Forza Horizon 5

When play Forza Horizon 5 on your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S console, you may experiencing crashing or freezing.

To see how you can resolve these issues, you can take a look at this troubleshooting guide at Seeking Tech.

1. If your game is currently frozen, try to close it by taking the following steps:

• Press the Xbox button on your gamepad to open the Guide menu of your Xbox Series console.
• With the Guide menu opened, scroll down to the Forza Horizon 5 icon.
• With the Forza Horizon 5 icon highlighted, press the Menu button on your gamepad.
• In the small Forza Horizon 5 menu, select Quit.

2. If your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S console is completely frozen and won’t respond to any button presses from your gamepad, then you need to force your system to shut down.

In order to do so, press and hold the Xbox power button located on your console for at least 10 seconds.

3. After closing the game or console, try to play Forza Horizon 5 again to see if the crashes or freezes are still occurring.

4. If you are still experiencing issues, then the next step is to clear the cache of your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series X system.

To perform this task, you first need to turn off your system. You can press and hold the Xbox button on your gamepad to bring up the Power Options menu where you can choose the “Turn off console” option.

If your system is not responding to your controller, then you can for a shut down by pressing and holding the Xbox power button on your console for at least 10 seconds.

After turning your system off, you need to unplug it from the power outlet.

After unplugging your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, wait for at least 2 minutes. This will clear the cache of temporary files, which may be causing Forza Horizon 5 to crash.

After waiting at least 2 minutes, you can plug your console back in again, turn it back on and try playing the game.

5. If you are using a Fanatec wheel, then we recommend not using it for now as it could be the cause of the crashes.

We suggest waiting until there is a new patch available for Forza Horizon 5, firmware available for your wheel or firmware available for your Xbox Series console before using your Fanatec wheel to play to play this game again.

6. You should also avoid suspending your game via Quick Resume. In order to do so, you can take a look at this guide.

7. If you haven’t done so already, make sure that Forza Horizon 5 has been update to its latest software version.

To check if there is a new patch available, you can take the following steps:

• Turn on your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S system and make sure it is connected to the internet.
• If you don’t see Forza Horizon 5 auto-updating, you can press the Xbox button to bring up the Guide menu.
• In the Guide menu, select “My games & apps.”
• In the “My games & apps” section, select “See all.”
• In the next screen, scroll over to the Forza Horizon 5 icon.
• With Forza Horizon 5 highlighted, press the Menu button on your gamepad to open a small menu.
• Inside the small menu, select the “Manage game and add-ons” option.
• In the “Manage – Forza Horizon 5” screen, select Updates.
• The “Forza Horizon 5 – Updates” menu will show whether or not a new title update is available for the game.

8. You should also keep your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S console updated to the latest firmware by doing the following:

• Turn on your console and make sure that it is connected online.
• If you don’t get a prompt about updating to the latest firmware of your system, open the Guide menu by pressing the Xbox button.
• Next, press the RB button on your gamepad a few times to switch over to the “Profile & system” section.
• Afterwards, select Settings.
• Inside of Settings, make sure you select System from the list of options shown in the left column.
• On the right side of the same screen after selecting System, you then need to select Updates.
• Inside the “System – Updates” menu, you will see whether or not there is a new firmware available to download.

9. Furthermore, you can also try deleting and then re-installing the game by taking the following steps:

• Go to the Settings menu on your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S console.
• In Settings, select System on the left column and then “Storage devices” on the right side on the same screen.
• After getting to the “Manage – Storage devices” menu, select the “Internal storage” option on the right side.
• In the pop-up menu, select “Uninstall content.”
• In the “Free up space” menu, select Forza Horizon 5 on the left and then “Remove selected” on the right side of the same screen.
• Select Uninstall.
• After deleting the game, you can re-install it again by inserting your game disc or downloading the game from its product page on the Store.

10. If Forza Horizon 5 is still crashing and/or freezing, then we recommend that you try playing another game. If you are seeing the same issues with the other game, then your problems may be related to the hardware of your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S.

In that case, you may want to contact Microsoft about getting your system repaired.

With the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X versions of Forza Horizon 5, you are able to suspend the game and start off exactly where you left off thanks to Quick Resume. While this is a very convenient feature, it may also cause bugs and glitches.

To see how you can potentially fix these issues with this open-world racing game, you can take a look at this troubleshooting guide at Seeking Tech.

How to close Forza Horizon 5

In order to disable Quick Resume in Forza Horizon 5, you need to completely exit out of the game.

