Forza Motorsport PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide
Performance Scaling – Low, Medium, High, Ultra and Max Settings
Performance Scaling – Why most PC gamers should turn off ray tracing
Forza Motorsport is a very demanding game on PC when maxed out. It also scales very poorly with resolution when the game’s highest quality settings are used, making upscaling technologies like DLSS or FSR a lot less useful than normal.
When moving from 1080p to 4K at max settings on an Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti, average framerates change from 44.3 FPS to 28 FPS. This is a small performance change given the quadrupling of game resolution. Thankfully, when ray tracing is disabled, resolution performance scaling improves significantly.
Disabling ray tracing in Forza Motorsport can see average framerates increase by almost 89% at 4K on our RTX 3070 Ti. Moving from Ultra (RT off) to High (RT Off) will see performance increase by a further 11.5%. From here, lower graphical settings see diminishing returns when it comes to performance improvements.
On PC, disabling ray tracing has a huge impact on Forza Motorsport’s game performance, even when CPU-limited. As such, ray tracing is the first thing that PC gamers should disable if they encounter performance issues in Forza Motorsport on PC.
