Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is due on PC later this month and the team at Guerrilla (alongside their PC port partners Nixxes) have finalised their minimum and recommended specifications for Aloy's latest adventures on the platform. A Playstation Blog post (Horizon is published by Sony) briefly discusses the specifications alongside pre-order bonuses, but for your convenience they're also listed below:
Nothing immediately jumps out as an outlier for these specifications, which detail recommendations from a 720p low quality playable hardware all the way up to 4K60fps with very detailed textures, but there are a few notable aspects to the table. The first is that the same appears to be very scalable with relatively low CPU requirements that even for 40K60fps aren't particularly onerous.
System RAM also isn't in high demand at only 16GB, a fairly standard figure for any gaming system built in the last half decade (and an effective minimum for systems utilising DDR5 memory). 150GB SSD Storage is perhaps the most significant of non-graphics hardware, but that should be easy to achieve if you uninstall a few of those Steam games you keep not getting around to playing. Windows 11 isn't required either, which will come as something as a relief to no small number of gamers.
Things aren't too bad if you consider GPU tier. An RTX 3060/RX 5700 for 1080p60 seems fair and RTX 4090/RX 7900XT for 4K60 isn't beyond the pale even if the cost of that hardware is currently high. It's also in keeping with Horizon Zero Dawn's release in August 2020; that game pushed hardware hard at the high end and was recognised as one of the most attractive in the pre-Ray Tracing era, despite also running quite well on relatively modest silicon. These specs do perhaps signal the end of the GTX 1060 as a meaningful gaming GPU however; farewell old friend, you shall be missed.
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition launches on March 22nd through both Steam and the Epic Games Store. The series' first installment, Horizon Zero Dawn, is also available from both storefronts if you've yet to experience the post-apocalyptic world Guerrilla created in the 2010's.
SOURCE: Playstation Blog
