How To Fix the ARC Raiders Crashing Issues on PC
A stable UE5 release.
Compared to many Unreal Engine 5 releases, ARC Raiders is in a much better technical state, delivering excellent visuals paired with decent performance and stability. That said, no PC game is completely safe from potential issues, commonly leading to crashes during gameplay or at launch.
If you’re running into any form of crashing in ARC Raiders, here are a few things you can do to ensure that doesn’t happen or reduce its severity for a stable experience.
Verify Game Files
Broken or missing files are usually the main reason for crashing, especially when trying to launch the game. It’s possible that something went wrong while you were downloading or installing ARC Raiders, and to ensure that isn’t the case, it’s a good idea to let the client scan through the files.
- Open Steam and navigate to your library.
- Here, right-click on ARC Raiders and select Properties.
- In the Installed Files tab, click on Verify integrity of game files.
Steam will scan through the files and download anything that is broken or missing from your ARC Raiders’ installation folder.
Update GPU Drivers
Make sure you’re using the latest GPU drivers, especially if you haven’t updated those in a while. You can get the latest drivers for your GPU from the links below.
The latest NVIDIA Drivers (581.57) have support for ARC Raiders and are recommended for the release:
Generic Troubleshooting
Apart from that, you can try the following generic troubleshooting suggestions.
- Update DirectX and Visual C++ Redistributables.
- Switch to your dedicated GPU if you’re playing on a laptop.
- Add the game’s folder to your antivirus list of exceptions or exclusions.
- Update your BIOS, especially if you’re using an Intel 13th or 14th-generation processor.
- Make sure that the date and time on your Windows are correct.
- Update Windows to the latest version.
- Make sure you actually meet the minimum system requirements.
Raise Update Priority of ARC Raiders
Since ARC Raiders is a multiplayer title, it will constantly receive patches and updates, which is why I recommend bumping up its update priority a bit higher on Steam as an added measure. This will ensure you’re never behind on updates and don’t run into any potential stability problems due to a previous patch version.
- Open Steam and navigate to your library.
- Here, right-click on ARC Raiders and select Properties.
- In the Updates tab, select “Immediately download updates” under Automatic Updates.
Overall, though, ARC Raiders is in a much better state than most Unreal Engine 5 releases and is pretty stable when it comes to performance and stability. This is a live-service title and will continue to receive updates to address any issues players are potentially running into as well.
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