I’m sure at some point all of us have experienced getting booted back to the dashboard ( not just on Forza 5 ) but over the last few days I’ve encountered this problem on average 4-5 times in around 3-4 hours of MP racing.
It never happens to me on SP and never while I’m actually racing, it only happens when back in the MP Lobby, either just as the race is about to start or when I’m choosing my car. Just to add I only play in the “No Collision C Class Races” …
I just wanted to know if anyone else has noticed/or had this issue and if there’s any solution/fix?
In the last few days without any success I’ve tried Hard Rebooting the console ( 3 times now ) totally unplugging it from the wall for 10 minutes after powering down. Deleted and re-installed Forza 5. I’ve run Network Tests ( with BT Infinity here in UK ) and all comes back good, “Open NAT” etc but just to make sure I’ve phoned BT to see if there was an issue, after running a line test they say all is good.
So unless this is a common issue all of a sudden then I’m at a bit of a loss as what to try next so any help/advice would be much appreciated.
I get dashborded about 2 times in 5 hours of online play and last night I got dashborded before I got my money and xp. (I dont know if I got the money).
I was in party chat with a friend a few weeks back. At the end of a race I sarcastically said “Congrats to the no skilled crashers.” At that point my friend was sent to the dash. He now has a different meaning for the term crash lol
I get this problem quite a bit along with the stupid in game chat, anytime somebody starts to talk it lags and sounds really bad, my game usually crashes to the dash, after I’ve joined a room waited for everybody to finish a race and the next race is about to start, it can be quite annoying!
Obviously I don’t like to hear others are having issues but at the same time it’s good to know that it’s not just me.
When I posted this thread yesterday I also sent out a message to all my friends that I know play Forza 5 and so far I’ve had 6 replies all saying they have noticed more problems over the last week or so, not all with dashboarding issues but noticeable lag in games ( cars jumping about ) so it seems the problems lays somewhere within the game itself, Azure Servers/Xbox LIVE maybe?
Well I hope it’s sorted soon, I really do love playing this game online but theses issues are starting to get a little annoying to say the least.
I have had the occasional random crash, but I am able to replicate one.
THIS WILL CRASH THE GAME EVERYTIME!!!
Highlight another players car, or go to change car while there is a vote for next track up, and if you don’t get back to the “change car/options” block and have that highlighted BEFORE the vote completes IT WILL DASHBOARD if you go back up to that particular block.
So do you just keep it on Change Car/Options the whole time? If you want to change car can you do that after the vote completes? I’ve been having massive crashing issues which I’m now led to believe is down to muting each player individually in the lobby in-between rounds, often while the vote is up. What about if you join a lobby while a race is in progress? Does highlighting players or changing car while waiting for the ongoing race to finish risk causing a crash as well?
EDIT: This definitely works, I went from crashing every other race to not at all by only selecting players to mute them during the intermission, and keeping the selector on Change Car/Options the rest of the time.