Hi guys. Yesterday i found 100% fix of random crashes.
Launch game. While its in windowed mode try to kill explorer.exe by task manager - PROFIT.
Then you can play only in windowed mode but totally without crashes!
Why not kill explorer.exe in a Fullscreen though? Just press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC to open a Task Manager, then switch to it with ALT-TAB, find an explorer.exe and end the process. Switch back.
Totally worked for me! I was finally able to play the game for like 7 hours without a crash!
Here is a .bat file for killing explorer WHILE running the game in fullscreen:
@echo off
TIMEOUT /T 70 /NOBREAK
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
(save this as a txt document and rename it in fh4.bat (for example)).
After starting the game wait until it goes fullscreen, after this alt-tab from the game and run this .bat file. Then go to the game again.
It will kill the exlorer in 70 seconds.
(You can’t kill the explorer and alt-tab to the game after this, or force the game to run in fullscreen after killing the explorer, that’s why this .bat is necessary).
After quitting the game press ctrl-alt-del and select “Quit” and log into your windows account again.
Thanks dude, this worked for me. I played for 2 hours yesterday and 3 hours now without crashes. But when i exit the game the pc freezes(gray screen i cant open task manager or do anything) or restarts itself. Any idea how to fix this?
You also can open Task Manager, press ALT+F (to open menu File), press Enter to select run, type explorer and hit enter or just hit enter if you have “explorer” in earlier history. So you don’t have to logout-login.
It doesn’t matter what you see, that’s because no explorer.exe can work for you to display windows. But in reality if you alt-tab to task manager you can use it. But if you wish you ofcourse can login and logout and wait for all usual stuff loads again, I don’t like that way.
I had crashes since day 1 (ultimate edition buyer), and tried EVERYTHING said above. Went back to FH3 coz I was too desperate.
I wanted to play another game, and had to install a program called win updates disabler, so that the game would work.
I went back to FH4, and I could play it for hours (before, crashes were about every 15 minutes). What drew my attention is that I had an error message in the main menu (see the image) saying in english " updates error, impossible to check updates, try later". In the main game, i am not able to chose to play online or offline, I go straight offline with grey forza life (so not able to play online races or forzathon, just offline stuff).
Not saying this a 100% fix, as people claim to say in previous posts, but maybe it will work for you too.
Just in case, this is the link of the win updates disabler