Horizon Forbidden West PC - Best Settings - Digital Foundry Optimised
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2024
- Optimised Settings:
Texture Quality: High (Medium for 8GB GPUs on resolutions higher than 1440p)
Texture Filtering: 16x
Shadow Quality: High
Depth of Field: High
Level of Detail: High
Terrain Quality: High or Very High
Crowd Quality: High
Hair Quality: High
Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
Screen-Space Reflections: High
Water Quality: High
Cloud Quality: Very High
Translucency: Default
Parallax Occlusion Mapping: On
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I really appreciate you guys posting a condensed version of this video here - great use of your DF Clips channel. I often watch these optimized settings videos with the game running and the graphics menu up on my PC, so it's nice to have a quick guide like this so I don't need to skip past the console comparison sections which, while interesting, aren't really useful when I'm just trying to get my game up and running smoothly.
The npcs in the game are amazing they have their super long daily routines and scripted action; you always find some new every encounter
And all of them fully mocapped even in sidequests
And everyone sweats and has peachfuzz
@@Pointman11111Peachfuzz? Sounds pretty woke /s
@@Funkopotamus920 😂
the attention to detail is amazing. i was expecting more of the same but better but they knocked it out of the park its almost like a compleatly different game.
quick version: 5:12
Missed this kind of videos. Thanks a lot DF.
For 8GB cards, I think Medium Shadow Quality helps a lot. High Shadow quality enables the "hero lighting" on Aloy and framerate tanks in some of the busier scenes and in cutscenes. Also, it seems 8GB cards seem to hate cutscenes at the High texture setting even when it's fine in gameplay when you boot it up. Setting it to Medium results in a far better experience.
Does framerate really matter for cutscenes? As long as it's over 24fps
@@wx2999 it's not like what you think though. It tanks fucking hard to the point that the animations stutter (erratic playback) and the lip sync breaks way off. It's not watchable. There are a TON of cutscenes and conversational/dialogue scenes with NPC's in this game so you just can't have that.
Plus, performance doesn't go back up to normal after the cutscenes and I think it's because the game struggles to remove the textures loaded by the cutscene from the memory even when it's over so what happens is there's not enough space for new ones from regular gameplay to come in which results to stuttery gameplay and erratic FPS. You'd have to restart the game after almost every cutscene just to get performance back up to normal. The game simply wants more VRAM.
The same thing happened to me and I thought it was my card x.x
i have shadows set to low on 30708gb and im still hitting 20-50 fps, its insane. gj nixxes
@@don__clemenza maybe you still have texture quality to set to high. Set both Texture and Shadows to Medium then restart the game and see if it's any better. You will still have some minor hiccups during cutscenes but it won't be as broken. I also disabled Parallax Occlusion Mapping. Although most would say it doesn't affect FPS, I found that stability when things are in motion improved without it on my end.
This game looks and runs amazing on PC, it also has a proper 32:9 support with almost no distortion ate the edges.
low fps cutscenes are still there and no one of CZcamsrs talks about it 😢
Yeah, I've noticed it happens when there are more than 2 characters in the cutscene, I hope someone has a solution for this
@@thrilla72 Yep.Let's hope Nixxes will finally hear about this problem...There is no solution yet
I think you should really use a lower resolution instead of 4k to get more accurate percentage differences in fps. 30fps vs 29fps is a 3% difference in 4K but at 1440p it could be 80 vs 76fps, resulting in a 5% difference.
Good to see Barry Keoghan has gotten into PC gaming
why alex isnt talking about cutscene lag and gradual performance loss the longer u play
Probably didn't play it long enough. Game is boring af
@@UlyssesMprobably because your poor lol
If you are worried about this wait till you get to burning shores dlc. Performance tanks and I would say it's unplayable.
@@UlyssesMI thought so too until I tried it with the dualsense controller. Changed everything for me
It's fixed on the latest update
Please look into burning shores which is more graphically demanding and may have different optimized settings
Are you guys going to do this for the burning shores because that’s where I’m having problems.
Will Alex also handle the Stellar Blade demo?
There are frametime issues in certain areas (cities) and later even during missions in forbidden shores, most visible when panning the camera, it's all cpu related. My system is 5800x3d / 4080, using VRR 4k dlss quality, no FG/ no reflex.
cpu usage seems to be okay for me but burning shores gpu usage is too high with random fps drops every 5 seconds. Even when there is nothing on the screen. Base game ran at 4k 60 with dlss balanced. [except cities and cutscenes]. My hardware is 7600x with 4070.
@@dr.sivavignesh664 in that case turn on dynamic resolution and set a target, if it's a gpu issue all will be well, but I'm pretty sure it's cpu related.