To do so, you will need to take the following steps:

1. While you have Forza Horizon 5 opened on your Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X console, press the Xbox button on your controller. This is the button that has the Xbox logo and should be displaying a white light.

2. By pressing the Xbox button, you should bring up the system’s Guide menu. Here, scroll down to the Forza Horizon 5 icon.

3. With the Forza Horizon 5 icon highlighted, press the menu button (which has the three horizontal lines symbol) to open a pop-up menu.

4. In the pop-up menu, you need to select Quit to completely exit out of this game.

How to remove Forza Horizon 5 from Quick Resume

If you previously have Forza Horizon 5 suspended in Quick Resume, then you can remove the game from the suspension by doing the following:

1. Open the Guide menu of your Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X by pressing the Xbox button on your controller.

2. With the Guide menu opened, select the “My games & apps” option.

3. In the “My games & apps” menu, scroll over to the Forza Horizon 5 icon underneath the Quick Resume section.

4. With the Forza Horizon 5 icon highlighted, you then need to press the Menu button on your controller.

5. In the pop-up menu for Forza Horizon 5, you need to select the “Remove from Quick Resume” option.

By completely exiting or removing the game from being suspended and then restarting, you should be able to fix any Quick Resume issues with this open-world racing game.

How to update Forza Horizon 5 and your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S console

We also recommend updating Forza Horizon 5 in addition to your Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X consoles as a new patch for the game and/or firmware for your system may fix the Quick Resume problems.

In order to update the racing game, you can take the following steps:

1. Press the Xbox button to gain access to the Guide menu.

2. After opening the Xbox Guide, select “My games & apps.”

3. In the “My games & apps” section of the guide menu, select “See all.”

4. In the Games section of the next screen, scroll over to the Forza Horizon 5 icon.

5. With the highlighted, open the small pop-up menu by pressing the Menu button on your controller.

6. Select “Manage game and add ons” from the pop-up menu.

7. In the “Manage – Forza Horizon 5” menu, select Updates.

8. In the “Forza Horizon 5 – Updates” menu, you will find whether or not a new patch is available for download.

To update your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S console, you will need to do the following:

1. Open the Xbox Guide menu again by pressing the Xbox button on your gamepad.

2. In the Guide menu, head over to the “Profile & system” section. You can get there quickly by pressing the RB buttons on your gamepad several times.

3. In the “Profile & system” section, go to Settings.

4. After getting to Settings, you first need to select the System option on the left category.

5. On the right side of the same screen, you then need to select Updates.

6. In the “System – Updates” menu, you will see whether or not you can download a new firmware for your Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X.

Changing the graphics mode for the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X versions of Forza Horizon 5 can be a little bit tricky at first. If you are interested in doing so, then you can check out this step-by-step guide from Seeking Tech.

How to change graphics mode for Forza Horizon 5 on Xbox Series S/X from main menu

In order to change the graphics mode for Forza Horizon 5 from the main menu on the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X, you can do the following:

1. If you are already playing Forza Horizon 5, then you need to exit the game. In order to do so, first press the Xbox button on your controller to open the Guide menu.

2. In the Guide menu, scroll down to Forza Horizon 5.

3. With Forza Horizon 5 highlighted, press the Menu button.

4. In the pop-up menu, select Quit.

5. Launch Forza Horizon 5.

6. After launching the game, press the X button to open the Accessibility/Settings menu from the startup screen.

7. In Settings, select Video.

5. Next, scroll down to Graphics Mode.

6. With Graphics Mode highlighted, you can use the left and right directional buttons or the left analog stick to change between Quality and Perforamnce.

Quality features better visual fidelity but will limit the frame rate to 30 per second.

Perforamnce increase the frame rate to 60 per second at the expense of visual fidelity.

7. Once you change the graphics mode press the menu button to save the change.

8. The graphics mode change won’t occur unless you restart your game. In the Restart Required pop-up menu, make sure to select Restart Now.

How to change graphics mode for Forza Horizon 5 on Xbox Series S/X from in-game menu

In order to change the graphics mode from the in-game menu, you need to take the following steps:

1. Press the menu button on your controller to bring up the pause menu.

2. In the Campaign tab of the pause menu, select Settings.

3. Inside Settings, you need select Video.

5. Afterwards, you should go to Graphics Mode.

6. With the Graphics Mode setting highlighted, use the left and right directional buttons or the left analog stick to switch between Quality and Perforamnce modes.

7. After making your decision, press the menu button to save the change.

8. In the Restart Required notification, select Restart Now to reset the game and apply the changes.