Following a shock reveal at 2025’s The Recreation Awards, the brand new hero shooter Highguard has arrived. Nevertheless, the free-to-play recreation seems to be crashing on PC. If it is taking place to you, there could also be some steps you’ll be able to take to repair the difficulty.
In keeping with the Steam charts, Highguard peaked at over 97,000 concurrent gamers shortly after its debut. That quantity could have put a big pressure on the sport’s servers. It’s at present dropped down to simply over 11,000 concurrent gamers.
If the crashes are attributable to a problem on the sport’s finish, developer Wildlight Leisure will probably patch it out. If the crashes are taking place attributable to gamers’ computer systems these are the really useful steps to take presently:
- Restart your PC
- Improve your GPU drivers
- Confirm the sport’s information
The primary two steps are straightforward to perform, however you may must observe the directions beneath to examine the sport’s information.
- Launch Steam and log in.
- Go to the Recreation Library.
- Discover Highguard. Proper-click and after which click on on “Properties.”
- Go to “Put in Information,” and search for a immediate that reads “Confirm integrity of recreation information.” Merely clicking on that ought to begin the method.
Highguard additionally requires a safe boot to play the sport, and we’ve an extended information to checking your safe boot and activating it. If none of these steps work, then the difficulty is probably going with the sport fairly than your laptop.
Regardless of some hiccups within the recreation’s launch, Wildlight Leisure’s CEO Dusty Welch advised GameSpot he does not imagine that Highguard will go the best way of Harmony. Welch additionally revealed that The Recreation Awards founder Geoff Keighley supplied the workforce a free spot on final 12 months’s present as a result of he believes within the recreation and its prospects for breaking out in opposition to the opposite hero shooters available on the market.
GameSpot’s preview for Highguard was largely optimistic and referred to as it a “contemporary sufficient combo” to be its personal factor.