With the open-world action role-playing game Horizon Forbidden West, developed by Guerrilla Games for the Playstation 4 and Playstation 5, the development studio Nixxes Software, also from the Netherlands, is entirely dedicated to porting Playstation games to the Windows PC , just another absolutely convincing PC port. The graphics of the game, which was released on PS4 and PS5 in 2022, have been significantly upgraded for the PC and look even better with ray tracing modification.
Raytracing-Shader und ReShade-Preset
With the help of the so-called “ReShade preset” from Digital Dreams and the associated “ray tracing shader”, the protagonist Aloy and the game world in the forbidden west see even better in 4K/UHD with Nvidia DLAA (“Deep Learning Anti Aliasing”) out than already. Horizon Forbidden West sets off a technical firework and looks overwhelming, especially for a game that originally ran on the now extremely low-performance Playstation 4 in 2022. Ray tracing now tops it all off.
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The YouTube channel, known for its impressive modding videos, offers its modifications, as well as the “Beyond all Limits ReShade” used for Horizon Forbidden West, for download via its own project page on Patreon. PCGH has already reported on his work several times.
The modder has also created a video in 8K/UHD for Horizon Forbidden West, which is no less graphically impressive and doesn't have much in common with the original on the Playstation 4 and Playstation 5.
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Despite the praise for the PC port from Nixxes Software, the successful basis of Guerrilla Games and Sony's decision to bring one of the last big exclusive games from the Playstation to the PC, Horizon Forbidden West stands in the shadow of the technically much less convincing Dragon's Dogma 2.
Horizon Forbidden West: PC version is overshadowed by Dragon's Dogma 2
The PC version of Horizon Forbidden West is celebrated by players and the press, but is still overshadowed by Dragon's Dogma 2 and its predecessor.
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Those: Digital Dreams via YouTube