I’ve been trying to figure this out since I bought a Surface Book 2. I got the 15" model for the GTX 1060, but I saved a little money by getting the 256gb model thinking hey, I can just put games on the external drive and play them off there like in other game apps and on the XBox One. All of my Steam games run awesome off of my USB 3.0 external drive. …except for Forza.
Here’s the issue. When Forza 7 was on the local SDD drive (C:), it worked perfectly. 60 FPS, highest settings, everything’s awesome. When I go to the Windows settings app menu to move the Forza app and all of its contents to my external 1T drive (that has all of my games on it - (D:), it will show the Forza 7 screen briefly, and just quit back to Windows. Last time I looked at the Windows Error log, it showed that it was a problem with a file on the C:, which is strange to me because it should be attempting to access files from the D:.
I went back to the Microsoft Store to try to fix this, and without knowing an answer, they even replaced my whole Surface Book 2 with a new one thinking that would fix it. And on both of them, still the same issue. Now, I’m thinking maybe it’s the external drive I’m using (Seagate Slim Backup 1T, USB 3.0).
Has anyone else had this problem moving their Forza 7 game to an external drive on Windows 10? If anyone knows of a way to fix this, that would be really great.
Without ranting, I’d love to free up the 96g of space on my hard drive for other space-intensive data that is more work related. Quite frankly, if it will only work on the local drive, then I’m just not going to play the game (shame, because I really love the Forza series). And not to make assumptions, but if this is a Microsoft Store thing blocking consumers from accessing Microsoft apps like Forza from running off of external drives, then I’m a lost customer - that’ll be the last purchase I ever make off of the Microsoft Store, because Steam works great.