Crash on startup fixes to try first

Overview

What this guide is for

This page is the exact-match troubleshooting owner for crash-on-startup intent. It should connect tightly to system requirements, day-one patch expectations and install prep, best PC settings at launch, and how to fix stutter and shader hitching on PC so readers can tell the difference between startup failure, weak tuning, and broader stability problems.

Startup crashes should be framed as a first-pass elimination guide

Readers arriving here need triage, not theory. The page should quickly separate file integrity issues, outdated drivers, overlay conflicts, unsupported setups, and early patch-state problems so the player can test the most likely fixes first.

That is why it should keep visible links to system requirements and day-one patch expectations and install prep. Sometimes the crash problem is not mysterious at all. It is a readiness problem hiding as a stability problem.

If the game launches but runs badly, the correct branch is how to fix stutter and shader hitching on PC, not more startup fixes.