Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios announced today that the open beta phase of Forza Motorsport 6: Apex will begin on May 5th. In addition, the official PC requirements for Forza Motorsport 6: Apex have been unveiled, and can be viewed below.
The good news here is that we won’t have a new “Quantum Break” situation. According to the specs, PC gamers will need at least a modern-day dual-core CPU with 8GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GT740 or a Radeon R7 250X.
For 1080p at 60FPS, Turn 10 Studios recommends a GTX970 or a Radeon R9 290X.
And for gaming in 4K at 60fps, the team lists NVIDIA’s and AMD’s high-end GPUs.
What we find kind of funny are the RAM requirements. Turn 10 Studios lists 16GB of RAM for gaming in 4K at 60fps. It will be interesting to see how the game performs on our system that is equipped with 8GB of RAM.
Naturally, this is a DX12-only game, so it will also be interesting to see whether it will run better than all the other DX12 games that have been released so far.
As Turn 10 Studios also claimed, it will further improve performance via future patches.
“During the open beta for Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, players can expect to play a beautiful, high quality experience that will run on a variety of Windows 10-enabled machines. As a first-party Microsoft studio, Turn 10 is obsessed with performance in Forza games and, during the open beta for Apex, we will be working to improve the game’s performance across a diverse selection of hardware setups (see below for our recommended PC specs).”
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, official wheel support will be coming to Forza Motorsport 6: Apex.
“Wheel support is coming to Forza Motorsport 6: Apex and Turn 10 is busy working to ensure that Apex delivers the kind of wheel support, performance, and features that racing fans expect from a range of available hardware. In addition we plan to support additional features that we know are important to PC gamers, such as the ability to disable Vsync and an in-app framerate counter.”
Stay tuned for more!
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Forza + DX12 + 4K = 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGSQbc5TiWM
so for 4k/60fps take just 1 980ti?i thought it would take at least 2 is sli mode.
ps wait and see if its anything like qb was.then thats the way windows 10 store is going to be.
I will believe it when I try it myself as well.
4k/60fps with a single 980 Ti for Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, I hope this is true but I doubt it will happen. Maybe 1080 Ti with 12 GB VRAM will be able to pull it off but not a 980 Ti with its lowly 6GB VRAM. An overclocked Titan X could do it as well.
Wasn’t this game for xbox to? 1.2Tflop console vs a 5.6tflop 980Ti. I think it ran at 1080P and 60fps on the xbox one so i’m guessing a 980Ti could pull it off easily
Quantum Break is all you need to know
Last path fixed Quantum Break:
– gsync
– disable temporal reconstruction
– diable grain
– better performance
Well it won’t support multi GPU setups anyways so no one can play at 4k.
Not really. Most of the smaller to medium games are still selling way more on PC than they are consoles. Most console gamers only care about high budget AAA blockbusters and don’t care abpout these indie games at all. Sales are only down compared to last year because publishers got greedy and decreased the sales percentage during steam sales. People have gotten used to higher sales percentages from previous years and they could buy more games while spending the same amount of money than they can do so now, hence lower overall sales compared to same time last year.
” Sales of games at the top of the heap are doing as well as ever, but everything else is in decline.”
Learn to read more then just the headline
ackk…my fingers getting to close to that windows 10 upgrade button
I say go for it. I was sick of Window 7 and 8.1 anyway and just wanted something newer but I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of small little improvements here and there in Windows 10 especially in terms of memory management which was horrible Windows 7.
Definitely go for it, Its stuper stable now and is worth the upgrade.
Relax don’t do it.
When you want to go to it.
You won’t gain anything (who knows, you might lose something) by upgrading. don’t do it or dual boot.
He can’t dual-boot because he’s upgrading. He’ll have to go all in or not upgrade at all.
Ah too bad, he could still buy a cheap win10 (on pc install only keys) and install it next to his corrent OS, i guess that’s better.
So Xbone have a secret gtx 970 in it ? because that weak crap can do it 1080p60fps. wow DX12 is really pushing technology forward, marketing wise, lol.
It’s a complete joke, i7 CPU, 12GB of RAM and a 290X for the same resolution and frame-rate as the XB1 version LOL.
Apparently 7870=290X ROLFLMAO
Doubt it to be honest but we will see.
All that DX12 hype was nothing more but a load of shjt. it was supposed to lower the requirements. Now it’s actually increasing them.
u dumb? Compare any PC/XONE game and find out differences. It´s not only about resolution and framerate.
u re*ard ? they are no differences in M$ games, look at killer instinct and quantom break and gears of war, same game, some resolution differences and almost the same quality, all of those run worst on high end PCs exept KI which still needs a good pc to perform like xbone.
DX12 just doesn’t work. 🙁
Or it works 10x worse than they advertised it.
Yeah, Vulkan won’t probably be nearly as good as advertised, too. Damn crooks…
I’d understand if they gave us 80-90% of what they advertised. But this looks more like 10%.
Nice harbinger we got there, coming with a very heartbreaking prognosis and an edgy smiley.
Either you are trolling or read articles with console-worthy superficiality.
Bye bye Windows 7 – Forza Motorsport FTW!
This, this so hard. I’ve been dreaming of this day for so so long. Nearly bought an xb1 for this game…so glad I didn’t.
Question is in what details. If the game will look much better then the version on XB1, then I don’t see a problem. But if it won’t, it will be fail.
Well Quantum Break didn’t, ultra was just meh.
Details don’t matter. No racing game should require 12GB system RAM as recommended. Thats lunacy.
Finally, a DX12-only game
gt740 as minimum
im so happy 😀