PC Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition - Information Thread, update: Patch 1.11 released (patch notes posted)

[Keyser_Soze]

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Patch 1.05 for Horizon Zero Dawn on PC is now available to download on Steam!

 

This patch addresses additional crashes, as well as a couple of community-reported bugs such as Aloy’s hair not displaying correctly when playing with the game running above 30 FPS, controller rumble toggle and adds the option to display black side bars in cinematics when playing in ultrawide resolutions. We are continuing to investigate open issues and will update you when we have more news available.

 

Known Issues
 

• Some players are experiencing an out of memory error during the game optimization process.
• Some players are experiencing graphical settings issues, such as Anisotropic Filtering or HDR not working correctly.
• Some players are experiencing performance issues on specific GPUs or hardware combinations.
• We're aware of and continue to investigate issues that are not yet solved on both the player-compiled lists by u/EvilMonkeySlayer and u/Rampage572 – thank you!

 

Patch Notes

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a crash in NetPresenceManager that some players experienced when entering the game or the benchmark from the main menu
• Fixed a crash where the Steam SDK could crash on initialization when the game executable was started directly from installation folder rather than through Steam
• Fixed a crash which would occur if the player pressed ‘Stop’ in Steam immediately after pressing ‘Play’
• Fixed a startup crash when using Avast antivirus
• Fixed a crash that could occur when VRAM was about to be oversubscribed

 

Graphical Improvements

 

• Fixed an issue with Aloy’s hair not displaying correctly when the game is running above 30 FPS
• Shader animations (e.g. hologram locks on doors, GAIA in cinematics, etc.) are no longer locked to 30 FPS, but running at unlocked framerate
• Fixed an issue with flickering textures in main quest “A Gift from the Past”
• Fixed an issue with flickering snow assets
• Fixed an issue with flickering paintings in Song’s Edge
• Fixed graphical corruption issues that only occurred on specific GPUs
• Fixed an issue where the game would open in windowed mode instead of fullscreen when the player is using another window when booting the game
• Fixed an issue where the game would not run in the correct resolution when switching from windowed to fullscreen
• Added an option to turn off “blurry sidebars” in ultrawide resolutions and display black sidebars instead

Other Improvements

 

• Allow players to still boot the game even if the version of windows used is detected to be too low to run the game at a stable condition
• Added an option to turn off controller vibration/rumble
• Fixed an issue in the storing of the ‘permission to track data’ attribute of the player profile (subsequently re-asking for said permission)
• Fixed an issue where the opening cutscene music would not play if the player quits out and immediately begins a new game
• Fixed an issue where inverting mouse controls also affected dialog tree choice input

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Oh yeah - this game was TOTALLY ready to be released 

[Keyser_Soze]

At this rate it will be playable by November!

[Brian]

Patches be damned; the thirst is real

 

http://www.dsogaming.com//favicon-16x16.png Horizon Zero Dawn has sold 716K units on the PC according to Superdata

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SuperData has shared its monthly report, stating that Horizon Zero Dawn has sold 716K units on the PC in its first month.

 

[Keyser_Soze]

Could have been more if it ran well. A lot of people took the wait and see approach.

[JPDunks4]

I was going to pick it up for PC, but after reading about the issues, and already owning it on PS4, I figured I'd wait to see what kind of "Boost Mode" PS5 offers to it.

[Keyser_Soze]

Patch 1.06 is now available

 

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Known Issues

•     Some players are experiencing an out of memory error during the game optimization process.
•     Some players are experiencing graphical settings issues, such as Anisotropic Filtering or HDR not working correctly.
•     Some players are experiencing performance issues on specific GPUs or hardware combinations.
•     We're aware of and continue to investigate issues that are not yet solved on both the player-compiled lists by u/EvilMonkeySlayer and u/Rampage572 – thank you!

 

Patch Notes

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a streaming compute shader crash
• Fixed a crash on startup related to file paths with non-ANSI characters

 

Graphical Improvements

 

• Fixed an issue where characters would noticeably warp between cuts during a specific cutscene in main quest “The Point of the Spear”
• Fixed an issue where box graphics would flash during the final cinematic of the game
• Fixed an issue in HDR where the UI could get overlapped by a black scene
• Fixed an issue where turning on the Adaptive FPS option gave lower performance results than setting similar results manually

Gameplay Improvements

 

• Aloy forward walking direction – Aloy now walks directly towards the direction the camera is facing when you press forward, rather than at a slight angle

Other Improvements

 

• Executable details – Properties of the executable now also displays the current version

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Y'know what?

