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Horizon Zero Dawn patch promises up to 10% performance gains

At launch the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn was a bit of a mess. Some people – like us in our initial review – ran it fine enough, while others struggled immensely even on powerful hardware. Thankfully developer Guerrilla Games has continued to work on it.

The latest patch was released just today – 1.04. As expected this tackles the performance and stability issues of the game.

“This patch aims to resolve additional crashes as well as a host of gameplay and performance improvements. We are continuing to investigate open issues and will update you when we have more news available,” an announcement on Steam reads.

Known issues right now include memory errors during initial optimisation, graphic setting issues, Aloy’s hair physics at higher than 30 FPS, and certain hardware configurations not playing nicely with the game.

What has been addressed in this patch are certain crashes and smaller improvements. Most impressive of all, however, can be found under the “performance improvements” section where Guerrilla are touring some promising numbers:

  • “General improvement to CPU performance (depending on CPU/GPU speeds, this can result in a 1-10% performance improvement)
  • Improved performance of camera cuts in cinematics and conversations”.

While 10 percent is the maximum here it’s still very promising. At launch, while we were getting high 50s in our average FPS results, the experience was much more choppy than that number would suggest. Every percentage improvement on that is welcome, especially post launch of a Complete Edition of the game.

The full patch notes for 1.04 are available here.

Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition launched on Steam on 7th August and has been receiving a patch like this every single week. We can only hope that this continues until the port is as stable as possible, or at least runs as well as Death Stranding.

Hideo Kojima’s latest title runs on the same engine as Horizon Zero Dawn, Decima, but its PC port has been staggeringly better.

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