Unable to play Forza Horizon 2, initial update failing


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I bought FH2 digitally on Saturday night, downloaded the game and went to play it on Sunday morning.
 
There seems to be a mandatory update which is constantly failing.
 
The error I'm getting is:

There was a problem with the update.
 
Forza Horizon 2 needs an update, but something went wrong. For help, visit xbox.com/xboxone/update/help.

 

 

 
With the options to try again (which fails) or to check network connection, which comes back fine.
 
  • I've tried doing a hard reset on my Xbox.
  • I've tried deleting and redownloading the game.
  • I've tried updating the game both on wifi and wired.
  • I've performed the steps in the link on the error message.
  • I've rebooted my router (BT Homehub 5)
  • I've unplugged the console for 5 minutes and tried again.
  • I've changed my DNS on the console from automatic to use Google's DNS.

The only way I can play the game is to take the console offline, however, as soon as I put it back online the game tries to update and it fails.

 

Does anyone have any ideas which I might not thought of to get the game to work?

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Contact them here

 

They will help you out.

 

I have, but it's multiple hours between replies. I just thought I'd post here to see if I could get a few other ideas which might solve the issue quicker.

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Hmm..  not sure what to tell you but I guess you try to contact Forza support.

 

FH2 works on my end.

 

Maybe try again later  lets say, 6 hours later or tomorrow. That way, xbox will connect to the game update server better later..

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I've posted on the Forza forums too, I've also tried the update 6/7 times now since I bought the game on Saturday spread out over the nearly three days so I doubt it's a network issue on their end.

 

Like I said, just posting here to see if anyone has any different ideas.

 

I guess I'm probably just going to have to bite the bullet and phone them.

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You could try installing the game while the console is not connected to the internet, and then connect once complete for the TU.

 

X1 has a fight with itself when it comes to installing games and TUs.

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You could try installing the game while the console is not connected to the internet, and then connect once complete for the TU.

 

X1 has a fight with itself when it comes to installing games and TUs.

It's kind of hard to install a game digitally when I'm not connected to the internet. :rofl:

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It's kind of hard to install a game digitally when I'm not connected to the internet. :rofl:

 

lol

 

When you find the fix please let us know what you had to do.

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