Forza Horizon 5 is finally here. However, some players reported that they were unable to launch the game and got the message saying that “Please update your graphics driver…(Code: FH301)”. If you’re facing the same error, don’t worry. Here we’ll tell you how to update your graphics driver easily and quickly.
Three ways to update your graphics driver:
- Update graphics driver via Device Manager
- Update graphics driver automatically (Recommended)
- Update graphics driver manually
Method 1: Update graphics driver via Device Manager
You can update your graphics driver via Device Manager. To do so, follow the instructions below:
- Right-click the Start button and then select Device Manager.
- In Device Manager, double-click Display adapters to expand it.
- Right-click your graphics card and select Update driver.
- Select Search automatically for drivers. Windows will automatically search for the latest driver for your graphics card and then install it.
- Once the process is complete, restart your computer.
If Windows doesn’t find a new driver, you can try looking for one from your graphics card manufacturer’s website or by using a third-party driver updater.
Method 2: Update graphics driver automatically (Recommended)
If you don’t have the time, patience or computer skills to update your graphics driver manually, you can do it automatically with Driver Easy.
Driver Easy will automatically recognize your system and find the correct drivers for it. You don’t need to know exactly what system your computer is running, you don’t need to risk downloading and installing the wrong driver, and you don’t need to worry about making a mistake when installing. Driver Easy handles it all.
- Download and install Driver Easy.
- Run Driver Easy and click the Scan Now button. Driver Easy will then scan your computer and detect any problem drivers.
- Click Update All to automatically download and install the correct version of all the drivers that are missing or out of date on your system.
(This requires the Pro version – you’ll be prompted to upgrade when you click Update All. If you don’t want to pay for the Pro version, you can still download and install all the drivers you need with the free version; you just have to download them one at a time, and manually install them, the normal Windows way.)
The Pro version of Driver Easy comes with full technical support. If you need assistance, please contact Driver Easy’s support team at support@drivereasy.com.
After installing the latest graphics driver, restart your PC for the changes to take effect. Now you should be able to launch Forza Horizon 5.
Method 3: Update your graphics driver manually
You can also go to your graphics card manufacturer’s website to download and update your graphics driver. It takes time and computer skills to update your graphics driver this way. If you’re a tech-savvy user, you can try the following steps to download and install the latest graphics driver on your own.
- According to the graphics card you have, go to NVIDIA, AMD or Intel website.
- Select the type of your graphics card and your operating system. Once you locate the correct one, select the latest version to download.
- Once downloaded, double-click on the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions to install the driver.
- Restart your PC and check if you can launch Forza horizon 5.
Hopefully, this post helps you update your graphics driver and then you should be able to enjoy Forza Horizon 5. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave us a comment below.
Some Windows gamers are reporting that they always get the FH301 error while attempting to play Forza Horizon. This problem is confirmed to occur with Forza Horizon 3, Forza Horizon 4, and Forza Horizon 5 on both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
After we’ve investigated this particular issue, it turns out that the problem is always related to Windows’s inability to identify the latest available GPU version for a dedicated graphics card.
This problem is exclusively reported to occur for Nvidia and AMD, but not for Intel integrated GPUs.
Now that you are aware of the reason why the FH301 error might occur when attempting to play Forza Horizon, let’s get to the actual fix.
Update GPU drivers via dedicated GPU utility
This issue pretty much re-confirmed what every avid gamer already knew – Control Panel is completely useless when it comes to identifying a new version for your graphics card driver.
This is probably the reason why the game refuses to start. The game warns you that your GPU drivers are outdated, but Windows doesn’t recognize that a new graphics driver version is needed.
Fortunately, this is an issue that you can easily resolve by using the dedicated updating utilities (Nvidia Experience or AMD Adrenalin) to ensure that you have the latest GPU drivers installed.
Depending on if you’re on NVIDIA’s or AMD’s ecosystem, follow one of the sub-guides below to update the GPU drivers to the latest versions available.
Updating the GPU drivers on Nvidia
Before updating your current driver, you should first take the time to uninstall your current drivers and make sure they are replaced with generic equivalents. This will save the day in those situations where the FH301 error is occurring due to driver file corruption.
Here’s what you need to do:
- Press Windows key + R to open up a Run dialog box. Next, type ‘appwiz.cpl’ inside the text box and press Enter to open up the Programs and Features menu.
Open up the Programs and Features menu - Once you’re inside the Programs and Features menu, scroll down through the list of applications and click on Publisher to order all your installed programs based on their publisher.
Order via publisher - Once you manage to order the programs accordingly, find all the entries published by NVIDIA Corporation.
- Next, right-click on every NVIDIA item and choose Uninstall from the context menu.
Uninstalling Nvidia Apps - Proceed to uninstall every Nvidia driver, then restart your computer. This is necessary in order to allow the generic drivers to kick in.
