Forza Motorsport - PC Tech Review - Graphics Breakdown/Optimised Settings/Series X Settings

Forza Motorsport launches 'day and date' on PC alongside the Xbox Series versions of the game, so just how does the PC version stack up? Alex Battaglia delivers the complete visual breakdown, compares Xbox Series X's visual make-up to the various PC settings in the game and delivers his own optimised settings, delivering a substantial performance boost over the maxed out experience.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:13 User Experience, Menus and Core CPU Issues
00:13:54 DLSS, FSR2, TAA and Image Quality
00:16:55 Xbox Series X vs PC
00:24:45 Alex’s Optimised Settings
00:27:33 Conclusion

[pedrovieira]

This menu feels like one of those "let's try to reinvent option menus on PC to simplify things" but it only results in more confusion

[General_RIMT]

It’s mind blowing how in-depth you guys go sometimes. Just know that there are a lot of people that appreciate it, super fascinating.

[danieltobey]

MASSIVE props for investigating all those auto options. That sounded like a real headache.

[mondodimotori]

You can't propose a basically new engine in 2023 and be CPU limited by bad core utilization. It's unacceptable, since EVEN CONSOLES are multithreaded.

[Mike_]

If the guys at Digital Foundry find your PC settings menu confusing, you've fucked up as a menu designer.

[paweldurczok]

I gotta be honest, even after Alex explained it, I still have no idea how all those "auto" options actually work. This is a remarkably confusing setup the devs opted for.

[SiStockbridge]

Super detailed as always. nice job Alex. I'd love to see you guys include Steam Deck & ROG Ally in these videos, but that's so much more work I fully understand why you don't!

[MrKlawUK]

lack of dynamic res is a real shame. The benchmark lets you try and tune for worst case, but then you're leaving performance on the table during most races. A lot of the time its not raining and I don't have a full grid around me, so it'd be nice to use dynamic res to cover some of those extreme cases and let you have higher settings for the rest of the time

[shaunvrabel]

Damn, Alex! That is a mighty fine review. Soo much detail and an impressive depth of RT analysis. Thanks, as always!

[vintatsh]

I hate when PC settings are a science in itself and the settings do something else than they suggest.
The average user won't bother looking into what each of these settings actually do. Terrible UI design.

[Laetteralus]

Alex this was so informative for me as a 2080 Super user. Seeing you come across the same issues I had with your similar 2070 findings I feel so validated. Thank you so much for all the work you do!

[chillybunz]

I love that you're still keelhauling Jedi: Survivor.

[sawomirbartosiak]

So, as often happens, we were deceived once again by the quality of the graphics in the pre-release materials compared to what we later get after the premiere.
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[evostu]

Really don’t understand why consoles hardly ever use 16x anisotropic filtering as it has virtually no performance impact.

[KizaruB]

My theory for the middling paint rendering is that they chose to keep the cars unrealistically glossy/shiny because it makes ray tracing easier the more mirror-like the surface. That’s why most ray traced games on consoles don’t tend to interact much with rough material.

[XaertV]

I've found I basically need to reboot the game every time I finish a race with the early access code, because the game will randomly basically half its framerate (40 instead of 80, and sometimes even 20 if I attempt to continue further). The game also seemed to forget I had an RTX card at one point (showing FSR options only even though DLSS was enabled). Unlocked FPS is nice though, since PC is the only platform that doesn't give you FPS whiplash by suddenly going back to 30fps when you finish a race.

[dbrk]

I’m interested to see how it runs on the X3D processors as opposed to the X or non-X variants.

[IJTFILMSI]

I hope they add RTGI in a later update.

I’m enjoying the game so far.

[kapt]

Great Video Alex as usual thank for the awesome job. Just pointing out @25:54 you mention the 2070 Super but the badge is mentionning 2060 Super

[balaam_]

Love the representation of body damage, but the major ray tracing downgrade is hard to stomach. Incredibly disappointed in that. Almost wish they’d never shown us the preview, then we wouldn’t know what we’re missing:/