Online play not working

[Lucifer]

I bought the games days ago now and haven't been able to play online yet. After jumping through hoops with Forza Support, Xbox support, Microsoft Support, and Steam support it seems like nothing is working. I've followed numerous guides both official and unofficial. I'm heated. The conclusion I've come to is that its some software blocking the online play, I've restarted my computer and router plenty, I've checked the ports on the router and made sure to have the right ones open, I checked the firewall issues and windows defender, still nothing, I've uninstalled and reinstalled about 4 times now which really sucks on my slowish internet since its 140 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gigs. I have no clue what software it could be, I tried all the overlay softwares like discord, wall paper engine, razer, GeForce, Nvidia, MSI afterburner. I did see one comment somewhere online that some drafting softwares can interfere with it but I'm an engineer so I have too many of those to troubleshoot and neither can I delete those since its part of my job. Please guys i need help here.

[Harpic1950]

Can you connect to your browser online? Also never have games in a PC you work with as games and Direct X changes it for the games and wrecks the rest. Try cleaning RAM and Cache and then run "scannow" and "dism" if necessary afterwards as Administrator to fix corrupted files. Also check Firewall setting

[willmanx]

same here

[ヤシ村亮]

is the server got problem? it seem i can't connect also. few days ago i can online for a while.. then got dc later on.

[Mr.J]

i upgraded my internet, it didnt help me at all. I cant play with my friends from different parts of the world anymore. My problem only started early december with that Donut Media Update.

[Maakkuvaakku]

Haven't been able to connect online events since the Holiday Series started.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Harpic1950:

Can you connect to your browser online? Also never have games in a PC you work with as games and Direct X changes it for the games and wrecks the rest. Try cleaning RAM and Cache and then run "scannow" and "dism" if necessary afterwards as Administrator to fix corrupted files. Also check Firewall setting

Get the hell out of here with your ignorance. Games and directX version updates do not effect other programs, outside of certain third-party anti-tamper services. Your 'clean ram and cache' routine it utterly useless and can actually do more harm than good, repairing a windows install is also useless if the windows install isn't the issue. The issue is Forza specifically, and a potential issue of conflict with another program.

Originally posted by Mr.J:

i upgraded my internet, it didnt help me at all. I cant play with my friends from different parts of the world anymore. My problem only started early december with that Donut Media Update.

Originally posted by Maakkuvaakku:

Haven't been able to connect online events since the Holiday Series started.

I've been having hit or miss luck with online as well. Sometimes when I launch the game it works fine, other times it refuses to actually join events, or even sit in queue to wait for an event to start. I still can free-roam with other players, but actually joining races is a nope.



@OP, you might try changing your DNS and flushing your dns cache. This link:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-and-why-to-change-your-dns-server explains the dns stuff, and also has a link to info on how to flush it, as well as a list of common, free alternative dns options, as opposed to the automatic assigned one your isp uses.
If the issue preventing online play is due to being unable to contact the servers, a dns change could sidestep it via routing around whatever the issue is.

If you are concerned it might be the drafting software/other software causing a conflict, you can always try booting windows into safe mode with networking, so that you can ensure nothing related to other programs is up and running, and launch just steam and then forza, which will only activate the 'not essential to function of windows' bits that forza and steam need. If that works, then you know there is a conflict somewhere and can turn around and start launching the other suspected issue programs one at a time, until you discover which one is causing it, and which services said program enables, letting you help further narrow down the issue and potentially enable you to just use taskmanager to stop the particular conflict temporarily when you go to play forza, assuming the conflicting software isn't technically a rootkit.

[Getherer]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

I bought the games days ago now and haven't been able to play online yet. After jumping through hoops with Forza Support, Xbox support, Microsoft Support, and Steam support it seems like nothing is working. I've followed numerous guides both official and unofficial. I'm heated. The conclusion I've come to is that its some software blocking the online play, I've restarted my computer and router plenty, I've checked the ports on the router and made sure to have the right ones open, I checked the firewall issues and windows defender, still nothing, I've uninstalled and reinstalled about 4 times now which really sucks on my slowish internet since its 140 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gigs. I have no clue what software it could be, I tried all the overlay softwares like discord, wall paper engine, razer, GeForce, Nvidia, MSI afterburner. I did see one comment somewhere online that some drafting softwares can interfere with it but I'm an engineer so I have too many of those to troubleshoot and neither can I delete those since its part of my job. Please guys i need help here.

is it just failing to connect to online?
i've got the same issue after buying sim only contract and putting sim into huawei 5g router- all other games work fine on it, though i had to disable ipv6 option for others to work - so far forza is the only one that doesnt and i need to use my personal hotspot to play it

[NekoObito]

It's almost as bad now, if not worse as it was when the game launched. At least when the game launched you could connect, you just wouldn't see anyone else in the lobby. Now I can't even connect to get messages or anything. It just says server unavailable.

[kullucho.lazaro]

i am still having same issue over a week now and it is very disappointing, i do not know what to do, cuz i bought the game to have a few cars, and now i those cars are not on the ShowRoom it is only available on the auction house and for that i need to be online. so imagine the frustration

[Getherer]

Originally posted by kullucho.lazaro:

i am still having same issue over a week now and it is very disappointing, i do not know what to do, cuz i bought the game to have a few cars, and now i those cars are not on the ShowRoom it is only available on the auction house and for that i need to be online. so imagine the frustration

did you read my above post? did you try connecting via mobile hotspot to see and potentially rule out that it may be linked to your internet settings?