Horizon Zero Dawn
Developers | |
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Guerrilla Games | |
Windows | Virtuos[1] |
Publishers | |
PlayStation Mobile | |
Engines | |
Decima | |
Release dates | |
Windows | August 7, 2020 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 85 |
OpenCritic | 83 |
IGDB | 89 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | ARPG, Open world |
Vehicles | Robot |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi |
Horizon Zero Dawn is an open world action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. This game is a port of the 2017 PlayStation 4 console exclusive of the same name. It is the first title that Guerrilla Games have developed for PC following their acquisition by SIE Worldwide Studios, and also marks the fourth game Sony Interactive Entertainment have directly published on the platform under the PlayStation Mobile brand. It is also the second release on PC to make use of the Decima engine, following the previous release of Death Stranding.
The game was initially announced for PC during March 2020 with a placeholder release date for later that year.[2] The final release date, August 7, 2020, was announced in June alongside the release of a trailer showcasing the features of the PC version of the game.[3]
The PC version of the game is available for Windows and distributed through Epic Games Store and Steam as the Complete Edition, which includes The Frozen Wilds expansion, along with a digital art book and additional in-game items, weapons and outfits. It features ultra-widescreen support, high frame rates, adjustable field of view, and remapping for keyboard and mouse controls and controllers.[3]
Reviews published shortly before the global release suggested that the game suffers from a number of technical issues, including stuttering introduced from a variety of different game elements, non-functional graphical settings and major performance issues.[4][5]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | ||||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Steam |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1151640/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Horizon Zero Dawn\Saved Game\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1151640/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Cutscenes are pillarboxed to 16:9. See Ultra-widescreen for a solution. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Maximum of 100°.[3] | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See In-game anisotropic filtering setting does not work. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Camera-based, FXAA, SMAA, or TAA.[3] | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Some animations may run at 30 FPS due to how they were originally designed.[6] | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | HDR must be enabled in Windows. |
Ultra-widescreen
Modify the game executable to remove the cutscenes' pillarboxing[7] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | [3] | |
Mouse acceleration | Negative mouse acceleration is present above 30 FPS.[8] | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Also supports X-axis inversion. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | Also supports X-axis inversion. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | [3] | |
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | [3] | |
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PlayStation button prompts | ||
Light bar support | ||
Adaptive trigger support | ||
DualSense haptic feedback support | ||
Connection modes | Wired |
Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Steam Input | ||
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Steam Input API support | ||
Official controller preset(s) | Steam Controller, Xbox One controller and DualShock 4. | |
Steam Controller button prompts |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, Speech and Sound Effects | |
Surround sound | Auto-detects output for what the device supports. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Arabic | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Finnish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Norwegian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Issues unresolved
Stuttering on some systems
- Some systems might experience stuttering during gameplay in areas such as quest or interface updates, camera swaps in cutscenes and general world traversal.[6]
Issues fixed
In-game anisotropic filtering setting does not work
- The Anisotropic Filtering setting present in-game does not function with the release version of the game.[6]
- This fix might cause texture flickering on NVIDIA GPUs, see Texture flickering and corruption on NVIDIA GPUs.
Force anisotropic filtering in the graphics driver settings.[citation needed] |
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Game crashes during initial shader compilation
Free up additional space on the storage device the game is installed on.[6] |
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Save game failed
- Some players have reported the game will show the error "Save game failed.Please make sure you have enough free space on system drive, and the game have access to Documents folder." when the game tries to write profile or save data.
Run the game as Administrator.[9] |
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Run the game on a user profile that does not contain any Cyrillic characters.[9] |
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Disable Windows Defender ransomware protection.[10] |
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Texture flickering and corruption on NVIDIA GPUs
Restore the profile for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition to the default settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.[11] |
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Delete the shader cache.[12] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 12 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz |
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 100 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 AMD Radeon R9 290 3 GB (Nvidia), 4 GB (AMD) of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 6 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1151640/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1151640) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Spaziogames.it - Horizon Zero Dawn PC review – Aloy has a new home (translated using Google Translate)) - last accessed on 2020-08-06
- "This conversion was not produced in-house but has the signature of Virtuos, a China-based studio based in Singapore."
- ↑ Hermen Hulst Q&A: Interview with Head of PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios - last accessed on 2020-07-30
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC – FAQ - last accessed on 2020-07-30
- ↑ Horizon Zero Dawn's PC port is deeply disappointing - last accessed on 2020-08-07
- ↑ Horizon Zero Dawn on PC: Not the optimized port we were hoping for - last accessed on 2020-08-07
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is now available for Pre-Load on PC! - last accessed on 2020-08-06
- ↑ How to get Horizon Zero Dawn's Cutscenes running in 21:9/Ultrawide - last accessed on 2020-08-07
- ↑ (UNSUPPORTED) Horizon Zero Dawn - last accessed on 2020-08-07
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 ERROR / ОШИБКА - last accessed on 2020-08-08
- ↑ Save Game Error - last accessed on 2020-08-08
- ↑ InternetExplorer8 comments on Horizon Zero Dawn - PC Launch Megathread - last accessed on 2020-08-08
- ↑ Alexander Battaglia on Twitter - last accessed on 2020-08-08
- "if you are having graphics corruption delete the shader folder (google)"
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Horizon Zero Dawn Playstation 4 Credits - MobyGames - last accessed on 2020-03-12
- "Uses Bink Video Copyright © 2008-2017 by RAD Game Tools Inc
Horizon Zero Dawn uses Havok © Copyright 1999-2008 Havok.com Inc. [and its Licensors]., All rights reserved."
- "Uses Bink Video Copyright © 2008-2017 by RAD Game Tools Inc