Hey all, just a quickie and only asking as i’ve lost my Forza gamesaves several times. I wish to Install FH5 onto my Series X. It’s currently on my One X. In theory I should just be able to redownload the game, and it will sync to the cloud to access my gamesave. At this point i tend to lose my save and the only option is to start a new game. Am i doing something wrong here, or am I just unlucky? Cheers.
if it is still on the xbox one x, make sure it’s synced with the cloud, then unplug the xbox one x so it cannot have its save-files altered
open fh5 on the series, should just sync and then that’s it but if it doesn’t you can still use the xbox one x save
to do that, boot the game again on the one x, it then asks which save you want, choose the local one, then it’ll put that back into the cloud
that’s how it should work, though I’ve not done it with a series x I have done it with different xbox one devices
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Cheers buddy, i’ll try that tomorrow 
it just so happens that i have the game on an external drive, so that makes it easy
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Whilst having the game on an external hard drive, i forgot that the games is a Series X game. currently 6hrs into an 8hr download. Oh how i love digital downloads.
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Try plugging an ethernet cable directly into your WiFi router on one end and your console on the other. It’ll make any digital download ten times faster. Several hours will be reduced to several minutes.
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You must have some extremely terrible wifi.
Verizon 5G. I’d get rid of it if I had better providers in my area.
I do everything ethernet but you will be limited to 350Mbps or so download on an xbox regardless of your service speed because of the windows 10 network limitations so a decent wifi setup should reach those speeds but ethernet is always preferred for stability
I’ve been through the process of syncing different devices (PC and Xbox One X) and it can be buggy with the cloud saves
I already have. All soterd now
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70mbps. Probably is in this day and age 
It worked, thankyou so much for giving me the confidence to do it
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no problem, glad you got it sorted out!
My reply was to Runoff’s claim of 10x speed increase of wired over wifi.
it depends on available connections
yes, the latest wireless is up there however it is always going to be slower because of the additional encryption needed if nothing else
10x? not necessarily but it’s still very believable likely for a random person in a random place with a random set-up
The ethernet port on the Series X is Gigabit. Even if they were able to top that out (unlikely), that would mean 100Mbps on wireless. That’s 802.11n level, and in a noisy environment at that. Nobody should be running n wireless in 2025. The suggestion of running that on a Gigabit connection is ridiculous.
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You are right in what you say but there are some subtleties about using wifi that aren’t typically thought about by non techies
The wireless speed would be based on whether the console was connecting to the 5ghz or 2.4ghz band, environmental issues that would affect signal propagation, AP load, whether the AP has MIMO, traffic management or beam forming technology etc
At stable 5ghz, the connection to the router should be linking at least 400+ mbps but at 2.4ghz, you could easily be running at 100mbps or much lower even on an AC link (what a Series console has - sorry, no wifi 6 or 7 for you guys)
The other issue is that the xbox runs windows which, since the creator upgrade in 2017, has had a problem with the network stack that limits the throughput to around 300-400 mbps
There is a way to temp resolve this on a PC but not on console so I would expect even on ethernet, people typically won’t be able to top 400 mbps which is in line with a stable 5ghz wifi connection
400 mbps is fine because the store rarely reaches above 200 mbps but on a properly designed network, the ethernet offers increased stability more than speed when compared to a 5ghz link so it’s not really full 1gbe vs wifi
Ethernet is always better if you can do it because it gives stability and removes the load/environmental issues that you typically get with wifi
With ethernet, the router, switch, console ports speeds, number of switches (please avoid daisy chaining,) network load and even the grade of cable can affect the speeds but this is less of an issue for a console than for other high demand devices on the network but if you are thinking about that last paragraph as a potential bottleneck, you are well beyond the needs of most users
Sorry I may be misunderstanding what you are saying but I have a series X and this is my connection data.
I know when there is an update I regularly download it it at between 700 - 900 mb.
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OK. I am basing my info on my tests on Windows 10 and 11 PCs and an Xbox One X. The issues that I talked about may well have been resolved in the Series consoles - I don’t have access to one to test but was working on the basis that the Series Consoles were running a variant of what the One X does
My tests were done over 4 separate routers, 3 different connections including my current 900 mbps synchronous connection. MS PCs speeds were compared to other OS’s running on them which gave full speed whilst Win didn’t
I spend more time than was healthy trying to get things up to speed before discovering a long thread on a forum about the creator update causing unresolved issues with network throughput and managing to temp fix (until reboot) on win pcs
my one x still gets capped out at 380ish mbps but a non windows pc on the same switch pushes almost 1gbe
Ah ok - no probs.
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