How to fix Satisfactory 1.0 crashing on startup
Satisfactory 1.0 is finally here but unfortunately, players have been experiencing a crash error on launch preventing them from jumping into the game.
Coffee Stain Studios Satisfactory has taken Steam by storm with its immersive factory-sim gameplay. Before you can start farming important resources likereinforced iron platesandcrystal oscillator, you’ll need to get past the crashing issues.
How to fix Satisfactory 1.0 crashing
There are a variety of methods you can use to fix the crashing error, and we’ve detailed each below:
Changing to DirectX 11
The first solution that should fix crashing on launch is tomake Steam launch Satisfactory with DirectX 11 instead of 12. You can do this by following these steps:
Now Satisfactory shouldautomatically launch using DirectX11instead of the newest 12 version.
You can still make this work if you’re playing on Epic Games via the Store:
Verify integrity of game files
Another way to try and fix the problem is byverifying the integrity of your game files. you may easily do thisthrough Steamby following these steps:
If you’re playing through the Epic Games Store, here’s how it’s done:
Update drivers
Sometimes the solution is just toupdate some of your drivers. I’d prioritize updating yourgraphics driver first, as it can be one of the many reasons for games struggling to run if they require high-fidelity graphics.
You can do this throughGeForce Experienceif you have a NVIDIA GPU, or withAMD Adrenalin Editionif you have an AMD one. Intel driver updates can be found online through Google searches.
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Other than these solutions, your last case scenario should be touninstall and reinstall Satisfactory. Honestly, the crashing issues are most likely due to the DirectX API problem, so you shouldn’t even have to try out any of the other fixes.
“An Unreal process has crashed” error causes
The crash message that’s popping up for players is most often due to your PC attempting torun the game on DirectX 12 API instead of DirectX 11,which is better for older machines. Your GPU could be trying to run the game on DirectX 12 but failing because of older technology.
Otherwise, crashes can happen with faulty files in your game, or perhaps it wasn’t installed correctly.
Due to these causes, attempting the fixes above should solve the problem, and you can get back to building your ideal alien factory.
For more on Satisfactory, check out our guides forall SAM Ore locations,how to make dedicated servers,console commands,best factory base layouts, andall Hard Drive locations.
