Pc or PS5?

[Hurricane]

Which version better to play? I played the game years ago back on ps4 and would love to revisit, still love it compared to terrible Forbidden West, it played good back on ps4 so aiming with bow will be probably even better on pc but men, in worry about optimization, I have 2060rtx so nothing special, I for some reason own the game so I quess it's not a big problem to download but men my internet is so bad it's gonna take 2 nights, thoughts?

[wkitty42]

i played it on my linux PC with steam using my xbox controller... it was great and AFAIK no different than playing in on some console...

[Leshariant]

Pc with big booba mod, always.

[Basan™]

Asking this upon Steam's Horizon Zero Dawn (HZD) forums might be a tad biased towards PC gaming, but since I've started PC gaming back in '98 I've always preferred it over consoles because you can always use it to do other things (which consoles having a stricter contruction frame rarely allow you to improve upon their initial release model thus driving you to acquire the next generation of it every few years or so). *Meh*

And having said all that, I'll obivously prefer playing HZD upon a PC, because even being badly optimized for PC's being an initial PalyStation console port it's still quite good and you can even sprinkle it with a few "Quality of Life" ("QoL") mods, like for instance the "Enhanced Focus" mod[www.nexusmods.com].

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by Basan™:

Asking this upon Steam's Horizon Zero Dawn (HZD) forums might be a tad biased towards PC gaming, but since I've started PC gaming back in '98 I've always preferred it over consoles because you can always use it to do other things (which consoles having a stricter contruction frame rarely allow you to improve upon their initial release model thus driving you to acquire the next generation of it every few years or so). *Meh*

And having said all that, I'll obivously prefer playing HZD upon a PC, because even being badly optimized for PC's being an initial PalyStation console port it's still quite good and you can even sprinkle it with a few "Quality of Life" ("QoL") mods, like for instance the "Enhanced Focus" mod[www.nexusmods.com]. :winter2019happybulb:

I'm just really worry about performance, you know how it is with Console ports, but I quess game has good scores on steam hmm

[GRUNDLESTILTSKIN]

if you have a good computer, the best version is PC because of fidelity.

[dcy665]

Download the game. The one you own.

I don't care which one, because you are going to have to download one them either way. The longer you take to decide is just time that could be better used downloading.

[pandreon]

Assuming your PC can run the game: I think it depends on how you like to control 3rd-person shooters. I played this game part-way on PS4 years ago, and absolutely hated trying to aim with the controller. In this port, I can use mouse and keyboard, and switch the keys to my liking. It's night and day. However if you're fine with a controller, I say stick with the PS5 unless your rig can run the game at high graphics settings.

[Basan™]

Originally posted by Hurricane:

Originally posted by Basan™:

Asking this upon Steam's Horizon Zero Dawn (HZD) forums might be a tad biased towards PC gaming, but since I've started PC gaming back in '98 I've always preferred it over consoles because you can always use it to do other things (which consoles having a stricter contruction frame rarely allow you to improve upon their initial release model thus driving you to acquire the next generation of it every few years or so). *Meh*

And having said all that, I'll obivously prefer playing HZD upon a PC, because even being badly optimized for PC's being an initial PalyStation console port it's still quite good and you can even sprinkle it with a few "Quality of Life" ("QoL") mods, like for instance the "Enhanced Focus" mod[www.nexusmods.com].

I'm just really worry about performance, you know how it is with Console ports, but I quess game has good scores on steam hmm

I'm playing this game upon a 4-5 years old laptop using the minimum requirements as it comes to VRAM, had to convert to the previous Steam's UI just because the current one is a still bug ridden, bloatware resource hog and prevented me from starting HZD without an annoying game's sound loop to pop.

And on top of that I'm still playing the game with face paint mods, hair braid colouring mods, the mod that already mentioned above and HZD still performs quite well, imho. Btw, you just have to keep the badly optimized PC version's sound into around 44 or 48 at tops for it to properly function.

