Forza horizon 6 pc system requirements revealed

Playground Games has unveiled the PC system requirements for Forza Horizon 6, and they're surprisingly modest. Just like Crimson Desert's PC version earlier this month, Playground Games has released a detailed chart, detailing several levels of performance. While there are some pretty beefy requirements on the high-end for the 4K ray tracing preset, the lower-end configurations are reasonable – only calling for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti or a Radeon RX 6500 XT to run the game on low settings.

Handheld performance unclear

Playground Games also says that the Steam Deck and the ROG Xbox Ally will be supported, but the chart doesn't say what graphics preset, resolution or frame rate these handheld gaming PCs will be able to hit. My gut says they'll be running at low settings and targeting 30 fps, but I'll be testing it myself once the game actually comes out in May.

In the 5 years since Forza Horizon 5 launched, plenty of new graphics technologies have come out, and it looks like this new game will support most of them, including DLSS 4 multi-frame generation and FSR Redstone.

While Playground Games said both the Steam Deck and the Xbox Ally would be able to run Forza Horizon 6, it didn't really clarify how well it'll run. However, we can look at the minimum spec to get a pretty good idea. Forza Horizon 6 calls for a Ryzen 5 1600 at the low-end, which is basically ancient by today's standards. And while it's a desktop processor with a much higher power budget than the Z2 in the Xbox Ally, it probably performs similarly.

The bigger difference is going to be in the graphics performance. The game calls for a GTX 1650, a Radeon RX 6500 XT or an Intel Arc A380 to run the game at 1080p with low settings. None of those graphics cards are particularly powerful by today's standards – or even by the standards of their time, honestly – but they're still a bit more powerful than what's found in the Steam Deck.

If those graphics cards are going to be able to squeeze 60 fps out of the game, I could totally see the Steam Deck able to coast with 30-40 fps with low settings at 800p. That's not ideal for a high-speed racing game, of course, but it is still playable, especially when you're just looking to get in a race when you're away from your main rig.