Technical Breakdown
From the Horizon Zero Dawn’s Decima Engine to the Horizon Forbidden West’s massively upgraded version featuring vegetation rendering, improved facial animations, and physics, the series has showcased a steady evolution in graphical capabilities. Key to this progress is Guerrilla Games' focus on maximizing hardware performance through optimization techniques such as LOD (level of detail) rendering, temporal anti-aliasing (TAA), and dynamic resolution scaling.
Performance Insights
Horizon games demand high system specifications for optimal performance. Horizon Forbidden West requires a minimum of 8GB RAM and a modern graphics card like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580, while recommended settings call for 16GB RAM and a GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 5700 XT. These requirements reflect the games' complex open-world environments, detailed character models, and computationally intensive physics simulations, which push hardware to its limits to deliver smooth and immersive gameplay.
