Game Crashing After Latest Update

[ladymissazira]

I'm unable to start my game at all after the latest update. I've uninstalled and redownloaded twice, and kept getting Disc Write Error and unable to download the one corrupted file.

[Lucifer]

mine keeps going to black screen

[Wayward Hayward™]

yeap getting similar, tried verifying all the files and downloading the one missing and now just black screen forever

[L.m.a.o.]

Game is also unstable for me after update. 4070 laptop

[odyhn73]

same issue here as well

[Logan]

I may have fixed mine. Since the update installed my game started off stuck at the epilepsy warning, then kept giving me error 2 or creating a blank taskbar block and looking like a graphics driver issue.


After making sure there were exceptions for it in the AV and firewall, updating my graphics drivers, (but the graphics app couldn't find Hogwarts Legacy to list in my games even when pointed at its install directory), verifying files 1 reacquired, playing around with compatibility settings on the .exe, and antivirus scanning the .exe, I looked in the antivirus quarantine folder.

My antivirus kept quarantining one file, the .exe, as a .Generic and leaving the program folder with a... dummy .exe?

I reported the original file to check for false positive, and restore/exceptioned it.

Once the all done popup appeared, the steam file integrity check finished fine and it loaded fine, though shaders had its usual issue of sit a long time at 10% and jump to 100%.
Geforce app/experience is detecting the game again. Mainscreen mod page is working fine.

It scans clean as a per file scan, but it was retrieving a file that was quarantined, and I'm a teeny bit concerned the positive wasn't false. Do at your own risk.



So now I just need to play a while soon and see how stable it is, but I've used up today's free time sorting it out.

Hope this helps someone get their game working. Happy gaming!

[Vineck++]

GOtta be a memory leak? uses 70% of my physical memory of 2x16gb and became so sluggish in the low 40s frames

[rafimahasin27]

a have this fixed? i'v uninstall and redownload twice but keep nothing

[cfretz2000]

My anti virus put the .exe file in quarantine. Once I restored it the game installed and played fine. No idea what triggered it. generic.idp

[doriane.borie]

same, it always crash during the intro

[AlexandraCub@]

You just have to go to the mods folder and delete all the content because the game detects some mods that are there and that's why it doesn't open and then you open the game again without problem and put them back in.

[L.m.a.o.]

A fix is to disable RTX and its DLSS settings completely and compare to using those settings. (What's wrong with old school graphics gaming? Sarcasm.)
In my case this fixes stuttering and freezing. Freezing sometimes makes laptop non responsive and it has to be boot off manually. This is concerning.

Lag spikes and stutters, even on low native settings w/o rtx. This might be nvidia's dlss 4 version playing bad news for demanding games as hogwarts legacy.

Maybe a game update paired with a more comprehensive driver update from nvidia?
Hope something fixes this. I think also AI powered graphics are ok but if something is not really tested why should it be deployed to the public? (Game was running fine before 30 Jan mod update, around the same date that DLSS4 from nvidia was updated in driver)

[Decaptare]

to com um problema parecido, mas o meu inicia normal entro no jogo e passando uns 10/20 minutos ele crash coisa q n acontecia antes tenho uma 4060 jogo no ultra sem RTX (Sempre joguei no ultra e nunca tinha crashado depois dessa atualização começaram os crash) tentei abaixar os graficos ate o minimo mas sem resultados e agora é esperar? sei la

[MrDaddyCage]

Mine crashed about 4 times after the update (never prior) and I followed some advice and verified the game files. No issues afterward as of yet.

[OSVA_PROO]

yo tengo el mismo problema no puedo iniciar el juego, por el error en la escritura en el disco y no se puede descargar, ya lo volví a instalar varias beses y sigue igual. por favor alguien me puede ayudar.

[Jacky]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

mine keeps going to black screen

same here