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Forza Motorsport 6: Apex

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Forza Motorsport 6: Apex
Forza Motorsport 6: Apex cover
Developers
Turn 10 Studios
Publishers
Microsoft Studios
Engines
ForzaTech
Release dates
Windows September 6, 2016[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization Free-to-play, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person, Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Racing
Vehicles Automobile
Art styles Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Series Forza
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Forza Motorsport 6: Apex on Wikipedia
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Forza Motorsport 6: Apex is a racing game in the Forza series developed by Turn 10 Studios. It is a pared-down, free-to-play Windows version of Forza Motorsport 6 originally released on the Xbox One and marks the Forza series' first entry on PCs, containing 63 cars and 12 racing events.

It was released on September 6, 2016, almost a year after the main game's release.

The game is no longer available for download, with all DLC content removed from sale due to the expiration of licenses as with the main game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Microsoft Store (unavailable)
Microsoft Store
Windows
All versions require Microsoft Store DRM.

Version differences

Premium Edition

Included all DLC content and 15 Spotlight mode (discontinued since August 1, 2020) events exclusive to the edition.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Hyper Endurance Car Pack Included in the Premium Edition.
Windows
Nürburgring Track Pack Included in the Premium Edition.
Windows
Power to Weight Car Pack Included in the Premium Edition.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.ApexPG_8wekyb3d8bbwe\AC\Temp\Turn10Temp.scratch\UserConfig.xml

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.ApexPG_8wekyb3d8bbwe\SystemAppData\wgs\

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
16:9 and 16:10 only.[2]
Multi-monitor
[2]
Ultra-widescreen
[2][3]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Fullscreen is always borderless (no exclusive fullscreen).
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Up to 8x MSAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
[4]
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
FPS cap can be configured to 30, 60 or Unlocked.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Input settings.
Input settings.

Extending support for more wheels: Forza Emuwheel

Audio

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Issues fixed

See Known Issues and Wheel Support Known Issues for current issues with the game.

"AP301" error on startup

Hold Page Up while choosing Quit to skip this error.[2]

Application Crash (Access violation) when applying paints

The game uses a base64 conversion function that results in out of bound writes when Control Flow Guard is enabled, to fix it add "ForzaMotorsportApex.exe" to the Program Settings for "Exploit Protection" and disable Control Flow Guard for this process.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12 DirectX 12 with Feature Level 11_0 or greater is required. The game does not run on NVIDIA GPUs with Fermi architecture, despite meeting this requirement.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10 (1607)
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-4170 3.7 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon R7 250X
Nvidia GeForce GT 740
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 12 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


References