that I'm surprised and love when they fix bad ports lol
It is still a cut content scam made for malware OS.
Playing it now with a 1070 at 60fps, 1080p and optimized settings and it runs absolutely amazing
yeah but he is right its funny how bad this game actually runs on good hardware, i have an 2070 an 70-90 fps feels odd
@@mersimh its not odd at all, like Alex said in the video, its the fact that this game uses a bespoke game engine designed primarily around the PS4. It would require the devs hundreds if not thousands of hours to rewrite their engine to take full advantage of PC hardware and all its countless architectures. It seems they have just brute forced it to run and then patched up the small issues of stutter, and broken graphics settings. This game doesn't need more than 60fps anyway. This also could of been a trial run to see how their engine performs on PC and give them feedback on what needs improving for future releases such as maybe Killzone, which I am sure uses the same engine.
@@Fezzy976 They release a ps4 emulator that's what it is.
@@mr.schaeffer5399 But death stranding on the other hand runs buttery smooth. it's on same decima engine too..
@@retroK6607 it runs great even on potato pcs
I feel like every PC game should just have a dynamic resolution setting at this point. Really helps those of us when framerates fluctuate between like, 50-60 fps.
is such a game changer, specially nowadays that games fluctuate so much in load, in Assassins Creed Origins there were times that I was 70fps and times where there was 40fps and I had to manually change the resolution
but what if game is CPU limited?
then dynamic resolution will simply lower GPU usage with no FPS gain
no
Unreal Engine 4 has DRS on Mac OSX and consoles, but for some reason, NVIDIA and AMD haven't reached out to Epic in regards to getting the needed changes implemented for dynamic resolution scaling in UE4 games. It's been years since the feature was implemented, yet it's only supported on intel iGPUs in Windows.
The only UE4 games that I've seen with DRS are the Gears games, and those use Microsoft in-house forks of the engine.
Adaptive sync is the better solution but it's gonna be a few years before the average gamer can afford monitors with this technology.
4:28 - for those looking for Alex's optimized settings
Just downloaded this game yesterday and been playing it since; I love it so much. This video couldn't have come at a better time!
Same here xD
SAME
Might play this since it's compared with Breath of the Wild, which I love that game. So I might try it at some point in the future.
Same. Although I keep stopping playing it every few days because I don't want it to be done lol.
@@e2rqey I can understand that. This was my first-ever PS4 game and I bought it at its launch as a bundle, took me a good 2 months to finish it because I was very new to gaming back then. Now it's been 4 years since and I just got a PC a while ago so this game was on the top of my list. Finally got time and downloaded it yesterday. I was still blown away by how gorgeous it looked and felt even 4 years after its release, especially on PC.
Great news! Excited to give it another go
Dos potencias se saludan.
Love your videos!
Me too
No, you’re really not.
Una duda, por qué utilizan las texturas en medio y no en ultra?
This GAME is gorgeous. The art style is amazing. I cannot WAIT for the next game.
@Ioannis Stefanakis 😁😁😁
Odd CHOICE of WORDS to emphasize
Hopefully Forbidden West comes to PC right away
@@sebastianchantre3152 you wish lol
Never been a fan of this style
I just recently beat it on PC and its sooooooooo good. Especially the frozen wilds DLC is absolutely fantastic, especially since the facial animations are perfect and not so unrealistically, weirdly jittering anymore
interesting...i just played it and everyone's eyeballs are vibrating and they move their faces a lot. Did you play with a limited fps or only at 60 or something?
@@advancedlamb I'm assuming you didn't and 60 fps cap should fix these issues?
DF finds things I would never notice and that's even after 20 or so years playing videogames. There's one reason these guys are the go to place for technical analysis on videogames. Thank you for the update!
Alex: "Do you see what is odd here?"
Me: "Uhh... No.. that looks nornal.."
Alex: "There is a black frame around the image!"
Me: *Sitting a little over 2 meters away from my 43 inch TV*
I've beaten the game on PC and I never noticed that ever. I mean it might have been there but it's so trivial I never noticed ;p
Me on a smartphone. "Where?"
Watching on my phone with its AMOLED screen where the video doesn't fill up the whole screen, I have black bars on the edges so I was not gonna see it lol
@@devilmikey00 tbh neither did I I had moe rsound issues than I hda visual ones tbh.
None of you have the slightest idea of how long I’ve been waiting for this follow up. Great video as always, Alex!! 👍👍
"I didn't notice any impact on my RTX 2080 ti." Me cries in 970
But PC master race?
