Game Crashing Moments After Starting (SOLVED)

[Akuro-chama]

Just like the title says, my game is crashing moments after starting. I get to the warning screen and the menu music starts filtering in and then EVERY TIME it crashes to my desktop. No warnings beyond the typical one that says my graphics driver has known issues, BUT the thing is, since I got and started playing the game, that warning has always been there and the game launched before this with that warning. I have tried every solution I can find via Google and nothing has helped. I think it has to do with the game update since this started happening only after the mod update. However, I have removed all my installed mods, deleted them from the mod manager AND even made it so the mod manager doesn't recognize the game as a game to mod anymore. I don't know what else to do, so I am turning here for help.

I really enjoy Hogwarts Legacy, so I really want to get this game running again. Please help!

Update: After more poking and prodding, I discovered two things:

1) Resetting the Config and SavedGames files gets me partway into the game before it crashes again.

2) Same with starting the game from the file location verses starting it from Steam.

UPDATE: I FIGURED IT OUT. So even though I had installed my mods and the mod manager, there were still some excess files from the third party mods I had installed in the game files. I had to go into the game files themselves and delete the ~mods folder. I also started a fresh game which may or may not have assisted, but now the game is running again, albeit lagging and prone to crashing still, but AT LEAST I CAN GET IN THE GAME. I think with some more fine tuning, it should be good so I thought I would share my solution here in case it can help someone else.

[Firstnamethom]

I got the same issue, can't go after the shaders loading screen, it does not load completly, it crashes and I can't play... I didn't modded my game, but since the update, it doesn't work... please help.

[Exo_gaming]

I got the game yesterday exited to play. l and spent one hour trying to troubleshoot the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing. Ended up asking for a refund until they fix it. I also got stuck at that warning screen and never could move forward.

[**LAZY*SOD**]

I had the same issues. For me the problem was the latest NVDIA driver, v. 572.16 (Jan 30). I rolled back to v. 566.36 (Dec 5) and the game runs fine again.

[Naotakunkun]

Possible solutions

Try this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/990080/discussions/0/599643430010752889/?tscn=1738610783

Or this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/990080/discussions/0/599643178892616012/

I hope this works for you.

[Akuro-chama]

Originally posted by Naotakunkun:

Possible solutions

Try this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/990080/discussions/0/599643430010752889/?tscn=1738610783

Or this

https://steamcommunity.com/app/990080/discussions/0/599643178892616012/

I hope this works for you.

I did try these two solutions. One made no difference and the other I couldn't get my Antivirus to load for whatever reason. I don't think its affecting the game though...

[Exo_gaming]

Yeah the antivirus solution is not working in this case.