Can I Run Forza Horizon 6 on My PC / Laptop?

A GTX 1650, RX 6500 XT, or Arc A380 for the GPU, an i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 1600 for the CPU, 16GB of RAM, DirectX 12, and 167GB on an SSD. Full tiers are in the table above.

An RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6700 XT, or Arc A580, paired with an i5-12400F or Ryzen 5 5600X and 16GB of RAM, targets 1080p to 1440p at high settings and 60 fps.

Yes, and it's a hard requirement, not a suggestion. The installer won't let you put the game on a hard drive. Playground Games recommends a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive specifically for the smoothest world streaming.

167GB free on an SSD. Leave a bit of headroom beyond that for day-one patches and the shader cache.

Yes, DirectX 12 is required and there's no DirectX 11 fallback, which is part of why older GPUs without a modern driver stack struggle.

Those are Pascal-generation cards, and Pascal is below Forza Horizon 6's minimum supported architecture (Turing). Nvidia ended active Pascal driver support at the end of 2024, and the game's rendering path depends on driver behavior those cards no longer get. Expect error FHC01, a GPU hang, or a Device Removed crash rather than a clean launch, and there's currently no official fix.

AMD's RX 400 and 500 series, along with Vega cards, are blocked outright. The launcher shows a hardware warning and won't let you into the main menu, regardless of any settings tweak.

That's shader compilation stutter: DirectX 12 is building and caching the pipeline shaders your specific GPU needs the first time you encounter them. It settles down once the cache fills in, though clearing the shader cache after a driver update can bring a shorter version of it back.

16GB clears both the minimum and recommended tiers without issue. Step up to the Extreme preset and that climbs to 24GB, and the top Extreme RT tier at upscaled 4K wants a full 32GB.

Yes. The graphics menu includes a built-in benchmark run and a real-time VRAM usage meter, so you can see exactly what's limiting your specific PC instead of guessing from frame rate alone.

Only if you're on a blocked Pascal or RX 400/500 card, or you want a resolution or ray tracing tier your current card can't hit. Anything Turing or RDNA2 and newer that meets the stated tier will run the game; the architecture cutoff matters far more than a small raw performance gap.

Yes. Like the rest of the Horizon series, it launched into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on day one alongside its retail release.

Playground Games hasn't announced official Linux support, but Steam Proton handles it better than you'd expect given the GTX 10-series driver drama, since that cutoff is about driver generation rather than the operating system. Budget for the same shader compilation stutter on first launch, and know that nothing here is officially supported if it breaks.

Runnable. The RTX 3050 covers Forza Horizon 6's minimum, meaning 1080p low to medium and a smoother feel after a small settings drop. Roughly 40 to 50 fps at 1080p depending on preset; falls short of 40 fps if you push it to 4K.

It is under the bar. The GTX 1650 does not meet Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so any play would be very low settings with weak performance. The official minimum. Around 50 to 55 fps at 1080p Low, dipping into the mid-40s in dense Tokyo traffic.

Playable, yes. The GTX 1060 6GB passes Forza Horizon 6's minimum bar, so aim for low to medium at 1080p and drop settings if the frame rate dips. Pascal architecture, officially unsupported. When it manages to launch, expect around 50 fps at 1080p Medium, but crashes and hangs are common with no official fix.

The RX 580 gets you in. It meets Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so low to medium at 1080p works, and turning a couple of things down keeps it steady. RX 500 series cards are blocked outright at launch by a hardware compatibility check; there's no workaround setting that gets you into the game.

The RTX 4060 gets you in. It meets Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so low to medium at 1080p works, and turning a couple of things down keeps it steady. Figures vary widely by preset, roughly 55 to 70 fps at 1080p Ultra and around 47 to 50 fps at 1440p.

Yes. Forza Horizon 6 runs on the RTX 3060 at 1080p low to medium; shave a setting or two and the frame rate settles. Reported around 48 to 55 fps at 1080p Extreme depending on the outlet. Meets the recommended CPU pairing but sits a step under its GPU pairing.

Yes, though keep expectations modest. The RTX 2060 clears Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so plan on 1080p at low to medium and trim a setting or two for a steady frame rate. Around 39 fps at 1080p Extreme settings, so drop to High or turn on upscaling for a steadier 60.

