We’re due to land in Forza Horizon 5’s stunning recreation of Mexico come November 5 and we now know what your gaming PC needs to get you in the driver’s seat. Given that the game will also release on both the Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X, Forza Horizon 5’s system requirements are understandably low. Even so, those with the best graphics cards and best gaming CPUs will be able to push their pedals to the metal with beautiful levels of visual fidelity and blisteringly high frame rates.
There’s no news on PC-exclusive settings or features to help boost fps, such as Nvidia DLSS or AMD’s FSR, but the developer confirms that Forza Horizon 5 will feature ray tracing. However, the intensive graphical setting will only be used in the game’s ‘Forzavista’ model viewer and requires a compatible graphics card.
Like other new releases such as Far Cry 6, Playground Games recommends you install Forza Horizon 5 on a solid state drive. While this isn’t necessary, the best SSDs offer massively improved loading times when compared to HDDs. Whatever your storage solution, you’ll need a chonky 110GB of space available to accommodate Forza Horizon 5’s vast open-world.
All settings require you to run Windows 10’s November 19 update (1909).
| Minimum | Recommended | Ideal | |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Intel i5-4460 |
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X Intel i5-8400 |
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT Intel i7-10700K |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | AMD RX 470 Nvidia GTX 970 |
AMD RX 590 Nvidia GTX 1070 |
AMD RX 6800XT Nvidia RTX 3080 |
| VRAM | 4GB | 8GB | 10GB |
| RAM | 8GB | 16GB | 16GB |
| Storage | 110GB | 110GB | 110GB SSD |
While these system requirements don’t specify what their target resolution is or what kind of frame rates can be expected at particular graphical presets, it’s clear that Forza Horizon 5 will be an extremely scalable game that can accommodate a wide variety of system configurations.
Forza Horizon 5 will be available on Steam which should be good news to those who prefer not to purchase Xbox Game Studios titles via the Microsoft Store. In the meantime, check out our list of the best racing games for PC while you wait to hit the tarmac and dirt roads of Mexico.
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