Deleting or moving this folder generally does not reset your graphics settings, as those are stored separately in %LocalAppData%\ForzaHorizon5 .

: If you are switching from or to an Empress crack, the location is:

You may have seen older forum posts pointing to a long numeric folder inside AppData\Roaming\CODEX . That method died after Microsoft forced Denuvo changes. The current scene releases (CODEX is technically disbanded, but groups using their emulator) have shifted to a .

If you updated and the game starts fresh, copy the contents from the old CODEX remote folder into the new emulator's remote folder.

Unlike the legitimate Microsoft Store or Steam versions, the pirated CODEX/EMPRESS/RUNE releases store your progression in a completely different—and often hidden—directory. Worse, updates to the crack (from v1.4 to v1.6 to v1.629) have changed the folder structure multiple times.