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
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
Modify the game executable to remove the cutscenes' pillarboxing[7]
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- This fix is available as patchers for a number of 21:9 and 32:9 resolutions.
- Open
<path-to-game>\HorizonZeroDawn.exe in a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
- Search for
39 8E E3 3F as hex.
- Replace it with
26 B4 17 40 (for 2560x1080) or any other aspect ratio in hex.
- Save the changes.
- Launch the game and make sure the Display Aspect ratio option is set to Auto.
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Input
Remapping for a
DualShock 4 controller
Audio
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Localizations
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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
Seldom crashes due to game trying to write to nonexistent memory address
- Game is trying to write to memory address 0.
- This fix is believed to reduce the number of crashes due to memory write errors.
Open the Horizon Zero Dawn.exe with a hex editor and replace all instances of C7042500000000A7DCEA0D with 9090909090909090909090
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.
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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- On Windows 10, use the search functionality within the taskbar to locate and select Virus & threat protection.
- Scroll down to select Manage ransomware protection.
- Toggle Controlled folder access to off if enabled.
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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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Downgrade from hotfix driver 451.85 to driver version 451.67.[12]
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Delete the shader cache.[13]
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- Open
<path-to-game>\LocalCacheDX12\ in Windows Explorer.
- Delete
PSOCache.bin .
- Launch the game and allow shaders to re-compile.
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VR support
Other information
API
Technical specs |
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Direct3D |
12 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
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Middleware
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Physics |
Havok[14] |
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Cutscenes |
Bink Video[14] |
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System requirements
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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
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- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References