The primary selling point of this update is the migration of assets to the Decima engine version used in Horizon Forbidden West.
Previous versions required a restart every 2-3 hours due to VRAM clogging—specifically on 8GB cards. Update v1.46.30r introduces a dynamic resource pool that flushes stale shader caches without a hard reset. horizonzerodawnremasteredupdatev14630r better
While not as transformative as a native PS5 SSD trick, the update optimizes decompression routines on all platforms. The primary selling point of this update is
| Action | v1.44 | v1.46.30r | Improvement | |--------|-------|------------|--------------| | Initial boot to main menu | 18.2 sec | 14.1 sec | 23% faster | | Fast travel (desert to jungle) | 9.7 sec | 6.9 sec | 29% faster | | Reload after death | 7.3 sec | 4.8 sec | 34% faster | While not as transformative as a native PS5
On NVMe drives (PCIe 4.0), fast travel now feels almost instantaneous. Even on SATA SSDs, the difference is noticeable.