Forza horizon 4 not opening(crashing) on gpu only Setting!

Shaliq Hussain · Jun 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM

So lately I had realized that my laptop was running the horizon 4 game on cpu instead of The gpu. As I thought turning high performance for the game application in the graphics area would make it run on gpu, but I realised it doesn't unless the display system Setting is on dedicated graphics card only. I mean It work for every other games and none had any crashes so I thought of doing some research did all the following things in hope:

-updating the gpu drivers

-clean and installing gaming services and Xbox identity provider

-updating to latest physix and directx

-tried to solve the pop up error on basically the .NET runtime plus the webview3 errors too

-I have an option for automatic in the display system Setting which allows the system to auto magically change between cpu and gpu for the display Setting and I tried using it too but it did not work.

I have only tried the above mentioned solutions and I am open to have more options please.

My laptop had a ryzen 7 7435hs with Nvidia GeForce 4050 6 gb card

Please help to any one who has the right for it

:)

Tadeu dailson

Hi, my name is Tadeu, I'm an independent consultant and a Microsoft Xbox user just like you.

I'm here to help.

I hope everything is going well and thank you for reaching out.

This support is intended to answer questions about the use and configuration of devices.

I'm sorry you're having this problem.

Please try these steps.

Go into your BIOS and change your graphics from automatic to PCI/E. The game may be trying to use your CPU's built-in GPU (if your CPU has built-in graphics). This should force the game to use the 4050. Also, in the NVIDIA control panel under PhysX, select your card there as well. See if that works.

Duster589

There are a number of things that can cause crashes in Forza Horizon 4. It could be another program running or even just needing to update your GPU driver. Here is a link to a thread with some known issues and possible solutions to try. I would make sure
your GPU driver is up to date first.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/forza-horizon-4-pc-error-0xc0000005-preventing-many-users-from-starting-the-game.72412/

Also look at the Forza forums pages for help as well.

https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postsm976677findlastpost_Fix-to-Forza-Horizon-4-Crashing-Constantly---PC---Random-Crashes.aspx#post1067194

XBF Jasmine Z

Hi Joakim,

Sorry to hear Forza Horizon keeps crashing right after the picture.
If Forza Horizon 4 is disabled from being a background app it may crash or hang when suspending and resuming. check whether the setting is set to Off: Privacy > Background apps > Forza Horizon 4 > Off. Please keep this setting On.

I hope this helps ^‿^

Atherza

Is it only Forza Horizon 4 that is crashing, have you tried any other games?

Aceeee

Both my monitors are plugged in the GPU. Let me just state here for upcoming help. All my other games work flawlessly, with my gpu (of course). Only Forza Horizon 4 refuses to use it

Forza horizon 4 not opening(crashing) on gpu only Setting!