If Dark Souls 3 is crashing at higher resolutions- 1440p, 4K, try turning down your screen resolution to 1080p.

For black screen issue, you should check that the in-game resolution matches the resolution supported by your display device so that there should not be any conflict.

For (0xc000007b) error, try to reinstall DirectX, Visual C++ and.

For APPCRASH error with faulting module as ntdll.dll, try running the game in Windowed mode.

Check that your antivirus/firewall is not blocking the game.

Sometimes a clean driver install can also solve the crashing issues.

GPU drivers must be updated to the latest version.

Dark Souls 3- Crash at startup/ Game not responding/ APPCRASH/ Black screen/ White screen/ (0xc000007b) error:.

Start the game with the Knight class (if you don’t want to turn down graphics settings).Ģ.

Turn down the Lighting Quality to Low in Graphics settings.

Update you GPU drivers (especially if you are an AMD user).

For now, the available workarounds are as follows:. It is most likely an issue from the software aspect of the game that should get fixed permanently by a patch. The game crashes when the player is engaged in a Boss fight during the tutorial mode at the start of the game. This is the most frustrating crashing issue of the game right now.

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