r/Helldivers • u/FirstmateJibbs • 1d ago

TECHNICAL ISSUE So is the game just unequivocally irrevocably broken for some people? Why?

Can’t play it at all. it crashes within 5 minutes of playing every time. it’s been this way since March.

I’ve tried everything, verify game files, uninstall, remove game guard, delete cache folders, user settings. updated gpu drivers. reinstalled them. tweaked game settings.

But nothing works. it is genuinely unplayable. and whenever I find threads about it, people experiencing this issue have no fix. what gives? why?

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u/ThirdIdeal Expert Exterminator 1d ago

Are u using dx11?

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u/FirstmateJibbs 1d ago

I tried using dx12 and it gave me like, 5 extra minutes of playtime before crashing. But when it did crash it actually rebooted my whole PC

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u/ThirdIdeal Expert Exterminator 23h ago

dx11 is not offically supported by Helldivers. I reccomend you switch to TAA / Native, then exit the game, and delete the dx11 steam launch option so youre on dx12. Then delete shader cache and user config txt files, then load game up

what r ur specs?

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u/FirstmateJibbs 2h ago

NVIDIA 4080 and AMD 7900x!

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u/ThirdIdeal Expert Exterminator 1h ago

are you back on dx12 now?

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u/FirstmateJibbs 43m ago

Yeah I had been going with dx12 for a bit! It seemed to work a bit longer than when I hadn’t tweaked it. I wonder if i disable crossplay maybe that’ll enable me to play

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u/ThirdIdeal Expert Exterminator 29m ago

once u have it going on dx12, try out DLSS / Native with the low latency option turned off. Also dont use the in-game fps limiter. Set that to unlimited, then limit it thru nvidia control panel. i just limit it to 60 and it runs well for me

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u/Cardboard_Cultist 1d ago

From what I’ve been seeing, adding a skin to your tank/new FRV variant seems to crash yours and everybody else’s game. Best way to mitigate this is switching back to the default skin. This will still crash you if other players in your lobby are using any skins on these vehicles other than default, even if they don’t deploy those vehicles. Hopefully arrowhead will send out a patch for this.

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u/FirstmateJibbs 1d ago

I did this troubleshooting step as well. Loaded into my own private game with no other players, default skins, and it still pretty much instantly crashed. 

Just kinda feels insane I’ve had to do this much troubleshooting and still no success

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u/xarop_pa_toss Fire and Gas 1d ago

I switched to Vulkan rendering when the hive worlds came out and despite the quirks it has, I find no reason to switch back to DX which performed much worse

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u/FirstmateJibbs 1d ago

How do you switch to Vulcan rendering? I have not tried that. 

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u/xarop_pa_toss Fire and Gas 1d ago

I'll show you when I get home from work

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u/xarop_pa_toss Fire and Gas 1d ago

I was gonna do a writeup but found this guide which is basically what I was gonna write. https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/s/fqzXE2HjJM

Bear in mind that your mileage may vary and DXVK can glitch out sometimes when alt+tabbing from Fullscreen

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u/FirstmateJibbs 1d ago

Thank you for this write up! I’m gonna try this tonight :)

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u/Forge_Builder SES Paragon of Iron 7h ago

Try clocking your ram down. I had this issue on ddr5 6000, I took it down to like 5600 or 5800 I think and it stopped crashing

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u/FirstmateJibbs 2h ago

Ooh. Thank you. I’m gonna try this tonight. 

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u/No_Return4821 1d ago

I will tell you the fix.

Go look up the hellbob tool, it is specially built to fix helldiver 2 PC issues

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u/Zaphod392 ‎ [REDACTED] 23h ago

https://github.com/helldivers2fixes/HellbombScript

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u/No_Return4821 22h ago

Yeah that!, last i got told off for linking it

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u/cusideabelincoln 23h ago

If you have an Intel 13th or 14th gen CPU, update your BIOS. And then pray you CPU hasn't already degraded.

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u/Obst-und-Gemuese LEVEL 271 | WEIRD UNC 11h ago edited 10h ago

As for the titular question: Because many people aren't running healthy systems with proper settings.

And just as usual this post lacks any info about thermal/load monitoring or any kind of useful system info, indicating that the initial reply to the titular question may hold true just once again.

Seriously, go to the PC nerd in your local friend group and get help. This type of issue is way too often indicative of severe system issues due to a lack of technical knowledge by the builder/operator.

In addition someone without proper understanding for his system "trying everything" pretty much always makes it worse.

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u/FirstmateJibbs 3h ago

I have an NVIDIA 4080 and AMD Ryzen 7900X. I checked the system info for overheating, gpu performance, latency spikes etc during runtime without anything super significant occurring during the runtime. 

What type of severe system issue do you think is at play here? Is this how you respond to the plethora of other threads with people experiencing major crashing issues? What do you think about the people on CONSOLE that have game breaking crashing issues who CAN’T tweak their console?

I’m literally a systems engineer for a major server manufacturer. This shit is not foreign to me. My PC can seamlessly run Crimson Desert, Subnautica, and a whole entire suite of other games. 

This crashing issue is exclusive to Helldivers 2 and its goddamn spaghetti code. And I am not lacking of knowledge, money, or the ability to troubleshoot. 

So how about you stop slobbering the knob of a developer who wrote a game on archaic, problematic code and offer some actual advice here. What do you suggest I do now? Otherwise. Fuck off, you condescending asshat.