My 1060 6GB is also nervous haha
I appreaciate the 1060 (or was it 1660?) in the testing bench. Once DF starts using only the high end cards I can no longer rely on the "optimal" settings.
My 3080 experienced issues with massive framerate fluctuations. Jumping from the low 100s all the way to like 20-30, especially indoors somehow.
@@Banter-vw7ck I know it might sound like BS, but my gaming mates always had the worst issues either on the extreme low end or the extreme high end of the HW spectrum. That is why I always stick with 60ti or 70 cards. Basically the more people have the same stuff I do the better is the optimization. But that is just my theory.
Getting this on 2024.. The game is buttery smooth on rtx3060 on high settings. Really beautiful game and gameplay experience is amazing
Got my 3080 PC done about a week ago, and this is one of the first games I wanted to play on it, but wasn't sure since I heard the game was a rough port. Glad to see its playable now. Thank you devs for fixing it
It runs really well on a 3080 now. I've put ~40hours into the game and I've had zero complaints. It runs smooth as butter for me.
@@e2rqey Nice thanks for the info.
Im on the fence about getting it
We shouldn't thank devs for fixing their game that should've been playable out of the gate.
Been playing on a 3080 as well and experienced zero issues in 20 hours. You're going to have a great time!
It at least shows they care about the PC community, they could have just left it in a shit state and run all the way to the bank. I'm definitely looking forward to Days Gone which I tried on base PS4 but it was so laggy I had to stop, I think it's going to be incredible at 144Hz with KB+M.
It runs beautifully on PS5.
The fact they stuck with it is enough to earn my respect, I'll definitely buy their next ports
@@BIGNOIDS On pc too
15:40 The funny thing is, Kojima Productions was able to get the Decima engine running well on PC and added in DLSS
For real. Death Stranding is one of the most well optimized games I think I've ever seen.
To be fair, it's hard for DS to be unoptimized, when it's just barren wastelands.
@@TheKain202 While it is a lot of terrain, the game still has many impressive visual aspects to it, not just with the terrain quality.
DS was designed for PC from the beginning. HZD was ported
wilko ...both of those games were ps4 exclusives
Playing through The Frozen Wilds on NG+ right now. This game did almost everything right
Did they fix the texture pop up when camera change in cutscene? I dont see DF mention that...
@@KurosuKirie No, but running on an SSD seems to cut it down. Still exist, not as noticeable on a WDBlue SATA connection. I'm playing on PS4 pro so idk if I utilize this patch or not. I paid half attention tbh
PlayStation games are the best that’s why ppl buy a ps5
Well except the melee combat, but everything else is really good.
I just got done spending 71hrs to complete this game. This is easily one of my favorite games I have played. Luckily I didn't buy it at release. This was amazing
Yeah this may be the version for me!
I keep checking CDkeys, usually anywhere from 29 to 33ish. Been waiting on the 20 dollar mark. 34.07 today though.
@@TerryMartinART you could have bought it in epic games for 5$ through epic coupons 🙄 last December
@@shantonabsen2299 I missed that one, went some time without logging into the store, have to keep closer eye. Thanks !
@@shantonabsen2299: Who bought games on Epic, especially with its nonsense coupons? xD
Its on sale on steam
Absolutely love this game
Gameplay is generic and the voice acting is trash. Found it unplayable.
@Dr Mike Hunt, PhD
Your opinion
@@drmikehuntphd7905 go play your superior Cyberpunk
@@drmikehuntphd7905 Ok doctor.
@@drmikehuntphd7905 I think they found you an entitled spoiled brat with bad taste who thinks he's actually a doctor.
This game needs a 60fps update on the ps5. Please Sony!
This!
@FilmGamer
The sequel will look better that's their gap
The sequel is coming out on the ps4, ps4 pro, and ps5. No visual gap is required, to get more hype on this game they will forsure come out with a ps5 patch, 60FPS native 4k simular to what God of war did!
Exactly, we need the 60 fps upgrade for sure. Hopefully soon, to bridge the gap to the sequel. I tried it the other day on PS5 and it looks beautiful, just that the 30 fps makes it look choppy.
It is still a cut content scam made for malware OS.
Played this in launch with normal ps4 and got platinum, now replay whole game and dlc with pc.
