Fix: Worms Rumble Crashing at Startup, Won't Launch, or Black screen

Why Does Worms Rumble Keep Crashing?

Check out some of the possible reasons behind the startup crashing issue of the Worms Rumble game below:

It can possible that your PC configuration isn’t meeting the system requirements of the game. You can check out the ‘Worms Rumble’ system requirements below.
Maybe there are some temporary glitch or cache-related issues occurring on your computer. Mostly 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Maybe your computer is running an outdated Windows build or graphics driver version.
It can also possible that your DirectX version is either outdated or your outdated GPU card isn’t supporting the Direct3D Hardware Feature Level 11.0 GPU.
Sometimes if your game or game launcher becomes outdated, these issues can appear.
It’s also possible that some of the apps are running in the background with the higher consumption of CPU/Memory.
Windows Firewall protection or Antivirus program is blocking the game files to run properly.

Minimum System Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 or FX-4350
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 2GB NVIDIA GeForce or 2GB AMD Radeon

Recommended System Requirements:

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 4GB NVIDIA GeForce or 4GB AMD Radeon

Fix: Worms Rumble Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Black screen

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 Worms Rumble 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.
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 Methodto 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

Worms Rumble gamers on Steam client can follow the below steps:

Open the Steam Library by logging into the account
You can find Worms Rumble game
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 Worms Rumble Crashing 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 the 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.
Sometimes 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.