I read something about them doing a post right when the preload went up to warn people there were going to be a lot of issues, so I kind of figured it was going to be in rough shape since I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before
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Digital Foundry: Horizon Zero Dawn-An Amazing Game Gets A Disappointing Port
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They helped out with the development of HZD on PS4, though, so thats most likely a reference to that.
Virtuos site (no ssl, lol) right now greets you with 20 sec HZD video. Not that they are hiding something.
QD needed their engine to run good on other platforms to go multiplatform so he has a point on how much effort went into properly porting it to PC.
HZD PC port from all the results looks like a very low key effort. Time a game was in a porting process is irrelevant without knowing how many people worked on it and what kind of access they've had to the original code base.
Shame, because the moments where it is hitting 60fps improves the game's look dramatically. I remember being shocked at how good the game looked on my friend's base PS4 until we started panning the camera around and 30fps reared its ugly head. Was hoping to pick this one up on PC, but I guess I shall wait. I have to believe everything here is fixable. Another excellent video, as always, by Digital Foundry.
Really? Honestly it looks pretty damn good like that. That's a cool side effect. Great video btw!
kinda reminds me of every Japanese devs first go at a pc version. there isnt much of a excuse for sony though to mess up as bad as they did.
Alex's optimised settings for future reference:
Can't watch the video now, Dictator why medium textures? Is that an issue on a high VRAM card?
If this is an indication of quality of their ports, we ain't gonna lose much sleep over it.
You should check out the written article:
Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port is deeply disappointing
Horizon Zero Dawn has its own particular place of honour in a phenomenal line-up of PlayStation 4 first-party exclusive…
www.eurogamer.net
pc market has always been a double edged sword. on one hand most games sell better on consoles than pc, but the few games that matter too breack through run rings around console sales number. pc players are highly selective though, and very picky.
Really? I'm stuck then with an i7 9850 and 2070. I was going to pick this up on a sale but not if it doesn't run well.
they gonna think twice about releasing another shoddy port of a 3 year old game for a near full price?
It's really a shame that such an important release was not given proper attention. Great video Alex.
He's not going to give you the shortcut when he put the work in explaining this finding. Watch it when you can.
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It is from digital foundry video.
That's pretty inexcusable, oh well, saved me some cash :)
I haven't had a chance to watch the video, is there any indication what's causing the stutters? Did they try running the game on an NVMe drive?
Well, looking forward to experiencing it again when it is properly patched and what not. I can purchase later, plenty of stuff to play in the meantime.
None of issues presented in the video/breakdown would be solved by something that "simple".
None of issues presented in the video/breakdown would be solved by something that "simple".
I mean do you really want someone who wants to do the minimum amount of work and expect to be rewarded for it? If Sony really had any plans for PC then they would work to fix this and show that they are committed to doing this right. If not then this whole thing was a lark and they never had any long term PC plans for any of their games.
As it stand now their are trending worse than when WB put out that shit port of AK, until they came back and at least made it somewhat decent.
Man this is disappointing. The abysmal performance on that GTX 1060 is simply inexcusable. Almost literally running like a base PS4 with massively more powerful components.
We should not be brute forcing decent performance out of this game to such an extent.
We should not be brute forcing decent performance out of this game to such an extent.
With that combo you'll be able to do 60fps at 1080p, or maybe even 1440p, using Alex's optimized settings.
Detroit Become Human. I posted about it recently.
The install process for Detroit Become Human on PC is ridiculous.
Bought the game on Steam, installed it, and got this on first run: I have been waiting for 15 minutes for this to finish. It's worse than MGS4's install process on PS3. What's the worse install process you've gone through? EDIT: Process finished around 30 odd minutes.
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You should check out the written article:
Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port is deeply disappointing
Horizon Zero Dawn has its own particular place of honour in a phenomenal line-up of PlayStation 4 first-party exclusive…
Thanks!
Bummer about this port. Hopefully they update it for PS5 and it fares better.
Primeros minutos de Horizon Zero Dawn en PC antes del análisis tras instalar un gigantesco parche
Primeros minutos de Hoziron Zero Dan en PC antes de nuestro análisis, que publicaremos tras probar el juego con un parche que soluciona problemas visuales.
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Dictator Virtuos is doing the port of the PC version, not Guerrilla Games. Probably working on Horizon 2 and a second game. After this is not an excuse and the port needs to improved asap.
I hope they do both! Personally I'm holding out for a potential PS5 upgrade but I'd happily buy this version if that doesn't pan out.
Well, even if it's locked at 30 fps, it'd be an improvement.
So was the port done in-house? Partially outsourced or entirely outsourced? Because I'd hope guerilla would see a stutter every 300fps and know how to fix it given that it's their own engine and Kojima Production was able to do it. Also, AF not working from the settings menu?? No DLSS2.0 when Kojima Production might have shared some tech stuff on it and nVidia helps their big name customers with the implementation?
That's true but I want it to be the most glorious PC game of all time.
To drive more people to buy PS4s to get the better experience, obviously.
What a joke. They really don't understand the PC audience at all.
Thumbs down review + refund.
Hey, I did the same for Batman AK. Eventually they fixed it and I changed my feedback.