Because of numerous crash reports of the PC port, Guerilla games announced that PC players would get patch fixes this week for Horizon: Zero Dawn. After getting ported to PC on August 8, Horizon: Zero Dawn has been experiencing some difficulties, causing the game to crash and other gameplay issues. Today, August 19, Patch 1.02 has been released.
CRASH FIXES
- Fixed an issue where some players would crash during their first game boot when the ‘game optimization’ screen is active, and they ran out of disc space.
- Fixed an issue where some players would crash if they updated their video drivers after the game was already optimized previously.
- Fixed an issue where some players would crash during gameplay because of memory incorrectly being overwritten.
- Fixed an issue where some players would crash during gameplay due to a texture unstreaming bug.
GAME IMPROVEMENTS
- Improved performance when auto-saving (e.g., when completing a quest step).
- Fixed an issue where some players experienced that V-sync wouldn’t properly turn off in the borderless mode
- Fixed an issue where some players experienced out of sync facial animations due to them being locked at 30FPS.
- Reduced memory used when streaming shaders.
OTHER CHANGES
- Improved crash report flow and messaging. Each crash now includes an identifier you can use to communicate with our Customer Support.
- Added more features to improve diagnostic data collection when submitting a crash report.