I'm not expecting you to buy it upon the PC, but I'm merely providing my personal experiences game's in-taken experiences to merely display to you that there's pretty much always a way around PC to circumvent what is a stricter (trapping) noose when regarding consoles.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by Basan™:

...had to convert to the previous Steam's UI just because the current one is a still bug ridden, bloatware resource hog and prevented me from starting HZD without an annoying game's sound loop to pop.

Steam uses less memory or CPU than Firefox; much less compared to Chrome.

There is an option which controls whether the videos on a game's "home page" auto-play.
Don't enable that option and you won't have a video playing in the background.

Btw, you just have to keep the badly optimized PC version's sound into around 44 or 48 at tops for it to properly function.

Sure, HZD should deal with unreasonable audio settings rather than crashing out. That isn't an optimization issue: supporting extremely high audio sampling rates would not improve the performance of the game in the slightest.

PS: A recording engineer doing audio mastering in a studio actually has a reason to process audio at above 48 kHz, but there is no reason to go above 48 kHz for playback on the consumer side.

[Basan™]

Originally posted by cswiger:

Originally posted by Basan™:

...had to convert to the previous Steam's UI just because the current one is a still bug ridden, bloatware resource hog and prevented me from starting HZD without an annoying game's sound loop to pop.

Steam uses less memory or CPU than Firefox; much less compared to Chrome.

There is an option which controls whether the videos on a game's "home page" auto-play.
Don't enable that option and you won't have a video playing in the background.
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I'll need some proof on that because Chrome has a basis upon the current Steam's UI CEF version (i.e., Chromium core based browser functionality).
And also considering that I've already debated that into a pulp from ever since the current Steam's UI popped around and it proved itself to be an eye candy, resource hog bug ridden fest (i.e., still haven't got an 100% reliable back button according to their latest 11th September's News) and to even topping it off the latest Steam UI still has a memory leakage problem to be properly addressed.

All things considered... thanks but no thanks. I'll prefer to stick to the previous Steam's UI being way more stable and resource efficient handling than the current still tries to accomplish.

Tbh, I don't even understand why you've brought this so called "video issue" up. That happens only when browsing through any game's Store page and considering that I'm still using the previous Steam's UI never got a fuss with those in the 1st place, but when hearing it, it seems a lot like either another still to be ironed out bug or memory leaking to be properly fixed.

As for the rest of your sound card argumentation, atm I'll take it provided that the game never gave sound issues... much less game crashing ones (i.e., none this far).
In fact, the only exception to that rule was when I tried to launch it from the current Steam's UI, which was the real cullprit and not HZD itself.
But we digress too much in here. Let's get back on topic or please simply leave this thread diverting as it currently is. Thanks.

[cswiger]

I'll need some proof on that because Chrome has a basis upon the current Steam's UI CEF version (i.e., Chromium core based browser functionality).

If you want to see screenshots of Task Manager showing memory usage, I can certainly provide them:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3042806855
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3042807094
Steam and Firefox had been running since I rebooted after the monthly security patch.
Chrome I'd just fired up and browsed to this thread in a single window, but it is also larger than Steam. (If I open the same set of tabs and windows I had in Firefox, it outweighs FF, but I didn't bother to take another screenshot.)

Tbh, I don't even understand why you've brought this so called "video issue" up.

Refer to the first paragraph in #8. There was a plethora of threads about game related audio playing in the background when the new Steam client launched, and they turned out to be autoplaying videos.

As for a memory leak in Steam, well, that would be obviously visible-- and I'd love to see you show such evidence to me, come to think of it. Normally a memory leak results in the VM system thrashing with heavy I/O resulting in sound stuttering, not sound looping.

As for the rest of your sound card argumentation, atm I'll take it provided that the game never gave sound issues... much less game crashing ones (i.e., none this far).

Is this a verbose form of agreement?

[Basan™]

If still not having a 100% reliable "back button" upon the current Steam's UI doesn't imply leakage because it can't properly deal with those commands then I don't know what do you want for evidence.

