Game wont start

[UnicornDestroyer]

Every time i start up the game after the new update, it stays on for about a minute before simply shutting off the game and bringing me to my home-screen. Anyone have tips? i have like 90 hours on this game and I don't know what to do.

[mummysayer2025]

i have only just bought this game and cant get on have validated files everything and wont even get to to the load screen

[moncouer9]

same issue..it crashes after the warning..

[Jerry_Urugwaj]

same issue, game crashes and i cant play...

[TioPaeng]

same issue here

[LadyOfDragons]

same here its been 3 days of me trying to launch the game with two mods from the in game mod options... and somehow it loads but then crashes.

[Spacecowboy_3120]

same here

[AmelkklemA]

Originally posted by mummysayer2025:

i have only just bought this game and cant get on have validated files everything and wont even get to to the load screen

Same for me

[Ayskan*]

Hello. After the update to the game, the computer directly restarts on the loading screen that appears when logging into the game.

I have read in a few places that this problem is caused by disproportionate power usage in Intel 13th/14th processors. Another reason for this is Hogwarts' UE5 (Unreal Engine 5) engine. Many of these UE5 engine games may cause problems for 13th/14th generation processors. I haven't found any solution yet. :(

This never happened when I played before.

[UnicornDestroyer]

it now just says "crash detected" and something about how i have mods other than the ones they support, but i did everything the link it gave me says and it still does the same thing. I went into my files and deleted everything related to mods and it still wont work so I'm out of ideas.

[Schdvd]

Same Problem, start the game and then nothing !

[EricHVela]

I'm curious. What is everyone's hardware who's not able to start the game?

We're getting a lot of vague info that doesn't help track down the issue.

[CLeRiC670]

Save the %appdata%/local/hogwarts legacy/saved/save games/numbers folder/

The "numbers folder" is literally a string of random numbers, not the word NUMBERS.
That one has all your save games located inside it. Copy all those .sav files to desktop.

Then delete the %appdata%/local/hogwarts legacy folder.

Now run a steam file repair on the game, this will ensure you don't have ANY 3rd party files/mods or old code or .ini edits or anything else that could be causing the game to crash.

Start the game to the main menu, don't freak out because all your characters are gone, close the game. Now it will have created a new %appdata% folder. Take ONLY YOUR SAVED GAMES and put them back in the local/hogwarts legacy/saved/save games/numbers/

Now enjoy the game not crashing, if it's still not working then it's probably not game file related and you have something else going on inside Windows.

[DavidFB95]

i am on windows 11 and cant even launch it anymore, it was fine a couple weeks ago

[Highness]

I have a fix for this issue, go to C:\Users\your user \AppData\Local delete the Hogwarts Legacy folder, launch game, it should work

[SinSickWarrior]

i was playing it this morning now it freezes at the start menu any way to fix it