Guerrilla Games reveals how it delivered a dramatic improvement to image quality.

So what were the original image quality complaints surrounding the 60fps performance mode at launch?

The image is stable and clean in motion, with virtually all shimmering vanquished.

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Ultimately though, the improvement here is dramatic - so what exactly has changed under the hood?

To boil this down, Horizon Forbidden West still uses a checkerboard rendering solution to produce a 3200x1800 image.

So that’s essentially what has changed with this update and why it required a lot of additional development.

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