OMG Running 3080 + 10900k ultrawide 3840 x 1440 all setting ultra getting 80fps seems amazing god damm 💪😆😆
I've been playing the game since it launched and I have seen every issue shown in the video and the improvements across different patch releases. 1.03 version fixed a lot of the issues including the lack of rumble feature when using a controller. The stuttering was almost gone but traversing the world still showed performance issues. Patch v1.04 / 5 or 6 (I don't remember) almost solved everything regarding performance, all I noticed was a stuttering lock up when I was assaulting a settlement, and I had to restart the game to fix it, but it only happened once, and after playing for long (days). Since patch v1.09, which was the lastest one I tested, I can say the game works flawlessly. No performance issues even when fighting the biggest enemies. The only few drops I had were inside the Cauldrons and it was due to hardware limitations.
I'm running the game on a hard drive with optane memory, and noticed some drops when I stopped playing the game for a while and other applications. So I would probably recommend an SSD, otherwise it works fine enough this way for me. I'm not sure if it is the same thing that Alex talks about in the video, I mean the camera stutter that the performance metrics didn't capture. But I haven't tested v1.10 because 1.09 works perfect for me, so I leave it there and I'm playing disconnected. I have had enough with Gears 5 spoiling my 60 FPS perfect performance on the first title update, and also messing up the text language (Spanish). But in that case, you can't choose, it must be updated to play online modes. Back to Horizon: Zero Dawn... I don't think the camera issue is only on 1.10, but you never know, and I don''t know how often that issue happened to Alex either, but I suppose it is just a minor thing.
My setting are similar to Alex Optimised Settings, with the following exceptions:
Model Quality: Medium
Shadows: Medium
Dynamic Resolution Scaling: On
Frame Rate: 70 (because 60 presented performance issues when the pixel count dropped, so I changed to 70 and it was solved)
Resolution: 3840 x 2190
I use a 60hz TV - HDR Enabled. Original settings, (which is all medium I think). I changed Anisotropic Filtering to Ultra.
My Specs:
CPU: I7 8700K
RAM: 16 Gb DDR4
GPU: GTX 1080Ti
W10 - Default settings on Nvidia Control Panel. Energy on Windows Control Panel is set to Maximum Performance.
I hope it helps you.
this game runs perfectly smooth in 4k ultra, 1.11 patch and a 3080 10GB and a ryzen 5600x and runs even faster with dlss.
I think Days Gone will have a much smoother launch because it's an Unreal Engine 4 title as compared to Horizon being built on a custom engine.
Death stranding is on the same engine of hzd but it ran way better and released before hzd..they just made a cheap chinese sw house make the port
It's a rule of thumb that outsourcing a game heavily never ends up good.
post makes no sense... death stranding pc is amazing and extremely well made with no problems, this is just a lazy port with zero effort and they only fixed it because of backlash
@@vale_recca does not mean anything. Usually different games made with the same engine are comparable in performance. You can't have death stranging running at 150fps and hzd at 40fps with stutter and issues. It's just made poorly. You could have 5 times the things in ds and it would still run better than hzd
@@vale_recca What does that have to do with performance? Death stranding was also developed by a team that didn't develop the engine.
Alex is "Legolas" of this digital age.
Alex, what do your elf eyes see?
Funny timing, I just finished the Frozen Wilds part of this game on PC earlier today! I had a great time with it
How does it run? Is it better? I’m still on the fence I’m really worried if it runs ok or runs badly.
@@RunnyElephant44 im playing on a laptop with GTX 1650 16GB RAM and i7-10750 got 60 fps on mix med
@@dzikripratama3776 I got it, it ran fine people still have some issues though. But they are running it on a potato apparently
@@RunnyElephant44 you think a gtx 1650 laptop is a potato?
@@troposphere9574 I’m on a laptop running it fine man had to mess with the nivdia control panel to do it though to switch it to the correct driver
R5 3600 + 32GB RAM + GTX 1660 SUPER gets me 94fps with your optimized settings on Horizon Zero Dawn. It never dips below 64fps. Thanks, Alex! 👏🏼
On sale for $24.99 for black friday
It's why I'm here, dawg!
Got to say even on my ps4 slim this game looks outstanding
Agree, they did a great job making it look good and feel fluid for a 30fps game.
On a small screen it might, but compared to PC on a 55" 4K screen or above, it will literally be night and days difference, not even a contest.
Not even the same sport.
@@Longlostpuss 🙄
@@Longlostpuss he Just said that it looks nice on its eyes 😐stop trying to sound COOL
Yea but can your sports make jet engine sounds? Didn't think so,.
Thank you for having one of the only pieces of content focused on this problem. From someone who loves high end visuals this is a big win.
Been playing on my 3080/i910900K absolutely love this game. It runs at a flawless 4K 60+, game is drop dead gorgeous and the gameplay is insane. Sony needs to release more ps exclusives on the ultimate platform the PC.
