Forza Horizan 5 crashing

[DoggyDandelion]

So I am trying to run Forza Horizon 5 on Linux Mint 21 through steam using Proton experimental (also tried Proton 8.0 - 2, same result). At different times during the first mission/intro thing the video will freeze, then the audio will freeze to and then it will crash. Does anyone no what I am doing wrong? NOTE: I am very new to Linux Mint and the forums so I am sorry if I didn't write this question very well (:

[madelinesaxen]

What is your system info? This seems to be a common problem with NVidia cards according to ProtonDB. Tinker and a little configuration may work if that is the case.

[DoggyDandelion]

That makes sense! Here is my system info:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-73-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12
    tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z690 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4 V2 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z690 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4 V2 v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F3 date: 08/08/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse serial: <filter>
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
  Info: 10-core (6-mt/4-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12600KF bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
    arch: Alder Lake rev: 2 cache: L1: 864 KiB L2: 9.5 MiB L3: 20 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 989 high: 1751 min/max: 800/4900:3600 cores: 1: 800 2: 801 3: 968 4: 907
    5: 958 6: 1004 7: 983 8: 800 9: 867 10: 995 11: 800 12: 1561 13: 1751 14: 1029 15: 800 16: 801
    bogomips: 117964
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 530.41.03 pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2487
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 108
  Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 109 diag: 685mm (27")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.41.03
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:7ad0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-73-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725
  IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:8 chip-ID: 8087:0032
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 287.93 GiB (30.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Gigabyte model: AG450E1TB-G size: 931.51 GiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 23.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.32 GiB used: 287.93 GiB (31.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 30 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
  Packages: 2455 apt: 2447 flatpak: 8
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info:
  Processes: 361 Uptime: 7m Memory: 15.47 GiB used: 1.83 GiB (11.9%) Init: systemd v: 249
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Client: Cinnamon v: 5.4.12 inxi: 3.3.13

Would you happen to know what steps I should take to fix? Thanks!

[Squirell777]

Sadly I experienced the same thing under both Fedora and Arch based distro optimized for gaming. There is no yet reliable solution to this one. You can lower your settings to lesser chances of crashing, especially if you lock frame rates and turn of vsync.

My experience has been it runs stable on AMD open source drivers. Then I updated to faster nvidia graphics and all games have run smooth and better except for Forza Horizon 5 .

As practical solution you may need to dual boot to windows just to play this game. Even just recently released 535 drivers didn’t help. After I switched to Windows 11 it runs excellent for me. Rufus has built in tool to remove pesky TPM and SecureBoot requirement. Not sure what’s tool on Linux good for imaging Windows ISO but you can’t use DD for that like you can for Linux distributions without issues.

Or just install windows and Linux on hyper-v at full screen.

[MiZoG]

It is currently "silver" on ProtonDB It takes some tweaking and a little bit of luck on Linux.

--> Doggy Dandelion: Upgrade you kernel. Can't say it will help specifically with the game but surely it will help with your CPU / system in general.

sudo apt install linux-image-oem-22.04c

[Qurcus]

Don't feel bad. I have Forza 4 and had the same problem under Windows 10. Nvidia drivers where really messed up. All my games were crashing, if i played on-line, since last September. I ended up installed old Nvidia drivers to fix all my games - it would be nice if you could do that with Linux. The June release of their drivers and the new Steam updates fixed all the problems i was having so I can use the new drivers now without any issues.