I wrote a similar post on the FM6: Apex forum and it turns out you need a pretty good pc even for 1080p60FPS. Since FH3 generally is a bigger game I’m curious about what GPU and CPU you’ll need to run @1080p60FPS, 1440p60FPS or even 2160p30/60FPS. I’m considering getting a GTX 1070 and a CPU in hope to play in 4k.
Minimum system requirements (Source: Microsoft Store):
CPU: i5 3570 3.4 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti or AMD R7 250X
VRAM: 2 GB
RAM: 8 GB
Recommended system requirements:
I haven’t seen any PC spec requirements as of yet. I’m hoping with the Apex beta work they will optimize and make the specs more realistic for what the majority of players have. I’m also considering a GTX 1070 for the additional horsepower and then consider the 4K step up.
Long as it’s not as laughable as the specs for that Apex. Not even sexy asseta corsa needs specs like that. I know it’s a tech demo but it’s pretty funny really.
I’d like to see 4GB for 480/30, but I know I won’t…
4K is a lot of pixels (+6 million more than 1080p’s modest 2 million px), even for brand new hardware. Remember, the Horizon series is only 30fps on console, unlike the main Forzas which do 60. So you’re already going to be getting a performance hit here by default over something like Apex because the open world and day / night cycle stuff and dynamic weather is more demanding than closed tracks and pre-fixed lighting and weather. Obviously a good PC is far more powerful than an Xbox One, but don’t go in expecting it to fly at 4k.
Will be interesting to see what the min/rec specs are, as well as some benchmarks once it’s finally out.
Horizon 3 for PC may have unlocked FPS just like apex you never know
I believe they’ve confirmed the framerate would be unlocked on PC in FH3. I was only saying it’s a much more demanding game which is why they have to cap it at 30fps on console, unlike the main Forza games which are always 60fps. So PCs that barely squeak by running something like Apex at 60fps at a very high resolution will likely be taking a hit in performance at similar settings in Horizon. Unless the optimize the hell out of it somehow.
optimization for PC should be the main focus learning from APEX. I kid you not, I can run all modern PC games at 2160P either 30FPS or 60FPS I don’t know why APEX is such an issue, there are more complex games like Witcher 3 which I can run decent @30FPS 2160P.
MY SPECS:
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6GHz (Turbo up to 3.5GHz)
RAM: 32GB DDR4, 16GB 2133MHZ Internal, 16GB 2400MHZ External (Upgraded)
Storage: 1TB 7200RPM + 128GB SSD
GPU: NVIDIA GTX970M 3GB GDDR5
Monitor: 1080p75hz
Yes I know its a laptop
I should be fine lol
How well can you run Apex? I have an Alienware AW17 R3 w/ the 980m and I can’t match XB1 visual quality@60fps. Granted I don’t have Skylake but according to benchmarks the 980m is roughly 970 desktop performance.
You’ll be surprised lol, unless they optimized horizon 3 better than apex
My gtx 660 runs apex just fine
All textures and everything on high in 4K?? Are you running high textures? What resolution are you running??
I think my settings are very very different than yours bud
Everyone in Apex is running different settings
just medium, 60 fps on 1080p
yup there’s a huge difference. some people are shooting higher. forza APEX has new settings for PC and for those of us that have strong hardware APEX runs bogus, but every other game including DOOM are easy to run 4K 60FPS, so this is what I mean the console ports or not optimized well for PC especially when you run medium to max settings. I’m experimenting 3 different kinds of CPU(some spare parts), various GPU’s and a spare mother board I got. its leading me to believe APEX is not optimized for high settings, hell I even bought another brand of ram to see if there’s a difference and none!
i can run Apex just fine in my rig and its not something amaizing i actualy thought it was a verry well optimized game my PC specs: Case Deepcool Tesseract BF black, Corsair Builder Series CX600M Powersuply, Asus Z170-A Premium Motherboard, GPU ASUS GeForce GTX 970 STRIX OC, SSD Samsung 850 EVO, Memory HyperX Fury Black 16GB DDR4 2133MHz, Procesor Intel Skylake Core i5 6600K 3.5GHz box, Cooler CPU Zalman CNPS7X LED! hope this can run FH3
(I’m gonna correct your spelling cause it hurts)
I wonder if Apex is more dependent on ram as someone said rather than GPU or CPU. It is optimized like shit however. I’m lucky to even get 10, I have a I7 6500u GT940m and 16gb DDR3. I know it’s a shit system but it runs ArmA 3 on high at a good 30fps. It leads me to wonder how much Turn 10 has learned about this. Horizon is not completely developed by Turn 10, it also has Playground Games involved. It leads me to wonder how well the performance on anything less than a 1070 will be. Or even a well overclocked 980.
I’m running an AMD 4ghz 8-core, 32GB of ram and a 980TI @ 30fps 2160P
I have a second 980 but apex does not support SLi and when you force SLi works like bung hole
If you want to run 2160P 120fps might have to wait for the 1080Ti and even then it’s questionable
Forza 6 apex is still going under optimisation improvements, I can still run it well though
yes but its definitely not stable 