Issues and Bug Reporting - Donut Media Update

[distant wind]

Hi everyone. This thread is for reporting and discussing any issues or bugs encountered in the new Forza Horizon 5 Donut Media update.

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This thread will be available through the weekend.

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Issues and Bug Reporting - Donut Media Update

[wild willow]

Question: Update is out? I cannot see this on steam though

[rough stream]

C-West hood is deleted when Rocket Bunny kit is applied on the 2000 Nissan Silvia Spec-R.

[covert marsh]

Did u already try to restart ur steam client where the latest major update should appear for you too?

[wild willow]

yes, its not out in India at least\

[covert marsh]

Maybe it will be released / rolled out in around 30 min. for you hopefully.

[wild willow]

yea, thnak you alot

[gritty berry]

Seems to be very high cpu consumption with FSR 2.0 on performance mode with 1.0 sharpness

There also seem to be dark cutouts on the body on the McLaren Senna that are glitched and weren’t there before the update.

The whole computer freezes and unfreezes after a minute when playing the game for around 5-10 mins, and the game crashes just after.

[spiral seal]

I don't know if its a bug but I can no longer run FXAA and MSAA together. MSAA 8X is now jaggy central (Ill put that down to the lack of extra FXAA softening stuff a touch)

[gritty berry]

That sure is a bug unless of you may be running one of the new upscaling implementations

[spiral seal]

Luckily im using a 3090 so upscaling is unnecessary in my case. But yeah, no more FXAA + MSAA 8X for me 😦

[gritty berry]

👍

[reef blade]

The rainbow bug is getting worse in this update unfortunately unplayable.. hope Nvidia releases a new driver soon 😢

[fathom pecan]

my game has no map??? Im on steam. ive also done a file verification

actually I have no map any where including in the car shop

OK i have disabled DLAA completely and everything is back

im going to check that everything else works now Edit: Everything else works except DLAA setting

[spiral seal]

With DLAA enabled I will get breif periods, like maybe a second, where it looks like someone has applied a very fine mosaic filter over my game. It happens within option menus and in open world driving.

There is also now a lot of slow down when scrolling through the tuning menus, especially wheels, very quickly

[idle sparrow]

Interacting with the online portions of tuning and liveries (downloading, installing, entering the "my designs" my menu, entering the tuning menu from the creative menu, etc) leads to considerable time spent loading the and installing the livery/tune in question, sometimes leading to softlocks that require a quitting the game. Forza Horizon 5 also does not quit properly, with HDR seemingly persisting through the xbox menus if the aforementioned issue force a quit. It also makes any game unable to be opened, effectively forcing a full restart of the console.

[tepid river]

The engine of the NSX 92 is replaced by a flat png when using the RB kit
Edit: it's a flat png even without the RB kit

[gritty berry]

There seems to be a bug where forza horizon 5 isn't launching on PCs very often in this update
It seems to be affecting me now for some reason

[stuck kestrel]

Hey, im not sure if thats a bug, but i really don't understand whats happening, so i got a RX570 8GB and it is supposed to run Ray Tracing, right? But there is no option to turn it on on the Graphics tab, when i go in there, the last thing available is Particle Quality and thats it.

[gritty berry]

Try restarting your game
If you were using xbox game bar at the time then it’s probably expecting locked keyboard input so another fix can be use your keyboard for a little and then use your controller

[bleak holly]

finish event lab bug?loading finish result 2min loading ....

[dense spade]

why dont my pr stunts work

[stuck kestrel]

Sorry, but i didn't understood what you said, i should Stop Game Bar on the Settings and Restart my game?

[gritty berry]

no
what i mean is that you should click around with your keyboard/mouse a little on the game when the issue appears
it should go after that

[stuck kestrel]

i mean, if you are talking about playing the game and then coming back to check if the Ray Tracing option appeared, i did that already, i made a 1+ hour session and nothing changed.

