Horizon Zero Dawn

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:05

The unpacking is completely CPU bound. Nearly done now though with a 3700X. 4 minutes to go at 180MB/s.

Problem is the system connected to my TV has a far worse CPU.

edit: Slows down towards the end, I'm guessing when it reaches smaller files.

edit2: PC crashed unpacking :/ with a minute to go.

Rids · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:05

Aye, I had to restart Steam and everything came to life.

Westie · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:09

same unpacking!

CaptainRAVE · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:12

Done

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:14

I'm getting a small download now.

edit: Ready to play.
edit2: optimising

CaptainRAVE · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:16

Loading shaders now

- its not a quick process this!

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:18

CaptainRAVE said:
Loading shaders now - its not a quick process this!

Doesn't seem as bad as people made it out to be.

CaptainRAVE · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:19

muon said:
Doesn't seem as bad as people made it out to be.

I think you'd be pretty screwed without a quick SSD and CPU.

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:22

CaptainRAVE said:
I think you'd be pretty screwed without a quick SSD and CPU.

Pretty sure the DF guys have high end PCs though.

Looks like unpacking and optimising will all be done by 4.25 and that was with steam taking a while to even realise it could start unpacking.

FredFlint · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:25

still 5min of downloading for me, then install AMD driver and restart, getting 48.4MB/s

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:33

Graphics settings are messed up. I went to switch off vsync and and put an FPS cap in just below the freesync limit and it's now screwed up the resolution creating a letterbox even though the native resolution is set.

Thought I'd restart the game and I have to watch the entire intro sequence again.

5700xt on a 1440p monitor.

CaptainRAVE · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:33

1440p, 1080Ti and 9700k on ultra getting 67fps average, but lows of 10. Will try lowering settings slightly.

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:35

CaptainRAVE said:
1440p, 1080Ti and 9700k on ultra getting 67fps average, but lows of 10. Will try lowering settings slightly.

Exit the game and go back in. See if you have to watch the intro sequence all over again.

CaptainRAVE · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:41

muon said:
Exit the game and go back in. See if you have to watch the intro sequence all over again.

Ha, yup, all over again. At least it’s not loading shaders again. Perhaps I need to start a new game to get rid of it?

muon · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:45

CaptainRAVE said:
Ha, yup, all over again. At least it’s not loading shaders again. Perhaps I need to start a new game to get rid of it?

Good point.

Fixed my aspect ratio problem now.

5700XT, Ultra, 1440p. Average fps of 70.

Freesync makes it very smooth, except for a stutter that occurs every ten seconds or so. That might be a VRAM issue though as I can see that it is maxing out the 8GB of VRAM and using over 8GB of normal RAM.

edit: stutters only in benchmark, not happening in game so far.

FredFlint · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:49

unskippable cutscenes are a nightmare, most game no that by now

CaptainRAVE · 7 Aug 2020 at 16:56

I’ve ended up on ultra, but capping at 50fps. It seems to have smoothed everything out.

Tombstone · 7 Aug 2020 at 17:00

On the plus side, for Ultra in 1440, those fps are better than the fps people were reporting pre-release for Ultra in 1440.

Stu999 · 7 Aug 2020 at 17:00

Unpacking took 10 minutes for me (on PCIe 4 SSD), then 12 minutes 'optimising'. I don't get this 'optimising' nonsense you get on games now, surely that's what the quality presets are for?

Seems to run on for me. FPS on my R5 3600 / 1070 on the 'favour quality' preset are:

4K: 20 - 25 FPS
1440p: 40 - 45 FPS
1080p: 60 FPS.

More or less what I was expecting for my hardware. No issues noted in a quick play but I'll post if that or my FPS changes.

EDIT - Crashed on first attempt to load but was ok right away. No sign of 35GB patch for me yet?

Stu999 · 7 Aug 2020 at 17:03

FredFlint said:
unskippable cutscenes are a nightmare, most game no that by now

You can skip cut scenes in the game itself, are you talking about that intro cut scene?