As for showing me Windows' Task Manager screenshoots, that is pretty much of a phallacy proof because you didn't shown the "Applications" Windows' Task Manager part that displays what's the real RAM usage that Steam's is requiring from your PC. And just not to mention that your Windows is a 32-bits one, which usually uses way less resources than the current 64-bits sort of 'standard'.
I also used the current Steam's UI for a few days before reverting it into the more stable Steam UI previous release. And a few of those had huge RAM memory spiked up when comparing to the previous one (from around 300MB tops into the current one always around 800MB in the very least).

All things considered, I'm done with this futile debate as it's probably derailling this thread enough into eventually getting it locked contrary to the OP's debating intent.
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And regarding the OP's subject, from ever since I've started using a PC (tower, laptop it doesn't really matter) I've always felt that it had way more usefulness and also considered that those pretty much always could be way more easily upgraded than the gaming consoles stricter building frames and that addaptabillity was what mostly also had driven me to stick by PC's when (spare time and unwind) gaming is concerned.

[cswiger]

Originally posted by Basan™:

If ]still not having a 100% reliable "back button" upon the current Steam's UI doesn't imply leakage because it can't properly deal with those commands[/url] then I don't know what do you want for evidence.

Provide some evidence of a memory leak. Or don't.

As for showing me Windows' Task Manager screenshoots, that is pretty much of a phallacy proof because you didn't shown the "Applications" Windows' Task Manager part that displays what's the real RAM usage that Steam's is requiring from your PC.

"fallacy", not "phallacy". There is no "Applications" tab in a Win10 Task Manager, which should have been immediately obvious to anyone looking at the screenshots in #11.

And just not to mention that your Windows is a 32-bits one, which usually uses way less resources than the current 64-bits sort of 'standard'.

Wrong. I'm running a 64-bit Win10 install.

Hint: Only 64-bit Windows will display "(32 bit)" by some processes but not others.

All things considered, I'm done with this futile debate as it's probably derailling this thread enough into eventually getting it locked contrary to the OP's debating intent.

You said much the same previously in #10, after demanding that I provide proof.

I find such contradictions adorable, frankly. Do you know why?

[Basan™]

Originally posted by cswiger:

Originally posted by Basan™:

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As for showing me Windows' Task Manager screenshoots, that is pretty much of a phallacy proof because you didn't shown the "Applications" Windows' Task Manager part that displays what's the real RAM usage that Steam's is requiring from your PC.

"fallacy", not "phallacy". There is no "Applications" tab in a Win10 Task Manager, which should have been immediately obvious to anyone looking at the screenshots in #11.

Wee, I stand corrected. It's actually written as fallacy, but considering that I'm not even an English native speaker, I thought that the more "Latin" basis for it was correct.

And also learn to read, I never said tab, I said "part". And that also appears under my Windows 10 64-bits Task Manager. And you failling to provide such is 'endearing' too.

Given all things considered, I've finally realised that you're nothing more than a nitpicking troll. Farewell.

[Surreal]

If you are still fence sitting on deciding which platform, I would recommend Playstation. Simply because you might get it on Steam just to realize you cant even LAUNCH THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GAME!

Yeah im one of those folks this game doesnt want to work on the PC of. I have an RTX 4080 and a 13700KF intel and I cant get passed the 'Sony' screen after picking language and subtitles.

Iv been a PC gamer since the early 90s and getting this new PC has caused me more issues with games than I care to admit. "Oh, UE5 has conflicts with my CPU? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ great!"

Honestly wish I settled for a good 2k computer instead of coughing up money to have a PC that can play the newest and buggiest games for a few years longer when most of em have enough issues to make me wonder why I would care about them within a their first year of release.

Then turn around and I also have issues with older games because....who the ♥♥♥♥ knows? Amazing! Almost makes me want to get a PS4/5 just to play their exclusives cause im more in line with liking them than Xbox. Id even get the kb/m accessories cause ♥♥♥♥ controllers.