I ve managed to make FH4 working again, I seriously think you’re not prepared on the slightest.
During the splash screen loading, game closes after 20 or 30 seconds.
MY METHOD :
Take the bottom right size of the window, in order to resize it… and wiggle your mouse (a circular movement) during the loading times dont ever stop the mouse and dont be ashamed to do that because as a desperate move it finally worked with that method, and BLACK MAGIC game opens, opening title and all…
I think it’s due to a conflict on the resolution of the credits and copyright screens cos when it’s working that screen is very very low res, something I didnt tried yet is to resize the splashscreen window to make it tiny in order to respect the small resolution.
edit : Tried more methods.
Launch game immediately take the right side of your splashscreen window, resize it horizontally by moving your mouse during the loading times left to right (takes +30 secs), game launches.
Doesnt work if : You move your mouse 10 or 15 seconds after loading splashscreen, havent tried 5 secs yet.
Another method, begin to record your desktop with shadowplay, do nothing game launches, I really dont get this, this is by far the most cryptic problem solving game I ve ever seen.
Since I didnt uninstalled shadowplay even if you close it, game doesnt launch then it may be one of the curlpits.
First of all, i have read about methods before, that involved dragging the first screen (splash screen) with your mouse all over the desktop screen, or dragging the splash screen in circular movements. This never worked for me.
But okay, i have now tried Ggrocams’ variants of those tricks. But even resizing in the ways Ggrocams describes, does not work for me.
It is the same with shadow play - it does not work. (Could people with an amd card even use shadow play?)
Wouldn’t it be strange if this would actually work for everyone, despite the forza support advising against the use of overlays / OSDs, monitoring tools etc?
If it helps other people, fine, there is no harm in trying. Go for it. I am looking forward to seeing lots of comments of happy people.
I also had some tricks that seemed to help me, but all of them stopped to work after a while
According to event viewer it is an “activation” problem - the issue is called “crash hang type: activation” on the list of “know issues” for a reason. I personally doubt it has anything to do with a resolution or a resolution change - but even if it has, there seems to be nothing I can do.
Isn’t it winter in the game right now? Isn’t winter the least popular season? Maybe even servers that are less busy might increase the chance of the game actually making it past the splash screen? Who knows. The game still does not work for me.
It’s great, that it worked for you (but don’t thank me)
Would you mind telling me what exactly worked for you? Just dragging the whole splash screen window (not resizing), or resizing the window in one of the ways Ggrocams describes?
All i can say is, that i’ve heard of some (not all, of course) of these tricks before, but they simply don’t work for me.
I don’t think you can do those tricks the wrong way, right?
But in the end, it doesn’t change my opinion: it is high time that Playground do finally fix this issue.
I resized the window to the smallest possible, in a circular motion or left to right, sometimes it worked like this, sometimes like this.
I don’t understand what it depends on, but it works for me, not always the first time, but the game starts
have also the same issue with opening Forza Horizon. I studied many of hours and try many of solutions, but is not working. I sent also ticket to Forza Support but is no proper solution, only random solutions. I dont have nahimic services. How many time we heared that we have to format our OS or install again game over and over. Dear advisors pls try to fix that issue, many of users has you see are impacted a long time. Please provide hotfix or solution how to launching the game.
After my recent update to Windows 10 vers. 2004, I had three major issues. First, I had to downgrade my nvidia drivers back to what came with 2004. Second, I had to disable Realtek HD audio manager. And, third, I had to disable G-synch to get everything running stable and without microstutters. As usual, the audio managers tend to be the cause if you lock up at the transition point just before you take control of a car.
As for the Teredo issue, I also had to rename the ipv6 dns server.
I have also the same issue with opening Forza Horizon. I studied many of hours and try many of solutions, but is not working. I sent also ticket to Forza Support but is no proper solution, only random solutions. I dont have nahimic services. How many time we heared that we have to format our OS or install again game over and over. Dear advisors pls try to fix that issue, many of users has you see are impacted a long time. Please provide hotfix or solution how to launching the game.
You can resize the window all you want. It’s an activation issue. The only way resizing it MAY help is by delaying it a bit before the failure. But it is not fixing the actual issue. And it’s a very long standing issue that needs to be fixed. I am tired of not being able to play a game I paid for.
I start the game in this way in the morning and it works all day without errors, if I need to, then I just minimize it,
but I totally agree, we paid for the game, not for finding a way to launch it
I paid full price for a product that I can’t use anymore. Are they planning to do a partial refund or any kind of compensation?
My friend is using pirated version and he still can play. How does it look like?
If this bug is in new version, why don’t they make a rollback? I can’t even play offline.
Right now, I completely lost faith in MS and Xbox products. I’m considering cancelling my Office 365 subscription and stop supporting MS financially in any way. I am really worried that any product I bought, might stop working any day due to updates and they won’t be able to fix it on time.
I’m just really disappointed at this point.
Since I’m not getting any help from the support of a billion dollar company (already created 2 tickets; no proper solution), I wanted to ask the community. Since 1,5 month I can’t start my game. It starts and then it closes instantly. Sometimes it holds on for 3 seconds but then it closes again. I’m not getting past the dark gray screen with the little picture in the center. I looked into the event viewer. I found the following error message (My Windows is on German, so I had to translate it, ask me for the original):
A DCOM server could not be started: Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.424.799.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe! SunriseReleaseFinal as Not Available / Not Available. Error:
“2147942405”
Occurred when this command was started:
“C: \ Program Files \ WindowsApps \ Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.424.799.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe \ ForzaHorizon4.exe” -
ServerName: SunriseReleaseFinal.AppXtkd2atfxzeqx8366ah1yws2z78mgh5d8.mca
I hope the community of this game can help me. I’m already desperate and thinking about just giving it back. I really like this game but I don’t understand how a billion dollar company can’t afford a proper support.
2 weeks ago Forza Horizon 4 had an update which like anyone would i downloaded, this is where the problems began the game simply wouldn’t load. The splash screen would pop up for 20 seconds and then it would crash. I then went on the internet to look for a solution I found old problems but nothing that helped. I then asked on Reddit and a user replied saying I should reinstall the game without the add-ons which I did and nothing. I then moved the game to my main drive hoping this would work but nope. It has now been 2 weeks and nothing works I have sent 3 tickets into the support and nothing. Then i tried to reach them on twitter and nothing. I understand because of the pandemic it will mean less employees working meaning longer times but an error as crucial as the game not loading shouldn’t take over 2 weeks to fix. I know I have to be patient and wait for the fix but I am very annoyed i have missed out on seasonal cars and generally not being able to play the game.
Welcome to the club, some of us cant launch the game for maybe a year so u can forget about seasons (with grey screen+forza h4 cover image / Activation error)
Looks like I’ve joined the club as well. The problem started on Win 1909, still the same after updating to 2004. Reinstalled the game overnight, no success.
Same error as many others have posted before:
The program ForzaHorizon4.exe version 0.0.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: 2a8c
Start Time: 01d66347844f71c1
Termination Time: 4294967295
Application Path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.424.799.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ForzaHorizon4.exe
Report Id: 0180ac14-6b4b-4c4c-98f2-7329e7897ec1
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.SunriseBaseGame_1.424.799.2_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Faulting package-relative application ID: SunriseReleaseFinal
Hang type: Activation
The fact that this has been going on for months (for other people), is absurd. I have around 300 hours of playtime and suddenly I can’t play anymore. What kind of company are you?
I have just watched the live stream for the series 25 update, and not a single word about the “Crash Hang Type: Activation” issue. Please Playground, fix this issue. Please help! Please!
(with grey screen+forza h4 cover image / Activation error)