The GTX 1660 gets you in. It meets Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so low to medium at 1080p works, and turning a couple of things down keeps it steady.

Playable, yes. The GTX 1660 Super passes Forza Horizon 6's minimum bar, so aim for low to medium at 1080p and drop settings if the frame rate dips.

Yes, though keep expectations modest. The RX 6600 clears Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so plan on 1080p at low to medium and trim a setting or two for a steady frame rate. About 41 fps at 1080p Ultra, closer to 54 on High. Below the recommended tier but playable at 1080p medium-high.

You can play it. The GTX 1660 Ti is at Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so keep to 1080p low to medium and lower a setting if it stutters.

You are well set. The RTX 3060 Ti exceeds Forza Horizon 6's recommended card, so 1080p high is easy and 1440p is realistic. The official recommended-tier card. Around 95 to 105 fps at 1080p; ray tracing is the one thing that slows it down significantly.

Yes, on modest settings. The RTX 4050 meets what Forza Horizon 6 needs at minimum, so 1080p low to medium is the sweet spot. Around 40 fps at 1080p Ultra and roughly 50 fps at the Extreme preset without ray tracing; a solid mid-tier laptop pick for this game.

Probably not worth it. The GTX 1050 Ti is short of Forza Horizon 6's minimum, so even very low settings may not give a smooth result. Also Pascal and blocked by the same architecture cutoff as the GTX 1060. Not a supported card for this game regardless of settings.

Yes, with room to spare. Forza Horizon 6 recommends less than the RTX 4070 offers, so expect smooth 1080p high and a playable 1440p. Around 83 fps at 4K on the High preset, and well above 60 at 1080p and 1440p Extreme.

No native build exists for macOS, not on an Air, a Pro, or any M-series chip. GeForce Now cloud streaming is about the only route in on a Mac right now.

It's below the official minimum, so results are rough. Newer integrated chips like Intel Iris Xe or AMD's Radeon 780M can limp along at 720p to 1080p Low with upscaling, but expect choppy frame rates in traffic and city areas rather than a smooth experience.

Chromebook hardware isn't built for a game like this, full stop. GeForce Now cloud streaming is the practical way to play Forza Horizon 6 on one.

Yes, alongside Series X, at launch. Series S targets a lower resolution and settings than Series X to hold its frame rate, similar to how it handled previous Horizon games.

No. There's no PS4 version. The console release is Xbox Series X|S at launch, with a PS5 version planned separately.

Not yet, as of late August 2026. Microsoft confirmed a PS5 version for later in 2026 at the reveal, but no firm release date had been announced by that point, and some coverage suggests it may land after the PC and Xbox launch by a wide margin. This page covers the PC version.

Not currently, and nothing's been confirmed for either Switch or Switch 2. The hardware gap is the simple explanation: this game is built around specs well past what either console offers.

Yes, with caveats. The ROG Ally holds up better than the Steam Deck, roughly 50 fps across most of the map at optimized settings, dropping toward 40 in Tokyo. The Steam Deck struggles to hold even 30 fps in the city on the lowest preset, though the open countryside runs better. The game has day-one Steam Deck compatibility support.

A service like GeForce Now handles this by doing the heavy lifting on their end and sending the video back to you, so what matters on your side is mostly a solid internet connection rather than your own hardware.

Without ray tracing, an RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 5070, or RX 9070 XT class card gets you a steady 60 fps at Extreme settings. Add ray tracing and you're looking at an RTX 5070 Ti or better with upscaling on.

An RTX 4060 Ti, RX 9060 XT 8GB, or Arc B580 clears 60 fps at 1440p Extreme without upscaling. An RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT holds 1440p comfortably at high settings, which is the recommended tier.

At 1080p, the recommended-tier RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT gets you there on high settings. At 1440p, step up to an RTX 4060 Ti class card. Upscaling adds a meaningful cushion on any of these if the city area dips below your target.

The Extreme preset at 1440p wants an RTX 4060 Ti, RX 9060 XT, or Arc B580 and 24GB of RAM. Extreme at 4K without ray tracing pushes into RTX 4070 Ti or RX 9070 XT territory, and the ray-traced Extreme RT tier wants an RTX 5070 Ti or RX 9070 XT with 32GB of RAM.

