FH5, no good end to this story?

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The fans killed it.

It all started two days ago when FH5 started stuttering rather badly. At first I couldn’t work out what had gone wrong until I realised that the fans had died, which was causing the laptop to get very hot.

I took the machine to the service centre yesterday, but it’ll be away for a week. I decided to reinstall the game on the Nitro 5, which took ages.

This afternoon I launched FH5. There was a prolonged sync as I expected, but not as long as I feared. In spite of the pro­gress bar reaching 100%, it then claimed that it’d been unable to sync at all. I tried playing offline (I had something similar in FH4 once, but the game started without any problems, resuming right where I’d left off), but the picture with the AMG One and the other cars shrank, sat on screen for a bit, and then vanished.

I tried again. Shorter sync, but I was unable to pro­gress any further. I tried a winsock reset, but that didn’t work, either. Submitted a ticket on support.

I fear that I’ve once again lost all my progress in a Horizon game. When I first owned the game, it was installed on this machine. One possibility is that it has to be installed on the C:\ drive, which has just enough space to contain it. I installed it on the D:\ drive be­cause that’s where all the space is.

But I’m also fed up with this sort of thing happening, and bored with the game anyway. In spite of the se­cond expansion, I was back to doing the playlist and the dailies, and generally not bothering after that.

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