Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered | OPTIMIZATION GUIDE | Every Setting Tested | Best Settings

[@benchmarking4386]

There is a small error in the Optimized Settings section, Shadow Quality Should be "Medium" instead of "Medium or High".

[@dungeon_master5809]

Thank u )

[@diddledaddle]

Thats okay you’re still a king

[@Z0011-]

First time in my life that I see a number one channel for benchmarks, not wasting time like others and straight to the point.

[@jimbobuz]

Yea this channel is hands down the best

[@TeenPerspektiva]

Even when i am not interested in playing the game in question, i still watch your video on it. Just for entertainment, as the editing and presentation is so smooth and satisfying to watch and you showcase the graphics well and provide useful insight. Truly underrrated, amazing channel.

[@Sapphire200]

At this point I just trust bro and skip to recommended settings and then let the video play for the view count, helped a ton on BO6. Love your channel, you re the best

[@JVCFever0]

100%

[@VipapkStudiosOfficial]

Skip to that part yourself... 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@drinkwwwaterrr]

I don't even own the remaster but I still watch the videos for enjoyment lol

[@JVCFever0]

I dont play much of the games you present, but I always watch it because of your knowledge, a deep understanding of what it means having the best quality vs performance, while helping lots of people run the game as best as possible. Thanks for what you do 😊

[@NotReallyLaraCroft]

I'm still dropping my jaw looking at what Guerrilla have achieved with their inhouse engine. Horizon 2 and now this remaster are the most beautiful open world games I've ever seen. No other game can beat this gorgeous eye candy.

[@aymenmalhi437]

و الله انك غدع واصل و لا تفاصل keep up the amazing work sir

[@alexanderberby1481]

This is the top channel for benchmarks. As always, hats off to you, sir!

[@Mozart13331]

Very cool the way you showed all the graphic settings and the optimezed difference in the beggining

[@hagen9027]

my trusted benchmark plug🤙🏽

[@leezus435]

Invaluable information for someone new to pc gaming. Bravo. I’m subscribing now

[@RaDeCaL_Gaming]

A video I was eagerly waiting for! Thank you! Please do for one for Dragon Age too!

[@JasonKaler]

The answer to "Why they remastered this?" is: They already upgraded the engine, environment assets and characters for forbidden west. All they had to do was plug in the new engine.

[@Prajeesh-Phoenix]

I was waiting for this video, thank You!!

[@Augmented_Realism]

Just a little update for FG! Official AMD FSR3.1 Frame Generation is fixed for NVIDIA RTX GPUs with the latest current patch 1.3 (v1.3.51), actually it's mostly beneficial for RTX 20/30 series and low GPU Power utilization is fixed now. I'm getting stable and smooth average 100-120 FPS on RTX 3060 12GB on 1080p Very High Textures + High Settings + Med/Low Shadows + DLSS Quality/DLAA options and gotta say that it's working silky smooth as butter along with ON+BOOST NVIDIA Reflex option enabled. Game is still very VRAM demanding though, I can see 9.5GB+ VRAM usage after 4 hours of non-stop gameplay..

[@TheBoltcranck]

nice video and good work, hope you can follow with a Vram usage per resolution (4k,1440p,1080p) with FSR + DLSS steps.

[@Donaldduke0603]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely upgrade.

[@alessiodefrancesco3126]

blessing your best passion

[@jimbobuz]

You're the best man. Thank you!

[@Alezao.Ferreira]

Please make a video with the optimization of Dragon Age Veilguard!

[@GG-ou7it]

Nobody playing that shit 😂

[@edwardoliveira1748]

I second this notion

[@Alezao.Ferreira]

@@GG-ou7it And do you think anyone is playing this Horizon remaster shit that no one cares about? Everyone plays whatever shit they want lol

[@xfreejack001x]

Alan Wake 2 Lake House Update.

[@edwardoliveira1748]

Are you doing Veilguard next?

[@bloodyysweet]

Everything ultra frame generation on dlss quality smooth experience 😊

[@Crimsongz]

Same but with DLAA instead

[@Exotic_Prem]

Nice i was waiting for this

[@simonczerny3766]

Amazing as always

[@kaiomfanfarraum]

Thanks bro! awesome job!

