Horizon Forbidden West PC - Best Settings - Digital Foundry Optimised 

And all of them fully mocapped even in sidequests And everyone sweats and has peachfuzz

@@Pointman11111Peachfuzz? Sounds pretty woke /s

@@Funkopotamus920 😂

the attention to detail is amazing. i was expecting more of the same but better but they knocked it out of the park its almost like a compleatly different game.

Does framerate really matter for cutscenes? As long as it's over 24fps

@@wx2999 it's not like what you think though. It tanks fucking hard to the point that the animations stutter (erratic playback) and the lip sync breaks way off. It's not watchable. There are a TON of cutscenes and conversational/dialogue scenes with NPC's in this game so you just can't have that. Plus, performance doesn't go back up to normal after the cutscenes and I think it's because the game struggles to remove the textures loaded by the cutscene from the memory even when it's over so what happens is there's not enough space for new ones from regular gameplay to come in which results to stuttery gameplay and erratic FPS. You'd have to restart the game after almost every cutscene just to get performance back up to normal. The game simply wants more VRAM.

The same thing happened to me and I thought it was my card x.x

i have shadows set to low on 30708gb and im still hitting 20-50 fps, its insane. gj nixxes

@@don__clemenza maybe you still have texture quality to set to high. Set both Texture and Shadows to Medium then restart the game and see if it's any better. You will still have some minor hiccups during cutscenes but it won't be as broken. I also disabled Parallax Occlusion Mapping. Although most would say it doesn't affect FPS, I found that stability when things are in motion improved without it on my end.

Yeah, I've noticed it happens when there are more than 2 characters in the cutscene, I hope someone has a solution for this

@@thrilla72 Yep.Let's hope Nixxes will finally hear about this problem...There is no solution yet

Probably didn't play it long enough. Game is boring af

​@@UlyssesMprobably because your poor lol

If you are worried about this wait till you get to burning shores dlc. Performance tanks and I would say it's unplayable.

​@@UlyssesMI thought so too until I tried it with the dualsense controller. Changed everything for me

It's fixed on the latest update

cpu usage seems to be okay for me but burning shores gpu usage is too high with random fps drops every 5 seconds. Even when there is nothing on the screen. Base game ran at 4k 60 with dlss balanced. [except cities and cutscenes]. My hardware is 7600x with 4070.

@@dr.sivavignesh664 in that case turn on dynamic resolution and set a target, if it's a gpu issue all will be well, but I'm pretty sure it's cpu related.

Yeah it was so distracting. Was it fuzzy on the ps5?

4k dlss upto balanced looks great. dlss performance makes it look a bit blurry for my taste but you should be able to hit 4k dlss balanced with maxed out settings in the base game. Burning shores is a whole different story. Personally i think its broken and unplayable. Based on my hardware rtx 4070 7600x 32gb ram.

I'd say DLSS quality (which is upscaling from 1440p to 4K) is better than having an 1800p image being upscaled to 4K. What you can also do is get DLSSTweaks and set your own custom resolution scaling for each preset. For instance, you can override DLSS quality to 80% on each scale instead of 66%, balanced to 66% instead of 58%, and so on. You can also use it to force DLAA in games that have DLSS support but doesn't support DLAA.

I have the same cpu. This game is cpu bound in the 50-70 fps bracket. Depending on the zone. I haven't reached the DLC but already every town hub has the gpu at 70% usage and the gpu at %100

Game definitely isn't properly optimised. This is the worst port nixxes has done so far. And probably the only bad port hopefully. If they can manage to solve these memory leak issues, rhen it eill be perfect, because it sucks having to restart the game many times to fix performance

@@GmodArgentina though my Nvidia overlay doesn't show cpu usage at 100% you may be right. Sometimes the cpu usage does reach 100% but for me the gpu usage reaches 100% more than the cpu. Limiting the game to vsync 50hz with digital foundry optimised settings made it playable. ( 4k Dlss balanced). If ps5 can do 60fps we should be able to pull that off. They need to patch the dlc section. Also the arena npc area. That section has fps drops all over the place and npcs keep glitching.

@@dr.sivavignesh664RTSS shows the per core load. There you can see how some cores at are at 100% and some aren't. Nvidia overlay reports the average core load. Indeed if the PS5 had no issue running 60fps the Ryzen 7600 shouldn't, but I think it is currently struggling. Independently of the other problems the game has. Even the requirements image shows a Ryzen 3600 is able run this game at 60fps.

@@GmodArgentina hope they fix this issue. I've poured in 80 plus hours into the game to just quit playing before the end though. I don't see the dlc as a drastic next gen improvement compared to the base game though. The clouds definitely looks great but other than that to my eyes it looks similar to the far west portion of the base game. ( which ran flawlessly ).

all games at launch nowadays are so broken you gotta almost a year to properly play it, right now the dlc burning shore runs horribly

Do you play with the textures on high and the quality of the shadows on medium to have more than 60Fps? and the dlss in quality?

@@elias3713 yes and I turn off nvidia reflex. That gives me a consistent 60fps most of the time.

@@MzaM That is to say that you get to go down to less than 60fps? What is the maximum FPS that comes in the game?

@@elias3713 the maximum fps the game can achieve depends entirely on your pc. I cap mine at 60 because my setup is not powerful enough to sustain more than 60 fps consistently.

@@MzaM In my case my configuration is a 3060 Ti 8gb oc, i5 12400F and 16gb@3200mhz. With the texture settings on high, shadows on high and everything else on high, it is more than likely that it will play at more than 60Fps, right? I have seen that in other videos. yes, with the dlss in quality

1080p at 60? sure. 1440p at 60( 40 maybe in big settlements0

Medium with Low textures and with DLSS is what I recommend. Some people can get away with High textures so you gotta try it for yourself. This is really depends on your luck of course.

48fps? Ewww

I honestly think the memory isnt the core problem. For this one, but its the game itself.

That is a dlc i would pay for

just a pair of clean boxers, pretty much.

​@@DravenxEyeless💀 too much white stains everywhere

"Realistic" settings... lol

@@redclaw72666 explain?

@@redclaw72666 explain?

Yeah .

thank sony ya got to play this masterpiece

*Are you using the numeric value of 10 with the mathematical x = times, to objectively quantify subjective aesthetic = looks better*

in reality the differences are... not worth to mention ;P let me say like this. This game will probably look better on PS5 for the most end users on a big OLED TV screen with true HDR, while PC Gamer are so outdated and behind the quality in terms of HDR for example. ^^

@@makoto5280so people can just plug their pc into a an OLED TV or monitor with true HDR

The difference isn't visible!