Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port is deeply disappointing

[SAINT]

I’ll wait for it to go on sale and when the issues are patched

 

[Arcavian]

I'm buying it anyway

 

[SAINT]

I’ll wait for it to go on sale and when the issues are patched

Damnit I bought it

I have only completed 10% of sekiro
5% of RDR2
20% of AC origins
1% of the Witcher
Barely touched metro
10% of Star Wars
Barely touched hellblade

but yet I keep fukking buying games

 

[SAINT]

here's DF's recommended settings:

Textures - Medium
Model Quality - Ultra
AF - 16x (via driver, ingame AF settings do nothing)
Shadows - High
Reflections - Medium
Clouds - High
TAA
Motion Blur - On (I always turn that shyt off)
AO - Medium
Dynamic Res - Off

"Medium" setting are the original PS4 Pro settings

I've also heard the ingame Vsync and Frame Limiter are trash, so force those through the driver/RTSS

ive been running it at these settings 1440p and 80FOV, and get about 70-90fps. some stuttering happening during cut scenes and facial animations looks weird at times, but besides that my experience has been pretty decent. im on a 2080Super

 

[Arcavian]

Game is looking beautiful

 

[Half A $]

A badly optimized game is fixed with a patch, a bad game is bad forever.

 

[Fatboi1]

Documented the save transfer process for anyone interested while "porting" Zips's save. This is for Save Wizard, those who are savvy enough to use PS4 Save Mounter on a jailbroken console can just skip to step 6/7 after retrieving their decrypted save, I won't explain all of that here.

1. Backup your desired HZD save (it probably needs to be the complete edition or a version that could technically access the DLC expansion) to a USB drive. Sony instructions
2. Open Save Wizard on your PC and insert the USB drive
3. Choose the desired save under "My saves", right click and select "Advanced mode"
4. Wait
5. Once you see the hex view, click on "Export to file" (second to last icon in this pic: https://abload.de/img/bildschirmfoto2020-08glk1t.png)
6. Keep the name "checkpoint.dat", it's used in the PC version as well
7. Navigate to C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Horizon Zero Dawn\Saved Game and pick a save folder. There must be an existing save in the folder that you're going to overwrite. I used autosave0.
8. Launch the game and load the save (the text and image you see won't be representative of the PS4 status). Should load just fine.
9. You may want to immediately save your game to a new manual slot to create a more proper save state.
10. You can now quit Save Wizard and eject the USB drive, you're done

Note 1: I ran into a weird issue where the game took it's mirroring/blurring in 21:9 mode ad absurdum and applied it to gameplay as well, but restarting the game fixed that. It was probably not related to the PS4 save, but just the general jankiness of the PC version. I also had a single crash while fast traveling across the map, but that also wasn't reproducible and might just be due to the state of the port.

Note 2: I haven't tested this extensively, so there might actually be issues. Use at your own risk.

Edit: Save Wizard requires a license key that is $60. Never mind I'll start the game over.

 

[Fatboi1]

I'm going to "try" this game out later to see how it fares on PC.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I'm going to "try" this game out later to see how it fares on PC.

Me too

 

[Sghost597]

Plays just fine for me and my 2080ti.

 

[DetroitEWarren]

Cracked already, I'm about to eat

 

[Arcavian]

Game is working fine for me, looks incredible

 

[daze23]

2070 Super
9700k

it's running good for me at 1080p 60fps

it crashed the first time I launch it, before any splash screens


building the shader cache took forever. it also had all my cpu cores at 90+% and used all my memory (16gb)
god damn intro before I could adjust settings

used the DF suggested settings

exited out to adjust NCP (AF and Vsync) and RTSS (framerate limiter) settings

had to watch the intro again since I never started the game

everything smooth, but I had some weird texture issues (the feather in her hair looked like static). turns out you need to rebuild the shader cache after forcing AF via NCP. did that, and the issues went away

everything good now. a steady 16.6 frametime with RTSS. 30fps animations are noticeable in some cutscenes. and I did notice a stutter when the UI changes (new waypoint, etc)

 

[Biblical Goon]

Cracked already, I'm about to eat

I need dat link

 

[Phillyrider807]

I need dat link

It's not hard to find.


Running pretty damn well on my 1060 actually. I'm not upgrading until the 3000 cards come out.