Playground Games has been building PC Forza titles for nearly a decade, and with Forza Horizon 6 they're making a real statement. Ray tracing, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, full ultrawide support, Steam Deck compatibility, and a settings menu that no longer requires a restart to take effect. Here's everything confirmed ahead of the May 19 launch.

Ray Tracing

Two modes are supported for compatible cards: Ray-Traced Reflections and Ray-Traced Global Illumination. Reflections are the flashier of the two - you'll see them on cars and in the environment - but RTGI is the more interesting addition. It uses ray tracing hardware to compute indirect lighting and ambient occlusion across the open world in real time, which is what actually makes a scene feel correctly lit rather than just shiny. Both can run simultaneously on supported hardware, though you'll want a capable card before enabling both at once.

Upscaling: Every Major Option is Here

NVIDIA DLSS 4 is supported across the RTX lineup, with Multi Frame Generation exclusive to RTX 50 Series and Frame Generation for RTX 40 Series and above. AMD FSR 4 covers compatible AMD GPUs, with FSR 3 as a fallback. Intel XeSS 2.1 is also in. NVIDIA Reflex and DLAA round things out. Whatever GPU you're on, you're covered.

The Settings Menu Finally Works Like It Should

This one sounds minor but it isn't. Every graphics setting can now be changed without restarting the game, and many have live previews so you can see the impact before committing. Real-time VRAM and system memory readouts update as you tweak things, and there's a built-in benchmark mode for consistent testing. It's the kind of PC settings implementation that should have always been standard for this series.

Display and Controllers

4K HDR and ultrawide resolutions are both supported. Controller support carries over wholesale from Forza Horizon 5 - every wheel that worked there works here.

Handheld Support and Cross-Save

Steam Deck and ROG Ally are both supported with confirmed performance targets. Cross-save works across every platform the game runs on - Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, Steam, SteamOS, and the PS5 version arriving later this year - so your progress follows you regardless of where you're playing.

Release Dates

Premium Edition and Premium Upgrade owners get Early Access from May 15. Everyone else, including Game Pass, is May 19.