If you’re experiencing frequent crashes on PC, try deleting your shader cache and relaunching the game. On Windows the shader cache file is %appdata%\Arrowhead\Helldivers2\shader_cache\pipeline_library.cache. You’ll notice some stuttering after the shader cache is deleted, particularly during the hellpod drop scene. That’s shaders recompiling in the background, it should stop after a few games. I had one CTD when the Arc weapon bug was first introduced, deleted my shader cache file and have had zero CTDs across many games since then.
Edit: This is with an RTX 3080 and Ryzen 7 5700X on a B450 mobo, with Nvidia v551.86 drivers installed. YMMV depending on your rig.
If you’re experiencing frequent crashes on PS5… Condolences, I guess? 🤷♂️
Another tip for PC players having issues with crashing: try verifying the game’s files in Steam. I was crashing once every couple of hours, but other than that the game ran fine. I ran the verify process, Steam found 2 files that needed replacing, and since then my crash frequency has halved.
What’s interesting is it doesn’t appear to be a just my PC issue. Last night we were in a game (me and a friend plus two randos) and me and the random crashed at the same time. I wasn’t the one hosting, so not sure what would have caused that.
Updates can sometimes mess up files, if verifying doesn’t work like the other commenters said, then you can try a fix I did. Open the game’s local files then uninstall the game, there will still be some files left over (from the anti cheat), delete those, you may have to kill something in the task manager, then reinstall the game. I haven’t crashed since I did this in the patch that added the new weather stuff
If you’re experiencing frequent crashes on PC, try deleting your shader cache and relaunching the game. On Windows the shader cache file is
%appdata%\Arrowhead\Helldivers2\shader_cache\pipeline_library.cache. You’ll notice some stuttering after the shader cache is deleted, particularly during the hellpod drop scene. That’s shaders recompiling in the background, it should stop after a few games. I had one CTD when the Arc weapon bug was first introduced, deleted my shader cache file and have had zero CTDs across many games since then.Edit: This is with an RTX 3080 and Ryzen 7 5700X on a B450 mobo, with Nvidia v551.86 drivers installed. YMMV depending on your rig.
If you’re experiencing frequent crashes on PS5… Condolences, I guess? 🤷♂️
Another tip for PC players having issues with crashing: try verifying the game’s files in Steam. I was crashing once every couple of hours, but other than that the game ran fine. I ran the verify process, Steam found 2 files that needed replacing, and since then my crash frequency has halved.
What’s interesting is it doesn’t appear to be a just my PC issue. Last night we were in a game (me and a friend plus two randos) and me and the random crashed at the same time. I wasn’t the one hosting, so not sure what would have caused that.
Updates can sometimes mess up files, if verifying doesn’t work like the other commenters said, then you can try a fix I did. Open the game’s local files then uninstall the game, there will still be some files left over (from the anti cheat), delete those, you may have to kill something in the task manager, then reinstall the game. I haven’t crashed since I did this in the patch that added the new weather stuff
I just verified files and had one messed up. Will try playing tonight and see if that helped!