I'm crying, I am running the game now indeed better on the GTX 1650. This card can handle almost any game, the more if the GPU is overclocked (giving me an extra 8-10 fps) and an undervolted CPU (giving me an extra 2-3 fps). I could barely run the game on 35-40 fps and that was w/even lower settings compared to the optimization settings, now I am getting close to 40-50 fps and it's amazing!
Old-timer GPUs? Damn that's cold, especially in the middle of the worst GPU shortage, well, *ever.*
the 1060 launched in 2016 and the 580 in 2017. thats decades in human lifetime
You can get this game very cheaply on PC it's one of the most beautiful open world games i've played.
"Very cheaply" is stretching it a bit...
@@85wastedyears I think under 25€ is pretty cheap considered it's AAA game.
@@parasolo89 A 5 year old AAA game
@@UmVtCg That still looks good if not better fidelity and with unlocked fps.
When it’s a tenna like the PS version I’ll buy it, I’ve already bought the game twice and the dlc so I’m not paying more than that for the PC one. Hopefully it’ll get a PS5 60fps update, then I’ll not need to bother getting it on PC at all.
Just downloaded Horizon and Days Gone for my Steam Deck - fired them up on my main rig and at 4k 60hz + Ultra Settings they look beautiful
Bought this game a few days ago and i've been loving it!
Runs great on my PC. Pretty much always over 100fps at 1440p Ultra. The port is fantastic now.
I just bought this game and it looks like all is fixed. Running RX 6900 Xt, 4K Ultra setting and averaging 90fps. For an old title, the overall graphic and game play is just amazing, one of the best looking title. Glad Sony is releasing this for PC and looking forward to more releases.
I've been playing this on an RTX 3080 and it's honestly hard to believe that HZD was made for the PS4. It would pass for a 2022 release, the asset quality and presentation is incredible.
Played this about a month ago and it was honestly one of the best looking, best running games I have ever played. I was truly baffled by all the negative things I heard because they were seemingly not apparent on my playthrough
I ran into no problems either with a 3600/5700xt system...I know the game does run on AMD GPUs better on average, but I saw no real issues and ended up running the game at 1800p with high settings at around 60 fps.
you boys shoulda tried the launch version XD
The PC version is probably the best looking title in the industry atm.
@@sagii86 I don’t know, Rdr2 and this looks really good.
@@GrimAbstract I find The foliage & Character detail a bit more impressive in HZD, so as Decima scalability.
Horizon Zero Dawn, Death Stranding, The Last of Us 2, Bloodborne and Uncharted 4 need native 4k60fps for PS5. How long we must waiting?
Add Gravity Rush 2 to it.
Bloodborne should get a pc port
@@jeffthegamerboy3476 ain’t happening bozo. How about making your own bloodbourne
The interesting thing is the more PS games to PC, this suggests the HZD to PC experiment has worked as far as Sony is concerned and so they see the value of bringing their other exclusives over if they can be converted at a reasonable cost. The other fascinating thing for me is how they managed to get games like HZD, GoW, GoT and TLOU 2 to run so well on PS4 and the insights DF are getting on the way the various custom engines work to wring every last drop of performance out of that ancient and weak hardware is something I'm looking forward to seeing at some point in the future.
Why disrespect the ps4 by calling it ancient? It was one of the best console generation
@@tomjerry1170 the tech was old in 2013, so by 2021, it’s ancient. That’s why the achievements are so great, to get games that play that well from such ancient tech
@@tomjerry1170 religious fanboi detected 😂 go find a proper religion
@@jesrees1 that's what happen when a talented Dev could focus working on one platform instead of 4 or 5
@@vale_reccaagreed, interesting to see what happens as PS gets closer to PC
it's been a month but we all would still like to see a review of patch 1.11
It's time to Review 1.11 version!!!
Horizon Zero Dawn looks absolutely amazing at 4K on PC. With a 5900X and an RTX 3080 I get between 75-85FPS with the Ultimate Quality Preset. In the in-game benchmark with the same settings I get an average of 84FPS with a score of 15231
Average of 84fps? 🤤
Do you ever drop below 60fps?
Tbh, 84 fps for a ps4 game running on a rtx 3080 is a pretty poor performance.