[@dollmasterx]

Please don't forget FFXVI, your videos are amazingly detailed.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

thanks, theyre more than a year effort, think i started listing in like july last year

[@extre99]

the first thing i do before i buy a somewhat new or graphic intensive game is check if you have a video on it else i'm not buying it 😂😂 all jokes aside is would really apreciate a video on metro exodus (enhanced pc edition if possible) because the graphics are so complex and dlss makes everything into a blurry mess 20 meters away from the camera. Thank you in advance, love the videos keep up the good work 🫡.

[@fahimchowdhury5900]

I would love if you added in a steam deck section for best quality, you are better than other channels when it comes to optimised settings for games

[@hasan_438]

You are doing this better than DF.

[@Kravenz22]

Thank u! Do you recommend medium textures for 8gb gpus even using DLSS Quality or balanced?

[@benchmarking4386]

@@Kravenz22Yes, keep textures at medium to avoid any sudden performance drops.

[@VS_Gamer84]

DLSS Quality @1440p

[@sleepingsound1210]

Hi, in the setting Double Tap to Evade if I turn it off, is their another wayo to dodge?...its so annoying when u keep on accidentally Dodge...

[@SMOKEY-Junior]

Brilliant guide again bro. Please do one for Six days in Fallujah 🙏

[@VipapkStudiosOfficial]

Yes, I've also noticed the exact same issue with AMD's Frame Generation on my RTX 3070 Ti. It works for a few seconds and goes down. This issue wasn't present in Forbidden West.

[@bervirus]

FSR3 framegen works for me... however, it uses extra 1GB of vram compared to without FG... 1080p high preset, vram usage was about 8.8-9GB then jumps to 9.8-10GB when enabling FG... So there I guess the fps slowly dropping because it was running out of vram to run FG... (I use an old RX Vega 56 with HBCC enabled)

[@alexyt]

thanks for your great usefull video. 👍👍👍👍

[@Jakiyyyyy]

The official FSR FG is broken in this game. The GPU power suddenly get rekt with it enabled that I had to use Nukem's Mod instead. It just works. 11:04 This scene is the first time that I think the remaster actually looks great.

[@brandon719]

tysm i just tried this and my performance is a lot better

[@jiggy_daddy]

@@brandon719 Is there a link to the download and instructions?

[@jiggy_daddy]

Is there a link to the download and instructions?

[@Jakiyyyyy]

@@jiggy_daddy I have it on my channel. I can't share the link here.

[@brandon719]

@@jiggy_daddy search "dlssg-to-fsr3" and it will be first result

[@viktoremil5428]

I wasn't interested in this game from the beginning, but our boss's work deserves to be appreciated for BO6.

[@DhalonTech]

The best optimization we needed for a game nobody asked for. Fu Sony Ty man ❤

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

didnt know its sony game, no wonder its so good

[@octusbob9445]

thank you brother

[@FullSweatTryhard]

Pro Performance FTW

[@amirv413]

keep it up bro amazing stuff also I know it may be a lot of work but if you can compare ps5 performance and quality settings to pc

[@luanscissorhands5214]

Thanks. the best channel

[@ushaskris5068]

Finally someone said it the fsr 3 franegen in this game is not working lmaoo I thought my games bugged or something

[@kerolososama6244]

You are the best man

[@cjmino1180]

Good work man

[@Alexu4Trance]

Thank u! I wanted to buy the remastered version but now after I saw that I need to set textures on medium I changed my mind. I prefer not to play the game at all than to play it with medium textures. I have the same GPU.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

i dont see better alternative so ill keep it that way

[@bastianomaiga316]

Better play it on ps5 what in textures in the middle.

[@VipapkStudiosOfficial]

Thank you!

[@theshaqshow]

So glad I discovered this channel! Any chance of you optimizing the remaster of Red Dead Redemption for pc?

[@AnEyeRacky]

Ive been playing with dlaa on so far, but the games TAA actually looks pretty good too in your comparison. Do you have extensive tests with both? Would you recommend one over the other?

