Modder Digital Dreams recently shared a YouTube video that shows off Forza Horizon 5 running with ray-tracing enabled in the open world, thanks to a simple Cheat Engine tweak. While Digital Dreams did not specify their system's hardware spec, they appear to be running the game at a fairly locked 4K/60 FPS update. What's remarkable is that this seems to be possible without NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling technology enabled.
So, how beneficial is it and what is the performance cost? Could it be enabled in future on Xbox Series X?To begin with, let's clarify how standard reflections work in Forza Horizon 5, because it's fair to say that even without RT, they look great. If you can imagine six invisible cameras attached to the player vehicle, capturing imagery and mapping it onto a sphere, you get some idea of how the reflections are generated. Effectively, you're looking at cube-map reflections generated continuously in real-time. These reflections are not perspective-correct, but it's close enough and works well enough.
Now with proof that the game can be played smoothly with ray-traced reflections, maybe Playground games will be willing to offer a patch in the future to enable this functionality officially. In the meantime, we expect lots of you to be spending more time than ever in Forza’s lovely Photo Mode.In order to do this, you’ll have to use CheatEngine. Since Forza Horizon 5 is an online game, you should use this mod/workaround at your own risk. We suggest running the game in offline mode while using it, otherwise you might get banned.
DigitalFoundry has showcased this mod in action, so go ahead and watch their video. From what we can see, this RT Mod brings a 7% performance hit. However, the game uses Ray Tracing reflections only to reflect part of the car, and not for its surrounding environments. Thus, I don’t really believe it’s really worth enabling them.Z2U.COM is the best place to buy Forza Horizon 5 Credits.