@@MrEditsCinema nope. 1% low is 65fps
@@MzaM Tbh you have no idea what you are talking about. The base PS4 runs the game at 1080p 30FPS and the PS4 Pro is rendered at 1500p 30fps and is upscaled to 4K. On PC we are talking about native 4K rendering with no upscaling or dynamic resolution. So compared to the PS4, im running the game at 4X the resolution and nearly 3X the framerate. Let me repeat that, *quadruple the pixels* with *3 times the framerate* . If you find that pretty dissapointing then you're an idiot and I have some bad news to tell you about the next-gen consoles. Oh, and that's all basically via brute force as the game was designed from the ground up to run on the PS4. So in a situation where optimization-wise the PS4 has every possible advantage and the PC has every disadvantage, you still get 3X the framerate at 4X the resolution. What a dumb comment 🤣
I forgot it went to pc but I remember the old video seeing this again, pretty cool to see the improvements
In my region, the complete edition in on sale on Steam for essentially $11 if converted from local currency, which is an absolute banger
Same its like a bit less than $9 so i grabbed it instantly
I got it from steam a few days ago as i finaly upgrded to win 10, i have a 1080ti rig and its running very nicely at 1440p with textures on ultra and everything else on high and it looks gourgous.
in my expreance i would say its worth buying now.
update 2023 i have a 2080ti and it runs in 4k 60fps maxed out.
i would recomend wideing your point of veiw in the settings as the game looks so much better.
normaly you would get a fisheye effect when you do this which is why i dont normaly use it but in this game it gives you a more panoramic view which compliments a game like this.
i would recomend it big time but would advise watching a few you tube vids to see if its a game for you.
What about PS5 Native 4K 60fps and Remaster Patch for HZD?
Edit: And I still want Gravity Rush 2 & Bloodborne PS5 4K60 FPS Patch!
Edit 2: Oh and I don't even have a PS5 yet.
Sadly, no update there yet.
Bloodborne has been abandoned long ago my guy.
@@MichaelM28 I'm taking a wild stab in the dark here but seeing as the video he is commenting on is about HZD then I'm guessing HZD. Smh
This comment is correct with the exception of crying for a PS5
@@ErenTheWarcriminal but it is correct that I don't have a PS5 lol. Let me rant about my Next Gen Gaming sorrows in peace, alright?
Glad more people get to play this. Look out for Days Gone too! Don't forget NieR Replicant remaster that's coming out!
I platinumed this game on PlayStation. I would love to see this on my pc just to see how it works but idk haha
@2B Or not 2B haha yea bro I’ve done the same ever since I bought a pc back In October. It’s awesome to see the games in 60+ but that’s about it haha
I'd say it's not worth it unless it's on sale and you really wanted to replay it. Besides the ability to go higher than 1080p and increased framerate it's not drastically visually superior to the console version and there is no new content.
@@devilmikey00 yea I feel it. If it’s on sale I might get it just to see how my pc can handle it. Other than that I have no reason to play again. Especially cause I platinumed it
@some dude for sure. Story was great. I don’t need it a second time
@some dude Yeah those are the most enjoyable parts of the game. and also finding Aloy's origin. The quests with other characters is meh for me
Still waiting for that patch 1.11 review...
I really hope 60 fps will come for the PS5.
The best you can expect from console is either visuals, or framerate at the compromise of visuals - you can't have both. The PS5 is simply not powerful enough, its graphics card is already obsolete.
Hope never got results - if you want to actually get visuals AND performance, you need to invest in a gaming PC, it's as simple as that.
Otherwise stick with consoles, get wallet slapped AND get an inferior product.
@@Longlostpuss frustrated
i only own the pc version but i'm suprised it hasn't yet! the ps5 should manage 1080/1440p 60fps fine.
They may space an update out to not damage PC sales. A PS5 update closer to Forbidden West's release is possible.
@@Longlostpuss did you even see demon souls remake and spider man remastered and Miles too! PC is great but ps5 is also capable to run every graphic intensive games with higher frame rates! Ps4 generation is over this one is ps5's!
Hey Digital Foundry, if you read this could you please take a look back at Red Dead Redemption 2? I know this game is tons of work every time but I'd love to see you guys comments after over a year since the PC release
I've had RDR2 installed since it released and the only updates it gets are for the multiplayer. The core game only got one visual change, which was the addition of tree tessellation. The rest of it looks and works the same as it did on launch.
@@krazyfrog This is true and false. Plenty of performance patches were released. The TAA sharpening filter was also altered to allow a lot more tweaking, going way beyond it's original slider bar. That's what I'm here for, performance and such. I play the game still so I have an idea but I also would enjoy their opinions
Sure, we will make this a priority
From what I remember, DF's feelings on the RDR2 PC port were rather positive.