 

I'm kinda impressed by the ongoing technical support this game is getting - most developers would've just said "good enough" a little while ago and moved on.

 

I hope this bodes well for their commitment to ensuring that future PC ports don't suffer from the same QA issues!

[Keyser_Soze]

59 minutes ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:

Y'know what?

 

I'm kinda impressed by the ongoing technical support this game is getting - most developers would've just said "good enough" a little while ago and moved on.

 

I hope this bodes well for their commitment to ensuring that future PC ports don't suffer from the same QA issues!

 

Still haven't fixed the anistropic filtering thing. How long could it take to fix?

[Xbob42]

3 hours ago, Emperor Diocletian II said:

Y'know what?

 

I'm kinda impressed by the ongoing technical support this game is getting - most developers would've just said "good enough" a little while ago and moved on.

 

I hope this bodes well for their commitment to ensuring that future PC ports don't suffer from the same QA issues!

It's been over a month since the last patch and this one didn't even fix any of the truly major issues aside from your character walking off-center which was admittedly a big issue and a wildly stupid one to exist and get past QA in the first place.

I'm glad they're still fixing it, but good lord they clearly are having a lot of trouble and should have never released.

[Keyser_Soze]

1 hour ago, Xbob42 said:

I'm glad they're still fixing it, but good lord they clearly are having a lot of trouble and should have never released.

 

This is the greatest gift that @Emperor Diocletian II has given me!

[Keyser_Soze]

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Hi everyone!

We’re happy to announce that Patch 1.07 for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is now live! As we mentioned in our previous update, our team has been hard at work on some of the trickier graphical issues, which needed some more time in development.

With Patch 1.07 the team has rewritten the way the engine deals with shaders and shader-optimisation. This results in the optimisation step becoming optional, as well as the Anisotropic Filtering option now working as expected.

What this means for you: upon starting the game, it will start optimising shaders in the Main Menu each time. Shaders will also still be optimised during gameplay, but this now happens automatically in the background.
Letting the game run the initial shader optimization is completely optional, so if you want to jump straight in, you can skip it; letting this process finish before playing will improve your loading times in the game. Lastly, please note that changing AF settings can take some time depending on your PC hardware.

 

Patch Notes

Graphical Improvements

• Anisotropic Filtering now works correctly
• The mandatory/unskippable shader optimisation step at first launch has been removed
• Shaders are now pre-optimised in the game’s Main Menu, but can be skipped
• Shaders are also optimised dynamically in-game

 

[Keyser_Soze]

On 9/16/2020 at 5:43 AM, Keyser_Soze said:

At this rate it will be playable by November!

 

Cool. I called it back in September!

[Fizzzzle]

But is it ACTUALLY playble tho

[Keyser_Soze]

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC - Patch 1.08 is now available

 

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Hi everyone!

We’re happy to announce that Patch 1.08 for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is now live! With this patch, we’re introducing several crash fixes and performance improvements that were reported by the community. Be sure to restart your game and client when you’ve updated to 1.08!

 

Patch Notes

Crash Fixes

• Fixed an audio crash when using mono audio devices
• Fixed a crash that could happen in certain circumstances on 5.1 audio devices
• Fixed a crash in NetPresenceManager
• Fixed multiple crashes that could occur during Shader optimization
• Fixed a crash in PlacementMeshUpdateJob that occurred on machines with more than 16 cores
• Fixed a start-up crash for CPUs that do not support AVX instructions

 

Audio Improvements

 

• Potential fix for dialogue sounding metallicy and blown out for some users

Performance Improvements

 

• Improved VRAM budgeting which should help prevent VRAM-related instability and improve general performance and reduce micro-stutters
• Improved Clouds performance on high and ultra settings
• Improved swap-chain buffering to allow for smoother frame-pacing

Graphical Improvements

 

• Fixed clouds looking pixelated in certain windowed resolutions
• Added FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening functionality to Graphics Settings

 

[Keyser_Soze]

Hi everyone,

A quick update for our community playing Horizon Zero Dawn on PC: after releasing Patch 1.08 yesterday, we started seeing reports from players who were experiencing crashes on game startup.

