Horizon Forbidden West Introduces Upgraded Performance Mode
Horizon Forbidden West, the highly anticipated sequel to 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn, released back in February 2022. While it may have been somewhat overshadowed by the release of Elden Ring, Guerrilla Games' latest title was seen as another triumph for the studio, with review scores for Horizon Forbidden West reflecting that positive sentiment. Following the release of Horizon Forbidden West, Guerrilla Games has continued to support the title with consistent updates too, seeking to improve the game.
The updates for Horizon Forbidden West have come in different forms, with some being new content patches that bring surprise additions to the game like a New Game Plus mode. Other updates are more anticipated bug fixes that deal with performance and visual issues. Horizon Forbidden West's most recent patch, 1.16, falls on the side of the latter, as it seeks to deal with some visual and performance issues the game has had since launch. Namely, patch 1.16 fixes some of the more persistent issues that caused problems with those playing in the 60 FPS performance mode of the game.
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According to Horizon Forbidden West players, there was a consistent issue in the 60 FPS mode of the game that would give a «shimmery» look to objects and foliage, which made many revert to 30 FPS. There were tweaks to the image quality in patch 1.07, but these didn't solve the issues with the 60 FPS performance mode. Guerrilla's second attempt to fix the visual bugs in Horizon Forbidden West has proven much more successful.
According to Guerrilla Senior Principal Tech Programmer Giliam de Carpentier, the solution to the bugs in Horizon Forbidden West lay in changing the way anti-aliasing was utilized. A
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