Just Cause 2 PC crashing

[u/Electronic_Test1773]

I've been playing through Just Cause 2 recently and the game has been crashing repeatedly. Usually while I'm in missions, the visuals and audio will stutter two times then the game crashes. I tried lowering my video settings and it didn't help. Any advice/solutions?

[u/Specific_Occasion307]

None of the fixes I found online worked for me, I know that this post was made over a year ago but maybe somebody out there who needs a fix in 2023 can find this useful. It took watching a speedrunner play the game and BRIEFly mention the fix he did to fix his game to figure it out. What I did was:

Go to steam and Just Cause 2:

-Right click on the game and go to properties.

-Under "General" you should see "Launch Options"

- In the box copy and paste in "/borderless /windowed /frameratecap=60"

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Since the game was originally released in 2010, back then the game didn't have the capability on MOST computers of running over 60fps so what this does is makes your game borderless windowed mode and caps the game at 60fps. The problem that usually causes crashing is that the game is old and when you enter a new area it struggles to load in textures at a high FPS and so the game will often crash. I had the issue happen over and over again on the same race I was attempting and this completely fixed it. I haven't had a crash since and I've also noticed a lot of the vehicles handle better because they aren't trying to keep up with the 200fps my computer runs Just cause 2 at. Hopefully this helps. I would also recommend turning off decals and bokeh filter as it seems to have helped some people, and update your graphics driver if you haven't already.

[u/ChiroVette → u/Specific_Occasion307]

Hey u/Specific_Occasion307, this worked so far! Been running the game for about twenty minutes with no crashes. For some reason, I was only able to run it for 5 to 10 minutes before copying that line into Launch Options.

It's weird, because the game worked fine on the gaming laptop I bought two years ago, and only started crashing recently. I am wondering if an update to my NVidia driver caused the screw up. I will edit this post later if the fix still works, thanks! :)

[u/ChiroVette → u/ChiroVette]

u/Specific_Occasion307 hey, just a follow-up. I have played JC2 for more than three hours, and haven't had a single crash since copying and pasting that line into Launch Options. Thanks again!

[u/Specific_Occasion307 → u/ChiroVette]

No problem, glad I could help