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Digital Foundry: Horizon Zero Dawn-An Amazing Game Gets A Disappointing Port
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So because this is a new thing for GG we should give it a pass? No, thank you.
I've been running through my first playthrough on a Pro the last week or so. Considering how good it looks overall there, I'm surprised at some of the shortcomings/performance limitations.
The game is a damned good modern take on the hunting game in Oregon Trail.
Edit: I've been playing the video on-and-off in the background, so I easily missed it, but I'm curious if the persistent pop-in issues from some areas in the original are fixed.
The game is a damned good modern take on the hunting game in Oregon Trail.
Edit: I've been playing the video on-and-off in the background, so I easily missed it, but I'm curious if the persistent pop-in issues from some areas in the original are fixed.
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Virtuos did port? They can't even maintain their web page XD
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I'm going to try the settings DF recommended.
Not gonna lie, I don't see any differenceClouds on Ultra are very demanding.
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The game running on 4k Original settings on a 2080Ti and Ryzen 3900X was at 40FPS, but it wasn't fully utilizing the GPU(it was at High 70s/Low 80s), Alex fixed but honestly I didn't understand how, but it was a weird problem.
this is giving me assassins creed odyssey vibes where the game has settings that seem to do nothing and other settings where theres little to no difference but huge framerate hits, and take monster power to run
Unless they changed it, No Man's Sky, and I'm sure I've seen it elsewhere.
His card was not plugged into a 16 lane slot on his mobo.
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Borderlands 3 IIRC.
It's also in Death Stranding during the first cut scene / intro which makes the game stuttery as fuck. If you go look at the opening pages of the DS port's release you'll see a ton of complaints about stuttering that mostly die out because it's just at that one point.
Doubt the PS5 gets this version, the original devs will port this to PS5 if it gets ported at all. Sony doesn't have incentive for PC to be the definitive version of their games. The whole point is to get these folks to buy a PlayStation and with sub par ports that's exactly what they may do.
big oof. The facial animations were already a big weakness for the game but the higher framerate makes it even worse. The vegetation moving honestly looks awful, actually prefer the static foilage over that. And the stutters that occur regardless.... that alone is enough to turn me away.
Detroit become human was also designed for PS4 AND 30fps in mind and it's not bad on PC
Beyond Two Souls and Heavy Rain were also designed for PS3 in mind which is a totally different architecture from PS4 and PC and they run well.
I switch out components in my PC all the time for work and I switched slots recently again for cooling purposes and switched capture card location - I unwittingly put it in the sole 8x slot without thinking. Yeah - I make mistakes.
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Oh, makes sense, thanks for explaining.
Same as AC Odyssey you can turn it to low and save 25-30 frames and notice almost no difference tbh.Clouds on Ultra are very demanding.
Bummed that it is such a compromised port. I won't complain much because I got it for very cheap but it def need to be fixed.
Nobody is going to buy PS5 because of the shitty port of a years old game. That only happens in a Bizarro world.
Great work Alex. It's brutal just how poor the port is in so many ways. For me I think the biggest issue is the animations that don't run at the proper framerate, especially things like facial animations that are pretty important for a story-heavy game like this. It almost makes me wanna just lock everything to 30 fps via RTSS and crank the resolution.
LOL even this is now being spun as part of some plan? It's always some 4d chess move
I thought about it but since your playing FAR FAR more than watching cutscenes and since the original game had oddities in its cutscenes already, its not at all worth it,.
Last driver release (and the hotfix after that) already state support for HZD.
This is a DX12 title, it's on devs to fix it.
Given that the game utilizes DX12 i wouldnt expect driver updates to really do much. The devs have to patch the game so it utilizes Pascal better.
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Budget for those ports were probably way higher than this one, considering QD is now multiplatform. Not the first time QD makes a game for PC too.
Because GG is busy with Horizon 2.
Plus they spent almost year on porting Detroit.
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Also there is a lot more going on in Horizon than Death stranding.