Forza Horizon 6 initially ran smoothly on my GTX 1080 Ti at around 50 FPS on high settings, with GPU usage near 50%. My PC has also handled games like the previous Forza title, Cyberpunk 2077, and Red Dead Redemption 2 without major problems. After the latest game update, though, it started crashing repeatedly with error FHC11, which appears to be related to the GPU being officially unsupported. I already have about 100 hours in the game and would really like to keep playing without replacing my graphics card. Are there any software or settings changes that might help, such as disabling Windows features, changing graphics options, or trying another operating system?
4 Answers
The GTX 1080 Ti was a powerful card, but newer games can drop support for older GPU architectures even when their raw performance is still decent. If the crashes remain after clean driver installation and disabling overlays, replacing the card may be unavoidable.
You can try turning off Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling, disabling overlays from launchers and monitoring tools, and lowering the graphics settings. Those changes sometimes reduce crashes, but they may not fix an unsupported-GPU problem completely.
The main issue is that the GTX 1080 Ti is outside the game's supported hardware list. There may not be a reliable software workaround if the update introduced a compatibility check or a driver-related crash. A newer graphics card is probably the only dependable long-term solution.
It may still work for some people with older cards, but that seems to depend on the exact driver, settings, and game version.
Switching to Linux probably will not help here. The game would need to run through a DirectX-to-Vulkan compatibility layer, which can introduce additional problems and generally performs worse for this particular title. It is worth testing only if you already use Linux, not as a guaranteed fix.
Unfortunately, I tried those suggestions and the crashes continued.