Yesterday on March 7th and before, the game was running flawlessly. I decided to upgrade my PC’s ram to 12gb of triple channel DDR3 1800mhz and the game still ran perfectly. Today I go to boot it up and the game doesn’t want to work, well it does, but not like it used too. Loading now takes about 10-15 minutes on average, the loading screen shows 0fps and 0% gpu, the game will eventually load and go back up to 60fps and 99% gpu, however all the menus are lagged and the fps will randomly plummet while it tries to connect to Horizon Live and it will fail 100% of the time spitting out a “the session no longer exists” error.
I figure i would ask here, before filing a ticket in case someone can think of a solution to this weirdness.
Are other games and Windows generally, still working normally? It is just affecting FH4?
There are so many things it could be that we can’t know the solution from your post alone. The game itself isn’t at fault so the problem is on your system somewhere. The prime suspect perhaps is the new RAM, even though it worked fine initially.
Sorry I didn’t put that in there at first but yes, Windows and every other game, even the more recently released ones like Halo MCC, and Resident Evil 2 Remake work without any issues, the only game being affected right now is Forza, I’ve tried “resetting” the game under windows, lowering the settings as far as possible, and even reinstalling the game and graphics drivers in a last ditch effort. so far none that had had an affect of helping, i even put the old ram back in the system and that only made it worse as now the game doesn’t even start, it just displays the FH4 splash screen for about a minute then closes on its own with no error message or any message at all. It’s still early in the day so i’ll adjust few more things, and it still doesn’t work ill file an official support ticket.
Do you have an AMD or Intel CPU? If it’s AMD, I think a lot of people are unaware of how few options there are for RAM that is on the approved hardware list. It’s certainly worth manually checking in the BIOS that all the RAM timings are set correctly.
Intel Xeon on the x58 chipset, no overclocks or tweaks are currently applied in the BIOS, and i quadruple checked the memory to make sure it was compatible.
Ok so after scouring for hours, i was able to find a fix that worked and didn’t involve a ton of complicated steps, it was merely “Reinstall the game and your add-ons, but do NOT choose to redownload your purchased car packs”