Unlikely to have been the biggest surprise announcement of E3 2017, Forza Motorsport 7 exists. Perhaps more surprising, however, it news of the system requirements being relatively lax.
If you've been driving through the snowy mountains of Forza Horizon 3, you're more or less good to go. The requirements are mostly the same. But there have been a few odd tweaks to processor and GPU requirements - for better, and for worse. And yes, Windows 10 is a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- DirectX: 12
- System RAM: 8GB
- Video RAM: 2GB
- CPU: Intel i5-750 2.67 GHz
- GPU: NVIDIA GT 740 or NVIDIA GTX 650 or AMD R7 250X
- HDD Space: 100GB
Recommended Requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- DirectX: 12
- System RAM: 8GB
- Video RAM: 4GB
- CPU: Intel i5 4460 3.2GHz
- GPU: NVIDIA GTX 670 or NVIDIA 1050 Ti
- HDD Space: 100GB
Whereas Forza Horizon 3 asked for either a high-grade i7 or super-charged i3 processor between its minimum and recommended settings, we can see Forza Motorsport 7 can manage things with a relatively lower clocked - and likely more popular - i5 series chip.
Despite the announcement spot gunning for that 4k 60fps difference on Microsoft's fancy new Xbox One X, the recommended GPU is a paltry GTX 670 - one that's around 3 years older than the 970 asked for in Forza Horizon 3. So again, if you ran the last Forza game to hit PC through the Xbox Play Anywhere program, you're pretty much good to go.
Forza Motorsport 7 released October 3.
