Horizon Forbidden West is clearly a highly anticipated game on PC. And to find out if you can play it, here is what you need to prepare yourself mentally or financially, as you wish.
The upcoming release of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition for PC, scheduled for March 21, is generating excitement in the gaming community. Julian Huijbregts, online community specialist at Nixxes Software, revealed the specifications needed to make the most of Aloy’s new adventure on PC. The configurations, ranging from very low to very high, aim to determine what you need to run the title in the best conditions.
Horizon Forbidden West, a titanic configuration to play in?
Here is a detailed analysis of the configurations required according to the different graphics quality levels:
Minimum (Very Low):
- Average performance: 720P @ 30FPS
- Processor : Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
- Memory : 16GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB
- Storage : 150GB SSD space
- BONE : Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher)
Recommended (Medium):
- Average performance: 1080P@60FPS
- Processor : Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory : 16GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700
- Storage : 150GB SSD space
- BONE : Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher)
Pupil :
- Average performance: 1440P @ 60fps / 4K @ 30 FPS
- Processor : Intel Core i7-9700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- Memory : 16GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800
- Storage : 150GB SSD space
- BONE : Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher)
Very high :
- Average performance: 4K @ 60 FPS
- Processor : Intel Core i7-11700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
- Memory : 16GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900XT
- Storage : 150GB SSD space
- BONE : Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher)
Customizable settings include texture quality, level of detail, shadows, water, terrain and more, with sliders to adjust field of view and visual effects like motion blur and film grain . This range of configurations reveals that Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition can accommodate different hardware, but higher settings will require fairly expensive components. Even if it is still overall less delicious than one might have thought. An Nvidia RTX 3070 for 1440p or 4K/30 FPS is still good news
Finally, note that the Complete Edition includes the base game and the Burning Shores expansion as well as the following bonus content:
Everything will be available on Steam and in the Epic Games Store.