Forza Horizon 3 Benchmark Thread

[sxr7171]

Company distributes Windows updates to billions of computers even new entire OS installations are delivered online. Yet the store can't handle delivering games. I really think something about that store's design is only good for sub GB small little app downloads.

 

[nathanddrews]

Probably the single thing keeping me away from GoW4. MSFT continues to fail at what I assumed would be their freaking birthright at this point. SOFTWARE!!!

As a prior lover of all things Xbox Live, Microsoft's PC gaming presence is appalling.

 

[KentState]

Company distributes Windows updates to billions of computers even new entire OS installations are delivered online. Yet the store can't handle delivering games. I really think something about that store's design is only good for sub GB small little app downloads.

Let's not forget that the Xbox console has been doing this since 2006 as well. The Windows Store was meant for mobile, like metro which all failed for desktop.

 

[Timmah!]

Burnout Paradise was a more fun game for sure. But this game is pretty good for a modern take on open world racing. Certainly a million times better than The Crew or something.

Graphically Dirt Rally tears this apart.

I played neither (FH3 nor DIrt Rallye) so far, but after reading this, i had to look at some utube videos of Dirt (at maxed PC settings) and honestly i have hard time seeing how exactly does Dir tear Forza apart. I did not think it looked anything special and while Forza is IMO not looking as say DriveClub either, i thought it was the best looking car game so far on PC alongside latest NFS games.

On topic of Crew, i concur it was rather weak, the most annoying part to me being the weird physics / collision system - and i am no racing afficionado, who needs his super-realistic physical driving model, but it could at least pretend to be somewhat semi-realistic. On other hand, the map was the best i ever seen so far, the sheer size of it was amazing.

 

[sxr7171]

Let's not forget that the Xbox console has been doing this since 2006 as well. The Windows Store was meant for mobile, like metro which all failed for desktop.

Yeah it's really made for mobile. It's feels it 100%

 

[sxr7171]

I played neither (FH3 nor DIrt Rallye) so far, but after reading this, i had to look at some utube videos of Dirt (at maxed PC settings) and honestly i have hard time seeing how exactly does Dir tear Forza apart. I did not think it looked anything special and while Forza is IMO not looking as say DriveClub either, i thought it was the best looking car game so far on PC alongside latest NFS games.

On topic of Crew, i concur it was rather weak, the most annoying part to me being the weird physics / collision system - and i am no racing afficionado, who needs his super-realistic physical driving model, but it could at least pretend to be somewhat semi-realistic. On other hand, the map was the best i ever seen so far, the sheer size of it was amazing.

I really think DiRT Rally looks great in person. The textures are consistently good. It's a much smaller game though. It's not open world. I would easily give FH3 the graphics title for open world driving games.

 

[SirDinadan]

As the release of Forza Horizon 4 is just around the corner I decided to have some fun with its predecessor.

I didn't want to go as high as the GTX 1080 with the Ryzen 5 2400G, but as it turned out RTSS FCAT frame time tool has a wired bug with AMD cards and FH3, so I dropped in the GTX 1080 as well.

To my surprise, the GTX 980 Ti and the GTX 1060 / 1080 has the very same performance (1080p, high, FXAA). Is the 2400G that weak or FH3 needs more cores / high-end CPU.

I didn't have the time to test other CPU, next time!

 

[ZGR]

As the release of Forza Horizon 4 is just around the corner I decided to have some fun with its predecessor.

I didn't want to go as high as the GTX 1080 with the Ryzen 5 2400G, but as it turned out RTSS FCAT frame time tool has a wired bug with AMD cards and FH3, so I dropped in the GTX 1080 as well.

To my surprise, the GTX 980 Ti and the GTX 1060 / 1080 has the very same performance (1080p, high, FXAA). Is the 2400G that weak or FH3 needs more cores / high-end CPU.

I didn't have the time to test other CPU, next time!

1080p60? Needs to go higher. My 1070 was a great match for 4k60 and my CPU was really struggling. I haven't tested on my high refresh rate monitor, but this game really loves cores and SMT. And fast RAM

 

[SirDinadan]

1080p60? Needs to go higher. My 1070 was a great match for 4k60 and my CPU was really struggling. I haven't tested on my high refresh rate monitor, but this game really loves cores and SMT. And fast RAM

Yeah, my bad. Just checked DigitalFoundry's take on the game with mid-range dGPUs (GTX 970/1060, R9 390 and RX 480) and the game indeed needs > 4c/8t). At least the game is great for testing CPUs, too bad it is only on MS Store.