Forza Horizon 6 system requirements confirm it’s no RAM guzzler - and it’ll run on Steam Deck too

Also: tray racing. Sorry, ray tracing

Perhaps sensing contention successful the tract of Japan-flavoured arcade racing games, Forza Horizon 6 devs Playground Games person revealed the open-world vroomer’s strategy requirements. Agreeably, they’re a sensible equilibrium of attainable low-end fare – astatine 1080p, a GTX 1650 and 16GB of RAM are seemingly each that’s needed for 60fps – and the benignant of hulking graphics bricks that you’d expect for 4K ray tracing. Only the astir baby-oiled of hypercars for the RX 9070 XT owners, you understand, though enactment for lil’ handhelds similar the Steam Deck is confirmed arsenic well.

In a imaginable designation of ongoing constituent pricing wretchedness, Forza Horizon 6’s humble RAM request is accompanied by the enactment that the fastest NVMe SSDs are lone indispensable if you’re tearing astir successful 4K. There’s thing astir instal size, caput – the 110GB Forza Horizon 5 was a spot of a retention hog, truthful expect 6 to beryllium astatine slightest arsenic girthy.

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The specs merchandise came arsenic portion of a blog station detailing immoderate of the game’s PC features. These see each the accustomed upscaling suspects of DLSS 4, FSR 4, and XeSS 2.1 – nary Crimson Desert-style Intel abandonment present – arsenic good arsenic ultrawide show support, uncapped framerates, a built-in benchmark instrumentality ("Yay", each presently moving hardware editors said simultaneously), and the aforementioned ray tracing.

This volition beryllium the archetypal Forza Horizon to instrumentality RT effects retired of the car-smut viewing modes of Forzavista and the Garage, and really use them portion you’re playing normally. Unsurprisingly, though, and successful opposition to the lightweight introduction specs, those requirements amusement you’ll request a beefy GPU to support speeds up portion the astir reflective reflections and illuminating planetary illuminations are astatine work.

Forza Horizon 6 is retired connected May 19th. As an existent game, it frankincense acold looks a spot similar Forza Horizon 5 Nippon Edition, though Playground person shown disconnected its funny swerve into existent property development, its obstacle course-style Horizon Rush events, and the instrumentality of Forza Horizon 4’s seasonal changes.