Tuesday, March 5th 2024
Horizon: Forbidden West PC Release System Requirements Lists Out
PlayStation Studios put out the system requirements lists for the upcoming PC version of "Horizon: Forbidden West," the second chapter in the popular post-civilizational action RPG franchise that debuted with "Horizon: Zero Dawn." The game had originally released as PlayStation 5-exclusive in 2022, with the Windows PC version slated for March 21, 2024. The game is a continuation of the fascinating story of "Horizon," set in the distant future, after an apocalyptic event that caused a swarm of robots that consume matter for sustenance, to nearly wipe out humanity.
Looking at the system requirements lists, it doesn't look like developer Guerilla Inc, leading the PC port, is interested in PC-specific technologies, although the original content is pretty resource heavy from the PlayStation gameplay to begin with; and even with the game assets adapted to PC, one can expect the game to be fairly taxing on the PC. To max out the game, or experience it at 4K @ 60 FPS, its developers call for a graphics card with performance in the league of GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900 XT, with 16 GB of memory, and at least an Intel Core i7-11700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-core/16-thread processor.
To experience it at maxed out settings with 1440p resolution at 60 FPS, you apparently need a GPU with the performance level of GeForce RTX 3070 or Radeon RX 6800; with a Core i7-9700 or Ryzen 7 3700X. The 1080p @ 60 FPS experience calls for a GPU as fast as the GeForce RTX 3060 or Radeon RX 5700; with a low-mid range 6-core processor; while at the very entry level, you're expected to have a GTX 1650 or RX 5500 XT for 720p @ 30 FPS. It's evident that the game isn't really using real-time ray tracing. Pay attention to the disk space requirement, as the game needs 150 GB of it, indicating that the developer has crammed the game with higher-resolution game assets than the PlayStation release.
When it releases on March 21, "Horizon: Forbidden West" will be available on Steam and Epic Games Store.
Sources:
PlayStation Blog, VideoCardz
Looking at the system requirements lists, it doesn't look like developer Guerilla Inc, leading the PC port, is interested in PC-specific technologies, although the original content is pretty resource heavy from the PlayStation gameplay to begin with; and even with the game assets adapted to PC, one can expect the game to be fairly taxing on the PC. To max out the game, or experience it at 4K @ 60 FPS, its developers call for a graphics card with performance in the league of GeForce RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900 XT, with 16 GB of memory, and at least an Intel Core i7-11700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-core/16-thread processor.
When it releases on March 21, "Horizon: Forbidden West" will be available on Steam and Epic Games Store.
28 Comments on Horizon: Forbidden West PC Release System Requirements Lists Out
Nixxes, you are a blessing to the pc community.
Hey, maybe I am wrong. But if it's 150 gigs AFTER compression, then, to quote @theouto, jesus fucking christ. This is untenable then. SSDs aren't currently getting cheaper. I could believe it though, I remember Guerilla boasted some insane polycount on their mecha-dinosaurs in previous game, just completely unnecessary numbers.
I tend to use older gen SSDs to get higher capacity for the expanse of raw bandwidht because AFAIK you get like 1-2s tops in loading time for having a PCIe5 SSD instead of PCIe2 but you can bouble if not tripple the capacity for the same price going slower.
Btw, 1080p and 4k have different quality preset, 1440p60fps and 4k30fps don't.
This is clearly old artwork from zero dawn:
The last port, Horizon Zero Dawn, had a setting for sky quality, again, SKY quality that had a huge impact to performance.
So Medium preset could be PS5 graphics and Very High preset some added stuff that can hardly be spotted and exists to sell 1000$ gpu's
I hope it's not the case and i can play at 60fps 1440p and i don't need to upgrade GPU.
Looking at the Recommended/Medium requirements and comparing to playing HZD on an i7-4790 + 5600 XT at 1080p/60, this requirements increase seems reasonable. With some decent graphics settings it could still be 1080p/60 playable on this system (probably more dependent on CPU demands) but this looks promising.
Edit:
Something like this: www.guerrilla-games.com/media/News/Files/The-Real-time-Volumetric-Cloudscapes-of-Horizon-Zero-Dawn.pdf
Morrowiuh, Starfield.NetImmerseGamebryoCreation Engine is sure a tad older. Bethesda is running on decades of tech debt at this point.If a new game is announced the first thing they ask, "does it have ray tracing and dlss ?" what about story, gameplay ?
If it looks amazing and works on relative cheap GPU's then why would i care what technologies are used ? I am starting to think these people are either stupid or on payroll.
No, but seriously, there is nothing interesting about big budget titles anymore. They are just slop. If you want cool ideas, gameplay or story-wise, you go to indies, AA, obscure Eastern European or Japanese studios, that sort of deal.
I don't really care, when playing the game you spend 99% of the time staring at Aloy's back, but I thought it was funny how they managed to break continuity by having the main character look completely different when there was no technical reason to make any changes to the character model in the first place.