Forza Horizon 3

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Forza Horizon 3

Developers
	Playground Games
	Turn 10 Studios
Publishers
	Microsoft Studios
Engines
	ForzaTech
Release dates
Windows	September 27, 2016

Forza
Forza Motorsport 6: Apex	2016
Forza Horizon 3	2016
Forza Motorsport 7	2017
Forza Street	2018
Forza Horizon 4	2018
Forza Horizon 5	2021
Forza Motorsport	2023

Key points

Xbox Play Anywhere - Buy once, play on Windows 10/Xbox One.

Wheel support.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Amazon.com
Microsoft Store		Deluxe Edition, or Ultimate Edition.

All versions require Microsoft Store DRM.

A demo is available.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Car Pass	Access to DLC cars when released
Motorsport All-Stars Pack	Contains ten race track cars
VIP	Five cars, double Horizon Wheelspin rewards, double credits, etc.
Warthog	Only available to players who have earned an achievement in Halo: The Master Chief Collection or completed a certain in-game event
Expansion Pass	Contains both map expansions, Blizzard Mountain and Hot Wheels
Blizzard Mountain	Introduces a new snow-covered playable area, new cars, and events
Hot Wheels	Introduces a new Hot Wheels-inspired playable area, new cars, and events
Hoonigan Car Pack	Introduces new cars and achievements

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.OpusPG_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\scratch\User_PCLocalStorageDirectory\ConnectedStorage\ForzaUserConfigSelections\

The file in this folder is called "UserConfigSelections". It is a "file" extension type can be opened with Notepad or any other plain text editor.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.OpusPG_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Xbox Cloud

Video settings

Video settings (Basic).

Video settings (Advanced).

Audio settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French				France, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland.
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish				Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Infinite Loading Times/Graphical Issues on AMD cards

Use drivers 17.5.2 or newer
This occurs on AMD drivers from 17.3.2 to 17.5.1

Game crashes to desktop on start with Multi-monitor enabled

If the game crashes to the desktop after displaying the Turn 10 Studio video, use the fix below.

Multi-monitor crashing fix

This fix should work with both AMD Eyefinity and Nvidia Surround. Disable multi-monitor. Launch game. In the game options, set Full-Screen to Off. Stretch the game window to cover part of each screen. Re-enable multi-monitor with the game running, confirm that the game window is covering part of each screen. Quit out of the game. Restart the game. Set the game resolution to your multi-monitor resolution. Set the game's Full Screen option back to On.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4170	Intel Core i7-3820
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	12 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	55 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GT 740 AMD Radeon R7 250X 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or GTX 1060 AMD Radeon R9 290X or RX 480 4 GB of VRAM