Game:

Forza Horizon 3 (2016)

Duration: 32:59

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CORRECTION: I made a mistake on the overclock. Consider this video to be more of a look at how the game plays without the card overclocked, for now. I will have to record new footage. (I mistakenly gave this the same overclock as another card, and not the full overclock that it can handle) (wait until I get new footage, with the card overclocked before jumping to conclusions of how much better it "could" perform, though)

This video shows a lot. I show the Ultra preset, the Ultra preset without MSAA, V-sync on, V-sync off, and I make sure to show different Hubs and races. I also tried reassigning priority levels to the game, via the Task Manager, and I showed the card playing the game WITH and WITHOUT it being overclocked. The beginning of the starts with NO overclock on a Founder's card. The card only gets up to about 1800-something Mhz. Then I overclock it, with +90 on the core. (which, if you've read the correction, at the top of this description, you'll know was a mistake. I should have overclocked this particular card to +211. I will be recording more footage, with the proper overclock.)

If you just skim through the video, you won't know whether I've turned MSAA on or off, whether V-Sync is on or off, and other details. I will try to time stamp this, when I get a chance, but if someone else wants to start time stamping everything that is shown, that might be helpful for everybody.

I am testing the game across 12+ graphics cards, 3 CPU's, and multiple resolutions, so I can show people how they might be able to expect the game to play for them. (I have had SEVERAL requests for different resolutions and hardware configurations) As a result of this, now, 20+ hours of testing, I have not had a chance to time stamp these videos. Once I am caught up, I will try to get back to them, but again, if anyone wants to time stamp this video, please feel free to. It would be beneficial for everyone.

I have already recorded a "best settings" video for this game, but it did not maintain 60fps, no matter what I did. I have a feeling that might be because of the i5. I will put this card in an i7 system to test that.

I have actually tested this system last night and today, and it simply has not kept 60fps, no matter what I've done. (sans lowering the settings to GTX 960 levels... I have not, yet, tried that) If the game performs flawlessly, on the i7 system, I will let you guys know. For what it's worth, even with a 4GB GTX 960, I can get the game to play flawlessly on a LOCKED i7 4790 system. (admittedly, I have to use sub "medium" settings to do that, but it's still flawless) The system in this video has a 4690K overclocked to 4.2Ghz. (the locked 4790 only goes up to 3.9Ghz, in my experience, maybe 3.99Ghz, but it almost never officially touches the 4.0Ghz it is advertised to hit)

Note: The description has been updated to make clear that I borked the overclock. With that said, even when the overclock was "proper," I have seen issues with keeping 60fps, with this system. I will keep trying to sort this out, and I will keep you guys posted. Once I have new footage, with the correct overclock, this video will probably be deleted. Until then, this is still a decent look at the game, at stock speeds to a mild overclock, when paired with a 4690K.


i5 4690K (4.2Ghz)
16GB RAM
GTX 1060 Founder's card (stock speeds at the start of the video and then overclocked to about half of its potential... read the video description, for that to make sense)
SSD
Windows 10

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