The Outer Worlds is another action RPG game that was launched last year. Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division have developed a nice well-optimized video game that runs on Windows, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch platforms. However, some of the unlucky PC players are experiencing issues with crashing at startup or keep crashing issues on The Outer Worlds game. If you’re one of them, check this guide to fix it.
It’s also worth mentioning the developers have recently released a new DLC of the base game called ‘Peril on Gorgon‘ which is the icing on the cake in terms of the improvements such as six new perks, enhanced skills, increased power level, defense skills, stealth mode, and more. Now, talking about the particular ‘The Outer Worlds’ edition, it’s no brainer that each and every video game do come with multiple bugs, errors. However, it seems that PC version games are prone to get several bugs than other console versions in most cases.
Therefore, here we’ve shared all the possible workarounds that you should check out. Before heading over to the troubleshooting guide, make sure to get a brief idea of which reasons your PC game may crash mostly.
Why Does The Outer Worlds Keep Crashing?
Check out some of the possible reasons behind the startup crashing issue of The Outer Worlds game below:
- Maybe your PC configuration isn’t compatible with the system requirements of the game. You can check out ‘The Outer Worlds’ system requirements below.
- Possibly there are some temporary glitch or cache-related issues happening on your computer. In that case, restarting your PC should fix the problem.
- Chances are high that the game files are either corrupted or missing.
- Maybe your computer is running an outdated Windows build or graphics driver version.
- It can also possible that your DirectX version is either outdated or your outdated GPU card isn’t supporting the Direct3D Hardware Feature Level 11.0 GPU.
- Sometimes an outdated game version or the game launcher version can also cause issues.
- It’s also possible that some of the apps are running in the background with higher consumption of CPU/Memory.
- An Antivirus program or the Windows Firewall protection is preventing the game files to run properly.
