Sony Interactive Entertainment, Guerrilla Games, and Nixxes Software’s action role-playing game, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered on PC, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
DISPLAY
- Window Mode: Exclusive Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Refresh Rate: as per the max refresh rate of your display
- VSync: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, On otherwise
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: Off
- Upscale Method: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else Intel XeSS, else AMD FSR 3
- Upscale Quality: Quality
GRAPHICS
- Texture Quality: Very High
- Texture Filtering: 16x Anistropic
- Shadow Quality: Medium
- Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
- Screen Space Reflections: High
- Level of Detail: Very High
- Hair Quality: High
- Terrain Quality: Very High
- Clouds Quality: High
- Translucency Quality: High Res
- Parallax Occlusion Mapping: On
- Depth of Field: High
- Bloom: On
- Fullscreen Effects: On
- Screen Space Shadows: Off
Steam Deck Optimized Settings
The settings below are for getting the best possible performance on the Steam Deck.
DISPLAY
- Window Mode: Exclusive Fullscreen
- Display Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
- VSync: Off
- Dynamic Resolution Scaling: On
- Upscale Method: AMD FSR 3
- Upscale Quality: Performance
GRAPHICS
- Texture Quality: Medium
- Texture Filtering: 4x Anistropic
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
- Screen Space Reflections: Low
- Level of Detail: Medium
- Hair Quality: Low
- Terrain Quality: Medium
- Clouds Quality: Low
- Translucency Quality: Low Res
- Parallax Occlusion Mapping: On
- Depth of Field: Low
- Bloom: On
- Fullscreen Effects: On
- Screen Space Shadows: Off
The settings mentioned above allow Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered to generally target a frame rate of 60 fps during gameplay.
