Talking about some of the psychological horror video games, the newly launched ‘The Medium’ is grabbing the attention of the players. Although players are reviewing this game really well, it seems that multiple issues are happening to the PC gamers. Plenty of players have started reporting that they’re facing issues with The Medium like Crash at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Crash to Desktop. If you’re also one of the victims, make sure to follow this troubleshooting guide to completely fix these problems manually. To be very specific, The Medium system requirements are almost similar to Cyberpunk 2077 and Horizon Zero Dawn.
So, before heading over to any conclusion, make sure to check out the system requirements below to ensure that whether your PC is compatible with The Medium game or not. As you should know that newly released video games do come with several bugs or stability issues that cause crashing, frame drops, lagging, stuttering, black screen issue, and more. So, there is nothing to worry about it. In this scenario, the chances are high enough that your PC is having some issues with the game running properly. So, you should check the possible workarounds below to resolve it.
Why Does The Medium Keep Crashing?
Well, PC games are prone to have issues which are quite common these days because most of the issues can be easily fixed. Although PC games can face lags, stutters, frame drops due to multiple reasons, there are a couple of possible reasons mentioned below that are quite common among PC gamers. So, you should take a quick look below.
- The chances are high that your PC configuration isn’t compatible with the system requirements of The Medium game. If you’re not sure about it, you can check the system requirements below.
- It can possible that some of the temporary glitches or system cache issues are troubling you a lot.
- Sometimes the corrupted or missing game files on your PC/Laptop can also cause startup crashing or lagging.
- An outdated Windows OS build or an outdated graphics driver version can also trigger crashes while launching the game.
- You should also check your DirectX version whether it’s up-to-date or not. By updating the Windows version, your DirectX will be updated.
- In some scenarios, if your graphics card becomes outdated enough, it may not support the Direct3D Hardware Feature Level 11.0 GPU.
- It can possible that either The Medium game or the game launcher becomes outdated.
- Some of the background running tasks or programs can consume a lot of system resources which causes such issues.
- Maybe the Windows Security protection or any installed third-party Antivirus program is preventing the game files to run properly.
Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 10 (64bit version only)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2500X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: @1080p NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 Super or GTX 1060 / Radeon R9 390X
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 55 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible, headphones recommended
Recommended System Requirements:
- OS: Windows 10 (64bit version only)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9600 / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: @1080p NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super / Radeon RX 5600XT | @4K NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 or RTX 3060 Ti / Radeon RX 6800
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 55 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible, headphones recommended
Fix: The Medium Crash at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Crash to Desktop
Now, without wasting any more time, let’s jump into the steps below. Keep in mind that both the Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers are well optimized for The Medium game. So, if in case, you haven’t updated your graphics driver yet, do this first.