[@brzimtrco6142]

Did you try amd frame gen on 4070s? Because the issue here might be that 3060ti is running out of memory

[@benchmarking4386]

@@brzimtrco6142 Yes, I tried it and noticed the exact same behavior.

[@gameison4813]

Frame gen kinda works for couple seconds but performance drops very quickly to not much above native and game feels choppy and frame time graph shows a lot of stutters, while with dlls frame generation frame time graph is flat and game is much smoother

[@Apple109]

You didnt say anything about nvidia low latency , does it be off? On , or on+boost? ( I ask about the witcher 3 wild hunt)

[@myronbikakis5692]

I need to ask one thing did y put those settings from ur pc cause in ps5 there are not any of those settings when i play horizon zero dawn

[@nicolasrocha1558]

Seriously, almost no one is talking about how absurd it is to need to set textures to medium quality even at 1080p on 8GB VRAM? Black Myth Wukong doesn't even use all of this, what's going on? Is it NVidia's fault, the developers' fault, or both?

[@etienne1062]

Imagine paying for the upgrade of the game with a 8gb GPU, only to be stuck with worse textures than the base game. Nixxes don't give a fuuck about 8gb users. Their texture system is broken. And VRAM consumption in their games is usually very high. This game does not even have RT yet it's trashing 8g of VRAM...

[@bervirus]

yess... high preset at 1080p native TAA uses around 9GB of vram... with FSR3 framegen it uses around 10GB of VRAM... its becoming the norm that 8GB cards are now 1080p medium cards

[@simonczerny3766]

im sure that its possible to optimize some Vram usage but as the texture get higher quality they just need more Vram - i think its not ideal that some cards have less VRAM then they should but you can also see high as normal and the ultra texture setting as an nice extra for those who have enought VRAM - Why limit Textures at 8GB if there are cards with more wich are capable of using better textures. Limiting to 8G would partly eliminate the advantage of 16GB Cards

[@CarlosCamposvc92]

You can blame people actually buying 8gb cards and accepting that the 4060 went down to an 8gb buffer, and actually buying them. Ngreedia thanks you all.

[@simonczerny3766]

@@CarlosCamposvc92 true 👍 its basically the same if you buy a 3050 and then whine because you can't run ultra settings. If people would inform themselves before they buy a pc then they would know that they just can't expect ultra textures with an 8GB card

[@Around_The_Sun]

Will you do optymization guide for Farming Simulator 25? 😊

[@Itchijou_Raku]

Brother what's your name and where are you from? I kinda wanna know because man this work is on 🔥

[@eddwar8597]

Thanks

[@gameison4813]

If i have mostly 75-80 fps but some scenes drop slightly below 60 on max settings should i use DLAA+ dynamic res or drop shadows to medium ?

[@aliremch3822]

❤❤❤

[@matheusnave8220]

Do you think that 8gb vram can reach high textures on 1080p?

[@Jakiyyyyy]

I tested it with 6GB. Even 6GB is not enough for Medium. And so is High on 8GB. Play safe, use Medium.

[@bervirus]

on my testing, high texture on 1080p uses 9GB, or 10GB with framegen

[@northbergeastwood3476]

In some areas yes, definitely not in Meridian. 1080p high use around 7-9GB, very high 8-10GB.

[@gnomekingclive]

Saved me some time and money, thanks. No way im gonna play this game with medium textures they look terrible.

[@BALLUTA1]

Dragon Age Veilguard will be nice

[@benchmarking4386]

Working on it

[@edwardoliveira1748]

OMG YEEESSSSSSS!

[@BALLUTA1]

@@benchmarking4386 Thanks

[@stealthhunter6998]

What I did in forbidden west to get a framerate I was happy with with stable frametime was RTSS cap the game at 75 and tell it to dynamically go to 85 (or whatever the strict option was that it would give me), I’m assuming that the game knows not to drop base resolution to hit 85 but to hit 75 when doing that. Does that sound right? It seemed to be somewhere between balanced and quality mode when doing that and I’m assuming if it didn’t work it would be super blurry and glitch out thinking it’s not hitting its target. I hope this made sense.