Hey Guys... Metro Exodus Still have insane texture streaming bugs! CONTROL Same thing! Can DF make a video on about thath?
thanks dude before i was getting like 65-70 fps now i get 95+ in almost all areas and it looks better visually
Tell me please. If I set the dynamic dlaa to 45 fps and limit the fps to 40. will this be considered as not achieving the target fps? and will the quality decrease as a result?
2:21 Nice "Qualtiy" !
Default Translucency makes Aloy's glider look too fuzzy. If you don't mind it go with Default. Otherwise, go for High Resolution.
Yeah it was so distracting. Was it fuzzy on the ps5?
Look how happy Alex is when he sees a female protagonist that doesn't offend him.
for some reason 'level of detail' was a make or break setting for me using rtx 3070 at 1440p, game chugs if its above medium
When I turn high res translucency on, the screen space reflections stop working.
It runs really good at high with dlss on my 3060ti at 1440p. The only problem that I see is a weird flickering in some clothes textures during dialogue “cutscenes”.
Do you play with the textures on high and the quality of the shadows on medium to have more than 60Fps? and the dlss in quality?
@@elias3713 yes and I turn off nvidia reflex. That gives me a consistent 60fps most of the time.
@@MzaM That is to say that you get to go down to less than 60fps? What is the maximum FPS that comes in the game?
@@elias3713 the maximum fps the game can achieve depends entirely on your pc. I cap mine at 60 because my setup is not powerful enough to sustain more than 60 fps consistently.
@@MzaM In my case my configuration is a 3060 Ti 8gb oc, i5 12400F and 16gb@3200mhz. With the texture settings on high, shadows on high and everything else on high, it is more than likely that it will play at more than 60Fps, right? I have seen that in other videos. yes, with the dlss in quality
For people that are currently playing the game. Is running 4k with DLSS Quality better looking and performing than running it at 1800p native? I have a 3080ti an am wondering what would be the best in terms of image quality and 60fps performance.
4k dlss upto balanced looks great. dlss performance makes it look a bit blurry for my taste but you should be able to hit 4k dlss balanced with maxed out settings in the base game. Burning shores is a whole different story. Personally i think its broken and unplayable. Based on my hardware rtx 4070 7600x 32gb ram.
I'd say DLSS quality (which is upscaling from 1440p to 4K) is better than having an 1800p image being upscaled to 4K. What you can also do is get DLSSTweaks and set your own custom resolution scaling for each preset. For instance, you can override DLSS quality to 80% on each scale instead of 66%, balanced to 66% instead of 58%, and so on. You can also use it to force DLAA in games that have DLSS support but doesn't support DLAA.
Need more videos on how to optimize games
Dynamic rez doesn't seem to work for me I have 12 gigs 3060 but an old cpu i7 6th gen.
Df team please look into the burning shores dlc section. It performs so poorly that it is borderline unplayable. My hardware is 4070 with ryzen 5 7600x 32 gb ram. Base game ran at 4k Dlss balanced 60 fps at most areas ( cities and maw section drops to the 40s along with cutscenes ). On burning shores I can't even get 1080p 60fps. Constant fps drops all over the place. Tried df optimised settings and nothing worked.
I have the same cpu. This game is cpu bound in the 50-70 fps bracket. Depending on the zone. I haven't reached the DLC but already every town hub has the gpu at 70% usage and the gpu at %100
Game definitely isn't properly optimised. This is the worst port nixxes has done so far. And probably the only bad port hopefully. If they can manage to solve these memory leak issues, rhen it eill be perfect, because it sucks having to restart the game many times to fix performance
@@GmodArgentina though my Nvidia overlay doesn't show cpu usage at 100% you may be right. Sometimes the cpu usage does reach 100% but for me the gpu usage reaches 100% more than the cpu. Limiting the game to vsync 50hz with digital foundry optimised settings made it playable. ( 4k Dlss balanced). If ps5 can do 60fps we should be able to pull that off. They need to patch the dlc section. Also the arena npc area. That section has fps drops all over the place and npcs keep glitching.
@@dr.sivavignesh664RTSS shows the per core load. There you can see how some cores at are at 100% and some aren't. Nvidia overlay reports the average core load. Indeed if the PS5 had no issue running 60fps the Ryzen 7600 shouldn't, but I think it is currently struggling. Independently of the other problems the game has. Even the requirements image shows a Ryzen 3600 is able run this game at 60fps.
