Lower your overall texture quality by one tier (e.g., from High to Medium) or turn off NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency / Boost options inside the display settings, as community members on Steam Discussions have reported localized performance conflicts with these parameters. DirectStorage Loading Hangs
Nixxes has addressed several community-requested tweaks for both mouse/keyboard and controller players: Remappable Ammo Crafting:
Crash report reads Exception_Access_Violation at address 0x00007FF7...1580exe . Cause: Overlay conflicts (Discord, Nvidia GeForce Experience, or MSI Afterburner). Fix: Disable all overlays. Launch the game via the 1580exe directly as Administrator (Navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\Horizon Forbidden West\ ).
Upgrading an older executable version to the 1.5.80 structure yields dramatic changes in performance and visual fidelity: 1. AMD FSR 3.1 & Frame Generation
The update introduces several new settings to the graphics and audio menus to improve immersion: Cinematic Face Detail:
Fixed a bug where controller prompts would not appear if a player connected their controller after the game had already launched.
If your update loop hangs or the executable fails to launch, the easiest remedy is a checksum verification.
A prominent bug in early builds hardcoded the TAB key or caused overlapping UI bindings when changing keyboard layouts. The update fully unlocked key assignment flexibility.