

- Forza motorsport 6 apex pc vs forza horizon 3 demo 1080p#
- Forza motorsport 6 apex pc vs forza horizon 3 demo tv#
The new GTX 1060 is far more stable even on ultra settings, while AMD's RX 480 seems to be on par, if not slightly better. We'll be looking to test the game with a range of GPUs in due course, but as things stand, GTX 970 on high settings - even with MSAA disabled, shadows on medium and an overclock in place - still has issues in the most dense forest areas. There are similar challenges as we scale down and attempt to run Forza Horizon 3 at 1080p60.

With these settings in place, the vast majority of Horizon 3's open world is a glitch-free experience, with only one area we tested - the northern city causing minor stutter. Secondly, we found that dense forest scenes could still hit frame-rate - this was overcame by overclocking the Titan X Pascal's GDDR5X by +700MHz. This is actually a downgrade from the Xbox One version, but with 4K's extreme pixel density, there's little impact to the game's visual integrity. By and large, these were resolved simply by deactivating multi-sample anti-aliasing, dropping back to FXAA.

Many users are reporting streaming issues for the open world, and on initially booting my Xbox One S save, there were definite glitches in traversing the open world. The video paints a highly compelling picture of Forza Horizon 3 performance but it's safe to say that my results are at the upper end of expectations, as you might expect bearing in mind the top-tier hardware in play.
Forza motorsport 6 apex pc vs forza horizon 3 demo 1080p#
The scaler looks ever-so-slightly softer than a Photoshop upscale of native 1080p captures, but seems to be performing fine.
Forza motorsport 6 apex pc vs forza horizon 3 demo tv#
We noted that our Panasonic 4K TV did a better job of upscaling than the Xbox One S in our hardware review, but I've been spending a fair amount of time behind the scenes working on our HDMI 2.0 4K capture workflow, so this seemed like as good a time as any to put the kit through its paces. It's something I'll have to return to later, but in the meantime, I banked a bunch of Xbox One S footage with the game running via 4K upscaling, mostly because of an email I received a while back, pointing me to this German blog, which paints a highly unpleasant picture of the new console's 4K upscaler. It almost looks washed out, in stark contrast to the game's loading screens. Connecting up Microsoft's latest console to our 58-inch Panasonic DX750, the game instantly switches into HDR mode when the game boots, but while there does appear to be more range, the deep richness to the title's palette seems missing. However, I actually came away a little disappointed by this experience. The final pillar is the quality of the core engine itself: Forza Motorsport 6 Apex is a fine piece of work, but Horizon 3 adds more ambition technologically and visually - as you would expect when the console version has double the render time available to produce each frame.įorza Horizon 3 is a game I've been dipping in and out of all week, mostly on Xbox One S, as I was eager to play the game in HDR. Motion blur is smoother, shadows and reflections are more crisp and more detailed, and obviously, there's the big one: the ability to run at 60fps. Secondly, there's a sense of scalability to the assets and the quality presets: detail pops at 4K on PC, view distances are pulled out, pop-in is reduced and effects work is more refined. Firstly, it's down to just how impressive the 'base' Xbox One version of the game is - the undoubted quality of the car models is match by a rich and varied, animated environment, beautiful skyboxes and sublime lighting. A Core i7 6700K paired with Nvidia's Titan X Pascal mostly does the job with minimal tinkering and it's an absolutely phenomenal experience.įorza Horizon 3 on PC appears to be based on three solid foundations. Building on the DX12 foundation of the excellent Forza Motorsport 6 Apex, Playground Games has assembled a technological masterpiece for PC owners - one that I was eager to test out at 4K resolution at a fully unfettered 60fps. It's extremely good on Xbox One, but with the right hardware, Forza Horizon 3 is breathtaking on PC.