We have now released 1.08.6, which contains a fix for these crashes! Please update your game on your preferred platform; you can check that you’re in the correct build via Main Menu - Extras - Copyright Menu (the correct build number after today should be HRZ-PCR 142/6118783 18:05 - Tue Nov 24 2020).

Our apologies for the inconvenience! Please do let us know if you are still experiencing start-up or other crashes after this; you can continue to report issues here as well.

Thank you for your support,
Guerrilla.

PATCH NOTES
Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when starting up the game

[Keyser_Soze]

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC - Patch 1.09 is now available

 

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Hi everyone,

 

We’re happy to announce that Patch 1.09 for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is now live! This patch introduces crash fixes and performance improvements that were reported by our community.

 

Patch Notes

Crash Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching resolutions
• Fixed a crash that occurred during the cutscene during main quest “The Face of Extinction” after objective “Defend The Ridge”
• Fixed a cause of GPU hangs on certain combinations of GPU/driver/memory

 

Performance Improvements

 

• Improved the automatic Shader Optimization step in the menu – The optimization step *message* should now show less frequently on mid-/higher spec machines (please note you are also able to skip it on most machines!)
• Added a VRAM Gauge that indicates amount of VRAM available and used, to help you optimize graphical settings for your hardware
• Fixed RenderTarget aliasing, which reduces VRAM usage which may improve performance, texture quality and model quality

Graphical Improvements

 

• Fixed HDR looking washed out on certain HDR configurations
• Fixed Depth Buffer Copies which should fix multiple graphical glitches
• Fixed graphical glitches due to RenderTarget aliasing not working correctly
• Fixed that fog turned off when you turn off shadows in graphical settings
• Fixed plant simulation at frame rates higher than 30FPS

Gameplay Improvements

 

• Fixed that holding W when looting no longer stops registering other keys until release

Other

 

• Fixed several warning message localization issues on Windows
• Improved the benchmark results screen

 

[Fizzzzle]

Recent Steam reviews are 96% positive

[thewhyteboar]

So is this game playable? 

[Keyser_Soze]

2 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

So is this game playable? 

 

Seems like a YMMV type of thing. I haven't tried it since launch but I know someone who played through it "fine" before even the last two or three patches.

[Keyser_Soze]

I thought they were for sure done since it's been a month but look!

 

Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC - Patch 1.10 is now available

 

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Hi everyone,

We’re happy to announce that Patch 1.10 for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition on PC is now live! This patch introduces crash fixes and performance improvements that were reported by our community.

You can find the full Patch Notes for Patch 1.10 below; please update your game and let us know what you think!

– Guerrilla

Patch Notes
Crash Fixes

• Crash fix for when players continuously pressed the windows key;
• Crash fix for when you press the LMB on the ESC button in the Benchmark Results;

 

Performance Improvements

 

• Fixed an issue which saves up to 250MB of VRAM on all AMD GPUs;

Graphical Improvements

 

• Fix for negative values in cubemap relighting shader (fixes for example the red graphical glitches in the Hades fight if you let the timer run out);
• Fix for the graphics settings preset name not updating when you pressed Auto-Detect;
• Fix for the menu (and loading screen) being displayed at incorrect scale when changing AF in borderless mode;
• Fix for the resolution sometimes being too low in windowed mode;
• Fix for the errands quest list overlapping with tutorial quest list;

Other Changes

 

• Graphics settings are now stored in a text file instead of a binary file to facilitate easier tweaking.

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

[Mr.Vic20]

This is nice!

 

Other Changes

 

• Graphics settings are now stored in a text file instead of a binary file to facilitate easier tweaking.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

@stepee Saw your comment on discord. You should be able to run it at 120.

 

I'm just assuming since it has an unlimited frame rate option though.

 

(Some people in the steam page are saying they get over 120 or over)

[stepee]

17 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

@stepee Saw your comment on discord. You should be able to run it at 120.

 

idk that video is all 60fps besides one brief shot of 120fps grass and they are already scaling down on a 2080ti.

