From my travels I can recommend that, if you require the utmost performance, but are also keen to experience Horizon Zero Dawn in a better shape than on the PS4, then turning down the reflection setting offers the greatest single improvement from the graphical settings. I also checked out a couple other settings worth tweaking in Horizon Zero Dawn, such as reflections, shadows, and anti-aliasing. If that's not convincing enough-and you shouldn't need much convincing to choose the extra wide-angle lens, after all it's through this that you'll experience all that the game has to offer-the shift from an FoV of 70 to 100 only costs a couple of frames. Field of view, for example, is top priority-not the least bit because our own James (whose performance was somewhat in line with my own numbers) reckons it is the real game changer of the whole PC port. The in-game benchmark also offers me the opportunity to mess with the settings for the best results. While some ways off my monitor's 144Hz refresh rate, it is nonetheless an improvement over the PS4 experience, which one can assume is represented by the 'original' preset. With the same default settings as before my PC managed a steady 79fps average and 69fps 99th percentile result.

SSD: WD Black SN750 1TB + Samsung 870 QVO 1TB The GPU 99th percentile scraped by at 62fps, while my eight-core CPU dropped a little down to 55fps-suggesting a decent balance of high-powered CPU and graphics card remains as important as ever for steady minimum frame rates. At 1440p, and with the 'favor performance' preset, I was soaring at 81fps on average. Needless to say I was expecting decent performance from Horizon Zero Dawn-and I got something close to that. The game itself was loaded onto a separate Samsung QVO 870 drive. My test system is my own personal rig, fit with an RTX 2080, Intel Core i7 9700K, 32GB of Corsair memory at 2,666MHz, and a WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD-most of the key bits of which are looped up in pink coolant (feel free to read my painstaking custom-loop build experience in detail). As a benchmark, it's at least partially representative of the game's performance, although you may find that once in the game proper that you see frame rate dips lower than those reported in the benchmark during messy combat or densely packed areas. Horizon Zero Dawn comes with a built-in benchmark, which sees you spiralling around the exterior of the urban centre at the heart of the long-since-apocalypsed world, and then winding through its moderately populated streets.

What I can speak to specifically is the performance that I, and a couple of colleagues, have experienced so far.

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