There was a fair bit of concern floating around the Xbox community yesterday when it was confirmed that Forza Horizon 5 will run at 4K, 30fps as standard on Xbox Series X with an optional performance mode, but fans of 4K, 60fps modes needn't worry, as the game's creative director has confirmed that will still be possible on Series X.
In response to a fan on Twitter, Mike Brown clarified that Forza Horizon 5's performance mode will run at 4K, 60fps on Xbox Series X, while the Xbox Series S version will still run at 1080p, but again will get a boost to 60fps.
Of course, given that the standard mode runs at 30fps with the same resolutions, you can expect some visual trade-offs in order to hit that 60fps mark in performance mode, but hopefully the differences won't be too vast or noticeable.
Forza Horizon 5 will be available at launch with Xbox Game Pass, of course, but you can also pre-order it now on the Microsoft Store if you want to, with Standard, Deluxe and Premium versions of the game available as usual.
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Hmm. I think I'd rather have something like 1440p60 than see it maintain 4k at the expense of other graphical features or detail. I guess this suggests the game is CPU limited rather than GPU.
We've once again been sold a lie on the next gen capabilities. Performance mode, aka Reduced quality mode.
Lol 720p60 in the question tweet. Ummm no buddy
@Trmn8r Either he’s a troll or that he still can’t believe the sheer photorealism in the gameplay.
I think a lot of these games are still using the old infrastructure. This allows it to be cross-platform. I am hopeful once they start tapping into velocity infrastructure, as well as the SSD and AMD Fidelity, we can get that native 4k with 60fps and raytracing all at the same time.
@DoubtfulJ When did they ever promise that 30 FPS would not give a better picture than 60 FPS? Of course a performance mode will have reduced quality, that will be true for all generations and no one has ever claimed otherwise afaik.
@Trmn8r Yes it’s the old engine. Just imagine Fable and Forza Motorsport! 🤯
Lol @ 30 FPS. No thanks.
@AgentGuapo Exactly. Very glad they have 60fps mode.
@Carck didn’t he say RT is only enabled in Forza Vista mode? Which is just photomode right? That’s what I took away from it.
@Senua
Here here, FH5 was the best game of the entire E3 show for me that is releasing this year. Especially as I’m into that type of game.
Another hater narrative shot down.
Mind blowing that it is 1080p 60. 1440p would be understandable. 1080p is a joke though. Especially on a racing game, one of the few genres that actually takes advantage of higher frame rates.
@Fenbops This is correct. Raytracing is for Forza Vista only, which unless something has changed, is one car, in one room, and you can open the doors and stuff.
I'd rather see 1440@60 at full quality. Maybe ML or FSR will show up eventually.
Pretty sure Horizon 4 has a 4K 60fps mode on both the One X and Series X. I know I use it on my One X, I think the game really benefits from the 60fps more than the increased detail, makes it easier to focus on things and the game is just so much smoother.
@SpacemanJupiter @Spaceman-Spiff But this is what many are misunderstanding.
It WILL likely be rendered at 1440p or some other non-native 4K resolution and then upscaled and outputted at 4K. This isn't like the old days where this was a bad thing, it's now a REALLY smart, sensible thing to do. With temporal resolution and other technologies giving a really clean image that is almost identical to native 4K, to the naked eye, with a great frame-budget saving.
If native 4K is still your thinking, you need to get with the times!
Devs, Digital Foundry and others praise this technique. In most of DF's recent videos (Ratchet was one) they talk about this. It almost never makes sense to push a Native 4K image anymore (unless you have the overhead for that frame) that is just wasting resources that could be better spent elsewhere for an improved overall visual experience.
@themightyant that’s fine with me. Looks absolutely great in games like R&C, god of war, Spiderman.
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