Horizon Forbidden West PC - Optimised Settings vs PS5 - The DF Breakdown

We're rounding off our coverage for Horizon Forbidden West's impressive PC port with a look at optimised settings, how they stack up against PlayStation 5 and what kind of performance wins you should expect. On top of that, there's disappointment with the current performance on Steam Deck, while Alex also offers up some suggestions for future patches.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:29 Optimised Settings
00:08:29 Can you play on Steam Deck?
00:11:19 Upscaling Quality and Frame Generation
00:13:36 Conclusion

[GS]

"Look at the clouds in the background, they are vibrating quite intensely" probably the first person ever to say that sentence.

[riven]

Sony acquiring Nixxes was probably their most gigabrained move in a long while. Horizon Forbidden West is a blast to play maxed out with HDR.

[pwhite]

Some important factors this video does not take into account:

- The LOD setting does not only affect details at a distance but it also affect the detail quality of characters.

- Putting the shadows to medium or lower removes the "hero lighting" for Aloy. Which is rather fundamental for the games art direction.

[MidgameLifeCrisis]

Without a doubt, hands down, one of the absolutely BEST PC Ports i ever had the pleasure of playing,
EXTREMELY customizable in all areas, including accessibility, no bugs encountered, runs like butter and looks fantastic.
Nixxes really are setting a shinning example of how PC ports should look like, VERY EXCITED for the Ghosts Of Tsushima port later this year.

[Stinger]

Anisotropic Filtering is something I always run at 16X going clear back to Half-Life 2 and Halo as even weapon models, like shotguns, were affected.

[WillieDWashington]

I'm just playing on auto settings in 1440p and it's the smoothest game I've seen on my PC rig for years! It makes me want to forget building a new rig like I've been planning on for months.

[johncee]

Thank you for covering the steam deck.

[jonny-b]

Level of Detail, despite it's description in the menu, does not ONLY affect LOD's. It affects general detail levels. It makes the high detail grass found on rocks and what not, completely disappear. Doesn't even pop back in if standing on top of it. I was getting crazy more FPS using medium instead of high at first, but once I got out of the first area, it didn't seem to make much difference really in FPS wise but definitely did on looks.

[gdoumit]

Really happy you covered the Steam Deck. Much appreciated.

[WH]

This game looks ridiculously beautiful. The best looking game on ps5, AND in 60 fps.

[nothingisawesome]

i wasnt even going to buy this game but everyone saying how good the port is sold me

[blueblixx_]

nixxes, pls port Bloodborne maybe next time. But seriously these guys are knocking these PC ports out of the park.

[jodieholmes]

Looks good and glad they got it right this time around.

[GameslordXY]

Game looks amazing at Medium.
Even at Low it looks Ok.

[drworm]

outstanding work, as usual. theses videos are so helpful, and really do a good job of explaining the "why" of the settings.

[Bigcountry]

Are you guys going to do this for the burning shores because that’s where the real trouble is for me.

[hakangokhan]

The most beautiful game of the generation so far. Absolutely loved playing it on PS5 and the Burning Shores DLC was even more gorgeous.

[sean]

Was so happy when I saw this on steam and saw Nixxes as the developer. They earned a pretty strong confidence from me from their track record. So glad they are doing Ghosts as well.

[MrCris]

I remember playing HFW on PS5 with a U8H TV using HDR up to 1000nits, I almost got blind but the games was stunning and quite beautiful, Now I can't imagine how this may look in 4K60FPSHDR in an AMOLED display with at least 700nits 🤤

[MzaM]

On my rtx 3060ti I had a lot of problems keeping consistent 60fps at 1440p with nvidia reflex low latency on. When I turned off nvidia reflex, the 60fps became super stable.