Automatic backups of your Forza Horizon 2 profile on PC (Azimuth): one each time the game starts, before it loads your save, and another every few minutes while you play. A mod for the FH2 Mod Platform.
Azimuth keeps only the newest two copies (revisions) of your profile, and the game writes a new one every time it saves. If a save goes bad, both copies can be gone within minutes. This mod keeps older ones for you.
You need Azimuth 1.0.1 or later. Download AutoBackupSaveGame-v1.0.0.zip from Releases and extract it into the folder with azimuth.exe:
DWrite.dll the FH2 Mod Platform
fh2-mods\AutoBackupSaveGame.dll this modYour profile: progress, cars, credits, settings. That's the User_9000000000000 folder in data\titles\<title>\saves\player-1\ (1A96545B for Forza Horizon 2). Liveries, tunes and photos aren't included.
Backups go to AutoBackupSaveGame\Backups\<title>\<date>_<time>\, next to :
azimuth.exeAutoBackupSaveGame\
AutoBackupSaveGame.ini
Backups\1A96545B\
2026-11-08_14-30-05\User_9000000000000\revisions\...
2026-11-08_14-45-05\User_9000000000000\revisions\...•Every revision is checked against the game's own record of it (the SHA-256 of each file in its commit file). A revision the game was still writing is tried again a few seconds later. One that never matches is left out (the log says so), so a backup only has revisions the game will load.
•If the save hasn't changed since the last backup, no new one is made.
•The newest 10 backups are kept, and older ones are deleted. Each is about 13 MB.
Pause > Settings > MODS:
•Auto Backup: On / Off
•Auto Backup: On Game Start: On / Off
•Auto Backup: Every: Off, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes
Or AutoBackupSaveGame\AutoBackupSaveGame.ini:
ini
[Settings]
Enabled=1
OnStart=1
Interval=15
Keep=10
Folder=•OnStart: back up when the game starts.
•Interval: minutes between backups while you play (0: none).
•Keep: how many backups to keep.
•Folder: where backups go. Leave it blank for AutoBackupSaveGame\Backups. A relative path is relative to the azimuth.exe folder, or use a full path like D:\FH2 Backups.
Changes in the ini apply the next time the game starts.
1. Close the game.
2. Go to data\titles\1A96545B\saves\player-1\. To be safe, first move the User_9000000000000 folder somewhere else rather than deleting it.
3. Copy User_9000000000000 from the backup you want (AutoBackupSaveGame\Backups\1A96545B\<date>_<time>\) into player-1.
4. Start the game.
You need CMake and Visual Studio 2022. The FH2 Mod Platform is a submodule:
sh
git clone --recursive https://github.com/qiangqiang101/FH2AutoBackupSaveGame.git
cd FH2AutoBackupSaveGame
cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64
cmake --build build --config Release # build/Release/AutoBackupSaveGame.dllFH2 support: Supported
Version
1.0.0
FH2 Mod Platform
Supported
Source
github