Yes, for 1080p and 1440p at high settings, where the game stays under 8GB on most cards. VRAM only becomes a real limiter at 4K with Extreme textures and ray tracing on, where the game will use 12 to 16GB if the card has it.

It'll launch if the GPU clears the minimum and isn't a blocked Pascal or RX 400/500 card, but an i3 or Ryzen 3 CPU will bottleneck you hardest in dense Tokyo traffic. Expect the open countryside to run noticeably better than the city on weaker CPUs.

Check whether your card is a Pascal-generation GTX 10-series or an RX 400/500 model before anything else, since that architecture cutoff causes crashes on hardware that otherwise looks perfectly capable. Error FHC01, a GPU hang, or a Device Removed message all point there. On newer cards, look instead at a shader cache issue after a driver update, or confirm the install actually landed on an SSD.

No, not officially. The GTX 1070 is a Pascal card, which is below Forza Horizon 6's minimum supported architecture. It's faster on paper than the official GTX 1650 minimum, but the game blocks Pascal at the driver level, so expect crashes rather than a stable launch.

No, for the same reason as the GTX 1070: it's Pascal, and Nvidia ended active driver support for that generation at the end of 2024. Owners report the game hitting error FHC01 or a GPU hang rather than launching cleanly, and there's no official fix.

It's Ampere-based, so it clears the architecture requirement, but it's a weak laptop chip roughly in GTX 1650 territory. Expect low 1080p settings and a frame rate in the 30s to low 40s in anything but light traffic.

Yes, it clears the recommended tier's architecture floor and sits well past minimum. Expect roughly 50 to 55 fps at 1080p high settings, similar to an RTX 3060.

Yes, well above the recommended tier. It sits close to an RTX 3060 Ti and RX 6700 XT in this game, so figure on 90-plus fps at 1080p and a comfortable 60-plus at 1440p high settings.

Yes, easily above recommended. It handles 1440p Extreme without much trouble and gets close to 60 fps at 4K on the Extreme preset without ray tracing.

Yes. It's roughly in RTX 4070-class territory for this game, comfortable at 1440p Extreme and capable of 4K at high settings, though a newer card handles ray tracing better for the same money.

Yes, and it's one of the cards that clears 4K at Extreme settings without ray tracing, around 73 fps by outlet benchmarks. Add ray tracing and it drops to roughly half that without upscaling.

Yes, no trouble at all. It sits between the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4090 for this game, holding 4K Extreme above 60 fps and handling ray tracing at 1440p well with DLSS on.

Yes, and it's the card that makes native 4K with ray tracing genuinely comfortable, around 75 fps by benchmark, with 1440p Extreme well over 100 fps.

Yes. It's one of the cards that clears 4K Extreme without ray tracing at roughly 60-plus fps, and DLSS 4 with frame generation helps it further with ray tracing on.

Yes, and it's one of the official picks for the Extreme RT tier, meaning upscaled 4K with ray traced reflections and global illumination at 60-plus fps.

Yes, well above every tier the game publishes. It handles 4K Extreme RT with room to spare when DLSS 4 is on, well past the RTX 5070 Ti baseline for that tier.

Yes, and it's currently the strongest card for this game: around 190-plus fps at 1440p Extreme, and the only card that stays clearly above 60 fps at native 4K with ray tracing on.

Yes, it's an official recommended-tier card alongside the RTX 3060 Ti, so figure on solid 1080p to 1440p high-settings performance at 60 fps.

Yes, well above recommended. It clears 1440p Extreme with room to spare and holds 60-plus fps at 4K high settings without ray tracing.

Yes, it sits a step above the RX 6600 for this game, so expect somewhere around 50 to 55 fps at 1080p Ultra, playable but short of a locked 60 without dropping a setting or two.

Yes, solidly above recommended. It's close to an RTX 4070 in this game, handling 1440p Extreme well and getting within range of 60 fps at 4K without ray tracing.

Yes, and it's one of the cards Playground Games names for both the 4K no-ray-tracing tier and the Extreme RT tier at upscaled 4K with FSR on.

It's below the official minimum, so it's not a supported experience. If it launches at all, expect 720p Low with XeSS upscaling and frame rates that dip well below 30 in traffic.

Same story as Iris Xe: below the stated minimum GPU. It may run at reduced resolution and Low settings with FSR on, but expect it to struggle in city traffic and treat it as a fallback, not a real target.