PC very stuttery/laggy on horizon 3

[Noobertson]

@kyleriggins250

Hi everyone, I’m trying to play forza horizon 3 on PC and have been having nothing but troubles! I love the game but cannot play it due to lag and stuttering problems on and offline.

I could not get any significant help from xbox and their seems to be no actual support for the game SO ive came to the forums to ask people who know more about it than me my system can run pretty high end games on ultra settings or atleast high settings, but no matter what I do on forza it does not run smooth. I have massive random frame rate drop and my CPU uses almost 100 percent power.

I don’t really have any other racing games but other shooters run smooth as butter without an issue in most cases.

I have a windows 10 home edition 64 bit OS
AMD Athlon X4 860K quad core processor
8 gigabytes of ram with direct X 12 if that matters (I thought maybe my ram is too low but my CPU also struggles with this game so I’m not too sure…)
GTX 1060 3GB gpu (which from what I hear should run this game just fine)

any ideas? ive tried a lot including signing in and out, I would have uninstalled and reinstalled the game but cannot find the game files, I have tried making the game high priority under task manager, ive tinkered with settings and with previous help to no prevail.

I see it is a relatively common issue to have problems with forza 3 on PC but its just odd I can play any other modern game just fine and not forza :S

THANKS

You can track your utilization with software like MSI Afterburner (no matter what brand your GPU is !) to check for CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.)

Someone asked for FM7 today … with a GTX 1060 3gb gpu too.
https://forums.forza.net/turn10_postst114770_PC--Low-framerate-and-weird-performance-behavior.aspx

Just did a quick check for FH3 …

1080p 60fps @ everything on lowest: min 2874, max 3100+
1080p 60fps @ everything on ultra: min 4500, max 5000+

Same GPU, different game, same problem, imho …

@Noobertson

You can overclock and change what you want, the bottleneck is your 3G VRAM.

FM7 needs more than 3gb @ 1080p, no matter what quality settings.

Check the utilization on your machine to see it by yourself.

If you want solid 60 FPS you need to change something that really effects the VRAM (= lower resolution !!!).

Turn10 doesn’t say minimum of 4gb VRAM for 1080p for no reason.

Test it for your system and post a screenshot.

I recommend to log CPU for every core, GPU usage, GPU power, GPU memory usage, and RAM usage.
See my screenshot inside the other thread.

It will log the utilization in the background while you are playing.