Although from what I've seen, it performed horribly on Pascal. Hopefully that's cleared up
I just played through this on pc for the first time recently. I played the ps4 version at a friend's house. It is a night and day difference. Fantastic game I cannot wait for the sequel!
I've also found that this game scales extremely well with increased power limits at least on the RTX 3080. When using the 450watt TDP VBIOS for the EVGA 3080FTW3 Ultra, I saw around a 13% increase in performance. The GPU would pull ~420watts during gameplay. I've found some games are unable to take advantage of the power limit increase and will still not pull higher amounts of power even if the power limit is set higher.
What FPS are you getting on the benchmark? Because my RX 6800 non-XT is hitting 95 FPS at 171 W, I think the peak was 181W, but I'm not sure if that was only inside the game or in the benchmark as well. Just on default, not overclocked.
There's also the possibility that my 6800 is a 6900 XT that didn't have all its CUs functional, and was harvested as a 6800 with better than expected TDP.
@@filipealves6602 what resolution are you talking about. And at 4K with the Ultimate preset (everything maxed) I got 84FPS and a score of 15213 with a 5900X + RTX 3080. The benchmark power draw was basically the same as in game.
@@e2rqey sorry, I forgot to mention that, my bad. I also forgot to mention that I made some custom adjustments. I'll need to set it back to Ultra for apples to apples comparison.
The resolution is 3440x1440. I prefer higher FPS than 4K, and then I discovered that I like ultrawide a lot more than I ever expected. This game is absolutely great for ultrawide, very immersive. I'll try to rerun my benchmark aligned with your settings. However I suspect that there won't be any change in power consumption, just a drop in performance.
I'll also point out on my 3080 @ 4k and 1440P I noticed zero FPS difference between optimized settings shown here and just setting it to the ultimate preset.
Ofc it does. Letting the card draw more power increase performance. It's not just this game, is a general overclocking rule lmao. It also increases voltages and therefore heat tho.
Must return to finish this Game.
I can't recall any technical issues - PS4 Pro.
Why do the kids in this game have adult heads/faces? It's creeping me out.
You should see the cyberpunk kids
It's reminding me of Cyberpunk.
I’m a tribe and I can that in real life tribes are the same as what you described
Yeah it’s weird that nobody points it out cuz they too busy sucking up to the game.
Probably reused the skull/body adult models shrunk down to kid-size to save time on modeling and mocapping. Of course shrinking them down doesn't change the overall skull shape, so it has that weird kid/adult face thing going on.
I had issues and crashes with this game on release until I turned on hardware accelerated GPU scheduling in the control panel. It was butter smooth and no more crashes after that. Maybe I just got lucky, but if this helps anyone than I'd like to share :)
Amazing game by the way!
How does one do this ?
Looks like the Crysis Gods listened. Really hope we see more videos that go back to older pc ports in the future.
Excellent, I was always hoping you will do an update on Horizon Zero Dawn PC port since Guerilla released update patch 1.07 and I am glad that the video came out finally. Keep up the phenomenal good work guys - I love it.
Thanks for the exclusives
More power to gamers
Win win
@@friedpotato6037 facts. Can’t wait for more games to come PC. Hope more PC games end up on consoles too. Like you said, everyone wins!
@@dayko. True gamers win again!!
I'll never get the fanboy mindset that could be upset at this... this only builds the player base and increases the eyes on some of their favorite software for future iterations.
@@dayko. hardcore ps famboys have been in denial about the inevitability of ps exclusives coming to pc. I kept telling them it was gonna happen for all, but they wouldn't buy it. Well, here we are.
I'm just impressed that it runs on my old Dell 7559 from 2016. I have to play it on the lowest settings, but it's surprisingly stable when I do. (Except that shader optimization never saves.)
Alrighty, next time GOG has it on sale, I'm going to buy it!
You could buy it on cdkeys ,I always see it on 50%
@@hoti257 I would rather pay more to support GOG and have zero copy protection. Buy once, own it forever on as many machines as I want. Steam is good, but I avoid purchases there when I have the choice.
@@nathanddrews I get that ,check the website there might be a gog version as it used to be at the beginning
@@hoti257 I've never seen GOG versions there before, but I'll check. You can also use a VPN to buy the games direct from GOG in a cheaper foreign currency which can save a lot too.
@@nathanddrews I heard you could do that but I never personally did it ,sadly don't have a VPN at my disposal for it
Sharpening should always be a slider like this and not a toggle between glasses smeared with vaseline or little Timmy's first try at reshade.
