Forza Horizon 6 System Requirements: Min to Extreme RT

What are the minimum and recommended specs?

Steam Deck HQ reports the minimum spec targets the Low preset at 1080p and 60fps, and coverage of Playground's spec sheet ties the recommended hardware to High settings at 1440p. Mac and Linux desktops are not supported, although the Steam Deck is Verified on SteamOS.

What do you need for ray tracing and 4K?

Playground's PC spec sheet goes beyond Steam's two tiers. The top Extreme RT tier calls for an RTX 5070 Ti or Radeon RX 9070 XT and 32 GB of RAM, targeting 60fps or more at upscaled 4K. Ray-traced global illumination is the most expensive single setting, so most players at 1440p skip it; the best settings guide explains the trade-offs.

How big is Forza Horizon 6, and will it run on an HDD?

The game needs 167 GB of free space, and Steam states that an SSD is required. A hard drive does not meet the listed requirement, so an HDD install is unsupported. Leave spare space for monthly updates as well.

Players asking whether it runs on an HDD usually have enough space but no SSD; adding an SSD is the way to meet the requirement.

Will it run on a laptop?

Compare your laptop's dedicated GPU and CPU with the minimum column. Laptop GPUs are usually slower than desktop cards with the same name, so start at Low or Medium at 1080p with an upscaler and raise settings from there. If the game fails to start rather than running slowly, see the black screen guide.

Laptops that rely only on integrated graphics fall below the minimum GPU requirement. Xbox Cloud Gaming is the better option there; see Forza Horizon 6 on Game Pass.

Does it work on an RX 580 or other older GPUs?

Not officially. The RX 580 is older than the minimum AMD card (RX 6500 XT), and older AMD Polaris and Vega GPUs lack features the game expects. A Nexus Mods page offers an unofficial compatibility patch that bypasses the Shader Model 6.6 check for those cards. It is a third-party file, unsupported by Playground, and modifying game files carries risk; read the mods page first.

Which upscalers help low-end PCs?

• NVIDIA RTX: DLSS Super Resolution on all RTX cards; Frame Generation on RTX 40 and newer; Multi Frame Generation on RTX 50.
• AMD: FSR 4 on RDNA 4, FSR 3 on other cards.
• Intel: XeSS 2.1.
• GTX 16-series: no DLSS; use FSR or XeSS.
• DLSS 5 is not official; see the DLSS 5 page.

How do you check if your PC can run it?

1. Press Windows + R, type dxdiag and press Enter. The System tab shows your CPU and RAM; the Display tab shows your GPU.
2. Compare each with the table above. The GPU is usually the deciding part.
3. Check free space on an SSD: you need 167 GB.
4. Make sure Windows is on 22H2 or later; older Windows 10 builds fail the OS check.
5. Still unsure? Try it through PC Game Pass before buying; the PC page compares Steam and the Xbox app.