[Keyser_Soze]

11 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

idk that video is all 60fps besides one brief shot of 120fps grass and they are already scaling down on a 2080ti.

 

In my edit I said some people are getting 120

 

This guy's benchmark is running higher than the DF video with a 3090 for instance. Max of 144 but average 90 🤷‍♀️ - Maybe wait for a couple more patches

 

 

[stepee]

9 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

In my edit I said some people are getting 120

 

This guy's benchmark is running higher than the DF video with a 3090 for instance. Max of 144 but average 90 🤷‍♀️ - Maybe wait for a couple more patches

 

 

 

Yeah, need dlss or a really optimized game to hit high res/settings at 120. I was just kinda looking for an excuse to get this now rather than wait for the eventual ps5 patch/upgrade/whatever they do with it. Would definitely be locked 60, but honestly ps5 should be able to do that. Sure it will still look better here tho, for $25 considering it still since it’s on my list of want to go back to.

[Xbob42]

44 minutes ago, stepee said:

Would definitely be locked 60, but honestly ps5 should be able to do that.

I'm pretty sure I have yet to see a last-gen game get upgraded that actually "locks" to 60. Most of them "usually hit" 60, which is kind of concerning. Every DF video I watch inevitably has a segment where the FPS tanks and they're like "but it's lots of alpha effects" as if that's an acceptable answer.

 

Some games do handle it better than others, though.

[stepee]

3 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I'm pretty sure I have yet to see a last-gen game get upgraded that actually "locks" to 60. Most of them "usually hit" 60, which is kind of concerning. Every DF video I watch inevitably has a segment where the FPS tanks and they're like "but it's lots of alpha effects" as if that's an acceptable answer.

 

Some games do handle it better than others, though.

 

If it’s just a couple areas it’s whatever to me as long as the gameplay mostly locks there for the vast majority of the game.

 

And some stuff is struggling a bit to hit it but isn’t that more newly released cross gen games? I’m pretty sure Days Gone, Rachet, Horizon, the MS stuff, hits 60 pretty well.

[Hurricane Game]

DLSS was just added yesterday.

[Keyser_Soze]

1 minute ago, Hurricane Game said:

DLSS was just added yesterday.

 

Ah so I see

 

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We’re happy to announce we’ve just released Patch 1.11 for our PC players. Here’s what this patch contains:

 

Graphical Improvements

• Added Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology.
• Added AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution, replacing FidelityFX CAS.

UI Changes

• Adjusted settings screen to facilitate the addition of DLSS and FSR.
• Render Scale option has been removed but same result can now be accomplished by adjusting setting Upscale Method to Simple and adjusting Upscale Quality.

Performance Improvements

• Improvement to the shader management system. This will result in a few noticeable differences:
• There is no longer a shader pre-compilation step on startup. The game will always compile shaders during loading and in the background.
• Stutters during gameplay that used to occur due to background shader compilation have now been significantly reduced.
• Because shader compilation is still happening in the background you may notice the game having a higher CPU utilization while that is happening.
• Loading screens will wait for the required shaders to be fully compiled. This may cause loading screens to take somewhat longer on certain systems.
• On higher spec machines with faster CPUs the loading screens will typically be shorter, due to more efficient shader compilation that better leverages high-end CPUs.

 

[Keyser_Soze]

@Commissar SFLUFAN How many years later and another patch?

 

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Horizon Zero Dawn for PC - Version 1.11.2

Hello everyone!

 

We appreciate all your feedback following update 1.11.1, and have just released update 1.11.2:

 

•     Improved VRAM management when changing resolution or upscale mode, which could cause performance issues that were only fixed by restarting the game
•     Fixed various assets using the wrong quality level while using DLSS/FSR
•     Fixed visual artifact issue when clipping the camera through a surface like pushing against a wall (ie with large FOVs or ultrawide screens) while using DLSS/FSR
•     Fixed visual corruption and reduced foliage flickering issues on certain AMD GPUs

 

Please ensure your game is up-to-date before jumping back in to the world of Horizon! Let us know if you have any feedback down below. Now, get back out into the wilds!

 

Guerrilla

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

26 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

@Commissar SFLUFAN How many years later and another patch?

 

That's VERY impressive!  

 

I wonder if they're using HZD patches as a training tool.