It seems that Microsoft’s Xbox Scorpio team only had one person to make the upcoming Forza Motorsport run at 4K resolution and 60FPS.
The original story on Xbox Scorpio’s prowess in running Forza Motorsport was covered by Eurogamer Digital Foundry; the process of porting Forza Motorsport to run on the Xbox Scorpio with the visual enhancements and higher resolution -4K @60 Fps- was done in just two days. Gamasutra recently revealed in an article that this job was done by one engineer Mat Lee to complete the job.
“So Matt Lee, from the Direct3D team on Xbox, he shows up with a cardboard box full of parts,” recalls Tector. “It’s like, a loose motherboard, the debugging adapters, the drives. And he sets it up on the desk. And it’s just like, there’s no proper cooling on it, so we just have a fan sitting there. And it’s blowing across it, and it vibrates, and the fan starts moving and the whole thing shuts down because the memory overheats and…it was comedy. So we taped the fan to the desk and we kept going and within 2 days, we were already running at 4K [resolution] 60 [frames per second].”
For more updates about the Xbox Scorpio, stay tuned.
