Forza 7 Crashing Upon Launch

Hello everyone,

I’ve researched and read, tried everything on every thread on the entirety of the internets it would seem, and nothing seems to solve my problem. I had Forza 7 on my PC in October or around that time, but was having issues with it crashing to desktop after 20 minutes or stuttering really bad when racing. I got frustrated and uninstalled it to make room for some other games I could play and enjoy when I moved. I still don’t have internet at the new place, so I brought my computer to my shop to plug in and install Forza 7 to see if any of the stuttering issues were resolved. Everything downloaded and installed fine, but when I click on Forza it shows me the first splash screen with the Porsche and then immediately crashes.

After hours of reading and trying things, I’ve tried resetting Forza, resetting the Windows Store, Clearing the WS Cache, uninstalling and reinstalling the Hoonigan carpack (my only DLC, running FM7 Standard edition), downloading Forza 6 Apex and then starting Forza 7, downloading a free app from the WS so it would check integrity (or whatever).

I’m not a huge gamer or computer guy. I’m oldschool. I want to hit buy, hit install, and then hit play, and the stuff happens. I’ve spent hours pulling out my hair trying to resolve this problem on my own and I’m at my wit’s end. This is just ridiculous, and I’m not happy about that at all. This whole process has been misery. It was misery to get it to work the last time I installed it. If anyone has any ideas I’d be happy to hear them.

Go to MS Store
Select an app to download. Something small will do.
Select it to download.
When you actually see it starting to down load stop the download process. You have to see the word downloading under the progression bar.
Start Forza 7.
Enjoy, Happy New Year.

I tried multiple iterations of that and no dice, unfortunately. Tried stopping a download once it started downloading to launch forza,pausing once it started downloading to launch, downloading something completely and the launching.

What else can I do?

Sorry to hear that.

What are your PC specs?
CPU
GPU
Amount of Ram
HD/SSD
motherboard

Did you build it yourself or are you using a prebuilt laptop/PC fropm Dell, Lenovo, etc?

I have a PC I built myself.

AsRock 990FX Extreme3, AMD FX6350, GTX1060, 32gb RAM. Run Windows on an EVO 850 SSD and Forza is installed on that drive as well. Have two spare HDD’s (one brand new cheap WD Blue).

All other games work fine. Everything off of the Microsoft Store that I opened worked fine, wanted to make sure it wasn’t an issue downloading or installing apps through MS. I’ll have to bring my computer into the shop to uninstall/reinstall Forza and get it to work.

EDIT: Using the most up to date Nvidia driver and updated Windows. Also tried rolling back windows as far as I could and that didn’t work either. Is it worth trying a fresh reinstall of FM7?

Try logging into your PC under your windows account you bought the game under, not a local account

the game crashes a lot for me too even after reformatting my PC