Wasteland 3 is a newly released role-playing video game under the Wasteland series that has been developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Deep Silver. It’s a sequel to the Wasteland 2 title and available for Microsoft Windows, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, Linux platforms. As the third version is very much new in the market at the time of writing this article, some of the PC players are getting multiple issues with the Wasteland 3 Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Lags with FPS drops.
If you’re also encountering a similar problem then this troubleshooting guide is only for you. Here we will share with you the possible crashing reasons and possible workarounds in order to resolve the crashing or not launching or performance or fps drops issues. Meanwhile, some of the unfortunate players may also experience several problems like black screen issues, stuck at the loading screen or download screen, other graphical glitches, audio related issues, and more.
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Why Does Wasteland 3 Keep Crashing?
It can be possible that there are some reasons behind the crashing of Wasteland 3 game while startup or during the gameplay. So, let’s take a quick look at some of the expected reasons below which you should consider checking and fixing apart from the guide below.
- It can be possible that your PC configuration isn’t meeting the system requirements of the game properly. If you’re not sure whether your machine is capable to run the game or not, then check the game requirements below.
- It’s also possible that maybe your game files are missing or corrupted and that’s why the game is crashing or won’t load.
- Sometimes an outdated Windows OS or graphics driver version can also cause multiple issues.
- Maybe the DirectX version isn’t updated to its latest version.
- Either the installed game or the Steam client version is outdated.
- Chances are some of the background running applications can cause high CPU/Memory usage that are conflicting with the game.
- Maybe Windows Firewall or any Antivirus program is blocking the game files to run.
Minimum System Requirements:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3.3 GHz or better, or AMD Equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 760 or AMD Equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 52 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
Recommended System Requirements:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 GHz or better, or AMD Equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), or AMD RX 480 (8GB)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 52 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card
Wasteland 3 Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Lags with FPS drops: Fix
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 Wasteland 3 game. So, if in case, you haven’t updated your graphics driver yet, do this first.
1. Update Graphics Drivers
If you’re using the Nvidia graphics card then update the GeForce Experience app on your PC from the Nvidia official site here. But if you’re using the AMD graphics card on your system, then update the latest AMD Drivers from here.
2. Disable Steam Overlay
- Open Steam on your Windows.
- Head over to the Settings > Click on the In-Game option.
- Click on the checkbox to disable “Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game“.
- Once the checkbox mark is removed, click on OK.
3. Adjust Discord Settings
- 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
Wasteland 3 gamers on Steam client can follow the below steps:
- Open the Steam Library by logging into the account
- You can find the Wasteland 3 game there
- 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
- 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 Wasteland 3 game to check whether it’s crashing at startup or not.
That’s it. We hope this guide was useful to you. You can comment below for any queries.