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So long story short, i was just about to give up on FH4 as i could not play more than 10-15 mins since Fortune Island.
It all started with an update in october (was working fine until then) - the game just randomly crashed after 10-15 mins. In november a new update got out and it fixed things - no more crashes. But then Fortune Island got out and then it started crashing randomly again. I have a more than decent computer : i7 7700k / 32 GB Ram / 1080ti / 1TB SSD (so it's not the memory, the cpu, disk space or video memory).
I have tried everything i could try : reverting to old drivers, disabling everything (all the overlays, microphone, etc), resetting / reinstalling the game. Nothing works (and the game worked fine - so it's definitely not my computer).
There are lots of solutions you can try, here's a list of the ones that worked for other people (but not me) :
Like i said, nothing worked (if that's the case for you, continue reading). So i kept looking and found some guy on a forum (don't remember where) saying there's a problem with the xbox app and FH4, a connection interrupt problem between the two of them.
I then tried disabling everything related to the xbox app but the game still didn't work. I even tried to launch the game, alt+tab to the task manager and end the xbox app from there. This would not work either as the xbox app would start again by itself.
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THE FINAL SOLUTION :
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- launch the game
- get to the menu (garage / forza vista) then alt+tab to desktop (or just ctrl+alt+del to start task manager directly)
- start the task manager and end/kill the EXPLORER process
- return to the game and you can play as long as you want without any crashes
This worked for me and for 2 other friends who had the same prob. Only downside is you can't alt+tab into windows anymore as there's nothing there, no explorer, no desktop. You'll then have to restart your computer or in task manager restart the explorer task...
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