Forza Horizon 6 PC System Requirements Revealed, and it Looks Like it Continues Forza Horizon 5's Well-Optimized Legacy

Forza Horizon 6 is inactive a mates months away, launching connected May 19, but Playground Games has revealed the PC strategy requirements, and they're amazingly modest.

Just similar Crimson Desert's PC mentation earlier this month, Playground Games has released a elaborate chart, detailing retired respective levels of performance. And while, of course, determination are immoderate beauteous beefy requirements connected the high-end for the 4K ray tracing preset, the lower-end configurations are tenable – lone calling for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti oregon a Radeon RX 6500 XT to tally the crippled connected debased settings.

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Playground Games besides says that the Steam Deck and the ROG Xbox Ally volition beryllium supported, but the illustration doesn't accidental what graphics preset, solution oregon framework complaint these handheld gaming PCs volition beryllium capable to hit. My gut says that they'll beryllium moving astatine debased settings, and targeting 30 fps, but I'll beryllium investigating it myself erstwhile the crippled really comes retired successful May.

Either way, though, Forza Horizon 5 ran highly good connected astir gaming PCs, truthful it's apt that Forza Horizon 6, moving connected an updated mentation of the aforesaid ForzaTech engine, volition travel successful its footsteps. In the 5 years since Forza Horizon 5 launched, though, determination person been plentifulness of caller graphics technologies that person travel out, and it looks similar this caller crippled volition enactment astir of them, including DLSS 4 multi-frame procreation and FSR Redstone.

How Will It Run connected Handhelds?

While Playground Games said some the Steam Deck and the Xbox Ally would beryllium capable to tally Forza Horizon 6, it didn't truly clarify how good it'll run. However, we tin look astatine the minimum spec to get a beauteous bully idea.

Forza Horizon 6 calls for a Ryzen 5 1600 astatine the low-end, which is fundamentally past by today's standards. And portion it's a desktop processor with a overmuch higher powerfulness fund than the Z2 successful the Xbox Ally, it astir apt performs similarly.

The bigger quality is going to beryllium successful the graphics performance. The crippled calls for a GTX 1650, a Radeon RX 6500 XT oregon an Intel Arc A380 to tally the crippled astatine 1080p with debased settings. None of those graphics cards are peculiarly almighty by today's standards – oregon adjacent by the standards of their time, honestly – but they're inactive a bit much almighty than what's recovered successful the Steam Deck.

But if those graphics cards are going to beryllium capable to compression 60 fps retired of the game, I could wholly spot the Steam Deck capable to seashore with 30-40 fps with debased settings astatine 800p. That's not perfect for a high-speed racing game, of course, but it is inactive playable, especially erstwhile you're conscionable looking to get successful a contention erstwhile you're distant from your main rig.

I'll beryllium investigating the crippled crossed aggregate graphics cards and handhelds erstwhile it comes retired successful May, truthful astatine slightest we don't person to hold agelong to spot however good it'll really perform.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra