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Forza Horizon 3 PC Demo is out
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icecold1983
Member
Lmao they sanctioned the demo to the area where it runs half decent. Not surprising
It's a great game. Yeah, PC performance is not what it should be, but still a great game.
Aside from Surfers Paradise, my PC can get a constant 60fps with ultra settings during most of the game. In Surfers Paradise it will dip into the 50s and 40s and yeah it's annoying. 6700k, n1080, 16gb, SSD, 2560x1080 IPS. What I've been doing is running it at 30fps locked at 5120x2160 super resolution with all ultra settings. Never drops a fame or stutters, looks incredible, and plays just fine at 30fps.
Aside from Surfers Paradise, my PC can get a constant 60fps with ultra settings during most of the game. In Surfers Paradise it will dip into the 50s and 40s and yeah it's annoying. 6700k, n1080, 16gb, SSD, 2560x1080 IPS. What I've been doing is running it at 30fps locked at 5120x2160 super resolution with all ultra settings. Never drops a fame or stutters, looks incredible, and plays just fine at 30fps.
Same, but I'm not holding my breath for a Steam (GOG, or Origin) release.
Roaringburn
Member
I think it's the same area from the Xbox One?
But it's the same as the Xbox demo that was released a week before release...
icecold1983
Member
But the xbone versions runs like the demo area everywhere. Its an entirely diff scenario
Yup 265 after tax. Not a bad price. A big jump from my 270. Not the end of the world if this one game doesn't run well. Everything else seems to
Robobandit
Member
if you cap the pc version to 30 fps, it'll run the same everywhere too.
icecold1983
Member
i forgot the pc is a 1.3 tflop gpu with a super weak mobile cpu. Great point, thx for the reminder. Enjoy that input lag exclusive to the pc version when capping at 30 fps too
RadioactiveLobster
Member
Holy crap is the stuttering bad on my system (i7-5930k @ 4.4, SLI 980's though it only uses one obviously, 16 GB RAM). This is at 1440p on Ultra preset. Haven't fooled around with the dynamic options to see how that affects IQ.
It looks oh so gorgeous but man is it a stuttery mess.
It looks oh so gorgeous but man is it a stuttery mess.
Cap at 30 and use frame smoothing w/ motion blur. It's playable. There is input lag though.
Turn off the in-game DVR if you haven't already.
Apoleptica
Banned
Anyone notice any performance difference between the pc demo and full game?
deadscreensky
Member
As opposed to your "great point", which is something like Playground should have made an exclusive PC demo to show off Surfer's Paradise?
There's nothing nefarious going on here, your paranoia is a little ridiculous. Weren't you arguing they wouldn't even be releasing a demo anytime soon only a month ago?
And for the record I actually saw some of my worst performance in the game in the early game demo sections. The first race in particular performed disastrously, and until fairly recently I had major hitching in Byron Bay, almost as bad as in Surfer's Paradise. If Playground was really cherry-picking they would have made the PC demo exclusive to the Outback sections.
chrominance
Member
i5 3570k, GTX 970, 16GB RAM. 1920x1200 at the High dynamic preset can mostly, but not always, sustain solid 30. Normally I'd be okay with that (though 60fps seems completely impossible, to my chagrin), but any framerate that isn't 30fps or 60fps seems to introduce this really bizarre control wobbliness, as if the driver behind the wheel was drunk or something. The best way I can think of to describe the effect is a sort of burstiness--like, when trying to take a turn, there's an initial bit of lag before I turn in, but then the turn gets really severe, so I feel like I have to compensate. Trying to make gradual turns feels weird because the rate at which I turn seems to vary as well. It doesn't seem like garden variety input lag, but maybe I just never experienced input lag this severe before and this is actually what that feels like? Anyways, trying to play at 60fps lock results in framerates only slightly above 30fps and the weird drunken feeling; locking at 30fps is mostly good but starts to feel weird as soon as the framerate sinks to 28fps or lower. It's playable so long as the framerate is locked, but the weird control issues are totally new to me. I don't know how to feel about it, except to maybe look into some tweak guides tomorrow (or not, since I'm leaving on vacation the next day and so don't really have time to do a lot of fiddling).
Downloading the demo right now and hopefully it's not as bad as I think it is.
I mean c'mon MS, Windows is your platform.
Your didn't screwed up this time again, did you?
My target is 60fps, high settings with no AA and no major issues.
Let's see if I can achieve that with my GTX 970, i7 4790k, 16gb DDR3 2400 and game is installed on the SSD.
I mean c'mon MS, Windows is your platform.
Your didn't screwed up this time again, did you?
My target is 60fps, high settings with no AA and no major issues.
Let's see if I can achieve that with my GTX 970, i7 4790k, 16gb DDR3 2400 and game is installed on the SSD.
icecold1983
Member
If your cpu can hit at least 4.5 and you leave geometry setings on medium youll be close but you will still stutter frequently
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Digital Foundry couldn't even do it reliably with like a 6600k.
Roaringburn
Member
Will you at least admit your initial conspiracy was off?
deadscreensky
Member
You can probably get something like that, though make sure you do dynamic high settings. I got close to that with a slower CPU and using AA (game looks kind of bad without it), though it was temperamental enough I ended up just locking it to 48fps. (Which hasn't given me any unforeseen input lag problems, just for the record.)
icecold1983
Member
i never said anything was a conspiracy but my post isnt wrong. the demo is highly misleading of the actual product.
have you got any footage of the crew without frame pacing issues?
icecold1983
Member
and that has what to do with this?
Sword Of Doom
Member
This game will demo really well. I had a blast for a weekend and then got bored with it. Performance issues also never got fixed for me. At least now people can try it out and see how it performs before buying.
nothing? did you tho?
cleveridea
Member
Hmm demo crashed after the intro video stuff (presumably just before you get to actually play)
This will be annoying as the video seemed unskippable
This will be annoying as the video seemed unskippable
UWP strikes again.
Caayn
Member
No. Windows doesn't support HDR yet, it should be coming early next year.
If you see HDR on a PC game before that, it'll be a vendor exclusive version, such as exclusive to NVIDIA cards. Not exactly ideal. NVIDIA's solution also requires you to make a few adjustments before you can enable HDR.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Is that even true?
IIRC pretty sure I read that it was coming to Insiders late this year, then as an update early 2017.
I "sucked it up" for KI and wasn't worth it. If they don't turn their store into something at least vaguely close to their competitors, I'll just skip the game.
Serious Sam
Member
Game itself is amazing, PC port on the other hand leaves a lot to be desired.
Shadow Warrior 2 ?
icecold1983
Member
seems like game is great, port is baaad and the store is still abomination :-(
...xbox app crashed twice before was even able to run the demo .... love how i have 20 gigs free space on the C:/ where i have the demo installed on and while playing FH3 demo windows tells me that i dont have any free space left :-D
...xbox app crashed twice before was even able to run the demo .... love how i have 20 gigs free space on the C:/ where i have the demo installed on and while playing FH3 demo windows tells me that i dont have any free space left :-D
SeeNoWeevil
Member
Try the 'Rain Forrest Escape' street race if you want an example of how shitty the performance can get. There are quite a few races that will drop under 60fps with lots of cars on the screen (spray/dust everywhere) on 980Ti grade hardware.
Define great.
