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Forza Horizon 5 is getting a ray-tracing upgrade on PC

While Forza Horizon 5 did ship with ray-tracing, it was only present in the Forza Vista mode and not while actually playing the game. That will be changing soon. Alongside Forza Horizon 5's second expansion, Playground Games will also be adding ray-tracing support for races and free roam. 

So far, it looks like only the PC version of the game will be getting ray-tracing during gameplay. This will be RT reflections, with the Ultra preset offering half-resolution reflections and the extreme preset offering full-resolution reflections on your car.

In Photo mode, RT support is expanded, so you'll see full-res reflections on all cars in a scene on both the Ultra and Extreme presets. Forza Vista offers RT reflections starting with medium graphics settings.

Aside from ray-tracing, Playground is also bringing Nvidia DLSS and DLAA, as well as AMD FSR 2.2, which should help users get a performance boost.

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KitGuru Says: It is a little odd that RT isn't coming to the Xbox version, although I'm not sure how much it will add to the game anyway. Right now, Forza Horizon 5 already looks fantastic, so the RT upgrade will likely be a minor one. 

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