I got this game on monday and saw some scratches on it but they were minor and I wasn’t worried. It said it was unreadable when I tried to play it in my xbox and I have to try multiple times for it to work so I took it out, wiped it off, and tried again. That didn’t work so I tried carefully cleaning the disc, that didn’t work either. I installed it twice and it didn’t help much either. After a few days of this I just took it back and said it didn’t work, they found the cleanest disc they could find and even put in in the buffing machine and I can’t see any scratches on it at all and it still won’t work (and yes I did delete my old installation file and reinstalled it with the new disc). I have 3-4 other games that I play everyday if not every other day and they all work 100% fine with absolutely no issues. So what’s the problem? I’ve ran out of ideas on how to fix this issue.
Yeah dude, Ive got the same problem. I dont know if its the disc or my drive thats not working, because as you said, other games work 100%. Its wierd but my game runs, but sometimes when loading a race the game will freeze, or when I upgrade wheels some won’t load and then it freezes also.
My disc is scratch free and ive cleared my cache of my hdd and everything. Wierd.
Forza puts a lot of stress on your Xbox, which means if things like the disc or your drive are not healthy you can have issues. Calling MS support can get them to run you through testing things like your drive to see if it is healthy.
PsytranceDrift - no need to create a new thread when you have posted in an appropriate thread already.
Forza is no different than any other Xbox game. What you need to determine is if you have a damaged disc, a faulty optical drive or a problem with the game itself. If you do a search(that hard to see box with the magnifying glass next to it in the upper right hand corner of this page) on “disc errors” or “read disc errors”, you will see that you are not the only people with this problem. Read through the search results and see if you can find a problem similar to yours and see what happened.
If the disc is scratched and your Xbox reads other undamaged discs without issue, well, maybe your disc has damage that renders it unplayable. Maybe you can rent a Forza 4 game, if that disc works, you probably are going to have to buy another Forza 4 game. Microsoft used to have a damaged disc exchange, I don’t know if they still do, might want to dial up Google on that. If your console is choking on other game discs, your optical disc player may be shot and will need to be replaced. Google works there as well.
I suggest you load any and all of your games to the console hard drive. That takes a lot of strain off the relatively weak optical disc player and will save wear and tear on your CD/DVDs.
Dude, I got mine sorted today! My disc also didnt have any marks on it, but I went and bought a new disc today and the game runs better than ever before! Try also installing disc 1 onto Your HDD, makes loading times much better!
maybe your dvd drive laser is weak and could be strengthened with a simple pot tweak or buy a new laser, if your drive is failing to read games forza 4 would be one of the first to fail.
I’ve noticed that my game only says it’s unreadable on startup, the main menu, and in career mode when I level up and get to pick a car. I took the game back and they put it through some high tech machine that gets rid of all the scratches and then when I got back home I deleted it and reinstalled it. I’ve played it maybe 4 times since then and it’s only frozen once although I don’t know about multiplayer since I haven’t played that yet.