Horizon Forbidden West launches on PC in a couple of weeks, and ahead of its release date, developer Nixxes Software has unveiled the system requirements needed to run the port.
In a new PS Blog post, Nixxes Software Online Community Specialist Julian Huijbregts said the PC version of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is optimized to run "on a wide variety of PC hardware," including portable gaming devices such as handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck. This is unsurprising from Nixxes, given its track recording for porting games to PC.
"This allows gamers with the latest hardware to push their systems while also providing a great experience on less powerful PCs," Huijbregts explained. The blog post offers an overview of recommended specifications, which you can find below. Nixxes recommends these specifications for various available graphical presets.
Interestingly, regardless of what CPU and GPU you have in your machine, Nixxes recommends using a solid-state drive (SSD) when installing the PC version of Horizon: Forbidden West. This became a criticism in Nixxes' most recent PC port, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, with which an SSD was recommended, not required, to run the port. As Digital Foundry's John Linneman pointed out in his technical review, the port was borderline unplayable if installed on a hard disk drive (HHD).
Alongside the system requirements, we learned that Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition's PC port will join the growing list of games supporting Nvidia's third generation of DLSS. Released in 2022, DLSS 3 is exclusive to the GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards and can boost performance up to four times compared to simply rendering it at native resolution.
The PC version of Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is set to be released on March 21 on Steam and the Epic Games Store. It's the latest PlayStation exclusive to launch on PC, following Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Uncharted 4, and Insomniac's first two Spider-Man games.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