I love that description! 😄
I started this game a few weeks and I finished with absolutely no issues. Guerrilla have done an amazing job. They are an example of what studios should do with their games.
It’s a PlayStation exclusive, not PC.
portings are done by other studios. depending on budget, it's either a hit or miss
Running this on Steamdeck in April 2024: looks and plays absolutely amazing 🤩
Uncharted 4 and God of War should also come to PC
I hope so
last of us 2 would be nice too
Uncharted maybe will , but I don't see Sony puting gow on pc since it's their biggest exclusive
I think they will make it come out to PC
Wrt the game engine only designed for ps4 the Decima engine was also used for death stranding which runs buttery smooth at high fps on pc.
Look forward to seeing more Playstation games moved over to P.C... especially with the recent leaks indicating Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, Bloodborne, and the Uncharted collection potentially coming to the platform sooner than later.
Can you give me a link or source for these leaks?
@@kyzersoze8408 bruh he said potentially. Meaning it's just a hypothetical statement.
Having your older games ported over to another platform with millions of users especially when you're about to push out another title in the franchise is greatly beneficial. Not only do you get millions of more sales aka millions of more revenue, you also automatically market the next game by having people play the previous one.
@@kyzersoze8408 I saw an article on Gamerant recently.. it's a twitter leak so it's very much taken with a grain of salt. I don't see anything unrealistic about these games coming to PC over time though.
@@teach9023 ive seen the dude your refering to. Popped up a few times on reset era sayibg that a bloodborne pc port was coming in 2020.
@@kyzersoze8408 No doubt none of these leakers are 100% correct with the stuff put out there. That said, this wasn't one of those where I immediately dismiss it like talk of a 4k Switch revision. Sony executives have expressed interest in putting more titles on PC. None of the ones listed would step on the toes of PS5 sales imo
Death Stranding uses the same engine (Decima)...and that pc port was almost flawless
Horizon Zero Dawn has already passed on PC twice! Great game, I hope that the second part will also be released on PC in the future.
It’ll be years if they do.
Good video. I personally bought the game in December on a big sale, read the reviews on steam and they already said then the game was by and all fixed compared to launch.
Regarding shader optimization. TLDR let it finish before you play. And also if you update your drivers, let it finish again.
Long version: I played 25hrs on my 3080 before upgrading my driver. As any game that wants to do shader optimization, like COD. If you update your driver the process will happen again. I skipped it, and loaded the game. I noticed that instead of the normal 5-6 second load-time from scratch (NVME SSD) it now was 30 seconds O_o. Performance was great afterwards. But an hour or so later i had my first ever freeze in the game. Restarting the game and letting shader optimizations finish reduced the loadtimnes back to 5-6 seconds and i played 4 hrs after that without any freeze.
Can't wait to play GOW on PC.
Keep waiting
Forever
@@masteryoda6853 Nah, probably a year or so.
The best platform that will run it 4K 60.
@@SepiaQuotient ps5 already exists.
@@kyzersoze8408 oh right, i forgot about it, but i will probably get the PC version before getting a PS5.
Thanks for the heads up about Days Gone coming to PC. Would never have known about it if it stayed console exclusive.
We need that performance update on the PS5 already! Should have been right alongside of the others at launch being a Sony flagship!
Calm down Betty boy. Go play outside
1:06 the music still makes me emotional
me who finished the game on 25-30 fps with a 1050ti with constant stuttering and crashes: 👁👄👁
Same here I had a vega 56 on 1440p with 20-30 fps. And now I'm thinking of going back and trying the hard mode with my new 6800xt and 5900x
Same 🤣
The video is interesting. I have a Radeon RX 580 8GB and I am planning to buy this game in a few months. Thanks!
There's still some VERY distracting audio glitches that make dialogue sound metallic, almost like it's "clipping" or was very poorly recorded. Haven't had this issue on ANY other games, and none of the patches recently have addressed it. I think they still have a ways to go.
Very few people seem to notice this. For me it's so distracting I had to abandone the game until a fix comes out. They probably used an overly aggressive audio compression method.
It’d be nice if they patched the PS4 game for PS5
They’re forgetting about their core fanbase. Sad.
@@melu0o Yes, they've forgotten to make their new game fully utilize the capabilities of the PS5 by making it run on PS4. This game wasn't that replayable, so I don't really mind the lack of an update.
@@melu0o this game came out last year on pc 2020 summer
@@slayerdude212 Yeah but they’re updating their games on PC more then giving a simple patch on ps5
@@wumbol0gy871 i never played it though. Been waiting for a ps5 patch to play it.
