While the PC model of Horizon Zero Dawn is totally the best way to play on this author’s opinion, that does not imply it hasn’t seen its fair proportion of issues since launching earlier this month. And developer Guerrilla Games could be very conscious of its points, and as such it has launched a brand new patch to “handle numerous crashes and graphical points” which have been reported.
The Patch 1.02, er, patch notes point out that there are nonetheless a number of completely different points involving circumstances the place some gamers may expertise errors throughout, for instance, the game optimization course of when people first boot it up, but it surely additionally contains a number of distinct crash fixes, game enhancements, and different modifications.
Patch 1.02 for #HorizonZeroDawnPC is out now! This patch goals to deal with numerous crashes and graphical points reported by our group.
Thank you on your assist and endurance as we proceed to enhance your expertise on PC!
🗒️ Patch notes: https://t.co/kWhp91laV6 pic.twitter.com/K6J9JstVzZ
— Guerrilla (@Guerrilla) August 19, 2020
Here are the essential updates from Patch 1.02:
Crash Fixes
- Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers would crash throughout their first game boot when the ‘game optimization’ display is lively they usually ran out of disc area.
- Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers would crash in the event that they up to date their video drivers after the game was already optimized beforehand.
- Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers would crash throughout gameplay due to reminiscence incorrectly being overwritten.
- Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers would crash throughout gameplay resulting from a texture unstreaming bug.
Game Improvements
- Improved efficiency when auto-saving (e.g. when finishing a quest step).
- Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers skilled that V-sync wouldn’t correctly flip off in borderless mode
- Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers skilled out of sync facial animations resulting from them being locked at 30FPS.
- Reduced reminiscence used when streaming shaders.
Horizon Zero Dawn is at the moment accessible for PC and PlayStation. A sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, is ready to launch for the PlayStation 5. You can try all of our previous coverage of the video game right here.
What do you consider Horizon Zero Dawn on PC? Have you skilled any of the issues fastened by the brand new patch? Let us know within the feedback, or hit me up instantly on Twitter at @rollinbishop to speak all issues gaming!
