FH5 crashes on startup/loading screen

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Forza Horizon 5 crashes immediately during the loading screen after starting the game. The game does not reach the main menu, and there are no error messages displayed. This occurs every time I attempt to launch the game.

Until yesterday, I was getting an error from the AMD Reporting Tool about a driver timeout, but as of today, it mysteriously no longer appears. But it still crashes at the same point.

I’ve tried everything I could find online, but nothing has worked. I hope one of you might have an idea.

Platform: Windiws 10 Pro, Steam
Edition: standard
Account: solo account
PC GPU: AMD RX5700 Mech OC (MSI), Driver: 25.5.1, also tried the latest and 25.6.1
Peripheral: Logitech G920 + Shifter,
Settings: tried every settings
Xbox Settings: no
Attempted fixes: support ticket: yes → no answer so far
Content Update: I’ve only had the game since August 25th, so yes

Event Viewer:
Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: ForzaHorizon5.exe, Version: 1.685.421.0, Zeitstempel: 0x00000000
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: ForzaHorizon5.exe, Version: 1.685.421.0, Zeitstempel: 0x00000000
Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005
Fehleroffset: 0x00000000009150dc
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x3d58
Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01dc1764775406f9
Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\ForzaHorizon5\ForzaHorizon5.exe
Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\ForzaHorizon5\ForzaHorizon5.exe
Berichtskennung: 71de4fb7-ae2b-42e4-92c9-690ae956da20
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:

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I take that to mean you have yet to get the game to run at all. I know lots of people had trouble with it when they first installed it as well.
If you get to this screen:

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Then click the Accessibility/Settings and then go into the graphics menu and try turning off a few things or even turn them all down to bare minimum just to see if that helps. I know for me, I merely had to turn off the “ray tracing” but that was years ago and I don’t think that’d be it.

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I have tried many different graphics settings, but none of them helped. :frowning:

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Are you able to turn off any Overlay options for your graphics card. That was also an issue I had when I first started. That’s my last suggestion. Good luck.

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I turned everything off and reset my PC. It’s still not working