[@alessio9855]

you're planning to do also dragon age veilguard? 🙃

[@benchmarking4386]

@@alessio9855 Almost done, it should be up on the channel either Today or Tomorrow.

[@SgtPowerWeiner]

The KING has uploaded. Any plans on doing the Red Dead PC port?

[@waltuhputurdaway]

That runs on pretty much any hardware newer than like 2015 pretty well, optimized settings is pretty pointless

[@SgtPowerWeiner]

@waltuhputurdaway Do you have it? RDR seems to have inherited a lot of GTA IVs shoddy CPU code. I can't hold a stable 120fps on my 7800xt/3600x, and my steam deck can't hold a stable 60 without sounding like it's about to take off. I've locked it to 45fps and set everything to Low to get respectable battery life out of it

[@AncientED5]

​@@SgtPowerWeinerrdr aside what posssed you to pair a high end gpu with a 6 year old mid range CPU. Like that gpu will be bottlenecked 100% of the time

[@aleksaleks8342]

​Bro I have it and even with reality redemption mod the performance only sometimes dips from 140 fps​ (3060ti/r5600) @@SgtPowerWeiner

[@SgtPowerWeiner]

@@AncientED5 money. All my parts are used, and I managed to snag the 7800xt for 200 bucks. The 3600x is a little monster, I have yet to find a game that has 1% lows below 60fps.

[@thatmemeguy-pl]

Are you going to do an optimisation guide for stalker 2 when it releases?

[@benchmarking4386]

Yes, I will cover it.

[@thatmemeguy-pl]

@benchmarking4386 Thanks alot, I'm excited for stalker 2 and I want it to be a very good experience for me and maybe a bunch of others.

[@helmino8787]

@benchmarking4386 are you going to do a video on Veilguard? Thanks for all your efforts!

[@benchmarking4386]

@@helmino8787 Yes, I'm working on it

[@helmino8787]

@@benchmarking4386 super waiting for it! Thanks!

[@helmino8787]

@@benchmarking4386 Just to know, the Veilguard benchamark will be out this week? waiting your video to start haha

[@benchmarking4386]

@@helmino8787 Today 😉

[@debodebs4540]

Good work can u make video for BF 2042

[@UnclePablo2201]

Hey. Level of Detail: Medium or High. Both are yellow so whitch ones?

[@Jakiyyyyy]

Basically the higher options are for favor quality/graphics and the lower options for favor performance. If you have to choose between these two then try with quality first, if the fps still not enough then go with favor performance. 🤷🏻‍♀️🥴

[@Burttonn013]

Been playing with rx 7800xt at 2k.... 80 avg fps with out frame generation and 130 avg fps with frame generation.

[@stis912]

Hi BenchmarKing, could you make an 'Optimization Guide' for Fortnite? It would be really helpful.

[@219SilverChoc]

Are High textures ok on 8GB GPUs if you play at 1080p? Would be infuriating if they replaced the original on storefronts with a version that has issues on lower VRAM cards, not surprising with how Sony's been pushing their luck.

[@darkmaster450]

What about for rtx 3050 4gb, Ryzen 5600H? Original version

[@guiz3644]

The particles in my game, like sand, are very grainy. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

[@benchmarking4386]

@@guiz3644 FSR is likely the cause of the issue. Try using XeSS (if you can't use DLSS) and see if that resolves it.

[@guiz3644]

@benchmarking4386 But I already use DLSS. It seems to me that it has something to do with anti-aliasing, as the game is also extremely sharp, even with the sharpness set to 0, causing graininess in the particles.

[@TheLateral18]

what does xess and fsr native does ? looks very stable

[@benchmarking4386]

They utilize the Anti-Aliasing component of the technique to enhance the image in it's full resolution without any upscaling. They essentially function as an Anti-Aliasing method.

[@TheLateral18]

@benchmarking4386 in my humble opinion it looks so much better

[@pingutv7364]

Best settings for dragon age?? Pleas ❤

[@RaRa-vp9dw]

Bro i love your videos, i need dragon age vailguard :)

[@benchmarking4386]

I'm working on it.

