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Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition

Open-world action RPG with a sharp visual jump over Zero Dawn and a broad 1080p desktop curve that still rewards high-end GPUs.

ActionAdventureRPGPC
ReleasedMar 21, 2024
Performance data8 GPU profiles
Catalog sourcemanual

This page is a PC performance guide. Check how the Windows version should run on your hardware, then raise the FPS target if you want SpecBeacon to suggest what to upgrade first.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition
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SpecBeacon mixes official PC requirements, benchmark coverage, linked review pages, and update notes so you can make a quicker hardware decision without hopping across multiple tabs.

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  • Use the FPS card first if you want a quick answer for your current PC.
  • Use the update and review links below when a game is new, patched often, or still getting mixed reports.
  • When benchmark coverage is thin, treat the estimate as directional and prioritize the GPU before chasing smaller CPU gains.
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Updates

Latest notes

Steam App ID 2420110

AMD FSR 3.1 is now available in Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition
OfficialPatch Notes
Community Announcements · Nixxes_Community2024-06-27Hey everyone, Patch 1.5 is out now for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition on PC. This update adds AMD FSR 3.1 including frame generation, contains various performance optimizations and introduces new options in the settings menu. We have been working closely with AMD to incorporate FSR 3.1 in Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition. This performance-enhancing technology can be used with recen...
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 1.4.59.0 Release Notes
OfficialPatch Notes
Community Announcements · Nixxes_Community2024-05-02Hey everyone, Patch 1.4 for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is available now. This update contains various visual upgrades, bugfixes and improvements to the user interface, based on community feedback. Check out the details in the release notes below. On behalf of the teams at Nixxes and Guerrilla, thanks to everyone for playing Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition on PC and for providi...
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition Hotfix 1.3.57.0
OfficialPatch Notes
Community Announcements · Nixxes_Community2024-04-25Hey everyone, This hotfix addresses a crash that could occur for some players in the Burning Shores expansion after installing the update we released earlier this week. We've also fixed a bug that prevented users of AMD Radeon GPUs and older NVIDIA GeForce GPUs from enabling Intel XeSS Native AA. Thanks again for sharing your feedback! Release Notes Stability improvements. Intel XeSS Native AA is...
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 1.3.55.0 Release Notes
OfficialPatch Notes
Community Announcements · Nixxes_Community2024-04-23Hey everyone, Patch 1.3 is out now for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition on PC. This update includes new features, visual improvements and a range of optimizations, bugfixes and stability improvements, based on player feedback. We've improved the visual quality of dust effects and made improvements to texture streaming to reduce memory usage and improve texture quality. This update also reso...
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition 1.2.48.0 Release Notes
OfficialPatch Notes
Community Announcements · Nixxes_Community2024-04-11Hey everyone, Today's update for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition further improves stability and contains bugfixes and optimizations based on player feedback. This patch addresses stutters that could occur on specific locations and resolves visual corruption on the map that could occur on AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards. The teams at Nixxes and Guerrilla continue to closely monitor feedba...
FAQ

Quick answers

Does this page include PC performance data?

Yes. SpecBeacon can estimate FPS for this game with the current seeded benchmark coverage.

Is the score an official review score?

No. The SpecBeacon Score is an internal reaction signal. It is not copied from Metacritic, OpenCritic, Steam, or the publisher.

What matters most for getting more FPS?

In most cases, GPU choice and resolution move the estimate the most. CPU and RAM usually refine the result rather than replace the GPU signal.