Dennis Leschnikowski | March 5, 2024 – 3:39 p.m
This month, the successful action role-playing game “Horizon: Forbidden West” is making its way to the PC in a technically polished version. The official system requirements reveal what your system has to do in order to handle Aloy's second adventure with appropriate performance.
Just like its predecessor, “Horizon: Forbidden West” is also finding its form a complete edition the way to the PC. A few weeks before the release, Sony and the developers at Nixxes Software revealed the system requirements of the PC version.
Like those responsible on the official PlayStation blog The developers' focus was on getting “Horizon: Forbidden West” to run on as many PCs as possible. For this reason, several graphics presets have been integrated, ranging from very low to very high, guaranteeing a high-quality gaming experience on both weaker and more powerful systems.
If you would like to adjust the settings and graphics according to your own wishes, you will find various options in the launcher. You can also set full-screen effects such as radial blur or lens effects.
“In addition to individual quality settings for textures, level of detail, shadows, water, terrain and more, you can use sliders to adjust the field of view and visual effects such as motion blur and film grain,” it says.
The system requirements at a glance
MinimumRecommendedHochVery high720P @ 30 FPS1080P @ 60 FPS1440P @ 60fps / 4K @ 30 FPS4K @ 60 FPSIntel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300XIntel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-9700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700XIntel Core i7-11 700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X16GB RAM16GB RAM16GB RAM16GB RAMNvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900XT150GB free SSD storage150GB free SSD storage150GB free SSD storage150GB of free SSD storageWindows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or later)Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or later)Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or later)Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or later)
The PC version of “Horizon: Forbidden West” will be released on March 21, 2024 on Steam and the Epic Games Store. In addition to the main game, the Complete Edition includes the “Burning Shores” expansion released last year for the PS5 and various additional content.
Including a digital art book, additional outfits and optical extras for the photo mode. The following graphic provides you with further details about the content offered by the Complete Edition for the PC.
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