[gritty berry]

oh
ok then that's an issue

[keen hamlet]

Xbox Series X - Opened the game, got entered into the first chapter of the new story right away. Completed it and got stuck in an infinite load screen. Restarted game and have 3 stars on the first chapter. Nothing lost that I'm aware of, but not a good first impression

[pulsar relic]

Got the XP and Fast Travel boards counter bugged since the latest update (Nov 8th). At first launch everything is kind of okayish (well, not really as the counter shows 302 boards in total) but should I finish one race, the counter starts bugging out immediately even more.

What is more interesting, the numbers seem to be totally random — the loading screen says 1210/250, stats say 3389/250, the XP board says 586/1056 when smashed. Yesterday the map showed something like 3367/7254, today it shows 700/1304. The friendlist leaderboard says 3987 and this number doesn't change no matter how many boards are smashed.

Some madskillz to illustrate what I mean better.

[keen hamlet]

Broken stats are a feature, not a bug

[marble linden]

Gear tuning doesn’t work in the new story

[silver stirrup]

My menu looks like this today

DLSS Performance enabled, if that matters

[fathom pecan]

it does i had no map with dlss enabled

[silver stirrup]

Restarted with DLSS Balanced, DLSS Auto, and FSR Balanced. Same result on all.

[tropic basalt]

In the second event of Donut media @ Horizon, during the upgrades of the car, there are huge frame drops down to 10-20FPS from 60FPS

[upper walrus]

evertime I try to open my game, all it dose is crash for no reason, it loads up, gets to the car dashboard, then closed

[reef spear]

same

[uncut silo]

My game won't launch at all. when i hit play it opens a tiny startup window like shown in the screenshot and then it crashes after that, it doesnt open the full game at all

[fathom pecan]

delete a file in the games folder then verify integrity of the games through stream and then try again

[reef spear]

did you experience that issue?

[fathom pecan]

no i didnt but its a good thing to check

[uncut silo]

anything in here fine to delete? like maybe the dlc folder?

[reef spear]

ok, I think maybe is windows version because I updated to insider preview windows and I updated forza and this issue happened to me so I decided to delete the game and install it again but when I was trying to install an error pop out and I couldn't install it so I downgraded windows and it let me so now im finishing downloading forza and I will see if it works.

[reef spear]

you using windows 10 right?

[uncut silo]

yes

[reef spear]

maybe it doesn't let me to play even after downgrading windows then

I probably lost 8 hours installing this game

[uncut silo]

did you downgrade from windows 11 to 10 just to see if the game would run properly?

[fathom pecan]

yea dlc would work fine if you have the dlcs if not try a few of the dll files

[reef spear]

no, windows 11 beta to windows 11

[uncut silo]

@fathom pecan sorry for late response i was doing other stuff so i didnt check if it worked. thank you so much tho, verifying the game files worked for me (also i didnt have to delete any files, i was able to verify without doing that)

[fathom pecan]

SWEET yea steam is strange some times i always delete a file or 2 when i have that issue

[reef spear]

same issue happens to me, but in microsoft store, how do I do that?

I discovered there is a verify button in xbox app

I deleted two files, I clicked verify but now the files are not downloading

I clicked stop update and it deleted the whole game

8 hours wasted for nothing

[gritty berry]

Performance in the menus seems to be really bad and severely suffer when upgrading cars with FSR 2.2 turned on. Most annoying issue after how bad the fsr implementation is

[mossy orchid]

Take a look to this https://steamcommunity.com/app/1551360/discussions/0/3498761686674749163/ you are not alone 😉

but I have the feeling that we won't play FH5 this month, and I have my doubts about the future

[distant wind]

Hey folks, just a heads up that I'll be locking this thread later today. Thanks everyone for taking the time to post here and provide visibility on these issues.

[reef spear]

I will buy gamepass ultimate so I can play on xcloud

btw my forza is from ms store

[fathom pecan]

for you i might say uninstall the game and reinstall it fully

[reef spear]

I just bought ultimate

[fathom pecan]

its something you didn't want to hear but I don't know or use the microsoft store at all

[reef spear]

before my game was deleted I figured a way to verify files in microsoft store

[fathom pecan]

sweet so is it working now?

[reef spear]

on xcloud

[fathom pecan]

oooook never heard of that before

[reef spear]

and it has fast resume

but the problem is that my controller works strange

the sticks are like glitchy and they do something like drift