Hunt Showdown Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or FPS drops: How to Fix

Hunt Showdown is a competitive first-person PvP survival horror game that’s developed and published by Crytek. Hunt: Showdown was launched initially in 2018 and currently available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One platforms. It offers survival games into a match-based format for deep, intense gameplay experience. But some of the PC gamers are experiencing a couple of issues with the Hunt Showdown like Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or FPS drops, etc. If you’re one of them, check this guide.

Here we’ve shared all the possible troubleshooting steps that you will find useful in order to fix the issue completely on your Windows. Additionally, it may also possible that some of the PC players can face other issues like graphical glitches, the game won’t load issues, the game stuck at the loading screen, updating process failed, black screen problem, fatal error related issue, and more. So, if you’re also facing the same, then you’re not alone here.

Most of these issues are quite common to the PC gamers and can be easily fixed by following a couple of methods below. Meanwhile, it’s highly recommended to check for the Windows OS and graphics driver update at first whether any new patch version is available or not. If available, then update it first. Next, you can try to check for both the game and the Steam client version as well. Finally, before jumping into the workarounds below, ensure that your PC is compatible with the game’s system requirements. We’ve shared the system requirements below of this game.

Why Does Hunt Showdown Keep Crashing?

There can be multiple reasons that can either prevent or cause issues with the game launching properly. Such as:

1. Your PC doesn’t meet the system requirements.
2. You have an outdated Windows OS or graphics driver version.
3. You may have issues with the corrupted or missing game files.
4. Issues with the Windows Firewall or Antivirus program.
5. An outdated game version or client version.

Minimum System Requirements:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 7 64bit
• Processor: Intel i5-4590 @ 3.3GHz (4th Generation) or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 TI or AMD Radeon R7 370
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 20 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX compatible audio card

Recommended System Requirements:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10 64 bit
• Processor: Intel i5-6600 @ 3.3Ghz (6th Generation) or AMD Ryzen 5 1400
• Memory: 12 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 390X
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 20 GB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX compatible audio card

Hunt Showdown Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or FPS drops: How to Fix

3. Adjust Discord Settings to fix Hunt Showdown Lag

• Launch Discord > Click on User Settings.
• Select Voice & Video from the left sidebar.
• Scroll down a bit and click on the Advanced.
• Next, disable OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco System, Inc.
• Then disable Enable Quality of Service High Packet Priority.
• Now, go to Overlay.
• You can also turn off the in-game overlay.
• Next, head over to Appearance.
• Go to Advanced.
• Disable Hardware Acceleration.
• Once done, restart the system.

4. Adjust Nvidia Control Panel Settings

• Click on Adjust image settings with preview under 3D settings.
• Select Use the advanced 3D image settings.
• Next, launch the Nvidia Control Panel.
• Click on Manage 3D settings > Go to Global Settings.
• Additionally, you can also adjust some of the other options:
  • Disable Image Sharpening
  • Enable Threaded Optimization
  • Use Maximum Performance for Power Management
  • Turn off Low Latency Mode
  • Set Texture Filtering Quality to Performance mode

5. Change AMD Control Panel Settings

• Go to Global Graphics.
  • Turn off Radeon Anti-Lag
  • Turn off Radeon Boost
  • Use Application settings for Anti-Aliasing Mode
  • Set Anti-aliasing Method to Multi-sampling
  • Turn off Morphological Filtering
  • Disable Image Sharpening
  • Turn off Anisotropic Filtering
  • Use Performance mode for Texture Filtering Quality
  • You can also enable Surface Format Optimization
  • AMD Optimization for the Tesselation Mode
  • Wait for V-sync – Turn it off
  • Use AMD optimization for the Shader Cache
  • Disable OpenGL Triple Buffering
  • Turn off Maximum Tesselation Level
  • Set Graphics for the GPU Workload
  • Turn off the Radeon Chill
  • Disable Frame Rate Target Control

6. Verify Game Files via Steam Client

The Hunt Showdown gamers on Steam can follow the below steps:

• Open the Steam Library by logging into the account.
• You can find the Hunt Showdown game here.
• Right-click on the game and click on Properties
• Select the Local Files tab
• Then click on Verify Integrity of Game Files
• Wait for the process and then restart the game to check whether the issue has been fixed or not.

7. Uninstall Recent Windows 10 Update

A couple of days ago, Microsoft has released a new update for Windows 10 with KB4535996. So, this particular cumulative update for Windows 10 is quite buggy and causing so many errors or problems.

• Go to Start menu > Click on Settings
• Next, go to Update and Security
• Click on View update history
• Now, if you can see that there is an update having KB4535996 has been already installed. Make sure to uninstall it.
• Here you will see Uninstall updates option on the top of the page.
• Click on it and select the mentioned cumulative update version.
• Right-click on it > Select Uninstall.
• It may take some time to delete that update and your system may restart automatically.
• Have some patience and you can also manually reboot your Windows PC (if required).

8. Remove Temporary Files to fix Hunt Showdown Crashing

• Press Windows key + R on your keyboard to open the RUN program.
• Now, type %temp% and press enter
• You will get a bunch of temporary files on a page.
• Select all files by pressing Ctrl + A on the keyboard.
  Next, press Shift + Delete on the keyboard to remove all the files.
• Some times some of the temporary files can’t be deleted. So, leave them as it is and close it.

9. Set Default CPU and Graphics Speed

As most of the users always want to use ultra-high performance from the CPU and GPU from the very first day. So, most of the users either buy an overclocked version or manually increased the overclocking speed. So, if you’ve also overclocked your GPU speed and after doing that you’re experiencing bottleneck or lagging or crashing related issues, just set it to default mode.

You can also use the MSI Afterburner tool or Zotac firestorm application in order to lower the clocking speed. Once done, you can run the Hunt Showdown game and check if the problem is fixed or not.

That’s it. We hope this guide was useful to you. You can comment below for any queries.