Some additional info as a modder who's looked through the game files: Dynamic Render Quality: This is a REALLY complicated setting and goes a little beyond what you explained here. It does indeed affect all the "Auto" settings but even if you set absolutely nothing to "Auto", Dynamic Render Quality will quietly change a number of settings without telling you. These include: - Car and Track Shader Quality - Grass and Tree Density - Reflection Quality - Bloom - and even Audio Quality (wtaf!) This has to be the weirdest graphics setting I've ever seen in a game tbh and I have no idea why they went with this approach. Cube Map Reflection Quality: Others have pointed out that Cube Mapped reflections are used in external cameras and not on hood cam so I won't go too deep into that. I'll just add some additional info. This setting doesn't even change the resolution of the Cube Mapped Reflections. All it does is change the level of anti aliasing that those reflections have and I think it also changes the quality of the lighting in the reflections. The resolution of the reflections across all the settings is the same (512p). Car Model Quality: This only affects the LODs of the AI cars. The player's car is always forced on the highest LOD regardless of which setting you choose. In the lower settings, the LOD distances are a lot lower so you may see more obvious LOD switching from the AI cars. Car Livery Quality: You pretty much covered everything here. All I wanted to mention was the fact that there is actually 0 difference between the Medium and Low options. They just copied the same settings across both Medium and Low. Windshield Reflection Quality: Another small note to add here. Both the Medium and Low options cause the windshield reflections to run at half the game's frame rate. Mirror Quality: Looking at the game files, this setting has absolutely 0 impact on the actual resolution of the mirrors. Instead, it affects the number of objects and cars that can appear in the mirrors. The Ultra setting allows particles and all track objects to appear in the mirrors. High gets rid of the particles and many track objects. Medium gets rid of the crowd and limits the number of cars in the mirrors to 12. And Low reduces that limit further to only 8 cars. In addition, the Low setting will cause the mirrors to run at half the game's frame rate. That's about everything I could find about this game's graphics settings.

Thats for the helpful breakdown. Was exactly what i was looking for. I was looking for info on the anisotropic filtering and motion blur mainly but it was all good info. I decided to just leave everything maxed out in the end apart from setting motion blur to low as you suggest. Managed to get 60fps at 4k so Im happy with that and it looks lovely in my humble opinion

Great video! Thanks for sharing

Thx for making this video

The cubemap quality affects the fps of the render when you are going under an overpass. Look at the refection on the roof and you will notice a lower cubemap quality renders at a lower fps.

Nice video. I was getting significant lens flare on the Suzuka track at sunset.

Thanks for the helpful video. Was going crazy not knowing why I wasn't getting 60fps on a 3070

Thank you

very nice video, nice to know I'm not the only one trying to lower the graphics and seeing it does not do anything

7:12 Forza has used Screen Space Reflections on car hoods since FM5, changing the cubemap quality wont affect it at all. Also, RTAO is much more noticeable in interior view and when playing in daytime races.

7:12 although I'm still playing Horizon 5, here's something to note Forza's hoodcam usually use some kind of it's mirror to reflect the environment, so the hood would look realistic enough To see how's the cubemap setting differs, you need to use third person view, or use photo mode, since it that, the car would use normal cubemap, unless you're using RT 7:46 back at Horizon, best way to look how car model differs is by looking at car's livery quality, you might wanna try that (custom livery usually hits the most difference) Ps: Nvm, I just see there's car livery detail settings, so I guess thing is different here

tks bro. Made my graphics quality fly... Running with a 2080 FE, graphics was horrible, medium auto settings ... Salutes from Brazil.

I turned of performance graphics and turned on visuals it feels a lot more real with visuals

Good video thanks, I’m a Forza fanboy from way back and it killed me a bit inside when I first ran the benchmark on default settings and it looked like a ps2 game running at 35 fps.

In a racing game, track effects should be the most important.

Thx im getting 119 fps on nurb now on medium low rtx 2060 super and game looks hmm 7/10 ok for me ( full hd)

I've found that shadow quality takes 50% of FPS going between medium and high on my RTX 3060 laptop. Even worse if I turn it back down FPS won't be restored until after a full reboot of the laptop. Beware of this setting, looks like it's bugged.

Turn10 added a bunch of graphical technologies, settings and features. But finally they ruined everything with ugly gamma, contrast post-process and blur that cannot be changed or adjusted in any way. Maybe reshade will help me. What a disgrace!

On first open what graphics setup do I put

Is it possible to turn off motion blur in Forza Motorsport for Xbox Series X?

I think car model quality does effect car quality by distance.

the dynamic quality settings need to be set correctly based on the resolution you want to play at or you get stutters... ultra - 4k high - 1440 med -- 1080 - low 720.

I'm getting some weird blurring on medium settings at 2k resolution. I'm running 3080

I have a problem where the map pops in late or dosent load at times

Why looks Horizon 5 better. Motorsport : Weird Reflection & Light.

Horizon looks great on my PC. This game is broke and stuck in a low graphics state for me.

Bro I have everything ultra and graphics look so choppy and blurred and viewing a car is horrendous

My biggest problem with this game is that insane VRAM usage. Even on 1080p my RTX 3060 constantly runs out of VRAM.

So, it appears to me that what you were describing and showing on the screen is what you see on your computer screen, because I don’t have the same choices that you have when I open the settings on my Xbox. Perhaps you made that clear at the beginning and it just slipped by me. What I have on my Xbox x/s is very basic slider options for brightness, HDR brightness, and three choices for graphics, one called performance another called performance RT, and the third one called visuals. I see no advanced setting options as you do in this video. I realize this video was made several months ago and it’s possible that some changes have been made since you recorded this. Technically speaking, I don’t know why you have those options on a computer monitor and I don’t on a brand new TCL 55”, 120 refresh rate TV.

Even maxed out the TAA in this game kills the image quality. AA artifacts, blurry in some areas...it's pretty poor on a high end PC. Looks much better at night but in the day...there are some strange design choices for lighting and that god awful use of TAA.

Why is the antialiasing is so bad in this game?

This game feels so poorly optimized. On my Ryzen 9 5900hs and RTX 3080, this game just constantly tanks at 2560x1440. Even with ray tracing off. Additionally, if you change any setting, the game's performance falls through the floor until you restart. I often experience the game dropping to approx. 40 fps and locking there, but all I have to do is pause, and it returns to a beautiful and smooth 80fps just by opening and closing the pause menu. It will hold for about 20 seconds, then drops again. This wash rinse repeat is so frustrating and makes online modes without pause functionality almost unplayable. It just feels busted. All of those unnecessarily convoluted and misleading settings, and for what? Just for the game to perform slower than it should and worse than the consumer would expect.

I run all settings on max and it looks so bad just like a ps4 game. In cockpit it looks like a ps3 game. the fps are locked to 72 wich is a known glitch in bad optimized games... And yes I did set the Hz to what my monitor has (240). Its just a console port, unoptimized pile of garbage.

Why didn't you test the "Resolution scale"? For me this setting is a joke: 100% looks like 50% pixels calculated, I use now 200%, which looks like 100% in other games!

Graphics are really bad... Just take a look at Gran Turismo 7. Colours and details are really insane. That's why Microsoft Studios will never have an amazing exclusive culture. They just really don't care about their AAA titles. I'm playing this game on high-end pc on 1440p and it really sucks. On Series X with 4K (performance mode) way better than PC ultra version

The settings in this game are horrible, worst ideia i've ever seen

Forza motor sport 8 is broken An un optimized , expensive, buggy game

Wow they all looks dated 😂 when the game looks so bad you think it's a bug 😂