Are you experiencing constant crashes when launching Humankind as well as in-game? This guide will walk you through the steps that you can use to put an end to these crashes.
Humankind has been experiencing crashes of late and is in need of a fix. Follow this guide to fix the crash and put an end to your frustration. The steps below will ensure you can play Humankind hassle-free and run a smooth empire! For those of you that find the first few steps already completed, be sure to try out all the steps until the end.
Follow these steps to prevent Humankind from crashing. In order to ensure your game finds a perfect fix, remember to follow the steps all the way to the end. That way in the scenario one fix doesn’t work – another one will.
Make sure all your game drivers are up to date. This includes your graphics drivers. Head to the official website of your graphic card manufacturer as well as the system’s graphic driver website and download the latest version from there. Once you’ve installed the update, ensure you restart your system.
Windows often provides updates for stability, bugs and security among other reasons. So it’s possible you aren’t running the latest version and that’s what’s stopping your game from running.
Some of the following sound-related softwares enhance your audio in-game. However, they also could be the reason your game crashes. So if you’re using one of these, be sure to uninstall them – Razer Chroma, Sonic Suite, Sonic Sound 2, Synapse, Nahimic.
You can furthermore make Humankind run by enforcing an admin run permission. You can do this by following the steps below:
On the rare occasion that you still don’t find a fix, consider following the steps below:
If you were part of the closed beta and open development, Ensure you uninstall and create a new account. The accounts you used were explicitly for the beta and development phase of the game and you now need to create a new account. Alternatively, you can head to the drive where the game is installed, and delete that folder (Users>yourname>documents>humankind\)
It’s possible that your API which most probably is DirectX is the reason your game crashes. Consider switching your API from DirectX to Vulcan. The game will work on vulcan as well. you’ll need to follow a few steps for this.
Whether you downloaded the game from epic or from steam, the game cache as well as the game files need to have their file integrity verified.
For Steam:
For Epic:
In addition to maybe a few system-to-system dependencies, that’s pretty much everything there is to fix the crashes in Humankind. We hope you liked this guide and it was of help to you. If you wish to know more about Humankind, here’s a guide on how to change State Religion in Humankind.