I’ve received a response from Turn 10 that my crashes and performances issues are due to my AMD processor not meeting minimum requirements. According to benchmarks, it’s between the minimum and recommended specs (i5-750 and i5-4460).
I’m not convinced, mainly because folks with i7’s and AMD setups much more powerful than mine are also reporting crashes and performance issues. Also since nearly all of the performance issues and crashes I had on launch went away with the recent patch. And also since even Xbox One has crashes. I don’t see how crashes can be blamed on a decent AMD CPU.
Since Turn 10 has not published any min/recommended specs for AMD, I’m curious who else is running AMD, what CPU, and are you having issues or not? Here’s mine:
My A10-7850K benchmarks between the min Intel (i5-750) and min AMD (FX-6300) but hey, I asked for what T10 considers the min AMD and they delivered an official link. Thanks guys!
I have an 8350 @4.5ghz with a 290x and 16g or ram. The ONLY issue I am having is since the last patch most of my cats no show up as Grey. I first had some menu stuttering but that was fixed in a patch. AMD is not the issue.
I have an AMD x4 860k running at 3.7Ghz with a Nvidia GTX 960 and had a few small issues, but the biggest problem was syncing the save data between my pc and xbox. Went back to playing on the obox only.
I had an A10 7890K (4 cores at 4.3Ghz, fastest A10 available) and it really struggled with Horizon 3, I had to put everything on low so the CPU didn’t bottleneck. I did try FM7 on my A10 when it first came out, and the stutters and crashes were unreal, but to this day I’m not sure whether that was down to the CPU or the unstable state of the game at launch. The A10 IS under the minimum system requirements though, due to the architecture of the CPU, rather than the clock speed. Also, the A series FM2+ (and X4’s I belive) don’t have any L3 cache, which might not seem that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it can make a difference to outright performance. FM2+ was the first board to offer PCI-E 3.0 x16, but had no processors that could cope with that much bandwidth. Go figure.
This just about ran the game, but it was quite unstable.
The NVidia 970s have been having an issue with this game too (it’s on another thread here somewhere), but if you want to play the game with an A10, even with a decent GPU, you’re going to need to dial the quality on everything way down otherwise your CPU won’t be able to handle it. I bit the bullet myself, and while I couldn’t afford to go to Ryzen, due to the switch to DDR4, I switched to an AM3+ board instead. I’m now running an AMD FX8350 (8 cores at 4Ghz) which have come way down in price since the launch of Ryzen. AM3+ only runs on PCI-E 2.0 x16, but it’s much faster, and a lot more stable than my A10 was. Crashes are a rare occurrence since upgrading my CPU.
Where are the CPU architecture requirements provided by Turn 10? I’ve asked directly to forzafb@microsoft.com (for AMD-specific min/rec specs) but haven’t heard a response. There’s no significant architectural difference between the two CPUs (A10 and i5) that I’m aware of. There are differences, of course. But where is it documented what super-specific architectural difference that FM7 requires that can only be found on an i5?
An i5 will blow the A10 out of the water in terms of raw power, due to the single thread performance. T10 haven’t gotten the multi-thread performance sorted for FM7 yet, so the AMD chips really struggle, and often max out on a single core, which is where the stuttering comes from. Maybe architecture was the wrong terminology. AMD strengths lie in multi-threaded applications, but until Turn 10 sort a patch out to fix the game, it’s likely you’ll struggle unless running on the lower graphic settings. The A10 would be minimum spec at best, so 1920x1080 at 30fps is what you can hope for, even with a decent GPU. The A10 is a budget chip, and not really designed for heavy gaming.
Thanks for clarifying. A10 was definitely a budget chip for me … couldn’t afford the i5 when I built my rig. I’m running 30 fps and a few video settings I don’t care about turned down. It’s holding up well in-race, no stutters any more since last FM7 patch. Menus & car selection & stuff is still lagging pretty bad. And of course I’m still getting CTDs but not every 5 minutes like on launch.
I still CTD occasionally when selecting a car from the selection screen, and I was in the same boat when I got my A10. I needed a PC there and then as my PSU went pop taking my CPU and mobo with it (age old Dell PC), so I bought the best pre-built PC I could afford. The only original parts I have left from that are an 8gb RAM, a DVD drive and a 1Tb HDD, everything else has been upgraded, but even then I’ve been building on a budget. The FX8350 I bought was less than £100 new and although still not up with the Intel chips, it meets the recommended specs and will run 1080 at 60fps on Ultra with a decent GPU. Realistically though, it’s probably only good for another year or two anyway…
im rocking an AMD FX8320, ASUS STRIX GTX970, 8gb ddr3, gigabyte 990 mobo.
GAME. CRASHES. ALL. THE. TIME.
its like clock work and Ive had enough of this garbage TBH.
literally anytime I do something (race, tune, paint) soon as i’m done the sound will stutter once for half a second, literally letting me know its about to CTD, and then 10 seconds later or so i’m forced to start loading the game up again. I refuse to play this game on low settings, especially because my GPU can handle this game at high, at least. but ive tried the fancy dynamic settings, i’ve tried tweaking every single setting myself as well, ive literally tried everything. no dice.
I have an Ryzen 1700x with 16gb of RAM and an RX480 with 8gb memory and no matter if I run it at 4K or the lowest possible resolution and settings I still can’t play on my PC due to it CTD constantly and a few times completely locking my PC to where I had to reboot. Honestly I gave up a long time ago and just play on my Xbox one. So yeah in short FM7 not running on AMD CPU/GPU is just a poor excuses for bad programming because there is literally no reason why a lot of us shouldn’t be able to play at least on the lowest of low settings. With all that said, when FM7 does decides to work for like a couple minutes before CTD graphically it runs decently well on 4k at 60fps with mid to high settings.
I can confirm that my FX8350 and RX570 4Gb, with 32Gb RAM runs 1920x1080 at 60fps on Ultra, or at least it did until the first big update. Now I have to run on recommended, but it seems to at least be running on reasonably high quality settings anyway.
I have an I7 4790 with 2- 1080s and I get some stutters, lock ups and random crashes. I am running in 4k with all of my games pretty much wide open but I only have issues with Forza 7.
Oddly enough, when I first installed the game it ran perfectly smooth except for light loading stutters and brief wheel and pedal disconnects in the beginning of races.
One day I went to launch the game and it gave a message to wait because it was updating. Since then it has gone downhill fast.
I have an AMD FX-8370, stock, and an AMD RX 480, stock. Running the latest Windows 10. I’ve never been able to run this game at all. It will show the splash screen, say “Press Enter to continue” and then pop up saying my PC doesn’t meet minimum specs. After I dismiss the message, the game just exits. I have tried reinstalling the game, updating drivers, and everything. No change.
It’s absurd. I play other things on this PC with no issue. I have an Oculus Rift and use it heavily. Forza shouldn’t be giving me issues like this, but it does.
At least it’s Play Anywhere, so I can use it on my Xbox One, but I’d really like the ability to play it on my PC as well.
