Forza Horizon 5 Graphics Settings Explained - The Ultimate Graphics Settings Deep Dive - 4K

THIS VIDEO IS BEST WATCHED IN 4k! This time we'll look at all settings and try to understand what each setting effects in game (not in benchmark) and show some nice examples of the different quality levels and how they relate to effects. CHAPTERS BELOW IN DESCRIPTION.

00:00 - Introduction
02:16 - Anisotropic Filtering
03:03 - Shadow Quality
03:43 - Night Shadows
04:10 - Motion Blur Quality
05:04 - Environmental Texture Quality Note
05:20 - Environmental Geometry Quality
07:09 - Environmental Texture Quality (revisited)
10:18 - MSAA
10:54 - FXAA
11:20 - SSAO Quality
12:10 - Reflection Quality
14:01 - World Car Level of Detail
14:46 - Deformable Terrain Quality
15:36 - SSR Quality
16:22 - Lens Effects
16:56 - Shader Quality
18:40 - Particle Effects Quality
21:38 - Ray Tracing RTX

The audio should be much better on this video! Let me know if there's any audio issues this time around.

It's not a FPS guide, it's more of an eye candy/understanding/me rambling on for 20 minutes guide.

Correction at 21:30, there is a very minor dust effect on low only.

Music Universe by Sappherios released under Creative Commons Attribution license.

#Forzahorizon5

[DrakeDaraitis]

For issues with the sun locations — set up a custom event with a fixed time.

[rafael.reinas]

This is what I call a job well done. It is very hard to compare the settings since the most critical ones require restarting the game. I have an OneXPlayer with integrated Intel Iris XE card and I can run this game surprisingly well at higher settings. Comparing the differences like this is extremely helpful. Keep up the good work and your channel should have a brilliant future!
Thanks!

[stuckonmars]

For the effects, when you're driving at night and break, and or have headlights on, it makes a lense glare appear horizontally, and it looks really good.

[tsunamipapi]

Amazing content.

Would be even more amazing if you can include a conclusion section where you give us your personal preferences for each setting, maximizing the visual fidelity/fps cost ratio

[sermerlin]

Whoever is looking at the video now... The ultra texture quality has been fixed and has high resolution textures (which should be slightly lower still compared to extreme but way better then high).

[herimen]

Please keep making videos like this, they're absolutely amazing !!!

[raymondsagrang]

I really appreciate the effort put in this video, there must've been a lot of game restart. I was looking to find the difference between geometry settings by myself but it's so hard without side by side comparisons like in this video. Great job.

[safouder]

Oh man the amount of work you've done here is impressive. The game is well optimized but this kind of comparison helps everyone in the community with old and low end hardware to make the best out of what they have. Thanks a lot for all the effort, this must've taken a lot of time on your end.

[KamalasManyAccents]

Hey mate, that must have taken ages to make. I’m 50 years old but I’ve not used windows before and I bought this gaming computer. I don’t know what the hell certain things do and am I stressing my vram. Well done on a really top vid that really looks under the hood. You have just saved my ass. But even when I had the wrong settings it still looked better than anything I had ever seen. I had bought World Rally Car 10 before this. I had not played it in four months because I discovered this. I went back to play WRC 10 and everything looked like minecraft. Cheers mate.

[graysonkrueger]

Great work putting this together. Extremely helpful! Much better than just aimlessly adjusting settings without knowing what each one does. You earned the sub!

[SysWOOOW]

I've avoided the bug you've mentioned in the video. You can simply edit the config file of the game. The name of it is "UserConfigSelections". Just set the textures quality to "high" and the geometry to whatever you want.
(0 - low, 1 - medium, 2 - high, 3 - ultra, 4 - extreme)

[AvenirRacing]

This is the single best graphics config video I've ever seen, bar none. Fantastic work, mate.

[jokr]

Thanks man. This really helped me finding the right settings. I tried everything to get the best resolution and smoothest Gameplay, i changed every Settting but didn't knew what im actually changing.

[kyansimpson]

The fact you can chill and the game will always look this good. It’s so satisfying.

[emma]

Thanks for telling what Geometry quality does Bc I noticed it didn’t make buildings or people look terrible, I never noticed it removed so much plants

[voltdriver]

Very cool. I was looking for general settings explanations for games (I don't even own Forza), but it seems like most videos only briefly explain without showing examples.

You showed examples and explained rather clearly, and it is helpful to get an idea of what everything does truly. Thank you!

[Phantumix]

How do you only have 1k subs
This video was so detailed and so helpful I can't help but appreciate the amount of work that you put in. Thank you, seriously.

[tendertales]

Appreciate the effort.. a suggestion, you could add fps impact across various settings in future videos. 👍

[VipapkStudiosOfficial]

It's unfortunate DigitalFoundry isn't going in-depth on the game this time unlike previously,
glad you have our back, +1 like, +1 sub :) -- the more because you make content i like ^^

[Sharkyzane]

I just wanna say thank you for doing this. It's much appreciated by me and many others!!! Furthermore, it was excellently presented and i thoroughly enjoyed watching!