Argh, frametime, not framerate.Made a GIF of me moving through the graph so you can see the values
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Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition PC Performance Thread
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They have had updates every 2 weeks since launch but last week they missed / did not have any?
Was there any new news about this or did I just miss it?
Was there any new news about this or did I just miss it?
Thanks for the update, indeed I missed that!
Much appreciated! <3
like.... frametimes IS framerate.
if your framerate is fluctuating, then you are gonna have a fluctuating frametime too.
If your fps is locked and actually stable yet your frametime is still fluctuating, that is an issue but you aint gonna get smooth frametimes from unlocked/variable framerate no matter what
Well yes, but to see stuttering ie sudden quick framespikes, you need to look at the frametimes and not framerate. Framerate fluctuations are not the problem in HZD, its the sudden quick frametime spikes (which wont make your framerate tank, since you know, they are super quick). If I lock my fps to 60 in HZD, my framerate looks very smooth, looking at the frametime graph shows a different story since it has constant sudden spikes.
Edit. More at: https://medium.com/@lakshyasrivasta...he-secret-to-silky-smooth-gaming-fbd740410e04
It's much better but feels like it's 1 or 2 more patches away from a full fix.
I have a 1080Ti, so not the best comparison, but I'm playing at ultra settings at 1440p and the framerate feels very smooth. Only two crashes so far (one in-game and one when exiting the game) and I'm two main missions away from the ending. I stopped that to do Frozen Wilds.
By christimas the game should be really good, im think of buy a graphics card by that time and play it before the second one drops, should get a sale as well.
I am happy with the console setting and 1080p. Just are there still snow and af bugs along with physics issue
Out of these, only the AF bug remains. But then again, you can enable it on the Nvidia Control Panel instead. I do recommend you rebuild the shader cache, though. I'm doing that after each patch just in case.
I built a new PC, installed Horizon to a new NVME drive, ran it and... it didn't perform a shader cache?
fyi i cannot maintain 1080p60 on a gtx 1080 so your mileage will vary
The 3080/[email protected] I'm running is enough to brute force this game into being smooth (85+ fps maxed at 1440p), but I get very bad stutters for the first 15 seconds or so after loading into the game. Seems loading assets is not smooth right now. But once the initial startup is done, it runs well.
How does it look at 1440 on the 3080?
I just got a 3080 Build with a 1440 ultrawide and thought this would be a good choice to show what it can do.
It looks good! Textures are a little underwhelming but the smoothness and art design are great.
This is weird for sure. It should've recompiled the shaders.
Wasn't this causing another bug, though, iirc?
Really interested in the PC version, but with all the technical issues I've heard of and with the need to build a shader cache before playing (which seems so not 2020) I'm really turned off.
you can force AS on, you just need to delete any existing shader cache and rebuild or you get graphical issues
Man, this engine/game seems so weird it feels like being back in the 90s with fiddling around like that :/ But thank you anyways for the advice!
Another question: Did they patch the missing snow deformation I've read about here in mid-August?
you can tell the devs were used to building for a console target where they get to decide everything and just weren't experienced on how to add scalability and graphics settings to the game in an elegant, simple to use way.
hopefully they'll nail it next time.
Depends on who does the port next time. If they farm it out like they did this one, it'll probably end up just as bad. Death Stranding (newer version of the same engine) didn't have these problems because KojiPro themselves did the PC port.
If the rumors were true of Sony "testing the waters" of PC ports of their otherwise-exclusive titles, hopefully they've learned something by the different reception these two games got.
I tested that a couple weeks ago, it's been fixed since I think 1.04.
The game is in a good place, hopefully the next patch resolves the very few issues that are left.
The AF bug happened if you had already built the cache before enabling it in the Control Panel. So if you enable before you start the game for the first time, you're OK. You also don't need to rebuild the cache after each patch. I only do it out of precaution. Doesn't take that long on my PC, either. It's 10-15 minutes. As for the snow deformation, it's fixed.
Thank you! Maybe I get it once it's on sale :)
Hope the 1.06 patch comes soon. Waiting to see what they fix with that before finally purchasing this.
I've been keeping an eye on the SteamDB page.
https://steamdb.info/app/1151640/history/
No updates in almost a week, hopefully that means that testing is well under way.
The stutter on camera chabgetext box opening and New area change was still there when i tested 3 weeks ago now. Also af was not working and Vsync still causes periodic 33,3 ms dips. Borderless also dips performance more than it should.
General performance was much higher, but still those issues made it as of 3 weeks ago not a recommended game for me.
I wonder if they will also look at the 30 fps grass Animation...
General performance was much higher, but still those issues made it as of 3 weeks ago not a recommended game for me.
I wonder if they will also look at the 30 fps grass Animation...
Damn.
I wish there was more buzz around it. It's a great technical showcase marred by issues like these.
I just wish they implemented DLSS 2.0/2.1. That would probably fix a lot of the framerate issues without sacrafising much of image quality. Sure, it's just a way of bypassing bad optimization in this case, but I would gladly use DLSS over the performance at native resolution it currently has.
Hey on the other hand yesterday was the first time I could load the game without it CTD-ing 👍🙌
"Aloy forward walking direction – Aloy now walks directly towards the direction the camera is facing when you press forward, rather than at a slight angle."
What!? Haha this feels like such a simple thing that it's crazy this is only being fixed months after launch.
What!? Haha this feels like such a simple thing that it's crazy this is only being fixed months after launch.
To be fair, I assume the AF setting is taking so long to fix because it more or less requires completely reworking how the game compiles shaders, as users having to sit through that process whenever they change the value is far from ideal.
Looks like the fall off distance for that effect is borked, or the transparency is too opqaue now.Was the fire arrow glow always this obnoxious or did it change with this update?
I do not think it was that way before.