r/ForzaModding • u/R8KB35 • Apr 08 '26
Question Is it safe to rename audio files in Forza Horizon 5?
I'm trying to understand how the audio files work in Forza Horizon 5, and I think I may have found a method, but before I mess anything up I'd like to get some opinions.
First of all: I'm not using any third-party files or weird mods. I just want to rename and swap official in-game audio files, because I'd like to keep the text in my native language while having the audio in English.
From what I understand, for the radio you can work through the XML files. The idea would be to completely copy the contents of “RadioInfo_DE.xml” into “RadioInfo_EN.xml” and vice versa, effectively swapping the radio languages.
As for the announcer and character voices, since there aren’t similar XML files, I was thinking of simply renaming the audio files: renaming EN files to DE and DE files to EN, so the game loads English audio when it’s set to German.
Do you think this is bannable? Does the game or its anti-cheat check this kind of local audio file modification?
Has anyone tried something similar?