- Once the next startup is complete, visit the official download page of GeForce Experience and click on the Download Now button to begin the download of the updating utility.
Downloading Nvidia Experience - Follow the remaining instructions to install Nvidia Experience and click Yes to grant admin access when prompted to do so.
- Once the utility is installed, open it and install the recommended drivers from the Drivers Page.
Install the recommended driver - Once the driver is installed, you will be prompted to restart in order to finalize the changes. Reboot as instructed.
- After the next startup is complete, launch Forza Horizon once again and see if the fh301 error is now fixed.
Updating the GPU drivers on AMD
If you’re using an AMD GPU, the first thing you should do (before trying to update) is to use the AMD Cleanup utility to remove the current dedicated graphics card driver and ensure that every remnant file is also deleted.
After you do so, you can download the latest GPU version using the Auto-Detect utility powered by AMD Adrenalin.
Here’s what you need to do to update your AMD GPU drivers:
- First things first, open your default browser and visit the official download page of the AMD Cleanup Utility.
- Once the download is complete, right-click on the AMD Cleanup Utility executable and choose Run as administrator from the context menu that just appeared.
- At the confirmation prompt, click Yes to grant admin access and boot your PC in Safe Mode.
Deploy the cleanup utility Note: This tool will start by uninstalling your current AMD drivers first, next scan for every remnant file like registry entries and driver store signatures. It’s entirely automated, so you won’t be required to search and uninstall every file manually. If possible, you should run this in safe mode.
- At the second prompt, click on Ok to start the AMD cleanup process (the process will run in the background).
Confirming the operation Note: During this operation, you can expect your display to start flickering quite severely before turning black for a few seconds. This is absolutely normal, so don’t freak out when this happens.
- Once the operation is complete, click on Finish to restart your computer and make the transition to the generic drivers.
- After your PC boots back up, visit the official link for the AMD Auto-Detect and Install Graphics utility.
- Once you’re inside the correct page, scroll down to the Auto-Detect and Install Radeon Graphics Drivers for Windows and click on Download Now.
Downloading the auto-detect utility - Once the download is complete, double-click on the executable and follow the on-screen prompts to install Radeon Adrenalin.
Downloading the AMD Adrenalin Note: You can change the default destination folder if you want, but this is not recommended.
- After the download is complete, AMD Adrenalin should automatically launch itself and start scanning if you have the latest versions of the compatible AMD graphics drivers. Wait patiently until the scan is complete.
Downloading AMD adrenalin - Once the utility successfully detects your system configuration and the driver that needs to be installed, click on Install to start the driver updating process.
Downloading the latest versions of AMD adrenalin Note: If you are prompted to install both the Recommended and Optional driver, install both.
- At the end of this procedure, you will be prompted to accept the EULA (End User License Agreement) – when you see this prompt, click I Agree to complete the procedure.
- Restart your PC to complete the process, then launch Forza Horizon once again and see if the problem is now fixed.
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Forza Horizon 5 вышла для ПК и Xbox. Разработчик Playground Games всегда следил за тем, чтобы игры Forza Horizon работали с фиксированным FPS, сохраняя при этом визуальную точность и не выдавал ошибок. FH5 не исключение, потому что он красив и отлично работает на любой платформе. Однако у игроков Forza Horizon 5 на ПК все равно возникают ошибки и проблемы с игрой, одна из них это ошибка FH301 в связи с ней возникает необходимость обновить видеодрайвер.
Игроки Forza Horizon 5 на ПК сообщают об ошибке с кодом FH301, сообщая им, что их драйвер графического процессора не обновлен. Если ваш драйвер графического процессора обновлен и по-прежнему вызывает ошибку FH301, проигнорируйте ошибку и продолжайте.
Если вы не используете последнюю версию драйвера графического процессора, обновите его. Владельцы графических процессоров Nvidia могут попытаться обновить драйверы через приложение GeForce Experience для своих графических процессоров, если у вас видеокарта от AMD, то вам следует обновить драйвера через через утилиту AMD чтобы исправить код ошибки Forza Horizon 5 FH301.
Или же загрузите обновления в ручную, для пользователей Nvidia, через сайт — nvidia.com. Если же вы пользователь AMD, загрузка через сайт amd.com. При этом нужно будет выбрать тип вашей видеокарты, операционную систему и другие сопутствующие параметры.
Exploring Mexico in Forza Horizon 5 is great fun, especially when driving around in your favourite cars. But it can be frustrating if you keep getting a message pop up before you are getting the chance to play Horizon 5 on your PC or laptop.
This message will say something similar to the image below: “Please update your graphics driver (Code FH301)“.
