What is fh6tools?

FH6Tools is a Windows desktop launcher and tool manager built for the game Forza Horizon 6. It is not an official product and has no connection to the game's developers. Its purpose is to give players a single place to launch the game, download and manage community-made utility programs, and automatically back up save files. The tool manager side connects to a remote list of community tools and checks which ones are installed and whether updates are available. From inside the app you can download, install, update, and remove those tools. The current list includes nine programs covering things like a custom music player for the game, an auction house monitor, a language switching utility, a road discovery scanner, a virtual transmission display, a DualSense controller haptics adapter, a car livery image converter, and a car tuning calculator. The tool list updates automatically when the app starts. Save file backup runs automatically on a schedule tied to game activity. The app creates a backup just before launching the game, keeps the three most recent copies, and creates another backup after the game closes and the save folder has been unchanged for 60 seconds, keeping up to ten copies of those post-session backups. When restoring a save, the app creates a safety backup of the current save first. The app tries to detect the save folder location automatically based on whether you are using the Xbox or Steam version of the game, and you can override the path manually if detection fails. The app runs on Windows 10 or 11 and requires administrator privileges. It is built with Visual Basic .NET and targets .NET 10. Some of the UI code and foundation was adapted from an open source Minecraft launcher project called PCL. The project is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.