Forza Motorsport launched in a less-than-stellar state, with efficiency issues, bugs, and graphical glitches galore. Flip 10 is conscious and dealing on a few of these points, however Forza’s group can also be laborious at work enhancing how the sport appears to be like.

Based on Gabriel Corrêa’s Reddit submit, they could have found a approach to enhance Forza Motorsport‘s shipped ray tracing capabilities by a good margin. After snooping via recordsdata, Corrêa defined how they pieced collectively that Motorsport’s configuration nonetheless used low-definition textures even when set to Extremely. Corrêa additionally reveals they mounted the rendition of wheels at excessive speeds, together with different points found combing configuration recordsdata.

“I in contrast the recordsdata in FM with these in FH5 and located these issues,” wrote Corrêa. “512×512 cubemap texture (how can they promise lifelike reflections if the feel of the reflections has no definition?), shadows/work of opponents/skybox all in low definition even in ULTRA, wheels changing into a .PNG with blur as a substitute of the 3D mannequin, a number of LOD ranges however with tremendous low change metrics (a texture at 200m had no definition as a consequence of LOD changes) and plenty of different issues that have been adjusted based mostly on values from FH5 and Assetto Corsa.”

As Digital Foundry identified in its technical assessment (hosted on Eurogamer): “Early preview footage from the sport – in addition to a number of the transport sport’s real-time cinematics – showcase expanded RT reflections, with the atmosphere displayed as properly.” These expectations weren’t hit in common gameplay, even on PC, with the sport’s real-time ray tracing as a substitute launching in its subdued, much less spectacular type.

On YouTube, Corrêa goes into extra element about their “nerfed” Forza repair. The footage demonstrates the higher reflections, textures, and wheels all in motion.

Official fixes for Forza Motorsport are coming

Whereas Corrêa’s “unnerfed” ray tracing implementation may be very welcome certainly, Flip 10 isn’t sitting on its laurels both. As per the studio’s announcement, Forza Motorsport gamers ought to count on patches quickly. Amongst these fixes embrace: “tweaks to the gameplay methods, options and high quality of life enhancements, in addition to new content material that can be launched each month.”

Forza Motorsport had a collection of way more complete ray-tracing options. Flip 10 particularly talked about International Illumination (or RTGI) in an earlier model of its FAQ, just for it to by no means materialize. This, mixed with Forza Motorsport‘s seemingly damaged and/or partial RT implementation, means that Flip 10 could find yourself delivering massive graphical updates to the sport later down the road. Forza Horizon followers could recall one thing related occurred with Forza Horizon 5‘s in-game ray tracing, too.