As promised by developer Guerrilla Games last week, a new update is now available for Horizon Zero Dawn on PC, with the full patch notes found below. Patch 1.02 follows Friday's 1.01 release by addressing more of the game's crashes, performance, and graphical issues.

The patch fixes two specific crashes related to the game's shader optimisation process. One fixes an issue where some players would crash during the "game optimisation" screen upon launching Horizon Zero Dawn, while another addresses a crash that would occur if you updated your video drivers after the game was already optimised previously.

There are also fixes for crashes that would happen during gameplay due to memory being incorrectly overwritten and a texture unstreaming bug. Aside from this, patch 1.02 introduces a few performance and optimisation fixes as well. Performance has been improved when the game is auto-saving, reducing the likelihood of dropped frames and microstuttering, and character facial animations have been fixed so they're not out of sync when running the game above 30fps.