Since the last series started I’ve been getting a brief message when I start FH4 telling me it is syncing. Twice in the past week I’ve gotten a dialogue box saying my system save is different from my Xbox Live save and it’s prompting me to pick one, earlier or later. What’s going on? In the past I’ve seen the sync message maybe one every two months or so and I don’t think I’ve ever been prompted to pick a save. I play on the console only and maintain separate gamertags under a single account for myself and a relative who was staying with me during the lockdown. I’ve been reading about how some players get their saves corrupted and lose all their progress and I’m a bit worried. What’s going on?
Yes me too, and I get the option to click cancel which I have heard can break the game, so I don’t like it.
I’m also seeing the “syncing” dialog box ever time I start the game. Before the last update I had to look it up online to see what the syncing screen looked liked.
Getting that more lately as well, probably server issues.
I think they changed something on a recent update, I have it too on 1x, just less than a second the sync screen appears then vanishes.
As you may have seen in my post, I left the game running for eight hours to allow it to sync. As nothing happened, I killed it off expecting that when I next ran it, the game would get stuck on the loading screen except it worked instead, when on similar, previous occasions it didn’t.
This is a most disconcerting and vexatious because we get told not to stop the sync because of damage it might cause etc., and yet we can’t leave it running forever on the off chance it might do what it’s meant to.
I have 2 XBox consoles and alternate between them. Prior to the recent update the only time I saw the sync screen was when the save in the cloud differed to the save on the console’s hard drive.
After the update I always see the sync screen but it usually is for a second or less and the percentage flashes up so fast I can’t read it. It looks like the coding for start-up/loading has been altered.
Forza support are aware of a syncing issue on consoles which may or may not be connected or relevant:
“Excessive loading times when syncing data from previous Forza titles (where that title had a large save game).”
I wonder if this new syncing issue might be because they have taken servers away from FH4 - perhaps for upcoming game releases… FM8 / FH5!!!
Well FH3 doesn’t do it.
For me, this issue started happening 2 updates ago.
Previously, unless I’d deleted my local save, when I started the game up and pressed A at the title screen, it would just load up and that screen would never appear.
Since 2 updates ago, that changed. Now the “syncing data” screen appears every time I go to play the game. Sometimes it’s only on screen for a second or so, but other times it’s on screen for 5 minutes or more. It’s not actually downloading a save when this happens, cos the progress bar never starts counting up. It’s annoying.
Anyone else notice this? I’m playing on an Xbox One X.
i get that but i had that for months…i got digital xbox
I have this synchronization problem almost every day, more than half an hour to get into the game.
And when will that be fixed ?
It always syncs but just faster than it can show you in the past. The game feels like its getting slower and slower for me with load times. Not a big deal. As long as it syncs.
I’ve been having the same issue as well. Usually when this happens, I just Alt-F4 to close the game and then I restart my PC. Then everything is back to normal.