Ubisoft has been recently published the much-awaited action RPG video game called Assassin’s Creed Valhalla which has been developed by Ubisoft Montreal. It’s the 22nd title of the Assassin’s Creed series and a successor version of the 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Though the game is available for almost every gaming platform like PC, PS5/PS4, Xbox One/Series S/Series X, Google Stadia, most of the PC users are encountering Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Crashing at Startup, Won’t Launch, or Lags with FPS drops issues.
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Now, if you’re also one of them, don’t worry as here we’ve shared all the possible and most common ways to easily resolve these problems. It’s known to all that most of the PC games do come with multiple issues or errors higher than other gaming platforms and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is one of them. All the mentioned issues become quite common these days for PC users and it seems that PC gamers are experiencing these issues quite frequently. Now, let’s take a quick look at the possible crashing reasons below.
Why Does Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Keep Crashing?
Check out some of the possible reasons behind the startup crashing issue of the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game below:
- If your PC configuration isn’t compatible with the system requirements of the game, you may get multiple issues like crashing, black screen, and more. For that, you can check out the ‘Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’ system requirements below.
- Some kind of cache or temporary glitch issues can also prevent players to stay in the game. Mostly restarting your PC should fix the problem.
- If in case, your game files aren’t properly installed or updated on the system then the missing or corrupted game files can be a problem.
- It can also possible that your computer system becomes outdated enough or even the outdated graphics driver can cause the same issues.
- Maybe your DirectX version becomes outdated or your incompatible GPU card isn’t supporting the Direct3D Hardware Feature Level 11.0 GPU.
- An outdated game version or the game launcher can also occur issues with the launch or gameplay.
- Maybe some apps are running in the background that consumes higher CPU/Memory usage and slows down your system.
- In most cases, Windows Firewall protection or Antivirus program plays a major role to prevent game files or launchers to run properly.
Minimum System Requirements:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 3.1Ghz / Intel i5-4460 3.2Ghz
- GPU: AMD R9 380 4GB / Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB
- RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel mode)
- Resolution: 1080P
- Targeted frame-rate: 30fps
- Video preset: Low
Recommended System Requirements:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2Ghz / Intel i7-4790 3.6Ghz
- GPU: AMD RX 570 8GB / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
- RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel mode)
- Resolution: 1080p
- Targeted frame-rate: 30fps
- Video preset: High
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Now, without wasting any more time, let’s jump into the steps below. Keep in mind that both the Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers are well optimized for the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game. So, if in case, you haven’t updated your graphics driver yet, do this first.
1. Update Graphics Drivers
If you’re using the Nvidia graphics card then update the GeForce Experience app on your PC from the Nvidia official site here. But if you’re using the AMD graphics card on your system, then update the latest AMD Drivers from here.
2. Disable Steam Overlay
- Open Steam on your Windows.
- Head over to the Settings > Click on the In-Game.
- Click on the checkbox to disable Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game.
- Once the checkbox mark is removed, click on OK.
3. Adjust Discord Settings
- Launch Discord > Click on User Settings.
- Select Voice & Video from the left sidebar.
- Scroll down a bit and click on the Advanced.
- Next, disable OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco System, Inc.
- Then disable Enable Quality of Service High Packet Priority.
- Now, go to Overlay.
- You can also turn off the in-game overlay.
- Next, head over to Appearance.
- Go to Advanced.
- Disable Hardware Acceleration.
- Once done, restart the system.
4. Adjust Nvidia Control Panel Settings
- Click on Adjust image settings with preview under 3D settings.
- Select Use the advanced 3D image settings.
- Next, launch the Nvidia Control Panel.
- Click on Manage 3D settings> Go to Global Settings.
- Additionally, you can also adjust some of the other options:
- Disable Image Sharpening
- Enable Threaded Optimization
- Use Maximum Performance for Power Management
- Turn off Low Latency Mode
- Set Texture Filtering Quality to Performance mode
5. Change AMD Control Panel Settings
- Go to Global Graphics.
- Turn off Radeon Anti-Lag
- Turn off Radeon Boost
- Use Application settings for Anti-Aliasing Mode
- Set Anti-aliasing Methodto Multi-sampling
- Turn off Morphological Filtering
- Disable Image Sharpening
- Turn off Anisotropic Filtering
- Use Performance mode for Texture Filtering Quality
- You can also enable Surface Format Optimization
- AMD Optimization for the Tesselation Mode
- Wait for V-sync– Turn it off
- Use AMD optimization for the Shader Cache
- Disable OpenGL Triple Buffering
- Turn off Maximum Tesselation Level
- Set Graphics for the GPU Workload
- Turn off the Radeon Chill
- Disable Frame Rate Target Control
6. Verify Game Files via Ubisoft
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla gamers on Ubisoft launcher can follow the below steps:
- Open Ubisoft launcher by logging into the account
- You can find Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game from the Games tab
- Select the game and choose the arrow icon in the bottom right corner.
- Select Verify Files from the drop-down list.
- If prompted, select Repair.
- Ubisoft will start restoring any missing or corrupted game files automatically.
- Once done, simply restart your Ubisoft launcher and open the game.
7. Uninstall Recent Windows 10 Update
A couple of days ago, Microsoft has released a new update for Windows 10 with KB4535996. So, this particular cumulative update for Windows 10 is quite buggy and causing so many errors or problems.
- Go to Start menu > Click on Settings
- Next, go to Update and Security
- Click on View update history
- Now, if you can see that there is an update having KB4535996 has been already installed. Make sure to uninstall it.
- Here you will see the Uninstall updates option on the top of the page.
- Click on it and select the mentioned cumulative update version.
- Right-click on it > Select Uninstall.
- It may take some time to delete that update and your system may restart automatically.
- Have some patience and you can also manually reboot your Windows PC (if required).
8. Remove Temporary Files
- Press Windows key + R on your keyboard to open the RUN program.
- Now, type %temp% and press enter.
- You will get a bunch of temporary files on a page.
- Select all files by pressing Ctrl + A on the keyboard.
Next, press Shift + Delete on the keyboard to remove all the files. - Sometimes some of the temporary files can’t be deleted. So, leave them as it is and close it.
9. Set Default CPU and Graphics Speed
As most of the users always want to use ultra-high performance from the CPU and GPU from the very first day. So, most of the users either buy an overclocked version or manually increased the overclocking speed. So, if you’ve also overclocked your GPU speed and after doing that you’re experiencing bottleneck or lagging or crashing related issues, just set it to default mode.
You can also use the MSI Afterburner tool or Zotac firestorm application in order to lower the clocking speed. Once done, you can run the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla game to check whether it’s crashing at startup or not.
That’s it. We hope this guide was useful to you. You can comment below for any queries.