Horizon Zero Dawn - Great performance?

[Aereldor]

Everyone's bitching about the performance issues, but I'm running this on a GTX 1060 at 1440p using a combination of medium, high, and ultra, and it hasn't once dropped below 30fps at 1440p. 

 

How are your results?

[dfsgsfa]

gtx970 @ 1500mhz 

avg 50 fps at ultra model and details

others med to low ( cloud , shadow, reflection , blur)

taa and vsync on

 

##at 1080p

Edited August 10, 2020 by dfsgsfa

[Aereldor]

4 minutes ago, dfsgsfa said:

gtx970 @ 1500mhz 

avg 50 fps at ultra model and details

others med to low ( cloud , shadow, reflection , blur)

taa and vsync on

1080p?

[The Sloth]

i had frame pacing, random studder on Ryzen+ 2080ti system like Digital foundry has, overall not a smooth experience, ended up getting a refund. 

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-horizon-zero-dawn-pc-tech-review

 

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 While testing and re-testing across systems, the process could often stall and lock-up even when required storage was available. Beyond that, when I booted the game on my 4K screen in full-screen mode, something didn't look right. It turned out that Horizon was rendering at 4K, downscaling to 1080p, then upscaling to 4K again. Switching to the borderless display option fixes this (albeit introducing other issues), as does swapping back to full-screen mode from borderless. Bizarre.

 

 

the image quality looks bad, ps4 pro looked better overall with a solid 30 fps. 

 

 

 

[Aereldor]

13 minutes ago, The Sloth said:

the image quality looks bad, ps4 pro looked better overall with a solid 30 fps. 

tbh I'm pretty happy with the image quality, running it on borderless so I didn't run into the weird downscaling-upscaling issue, and besides a couple stutters in that first bit in the rooms as a kid, it's run fine so far. I'm honestly astounded at a laptop 1060 doing this well at 1440p in a game that is known to be poorly optimized.

[SkilledRebuilds]

In Gameplay outside of cutscenes,... no stuttering (hard stutter) but tiny micro stutters can be seen or felt at random sweeping mouse movements...
Cutscene transitions are trash though.... every single "cut" has a hard stutter.

Game also has some serious weirdness.. I can do a 180 turn, go from 75fps (in a foliage heavy jungle area) but on the 180 turn, its 50fps (slowly recovers in a second back to 60fps) when I'm not moving the mouse at all,... like its bottlenecked internally and recovering slowly. (or my MainSys DDR32133 Memory is bottlenecking me)

 

Outside running around, it's been quite great... (I have a playlist on YT for HZD for the curious but can't post them here)

[recon_zero_]

Some people do not think that 30 fps is great performance. If you are happy, great for you!

 

With those settings you should SMOKE 30 fps at medium settings imo, but the port makes it hard. 

 

I am happy with my performance at 60 fps but there are skips and framepacing issues whenever an icon pops up in the screen. Also cutscenes. The experience is wildly inconsistent. With a pc that "old" I'm happy you are getting great results

[Aereldor]

5 hours ago, recon_zero_ said:

Some people do not think that 30 fps is great performance. If you are happy, great for you!

 

With those settings you should SMOKE 30 fps at medium settings imo, but the port makes it hard. 

 

I am happy with my performance at 60 fps but there are skips and framepacing issues whenever an icon pops up in the screen. Also cutscenes. The experience is wildly inconsistent. With a pc that "old" I'm happy you are getting great results

A laptop 1060 at 1440p? I don't know, I don't normally get to push things this high and get solid performance. 

 

Textures - Medium

Models - Ultra

Filtering - Ultra

Shadows - High

Reflections- Medium

Clouds - High

Antialiasing - TAA (max)

Motion Blur - On

Ambient Occlusion - Medium

 

At 1080p this runs at 60fps, but I have a 1440p panel so 1080p looks bad. 720p I can max it out but I prefer 1440 optimized over 720 maxed. 

 

Gonna try a GTX 960 2GB at 1080p today and see how it goes, probably gonna see some VRAM bottlenecking.

 

 

 

[recon_zero_]

Slowmo Aiming (concentration) is bugged in my save. Many are reporting the same

 

https://streamable.com/yzhanj

[SolarNova]

On 8/9/2020 at 7:53 PM, Aereldor said:

Everyone's bitching about the performance issues, but I'm running this on a GTX 1060 at 1440p using a combination of medium, high, and ultra, and it hasn't once dropped below 30fps at 1440p. 

 

How are your results?

Well to be fair, not going below 30 isnt indicative of good performance. Not going below 60 is. For PC ofc.

 

Averages above 60 and minimums no lower than 50 are the 'minimum' target for good performance.

 

The way HZD is performing while not ideal, isnt unexpected, its a Console port after all.

[recon_zero_]

Reddit and resetera issues list

 

• Poor performance on even the most highend of gpu's (this is believed to be a poorly engineered graphics pipeline that saturates the PCI-Express bus)
• Stuttering
• Slow motion aiming not working for some players
• Snow deformation not working
• Hair physics only working correctly at 30fps
• Anisotropic filtering settings change nothing (has to be forced at the driver level then the shader cache rebuilt)
• EDIT: Crashing, lots of complaints about crashing
• Ultra compressed audio
• HDR implementation is a bad one only using 8-bit instead of 10-bit?
• Very high memory usage (one possible cause of crashing)
• Mouse aiming issues
• Steam input issues
• LOD issues
• Getting stuck as child Aloy

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/horizon-zero-dawn-complete-edition-pc-performance-thread.263850/post-42175098

[Ralf]

Your laptop must be a beast to get that performance with only 1250MHz core on the gpu.

