I’ve no idea where to begin with this one. I normally play games on my main monitor with Youtube playing in the background or on a second monitor, in Chrome.
This only happens with FH4, when YouTube rolls over to auto-play the next video as it does, FH4 freezes for around half a second as YouTube starts to play the next video… it’s enough to wreck your lap in rivals as you lose momentum.
My PC is top notch, 2080Ti with the latest drivers, 8700K, everything is 100% up to date.
Just putting this out there in case anyone else has noticed this, if you have, add a comment so it becomes a thing. If not, no worries. I can just either not use YouTube or play it on another device.
This could just be a bandwidth issue, especially if you are on wifi (wifi is half duplex and unless you have multiple antennas/MIMO on your router it can’t handle much streaming traffic at the same time as gaming). The other possibility is this could be an issue with the type of ipv6 tunneling that Forza uses for it’s game connection. The game basically works online by setting you up in an ipv6 based workgroup with other people on the internet (and part of why so many people have connectivity issues with this game). I will say i’ve experienced similar issues when streaming tv while playing this game, but suspect its probably due to me being forced to use wifi to play this game as if I use my killer gigabit ethernet port, I am unable to stay connected to this game for more than 30 seconds. Either way, if all the basic connectivity problems that have plagued this game haven’t been fixed yet, I bet they won’t be looking at this issue too hard either.