Optimal Settings For Horizon Forbidden West

[SilentHorizon]

Hey guys, thought i'd share my optimal settings for you guys that I've found after play with graphics settings for over an hour total, editing settings throughout my 20 hour play through so far.

Here's my optimal settings:

Use Digital Foundry's optimal settings from their latest YouTube video.

Disable In-Game V-Sync
Disable Nvidia Reflex completely. (Test this yourself, but it appears Reflex reduces performance and adds slightly uneven frame pacing in this game for some reason. If you find you don't have issues. Use Reflex instead of Nvidia Ultra Low Latency mode.)

In the Nvidia Control Panel:

Enable G-Sync
Set Low Latency to — Ultra
Set V-Sync to — On
Set power to "Prefer Maximum Performance"

Now, for the last part, this will be entirely up to you. In the Nvidia Control Panel, set a fixed frame rate that your system can keep up with even in the most demanding situations.

For me that's around 70FPS so i enable a Frame Rate cap in the Nvidia Control Panel set at 70FPS.

Optionally, also disable Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling. But ONLY do this if you have actual performance problems in game related to microstutter or mouse hitching.

Hope this helps. I get absolutely butter smooth performance with these settings, and around 10-14ms of input delay which is insanely low.

UPDATE: I made a major discovery. Installing Nvidia GPU drivers through GeForce Expereince/Nvidia app, apparently doesn't clean install the drivers.

I downloaded a fresh copy of the latest Game Ready Nvidia drivers from Nvidia's website, and uninstalled the Nvidia App. And walla! The game now runs even smoother for me than ever, and its running super smooth with Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling turned on!

So, if you are having performance problems, try reinstalling the driver fresh from Nvidia's website before doing the GPU scheduling tweak.

[SilentHorizon]

I should add that I have not used these settings with Nvidia DLSS 3 Frame Generation. However, it should actually provide a similar experience albet with higher input lag.

[SilentHorizon]

For AMD or Intel users, these settings will work the same. But they will be labeled differently. The only exception is the low latency aspect, which I don't believe is present on Intel GPUs.

Regardless if you set a correct frame rate limit that your GPU can hit, you won't run into latency issues. The Reflex/Low Latency modes are only there as an insurance policy to make sure latency stays low just in case your frame rate dips below your limit.

[❌Mischief❌]

i wish i could find a fix for my problem but i have gotten like zero answers not even playstation support could help.

https://youtu.be/bfTrB18mKp4

[SilentHorizon]

Originally posted by 💗❌Mischief❌💗:

i wish i could find a fix for my problem but i have gotten like zero answers not even playstation support could help.

https://youtu.be/bfTrB18mKp4

Looks like you need to run DDU and reinstall your graphics drivers. Make sure you use the latest ones too. What are your system specs?

[Alfred E. Neuman]

I would recommend disabling v-sync if you use a monitor that supports g-sync/freesync.
Enabling v-sync will only lead to higher input-latency and the framerate/refreshrate are syncing anyway because of the freesync/g-sync.

And use 16 x texturefiltering from the nvidia-driver, in most games this is much better and even faster than in-game filtering.

[❌Mischief❌]

Originally posted by SilentHorizon:

Originally posted by 💗❌Mischief❌💗:

i wish i could find a fix for my problem but i have gotten like zero answers not even playstation support could help.

https://youtu.be/bfTrB18mKp4

Looks like you need to run DDU and reinstall your graphics drivers. Make sure you use the latest ones too. What are your system specs?

May I ask what’s DDU ?
My specs are
Rtx 2060 super 8gb vram
I9 9900k cpu
32 ddr4 ram
On windows 11

Everything is up to date.

[SilentHorizon]

Originally posted by Alfred E. Neuman:

I would recommend disabling v-sync if you use a monitor that supports g-sync/freesync.
Enabling v-sync will only lead to higher input-latency and the framerate/refreshrate are syncing anyway because of the freesync/g-sync.

And use 16 x texturefiltering from the nvidia-driver, in most games this is much better and even faster than in-game filtering.

That is partially correct. But, you'll find that sometimes with V-sync off you'll still get some tearing, even with adaptive sync enabled. This is why V-Sync is needed even with G-Sync. Blur Busters also recommends V-Sync with G-Sync as well for the best experience. Sadly it does cost a tiny bit of latency, but its not even noticeable.

That's good to know about the texture filtering thing, i'll have to check that out.

[SilentHorizon]

Originally posted by 💗❌Mischief❌💗:

Originally posted by SilentHorizon:

Looks like you need to run DDU and reinstall your graphics drivers. Make sure you use the latest ones too. What are your system specs?

May I ask what’s DDU ?
My specs are
Rtx 2060 super 8gb vram
I9 9900k cpu
32 ddr4 ram
On windows 11

Everything is up to date.

Look it up, DDU is a driver cleaner. Its great for reinstalling drivers when you are having issues. Use DDU to wipe the driver clean from your system, then reinstall.