Starting a new career mode in any game is one of the best parts of a new title. Forza Motorsport has always been known for a great career mode and with Forza 5 just having arrived my excitement was very high. This excitement was soon replaced by horror when upon restarting the game I faced some sort of crash.
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When I pressed the A button to advance to my race at the Bernese Alps the Xbox suddenly ends the game and goes back to the Xbox home screen. I fired up the game again and gave it another go, and again when I pressed the A button to advance to the race it would crash to the home screen. I then spent the next few hours trying over and over to get to start with luck at all. I then did a search online and found a thread by Brian Ekberg who is the Turn 10 Community Manager that they are aware of the problem, and that there is even a work around to hold us over.
Here is the thread for the fix from Brian.
This fix was a life saver for me and allowed me to continue my career on my new game. If you are in the same boat as me then I hope that you found either that article or this one and are back on the track like me.
Turn 10 should also be well aware of how this isn’t the problem for many of their customers, but they refuse to acknowledge that and have just let those fans sit with a broken game. However, a small group of fans has been working through it, and might have recently discovered an issue downloading content from Xbox Live servers if you are directly wired to your router instead of wireless. The more people who repeat this switch and reinstall and have it fix their problem, the more we can prove to Microsoft it is the problem. Check out the story here:
http://bit.ly/IZIQhL
And how last weekend the same people who downloaded the game dozens of times finally got a working download just by switching to wireless connection:
http://bit.ly/KC9j5j
LOL. The forum link is broken. Wtf.