I remember back in the day when the OC'd HD5770 was wiping the floor with the HD5870.

[Aereldor]

1 hour ago, Ralf said:

Your laptop must be a beast to get that performance with only 1250MHz core on the gpu.

I remember back in the day when the OC'd HD5770 was wiping the floor with the HD5870.

It's not, the fucker was throttling until recently. It still runs really hot but for some reason no matter what I do the GPU doesn't get beyond 1300, whether it's running at 70 degrees or 90 degrees...
 

But yeah that performance is pretty nice, I'm surprised by it. Probably comes down to the software just working for me.

 

I remember that too, also when the overclocked Pentium G3258 was trading blows with the 4790k, and when an overclocked GTX 970 was on par with a 980.

[Aereldor]

1 hour ago, Ralf said:

Your laptop must be a beast to get that performance with only 1250MHz core on the gpu.

I remember back in the day when the OC'd HD5770 was wiping the floor with the HD5870.

I was wrong, it's boosting to 1750 mhz, peak 1848. It just wasn't boosting in benchmarks. Temps are good throughout gameplay, max 85 on both CPU and GPU. It also explains the really great performance.

 

They only get into the 90s when I stick them both at 100% with benchmarks.

[Praesi]

1440p max settings (clouds and reflections high) 

~45fps. Depending on location, daytime and lightning it can go up or down 5fps.

 

I use an older driver tho. Since it works with it, i will not take any chances by changing it.

 

With Gsync it feels smooth and fluid.

 

I had 2 crashes in 40h. The first happened at the 30h mark.

 

Nothing to complain about. Ive read all the complains too, nothing of that happened to me.

 

Game looks awesome, but most important, the gameplay is fun.

 

[Aereldor]

8 hours ago, Praesi said:

1440p max settings (clouds and reflections high) 

~45fps. Depending on location, daytime and lightning it can go up or down 5fps.

 

I use an older driver tho. Since it works with it, i will not take any chances by changing it.

 

With Gsync it feels smooth and fluid.

 

I had 2 crashes in 40h. The first happened at the 30h mark.

 

Nothing to complain about. Ive read all the complains too, nothing of that happened to me.

 

Game looks awesome, but most important, the gameplay is fun.

2 crashes here too, but I'm 30 hours in. GTX 1060 is now holding 40-45 1440p medium, occasionally dips into the 30s but it's too brief to notice. 

 

I find max settings on this game suck... They're visually indistinguishable from medium, and Anisotropic Filtering doesn't work in the game, you have to force it through Nvidia Control Panel, which causes glitches. Tbh I'm not sure why you don't just put it on 'medium' and get 60fps. The game was literally designed with the medium settings in mind, that's why the setting is called 'original' and not 'medium'. 

[GamerBlake]

On 8/9/2020 at 11:53 AM, Aereldor said:

Everyone's bitching about the performance issues, but I'm running this on a GTX 1060 at 1440p using a combination of medium, high, and ultra, and it hasn't once dropped below 30fps at 1440p. 

 

How are your results?

I just beat this game yesterday on hard mode (regular hard mode not ultra hard) so I feel I can speak about it with an informed mindset.

 

I haven’t had any problems with it at all except for one crash when I was exiting the game and that didn’t really matter since my saved game was fine and I was quitting the game for the night.

 

As for in-game performance:

 

I ran it on my 860 EVO SSD with an 8700K + 2080 Ti @ 1440p with maximum settings possible and was getting ~75 FPS.

 

 

[Praesi]

1 hour ago, Aereldor said:

2 crashes here too, but I'm 30 hours in. GTX 1060 is now holding 40-45 1440p medium, occasionally dips into the 30s but it's too brief to notice. 

 

I find max settings on this game suck... They're visually indistinguishable from medium, and Anisotropic Filtering doesn't work in the game, you have to force it through Nvidia Control Panel, which causes glitches. Tbh I'm not sure why you don't just put it on 'medium' and get 60fps. The game was literally designed with the medium settings in mind, that's why the setting is called 'original' and not 'medium'. 

With Gsync there is not much difference between 45 and 60 fps. 

[Aereldor]

On 8/13/2020 at 6:34 PM, Praesi said:

40h.

 

the gameplay is fun.

What difficulty level are you playing on? And what are some cool combat strategies? I'm on hard and I'm managing to take out thunderjaws and stormbirds with the ropecaster without taking much damage, groups of anything aggressive still give me a hard time though.

[Praesi]

3 hours ago, Aereldor said:

What difficulty level are you playing on? And what are some cool combat strategies? I'm on hard and I'm managing to take out thunderjaws and stormbirds with the ropecaster without taking much damage, groups of anything aggressive still give me a hard time though.

Shadow Sharpshooter with 3 damage Mods. 3 Arrows (Upgrade is a must) on Weakspots gets every Enemy down.