Performance in Forza Horizon 3 is top-notch with smooth handling and responsive controls.
Performance in Forza Horizon 3 is top-notch with smooth handling and responsive controls.
PC enthusiasts were eager for a trial, and Playground Games offered a chance to evaluate performance before releasing Forza 6 Apex. They believed Horizon 3 would function similarly, making it a practical option for self-testing. Downloading it yourself would be free and provide the most accurate assessment of your system.
I run Apex at full power with double MSAA and maintain a consistent 110 FPS at 1440p. That should give me solid performance.
I'll let you know just as soon as the game is able to get past the intro movie (it crashes everytime it gets to the Playground Games logo) There is a 15 page thread on their official forums about this exact crash and they seem to have acknowledged it in their "known issues" thread. So far I've had nothing but trouble with the game. Browsing the Windows Store for the game the store was saying my PC didn't even meet the min specs and had a red X over RAM and VRAM even though I met or exceeded the recommended requirements. (I have a 5820k, 16gigs ram, GTX 980). First real issue, there was an error buying the game where after I clicked the final "Buy Game" button I got an error message just saying simply "There was an error on our end". I never saw any sort of confirmation email but my bank showed that the money had been taken out. The game did show up in My Library but everytime I tried to download it I got an error message with an 8x0....... code. When I got home from work I saw that at some point the game had automatically downloaded but I'm now stuck at the intro movie crash. The windows store does now at least acknowledge my PC specs showing my CPU and accepting I have enough RAM, VRAM and a good enough GPU.
You're using an ultra configuration and have seen CPU usage capped at 100% on one core while the remaining three cores in your 3570K run between 40 and 60%. Several users with more powerful i7 processors report the same issue. It seems developers might be addressing this in an upcoming update, as the game performs well on PC and also on consoles.
Played the game finally. People using Avast antivirus say they got it to run by removing the software entirely instead of just disabling it. It functions smoothly with most settings set to high, maintaining around 60fps at 1080p most of the time. As IrshaadH noted, the game appears to depend a lot on one core on my 5820k (4.2ghz), which seems to be the main issue. My GPU usage is near 80% and temperatures are much lower than in games that rely heavily on graphics. *Edit* The GPU is a GTX 980 at 1455