[@ZenTunE-]

Damn, seems they added the forced hero lighting on her hair that Forbidden West has. It's not as intense thankfully, but it is there. Original didn't have this "issue".

[@Ladiesman-js3kt]

Are you going to Dragon Age Veilguard?

[@benchmarking4386]

@@Ladiesman-js3kt I'm working on it

[@death-emp]

Mark my word it will become remastered but maybe after gta6

[@slipnotololo4586]

Hey mate! What about Veilguard?

[@benchmarking4386]

I'm working on it

[@slipnotololo4586]

@benchmarking4386 thanks for your work!

[@emulation2369]

The Forever Winter guide, please

[@jackali5014]

Dragon Age The Veilguard??

[@benchmarking4386]

I'm working on it

[@Krisztian5HUN]

maybe FSR framegen not working bcause vram limit? framegen like RT is a vram hog

[@benchmarking4386]

I don't think the issue is related to Vram, I tried it on 4070 Super and noticed the exact same behavior

[@Krisztian5HUN]

@@benchmarking4386 oh i see, thanks for the info, in this case maybe just a bug

[@-dny-]

Can you please make an optimization guide for a quiet place game? Keep being awesome!

[@Hunefsus]

Please also do a video on Dragon age Veilguard

[@benchmarking4386]

I'm working on it.

[@gamesapp22]

Seems fsr & xess is currently broken in this game, it is not giving fps boost as it should.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

im using fsr no problem

[@GameKiller.X0X]

to me i have a monster pc but this game remastered have same problem like original game texture caracter lose and a loot problem with texture i play in max settings ultra all

[@ChrisBtw]

Is this still recommended with 4070ti and 5800x?

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

why not, but go for 5800x3d if you can

[@ChrisBtw]

@ it’s not enough of an upgrade from the 5800x. May as well save for AM5 at this point tbh

[@edilbertobrasil7018]

Dragon Age Veilguard optmization guide pls

[@benchmarking4386]

@@edilbertobrasil7018I'm working on it

[@andycampbell3929]

Remastering a game that looks good from half a decade ago is batshit

[@ابراهيمالمطيري-ب7ض]

Our King please find us a fix for MHW horrible optimization

[@beespot081]

Next, please. battlefield 2042

[@000hitec000]

FSR 3.1 Frame Generation works fine on RX 6750 XT

[@stealthhunter6998]

Anyone else think meridian area looks over saturated in the vegetation compared to the original?

[@benchmarking4386]

Yeah, the color grading is generally different, and personally, I prefer the look of the original game.

[@gauravmehta6567]

Please make a video for dragon age veilguard

[@benchmarking4386]

@@gauravmehta6567 I'm working on it

[@AintPopular]

Is it worst perf wise than in original?

[@gameison4813]

At least 30-45% less fps

[@majinboo6377]

The game is crazy demanding lol. I can barely get solid stable smooth 45 fps at high with dlss at quality at 2k res.

[@ShadyMike]

Dragon Age Veilguard?

[@benchmarking4386]

I'll get to it soon 😉

[@Revenger_OMF]

@@benchmarking4386 cant wait 👍

[@arslanmalik151]

There is some massive performance issue .

[@Gundemonium]

Dont wanna be the "akshually 🤓" guy, but comparing upscalers in quality mode (dlss and fsr) and xess in ultra quality mode isnt really fair, since ultra quality renders at 77% internal resolution instead of 67% of dlss and fsr

[@benchmarking4386]

@@Gundemonium With the new XeSS version 1.3, intel has adjusted the internal resolution. Now, Ultra Quality in XeSS aligns with Quality in DLSS/FSR, and Quality in XeSS is equivalent to Balanced in DLSS/FSR, and so on. Additionally, they’ve introduced a new mode called Ultra Quality Plus, which is similar to the old Ultra Quality. along with Ultra Performance Mode and Native AA.

[@Gundemonium]

@@benchmarking4386 Damn didnt knew about this thanks a lot.