NVIDIA Users - Fix your game, disable GeForce Experience

[Haoz]

So this is it, you can "cure" Horizon by disabling Geforce Experience, you only need to use the "exit" option on the tray before playing the game. Kill the processes related to shadowplay and.. The game should run with no suttering issues or random crashes

[Prax]

Originally posted by Sir. Alan:

So this is it, you can "cure" Horizon by disabling Geforce Experience, you only need to use the "exit" option on the tray before playing the game. Kill the processes related to shadowplay and.. The game should run with no suttering issues or random crashes :VSnake:

Hmm If it works for you if you uninstall it - then do it, I in other hand have GeForce Experience installed, and game runs smooth and great for me anyways with over 118 hours gameplay now since the release, and just started New Game+ yesterday on Ultra Hard difficulty. Especially with the new Nvidia driver v452.06 that was just released.

[lifestorock]

Originally posted by Sir. Alan:

So this is it, you can "cure" Horizon by disabling Geforce Experience, you only need to use the "exit" option on the tray before playing the game. Kill the processes related to shadowplay and.. The game should run with no suttering issues or random crashes

I have played 71h and had no crash and no stuttering. Playing in WQHD with high settings and capped at 60fps. Geforce & Steam Overlay are activated.

[ValhallasAshes]

Originally posted by lifestorock:

Originally posted by Sir. Alan:

So this is it, you can "cure" Horizon by disabling Geforce Experience, you only need to use the "exit" option on the tray before playing the game. Kill the processes related to shadowplay and.. The game should run with no suttering issues or random crashes :VSnake:

I have played 71h and had no crash and no stuttering. Playing in WQHD with high settings and capped at 60fps. Geforce & Steam Overlay are activated.

Same here. I'm now nearly 50 hours into the game and it's been running great. Admittedly it wasn't smooth out of the box, but with the standard troubleshooting it's been running rock solid. I've had maybe 2 or 3 crashes (one was caused by plugging the controller back in after accidentally yanking it out) but that's it. I'm running a AMD 1950X, 32GB 3200 CL14 RAM and a 2080Ti. I get 90fps average at 1440p on my high refresh monitor using Ultra settings and a pegged 60fps on my big screen at 1080p when playing from the couch. It's rock solid smooth. Quite literally a perfect experience on my end. I'm actually amazed so many people are having so many issues.

The only things I changed from the original install was I moved the game files from the traditional hard drive to my NVME (so textures would load quicker) and I had to update the drivers. I tried the "studio" drivers from Nvidia and while it did smooth out the framerates, it caused graphical artifacts (clothing textures were spazzing out). So I back-dated one driver version to the WHQL drive (451.67-desktop-win10-64bit-international-dch-whql) and it's been running perfect ever since. One thing I will note is that if you update your graphics drivers, the game will recompile the shaders again on first run, but the improvement in performance was considerable. On my older drivers, the framerates were high, but I got constant "hitching" every couple seconds. After updating the drivers, the "hitching" stopped completely. The other things I will note is I am playing the Epic store version and I don't have GeForce Experience installed at all. Drivers only. So I don't have the Steam nor GeForce overlays in game while playing.

[Vampire Detective]

One thing I really like about GeForce Experience is the filter. I hate how all games have that white and overly bright filter.

I'm giving this a shot to see if it eliminates the problems.

[Monkey]

So what happened to this GeForce Experience 'fix' they put out? Optimization still bricks my computer every time.

[Bastila Shan]

I think this is just a placebo effect, you disabled it and now you believe you have smoother gameplay but in reality it didn’t do anything.

[FUN_STACK]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

I think this is just a placebo effect, you disabled it and now you believe you have smoother gameplay but in reality it didn’t do anything.

Placebo plays a lot of factor in others claiming smooth 60fps all the time, but if they had FPS/Frametime/.1% counter On all the time they'd have a different attitude.

[Spawn of Totoro]

... I just don't have GeForce Experience manage my game settings. No need to uninstall it, imho.

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[Vincent]

I tried several games with ultra setting and I had stuttering most of the time when GeForce Experience is enable. With Assassins Creed Odyssey the experience was so awfull that it make me stop the game for months until I found that it was the issue. Once uninstalled it run like a charm. I didn't encountered any issue with it for Death Stranding but for HZD it work better without it after the last driver update.

From my experiences the placebo argument sound obviously false, because the difference between using GeForce Experience or not was easily notible in my case. This certainly depend of the hardware setting though, or maybe some people can't notice it because their hardware setting are a way too high.

[Huntard]

i don't understand very well

you mean remove Geforce Exeprience from computer

or just disable it in option of geforce experience ?

[Vincent]

In my case I have it uninstalled for some games because I don't have any use for it. But I think that disable it could have the same effect if some previous posts are right.

[GreedyChip]

GeForce Experience is useless when you update drivers manually and know how to change graphics settings in game.

[Huntard]

Originally posted by GreedyChip:

GeForce Experience is useless when you update drivers manually and know how to change graphics settings in game.

geforce is good for 1 thing

ShadowPlay

[Ottomic]

Originally posted by Sir. Alan:

So this is it, you can "cure" Horizon by disabling Geforce Experience, you only need to use the "exit" option on the tray before playing the game. Kill the processes related to shadowplay and.. The game should run with no suttering issues or random crashes :VSnake:

Except every single one of my crashes have happened without GFE on my system.

[ValhallasAshes]

I'm going to put a process of steps up. The same process I used when setting up my game. I don't know if GeForce experience is causing the issue, because I don't use it.

1st, update your graphics drivers. The drivers I use are 451.67-desktop-win10-64bit-international-dch-whql for my 2080Ti.

Next start the game and let it complete it's shader compilation process and then watch the starting video.

Next, once you're on main menu, quit the game. Literally turn the game off. Don't change settings. Don't run the benchmark. Just quit the game.

Once back on desktop open task manager and look at your RAM usage. It will likely be unusually high. (it filled 68% of my RAM and I have 32GB) For some reason the shader process uses a ton of RAM and takes a fair amount of time for it to dump after the process, but you will not see this in the processes tab. Instead go to the "users" tab and expand your name. You will see Horizon Zero Dawn is still running. DO NOT KILL IT. If you watch, you will see the memory usage slowly drain until the process disappears completely. It took about 5 minutes on my system.

Once HZD fully closes and dumps ram, then start the game back up and see if you get better performance after that. Do note, that it is only after a shader compile process that you have to worry about this. You do not have to worry about this for any subsequent playing of the game after this.

For the record, it is no placebo effect I'm experiencing in my gameplay. I've been building computers for 20 years and have been a PC gamer since the 90's. I think I know how to test framerates and when I say I'm getting 90fps average at 1440p Ultra and literally pegged 60fps at 1080p Ultra (I literally mean a flat line of solid stable 60fps barring the rare occasion where it drops a couple frames at most.), I'm not kidding, I'm not mistaken and I'm some noob who doesn't understand what I'm looking at.