Ive played 70 hours over the last 2 weeks. Its an incredible game. Dam Sony for keeping it to themselves.
@Digital Foundry
In AMD side things have significantly improved for RX Vega. I have 30% higher frame rate now compared to the launch version.
Such a beautiful game, sold a lot. I hope we get more ps games.
It's basically a done deal at this point. Almost every 'PS5 Exclusive' is eventually going to come to PC. This includes the Gran Turismo a and God Of War games.
@@fcukugimmeausername no not really, your just going to get old ps4 games or lowkey one like dayz gone
@@slayerdude212 Nah, Sony spent years researching this now PS is basically a PC. There millions of gamers who will own a Playstation but will not buy a gaming PC and there's almost as many that will buy a gaming PC but will not buy a Playstation.
Sony can make considerably more money with little effort when releasing titles on PC, so they will do it.
@@fcukugimmeausername Im cool with that, I hate consoles with a passion, but some games are worth playing.
@@slayerdude212 Horizon was a pretty low key title I guess.
I remember back then I don't care about this game when it was release, but I saw a gameplay video and got a crush on Aloy, so I bought the game in PS4 just to feast my eyes but then I totally fell in love with the whole game, now it's one of my most Favorite video game. can't wait for the HFW.
Not gonna lie this might be the best looking game yet. Looks amazing on pc.
Rdr2 looks better in my opinion
I'm glad PC gamers can play this masterpiece now.
Hoping for a 3rd and final look at the game with the latest DLSS/FSR patch Alex
My favorite game. I dumped stupid hours into this game on PS4. Maybe I should get it for PC now.
One of the best game I have ever played.
One of the boring comment I always see
Bought this and downloaded it at launch, because it's Horizon and it deserves to be bought. Seems like it's time to replay it.
Love these analysis. So detailed and professional, keep it up!!
One problem not mentioned in either video was that HDR didn't function properly in the launch version and has also been fixed. If you have a TV or monitor with good HDR this is a game you should absolutely play with it on. It was Sony's original HDR showcase game and it shows. Everything is colorful in a way so the HDR really pops. It looks incredible.
GT Sport, god of war are hdr kings on PlayStation
I'm wondering where the PS5 patch is!
likely ain't coming, to old, it'll be a remaster like spiderman that you will have to pay for lol
@@SoullessKassidy remaster is too far, just next gen update with 60 fps and 4K already enough tho, and i hope it will be free
They better ps5 patch it. If they can waste time porting it to PC they can ps5 patch it
@@HugoStiglitz88 how was that a waste of time?
@@treznopresto4878 Spider-man released after this and was "Remastered"
played it on my Son's PS4, get amazed by it and then buy the PC Version on launch day, play about 5 hours and get triggered by Texture Optimization and major stuttering and instantly uninstall the game.
Then suddenly this video appear in my recommendation, reinstalled the game, and spend almost 30 Hrs enjoying it in the last 2 days. Thank you for the amazingly detailed video, you convince me to subscribe, cheers
I love this, not only more people get to enjoy game, but it pisses off whiny childish fanboys
I love that more people get to play this amazing game (myself included cause I gave my og copy to a cousin and recently got it on steam) but it's absolutely stupid how many people trashed this game for how bad it was only due to not being able to play it on their pc.
@@aaronsmith7143 PlayStation has confirmed they aren’t porting God of War, Last of Us, or Spider-Man, and other exclusives to pc. And if they do release the sequel to HZD it’ll be years after they released the sequel on PS5.
The game ran fine for me on a RX 5700 XT and a 6800XT build. The differences in performance from a 5700XT to the 6800XT was 200% improvement. Patch 1.10 introduced a bug where it made foliage and trees disappear on RX 5000 and 6000 series GPU's. Guerilla Games ended up releasing 2 hotfixes, one that fixed RX 5000 and another to fix RX 6000 2 weeks after patch 1.10 drop and the game runs buttery smooth. On a 5700XT @ 60fps 1440P maxed out settings and 6800XT 120fps. Good job Guerrilla Games for the quick hotfix.
You mean 100% improvement
I mean to say you get double the vram/performance going from a 5700xt to a 6800xt
This sounds amazing! Going to buy it this weekend now :D
Yes! I put it down at launch and have been waiting for RUclips to give the all clear!
Since when did they add DLSS to this game? Wow I went from 60-100 fps to a mostly locked 120 fps with dips down to around 100.
After the patch in Jan this game is fantastic on PC. I get frame locked 85 fps at 4K on a Nvidia 3090.