Forza Horizon 3 just shown at E3

Amatsubu · 16 Oct 2016 at 17:16

Still some performance issues, unfortunately. The occasional crashing continues, I hoped for an improvement in this regard.

Psymonkee · 16 Oct 2016 at 18:32

CTD at the opening menu and still needing a reboot per instance. I'll wait for a bit and play something else!

Robert · 16 Oct 2016 at 18:57

Performance is better but can still see stutter.

DeanT77 · 16 Oct 2016 at 19:01

This game could have pushed me to upgrade to W10 but I still see there are LOTS of issues with ironing out the MS gaming experience

chris4652009 · 17 Oct 2016 at 06:30

After my mini rant about the poor sound of the Shelby cobra, it pleases me to say that the AMG and F100 sound incredible

Sargatanas2511 · 17 Oct 2016 at 08:13

The new photo mode pictures are definitely much better than the old patch versions

. It's good to see that they fixed it.

Seanspeed · 17 Oct 2016 at 09:12

Sargatanas2511 said:
The new photo mode pictures are definitely much better than the old patch versions . It's good to see that they fixed it.

That was a deal breaker for me.

I'm still not ready to buy it yet, want to see if they can improve performance stability some more, but as somebody who likes my screenshotting, especially with cars, having some low res screens would have been infuriating.

Sargatanas2511 · 17 Oct 2016 at 09:18

Seanspeed said:
That was a deal breaker for me.

I'm still not ready to buy it yet, want to see if they can improve performance stability some more, but as somebody who likes my screenshotting, especially with cars, having some low res screens would have been infuriating.

I haven't crashed since the last patch, most of the stuttering is gone and my fps is up a little. I would say they're getting there.

Atari · 17 Oct 2016 at 10:57

Performance is better outside of the city for me, it tanks in the city and goes into full meltdown when anywhere near that oil refinery type place but generally is a lot better to play now.

I don't see why this needs such high specs considering it's not rocking super duper graphics. GoW looks better than this and doesn't need as much, though I guess it's a different game and there's a myriad of things in the background that require resources.

I've just bought a Mclaren 650s - what a car! Love how it just sticks to the road so well, really want a P1 next (only about 200k credits away from buying one).

Sp00n · 17 Oct 2016 at 11:12

Is GoW open world?

Atari · 17 Oct 2016 at 11:47

Sp00n said:
Is GoW open world?

Nope- was just me being ignorant to game development as a whole

I don't know if the graphics are THAT good in Forza that they require 10 series+ Nvidia cards to run at more than 30-40fps.

Sargatanas2511 · 17 Oct 2016 at 11:55

Atari said:
Nope- was just me being ignorant to game development as a whole I don't know if the graphics are THAT good in Forza that they require 10 series+ Nvidia cards to run at more than 30-40fps.

I run at more than that on high/ultra 1440p on a 390X.

Seanspeed · 17 Oct 2016 at 11:59

Sargatanas2511 said:
I haven't crashed since the last patch, most of the stuttering is gone and my fps is up a little. I would say they're getting there.

Yea, I'm optimistic.

Atari said:
I don't see why this needs such high specs considering it's not rocking super duper graphics.

Well the graphics are pretty darn nice, but the problem here isn't spec requirements at all. It's optimization. People with all ranges of hardware have had problems.

Amatsubu · 17 Oct 2016 at 12:33

Atari said:
Nope- was just me being ignorant to game development as a whole I don't know if the graphics are THAT good in Forza that they require 10 series+ Nvidia cards to run at more than 30-40fps.

They aren't. All this game has are car models and beautiful skies. The shadows, water, distant trees and very bad pop-in are, frankly, quite pathetic.

Performance issues in this case have more to do with optimisation and the game being a UWP title. I hope so, at least.

Sp00n · 17 Oct 2016 at 12:44

Here's me thinking the game looked pretty nice

Sargatanas2511 · 17 Oct 2016 at 12:48

Sp00n said:
Here's me thinking the game looked pretty nice

Me too man, me too. Seems shadows and water are pathetic in pretty much every game I have ever played though.

Atari · 17 Oct 2016 at 13:04

Sargatanas2511 said:
I run at more than that on high/ultra 1440p on a 390X.

I'm stuck at 30-40fps on my GTX 970 with most settings turned down, I had MUCH better looking graphics and performance from GTA V. I get they're two different games and it's unfair to do a direct comparison, but I'd have thought there was much more going on in GTA V at any given time than in Forza Horizon

Hopefully they can bring a patch out to address the weird performance issues out.

Atari · 17 Oct 2016 at 13:17

Ps. anyone got the Mclaren P1? Is it worth buying for £1.3m?

I fancy a hyper car and was massively underwhelmed with the Lambo Aventador's handling. Is there a better option than the P1?

Ta

Amatsubu · 17 Oct 2016 at 13:17

Sargatanas2511 said:
Me too man, me too. Seems shadows and water are pathetic in pretty much every game I have ever played though.

Really? There are games with great looking shadows and water IMO

Horizon 3 has some of the worse looking shadows I've seen, that jaggy mess which visibly updates as you drive through the rainforest looks awful...

It has some nice looking places and I wouldn't say it looks bad but most of the visual appeal comes from the cars and the skies.

chris4652009 · 17 Oct 2016 at 13:48

Wow, anyone on here done this yet?

https://youtu.be/efAdz8W6LMI