Don’t worry if you have received this graphics warning because it just means that you do not currently have the latest driver installed for your NVIDIA graphics card and it just needs updating. There is no need to buy a new graphics card you just need to download the latest driver, which is what we will be showing you how to do in this guide. So you will have the FH301 error message gone in no time, and back to playing Horizon 5. If it’s your first time launching the game then you have got a lot to look forward to!
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Will Forza Horizon 5 Still Work Without The Latest Graphics Driver?
Yes, you can skip the “Update your graphics driver message by clicking on the Ignore and continue button (as you can see in the screenshot below). Then the Forza Horizon 5 game will launch on your computer and you will be able to still play the game.
However, you might come across a few issues while playing as you have not got the latest driver installed. Also, not having the latest NVIDIA driver installed can cause performance issues in-game.
Why Do I Need The Latest NVIDIA Driver Installed To Play Forza?
As we said above you don’t actually need to install the latest NVIDIA driver to be able to play Forza Horizon and you can just ignore the message and carry on playing. But we would advise that you do install the latest driver for your graphics card as it can help stop issues in Forza Horizon 5 like it crashing, freezing, and giving you this error message along with other general errors. Not only that but it can also improve the frame rate you get in Horzion 5 and help boost its FPS and performance, making the game a lot more enjoyable because let’s be fair, a low FPS in a game can kind of ruin the whole experience!
Still Getting The FH301 Message After Updating My Graphics Driver?
If you have installed the latest driver for your graphics card and you are still getting a message saying to update your graphics driver, then you will need to do a clean install when installing the NVIDIA driver.
To do this you when you are following the below steps you would need to select Custom install then click the Perform a clean installation option. You will then need to ensure you have restarted your computer once you have installed the latest driver. If this still did not fix the issue then you might need to use a program like DDU to do a completely clean install of the NVIDIA driver.
Fix Forza Horizon 5 PC FH301 Error:
Now you have a better understanding of the benefits of having the latest driver installed for your graphics card we can take a look at the steps on how you can install them for your NVIDIA graphics card.
1. Firstly you need to check what Graphics Card you have by right-clicking the Windows start menu > Then select “Device manager” > Now expand “Display adapters” > Here you can see which graphics card you are using
2. Head on over to the Nvidia website and download the latest driver for your NVIDIA graphics card (Make sure you select your graphics card and download the driver)
3. Now you have downloaded the driver go ahead and run the setup file and follow the on-screen steps > When you get to Installation options you can choose from Express or Custom:
- Express – Recommended as it upgrades existing drivers and keeps your current NVIDIA settings
- Custom – Allows you to select what components you would like to install and allows you to do a clean install (as we mentioned above)
4. Launch Forza Horizon 5 and now that the latest driver has been installed the message will now have disappeared > If it has not restart your computer and try launching the game again
That’s how you install the latest driver for your NVIDIA graphic card. Like we said above, even if you are not getting the warning message with the FH301 code, it’s still a good idea to have the latest driver installed as it can resolve a lot of crashing issues with Horizon 5, as well as improve the overall performance of the game. If you found this guide helpful then check out our other gaming guides if you want to see more just like this one.
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Если вы получаете код ошибки FH301 и игра просит вас обновить драйверы, то это руководство подскажет вам, как обновить. загрузить и установить последний графический драйвер для Forza Horizon 5 на ПК.
Пути решения:
Обновите драйвер видеокарты. Найдено 30.0.14.7168, ожидаемое 30.0.14.9613 или новее (Код: FH301). Если вы получите именно эту ошибку или что-то подобное, нажмите «Выйти». Вот что вам следует сделать.
1) Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши значок меню «Пуск».
2) Щелкните Диспетчер устройств.
3) Щелкните раскрывающийся список для своих видеоадаптеров.
4) Здесь вы увидите точную видеокарту, установленную на вашем ПК.
5) Теперь перейдите на сайт производителя, чтобы получить последнюю версию видеокарты, которую вы используете для своей игры.
6) Также в Nvidia.
7) Для карт в AMD.
Как загрузить и установить последний графический драйвер для FH5
- На официальном сайте производителя вам необходимо указать тип продукта, серию продукта, вашу операционную систему, тип загрузки, язык и т. д.
- Щелкните «Поиск».
- Вы увидите другую страницу, где теперь вы можете загрузить последнюю версию графического драйвера для Forza Horizon 5 и других игр.
- Выберите путь извлечения и нажмите ОК.
- Для процесса установки следуйте пошаговым инструкциям, указанным вашим установщиком.
- Сначала будет проверка системы, затем лицензионное соглашение и параметры.
- Нажмите «Принять и продолжить».
- Для вариантов установки выберите рекомендуемый или расширенный и нажмите ДАЛЕЕ.
- Как только вы увидите сообщение о завершении установки, примите решение, создавать ярлык или нет, и нажмите «Закрыть».
- Вот и все. Вы успешно обновили графический драйвер для ПК Forza Horizon 5.
- Теперь просто запустите игру.