Forza Horizon 5 is one of the hottest titles of the year with over 10 mission copies sold. The last title in the series was back in 2018 and this is the twelfth main installment of the game. The game allows you to explore an open-world environment with the ride of your choice. The game came out on early access today, but not all players on PC are having the best experience as they find themselves stuck with a crashing game. Users are reporting the Forza Horizon 5 crashing, crash at startup, and won’t launch issues on PC. Fortunately, there are some quick solutions you can apply to fix the issue. Keep reading to find out.
Users are still crashing with the game even after two weeks from the launch of the game and recent patches do not seem to help. Check out the post as we have updated solutions.
How to Fix Forza Horizon 5 Crashing
Games can crash due to a range of issues, but there are some causes that are the usual suspect. Third-party software doesn’t usually go well with games and it leads to a crash. Therefore, we suggest that you perform a clean boot before launching the game to disable everything except the essential software. The clean boot environment takes care of third-party software as well as frees up resources on your PC for the best performance of the game. Here are the steps to perform a clean boot.
PERFORM CLEAN BOOT
- Press Windows Key + R and type msconfig, hit Enter
- Go to the Services tab
- Check Hide all Microsoft services
- Now, click Disable all
- Go to the Startup tab and click on Open Task Manager
- Disable one task at a time and restart the system.
After performing the clean boot, try to launch the game. If the game fails to launch still, you will have to take more drastic measures. Microsoft’s Forza Horizon 5 page has shared a list of programs that conflict with the game and cause the Forza Horizon 5 crashing, crash at startup and won’t launch issues on PC.
The conflicting antivirus programs are listed below. You can try to whitelist the game on these software, but if that fails to load the game, disable the software.
Trend Micro Maximum Security | Comodo Antivirus | Sophos |
Emisoft Anti-Malware | Avira | Avast |
Bitdefender Firewall |
Some other solutions you can try to fix the Forza Horizon 5 crashing issue on PC are listed below.
- Disable the overlays including Steam, Discord, and GeForce Experience Overlays.
- Update the Graphics Card drivers to the latest version. To update use the GeForce Experience or directly from the NVIDIA website.
- Move the game to the same drive as the OS and the Steam client.
- Try to launch the game from the executable.
- Update Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables Libraries
- Verify Integrity of Game Files.
Forza Horizon 5 Crashing can be caused by a range of reasons, so you need to perform a bunch of fixes before the game launches. We will update the post as we discover more effective solutions that can resolve the crash.