Game opens but closes out right away

[XxmiirandaxX]

I do have a couple mods installed for my game, its up to date but since yesterday it opens and then closes out right away, no crash notification given, I verified the integrity of the game files and I uninstalled and the reinstalled and that did not fix the issue.

[Prinny]

it's the new NVidia update
I dunno how to remove/return to previous update.

that or their DRM server shut down

[Sophrose]

Hey I've been having the same issue, I noticed that another game I have was also crashing on opening so I found a fix for that which also happened to fix Hogwarts Legacy as well.

The fix was to delete sl.pcl.dll which you can find from properties, installed files, browse then use this: Hogwarts Legacy\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Nvidia\Streamline\Binaries\ThirdParty\Win64
It will be in the win64 folder, I think it has something to do with DLSS from what I've seen but it worked for me!

[CrazYoshi]

Originally posted by Sophrose:

Hey I've been having the same issue, I noticed that another game I have was also crashing on opening so I found a fix for that which also happened to fix Hogwarts Legacy as well.

The fix was to delete sl.pcl.dll which you can find from properties, installed files, browse then use this: Hogwarts Legacy\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Nvidia\Streamline\Binaries\ThirdParty\Win64
It will be in the win64 folder, I think it has something to do with DLSS from what I've seen but it worked for me!

I've tried but it didn't worked for me

[Scrogginsanity]

Same issue for me

[Plushie]

i removed the mods i installed before the big patch maybe it'll help it fixed for me :3

[r4m0n]

Originally posted by Sophrose:

Hey I've been having the same issue, I noticed that another game I have was also crashing on opening so I found a fix for that which also happened to fix Hogwarts Legacy as well.

The fix was to delete sl.pcl.dll which you can find from properties, installed files, browse then use this: Hogwarts Legacy\Engine\Plugins\Runtime\Nvidia\Streamline\Binaries\ThirdParty\Win64
It will be in the win64 folder, I think it has something to do with DLSS from what I've seen but it worked for me!

Tried this and it didn't work... BUT I noticed that one of the DLLs on this folder was where I saw the game was crashing on the logs so I tried something crazy that shouldn't work... and nuked the whole folder.

And to my surprise, it DID work. I'm running on Proton/Linux, so it might not apply to everyone else. Steam handles the shader compilation and those libraries handle that in the game, so it might have caused other problems

[mutantbeth]

Your mods arent compatible. Make sure you delete all mods even after uninstalling and reinstalling my files still had mods in it until I manually took care of it. My game is running fine now using mods from in game manager and from nexus

[daklimhuxjien]

removing the entire Hogwarts Legacy folder from search %appdata% > local fixed it for me.

[FERRARI PEEK]

couldn't start:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\HogwartsLegacy\Phoenix\Binaries\Win64\HogwartsLegacy.exe"
Phoenix -SaveToUserDir -UserDir= "Hogwarts Legacy"
CreateProcess() returned 2.

how to fix it

no run as adm dont fix, exceptions on windows defender too....

pleaseee helpppp