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It's extremely good on Xbox One, but with the right hardware, Forza Horizon 3 is breathtaking on PC. Building on the DX12 foundation of the excellent Forza Motorsport 6 Apex, Playground Games has assembled a technological masterpiece for PC owners - one that I was eager to test out at 4K resolution at a fully unfettered 60fps. A Core i7 6700K paired with Nvidia's Titan X Pascal mostly does the job with minimal tinkering and it's an absolutely phenomenal experience.Forza Horizon 3 on PC appears to be based on three solid foundations. Firstly, it's down to just how impressive the 'base' Xbox One version of the game is - the undoubted quality of the car models is match by a rich and varied, animated environment, beautiful skyboxes and sublime lighting. Secondly, there's a sense of scalability to the assets and the quality presets: detail pops at 4K on PC, view distances are pulled out, pop-in is reduced and effects work is more refined.
Motion blur is smoother, shadows and reflections are more crisp and more detailed, and obviously, there's the big one: the ability to run at 60fps. The final pillar is the quality of the core engine itself: Forza Motorsport 6 Apex is a fine piece of work, but Horizon 3 adds more ambition technologically and visually - as you would expect when the console version has double the render time available to produce each frame.
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