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Fix Forza Horizon 3 errors

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Forza Horizon 3 (FH3) is an Xbox Play Anywhere game, which means you can play it both on Xbox One and your PC – at no additional cost.

This game lets you customize everything, from your friends, to the cars you want to drive, the music, and even the driving terrain for a never-seen-before experience.

However, like every other gaming experience, this game also has its shortcomings, but we’ll show you how to fix Forza Horizon 3 errors that may affect gameplay.

FIX: Forza Horizon 3 errors

1. Error FH301: An incompatible graphics driver is detected and there may be known issues with your current GPU manufacturer’s driver version

Ensure that you have installed the latest drivers for your graphics device.

Solution: check for the latest updates for your Windows 10 device by doing the following:

Note:Visit your graphics card driver manufacturer’s website for more information about it.

Update drivers automatically

If this method doesn’t work or you do not have the necessary computer skills to update/fix the drivers manually, we strongly suggest doing it automatically by using a specialized tool.

These applications were developed to avoid damaging the PC due to improper driver version’s installation. Once you have selected the drivers to update the software will do everything on your behalf automatically.

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2. Error: Invalid Profile

Whenever you get an invalid profile error as you launch FH3, you have to sign out and sign in again on the Xbox App. Once you do that, try the methods below to resolve the issue.

Restart your apps

Reset Windows Store cache

If you’re trying to launch FH3 and you get the Invalid Profile error on your PC or Xbox console, try the following for each:

PC:Ensure your PC offline permissions are set to ON

Xbox

Note:Delete from consoleonly removes the local copy of the save data, but you can get it from the cloud when you play next. SelectingCancelleaves your data intact.

3. Error FH101: Your system’s CPU doesn’t meet the requirements to run the game.

FH3 requires a CPU with a minimum of 4 logical cores, which can either be 4 physical or 2 hyper-threaded physical cores.

Solution: Upgrade your system’s CPU, or, use a computer with a CPU that meets the minimum requirements, and then try to download and launch the game again.

Some of the supported CPUs include Intel Core i7-6700, Intel Core i7-3820, Intel Core i5-6600k, Intel Core i3-4170, AMD FX-8320, and AMD FX-6300.

4. Error FH203: An unsupported GPU has been detected

In order to run FH3 game, a GPU (graphics processing unit) with Resource Binding Tier 2 is required. Some older cards may support DirectX 12 but do not support the features needed to run this game.

Solution: Upgrade your GPU card.

You can check the kind of card you have by doing the following:

Some of the supported GPU cards include the NVIDIA 980ti, NVIDIA 970, GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Radeon R9 290X Radeon R7 250X.

5. Error FH204: An unsupported GPU has been detected.

In this case, a GPU with Tiled Resources Tier 1 is required to run FH3. Some older cards may support DirectX 12 but not the features needed to play this game.

Solution: use the same steps for fixing error FH203.

6. Error FH401: Your system memory does not meet the minimum requirements to run FH3

A minimum of 8 GB system RAM must be available in order to download the game.

Solution: check your system storage and install additional RAM by doing the following:

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7. Error FH501: Your system’s video card doesn’t support DirectX 12

Solution: check your system information and upgrade to a video card that supports DirectX 12.

You can find out if your video card supports DirectX 12, by doing the following:

8. Error FH601: Some Windows Media components are missing, and your version of Windows 10 is missing the necessary media.dllsto install FH3

To resolve this issue, download the required Windows Media components which are available for free at Media Feature Pack for Windows 10 N and Windows 10 KN editions.

Let us know in the comments section if any of these solutions helped you fix Forza Horizon 3 errors.

Fix Forza Horizon 3 errors#

FIX: Forza Horizon 3 errors#

1. Error FH301: An incompatible graphics driver is detected and there may be known issues with your current GPU manufacturer’s driver version#

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2. Error: Invalid Profile#

3. Error FH101: Your system’s CPU doesn’t meet the requirements to run the game.#

4. Error FH203: An unsupported GPU has been detected#

5. Error FH204: An unsupported GPU has been detected.#

6. Error FH401: Your system memory does not meet the minimum requirements to run FH3#

7. Error FH501: Your system’s video card doesn’t support DirectX 12#

8. Error FH601: Some Windows Media components are missing, and your version of Windows 10 is missing the necessary media.dllsto install FH3#