Hi,
Does anyone work or answer questions at Forza forums (besides close threads) or at Forza Support (besides merge threads).
If I have a question would anyone look at it or answer it?
Just asking.
K.
(Posted 17:13 West coast time, checking to see how long the post lives before being deleted.)
Great! The post survived 2 hours, so I’ll ask if anyone knows. I run Win 11 using an Nvidia based GPU.
While there are about 200 processes and services running in the background, I run (knowingly) the following programs and wonder if any of them should NOT be run with FH5.
Those are the only programs I typically start with each boot.
In the background are other programs and some hardware-based apps like:
I’ve used much of this for many years but wonder if any of it might be considered risky enough so that I should either uninstall or at least disable when running FH5?
I know many people are probably running similar software, if not the same, but perhaps not all at the same time.
Just wondering if anyone has advice on this?
Thanks ,
K.
So are you having any issues running the game? If not then leave things as they are.
That said I don’t bother with nVidia exprience and only load the driver.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I haven’t had issues with the game in general, more of the game with me.
I was just trying to get any advice on whether someone might note an issue with the software I’m running. I had read (older articles) about some programs like Afterburner causing game problems.
As for Nvidia Experience, I don’t use it all the time but enough. I used to just use MSI Afterburner but on occasion ran in to some problems with other games rarely crashing. Nvidia Experience performance overlay gave me ultimately the same info so I just stopped running Afterburner.
Though as I have HWINFO64 running in a 2nd Window all the info is there, albeit with tiny fonts.
I plan on running everything, but Nvidia Experience for a while and see if I run into any future problems. Thanks for taking the time to post!
K.
See this article at Forza Support for a list of software conflicts:
You seem to have decent technical knowledge so I will give my thoughts
I find that the more you can strip down an OS and reduced unwanted processes the better and this is especially true given FH5 is a very processor intensive game and seems to rely more on the CPU than GPU for its workload.
For my local Forza install I run Win 10 with Powertoys (win key as window peak to replicate Gnome functionality,) GeForce Experience (for screenshots,) WingetUI and OBS and things tend to run ok on the 4th Gen i7 and 16GB Ram (only 2 slots on board)
The only time I can’t load FH5 is when I have DaVinci Resolve open because it maxes out my Ram so it is worth looking at system monitor and seeing if anything is getting hammered.
Win 11 is a very bloated OS so the less you need to run the better. Many of these peripheral apps are a waste of time unless you need core functionality and certainly drop GeForce experience to driver only if you are not using the extended features
Ditch Game Bar and other overlay software, this made a big difference to my game performance
It may be worth digging into group policy and disabling some of the Windows background bloat. Remove the Copilot rubbish and other processes if you don’t need them
I’m not familiar with synology and it’s footprint because I have a custom built Linux NAS running everything on SMB and NFS shares. I use Fedora as a daily driver and my Windows install is only for games and editing and has nothing that I couldn’t afford to lose so I don’t bother backing it up.
The VM may be worth looking into. I don’t know your system specs or what resources you have provisioned for the Linux VM’s (I’m assuming at least 4GB Ram and 2-4 cores)
If you do need a consistently active VM then it may be worth offloading that functionality to a suitably powered bare metal box rather than have it impact your gaming rig
this was my only thought when reading the list of processes above 
Thanks for the good info Lostphoenixuk! I think this will be very helpful to others.
I don’t think I can truly get into the details of specifically what I was asking for. Performance has not been a problem with FH5. It is typically locked to 120 FPS which is my monitor’s refresh.
My VMs are not intense. One is for browsing, light programing (small robots with 3rd and 4th Gen Raspberry Pis and some old Arduinos), productivity work, just day to day activities, etc. Another runs on demand only for banking as I don’t like doing anything important on my phone. I also don’t do much directly in Windows outside of gaming.
I had to be kind of obtuse with my questions to avoid negative actions. Essentially, my questions were more about whether the software that I run possibly being misconstrued by the FH5 developers or program itself as being more ominous than they are.
Recently, I’ve pared back some of my programs and turned off autorun in a few others that I don’t use from this point on. I guess I’ll see how things go in the coming months.
Thanks really for taking the time to help. I don’t think I need any more info going forward,
K.
No problem, I didn’t mind suggesting a few things because I am near the extreme end of the power-user spectrum myself and certainly not a typical user.
Spinning up a VM for browsing etc is one step up in the threat model from my OS’s and browser separation approach
I tend to go with split OS/browser usage, manually stripped down OS installs, privacy/security focused software/service choices, very strict traffic and network management and online identity obfuscation over just running everything through Qubes or Proxmox due to limited Ram but plan to move my day to day stuff onto a 100% separate Linux device and VLAN isolate the Win 10 PC at some point
I wouldn’t expect the apps you list to have any negative impact outside of system performance so I wouldn’t worry there