@@GmodArgentina hope they fix this issue. I've poured in 80 plus hours into the game to just quit playing before the end though. I don't see the dlc as a drastic next gen improvement compared to the base game though. The clouds definitely looks great but other than that to my eyes it looks similar to the far west portion of the base game. ( which ran flawlessly ).
Unaddressed issues of cutscene stuttering and memory management. There's no reason they shouldn't be able to mimic whatever enables a PS5 to run more smoothly than my PC that's about 2x as powerful. BUT, Horizion Zero Dawn was running about 40% better by the time it was patched up. These days, we consider it a good launch if a game is playable. My 3080 should be able to use very high texture detail if a PS5 can.
all games at launch nowadays are so broken you gotta almost a year to properly play it, right now the dlc burning shore runs horribly
I'm playing HFW at 5120x1440 with a 3080 10 gig card. Most the time I'm good on the high setting. Until it comes to the cutscenes. Then I get a heart crushing at best 10 frames per second. Totally destroys the energy. I dropped it down to medium and that mostly solved my problems. I have cut back my fov by 12% in addition too. I am using quality scaling.
Looks gorgeous on PC
I wish they had added somekind of ray tracing to this game.
i am so glad i baught a card with 11gbs of v Vram as textures a very important to me.
its time we demanded at least 12 gb of Vram on all cards as standard.
if there was one thing i would have liked to have seen is alloy respondiing to what she is walking on like in stella blade.
alloy is still a bit clunky getting around. but everything else is so good i can forgive that.
I have Lenovo legion 5 2021 laptop amd 5600h and RTX 3060 chips and 16gb ram. Will the game run ok?
1080p at 60? sure. 1440p at 60( 40 maybe in big settlements0
Medium with Low textures and with DLSS is what I recommend. Some people can get away with High textures so you gotta try it for yourself. This is really depends on your luck of course.
How about chromatic aberration, is it good? I mostly never used it as i don't like the blurry effect.
The VRAM management in this game is terrible on 8GB cards, even at 1080p High Settings with DLSS (Or 1440 medium textures with DLSS), after an hour of gameplay, the fps drops a lot during the cut-scenes, then I have to restart the game all the time. Great port, but it has this problem!
Now if only we could improve the performance of the npc voice acting
That is a dlc i would pay for
8Gb has it rough with medium. Dang if only 3070/ti has 12gb or more
I honestly think the memory isnt the core problem. For this one, but its the game itself.
RTX 3060 12GB (+Ryzen 5900X) here:
1440p Optimised settings, very hi textures, dlaa dynamic 54fps BUT 144Hz VRR + Riva RTSS 48fps = Super Crisp Stable Fluid 48fps
144/48 = 3 -> 1 frame on 3Hz -> Super Fluid look
Can't believe that my (little OC 10%) RTX 3060 can handle this game almost on max settings fluid 48fps almost no dips below 48fps and 0 dips below 45fps (Freesync).
48fps? Ewww
Best settings for Stellar Blade Alex? 🤭
just a pair of clean boxers, pretty much.
@@DravenxEyeless💀 too much white stains everywhere
"Realistic" settings... lol
@@redclaw72666 explain?
@@redclaw72666 explain?
I thing this dude made all conclusions about game performance in 5 minutes. First village i came into my fps drops in half. Fps in cutscenes is like 14.
I have 3080 and 3700x
I have an i59400f cpu is it time to just upgrade?
Yeah
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3070 man that card is abomination. Look at how quickly graphic settings had to get dialled down. That 8g vram was damn near evil to put on it.
Horizon Forbidden Razor.
This the Stellar blade guy? XD
The blinders come off..cough
Looks way better on a PC with my RTX 4090 and maxed out settings native 4K with DLAA I have the PS5 version it’s super blurry on 60 fps mode Whoever says it doesn’t look better on PC is blind. You should probably see a doctor about some glasses.
This game is beautiful on pc and PS5, but i still find it so boring and lifeless.
Finished this on PC over the weekend. It's quite a looker but my god is it BORING after about 20 hours. It turned into the worst of Ubisoft open world games and was just fetch quest after fetch quest.. Aloy and her clone are not particularly likeable at all.
Horizon forbidden west looks 10x better in pc
thank sony ya got to play this masterpiece
*Are you using the numeric value of 10 with the mathematical x = times, to objectively quantify subjective aesthetic = looks better*
@makoto5280so people can just plug their pc into a an OLED TV or monitor with true HDR
The difference isn't visible!
@@daysgone2997 this game is nowhere near masterpiece, it's a good game not a great game.
We max out everything in this neighborhood
Best setting for me is just max everything, not as in-depth as say Cyberpunk2077. With No DLSS I like my resolution extra crispy. lol.