How to fix crashing issues in Gray Zone Warfare

Many gamers are accustomed to crashes, especially during new content releases. While some can come with guiding error texts, most might leave you wondering what might have happened, like Gray Zone Warfare crashes.

Most crashes in Gray Zone Warfare don’t come attached with an error code, so fans have been wondering how to fix these crashes.

How to fix crashes in Gray Zone Warfare

To fix crashing issues in Gray Zone Warfare, turn off the NVIDIA in-game overlay and other similar overlays running in the background. Player reports suggest that closing overlays helped reduce crashes in Gray Zone Warfare, but we’ll still need to wait for Madfinger Games to roll out a permanent fix.

As an alternative fix for Gray Zone Warfare Crashes, you can:

• Install all the latest updates for the game, your GPU drivers and system
• Optimize your graphics card for the best performance instead of quality

If you can make it to the main screen, you should also lower your graphics settings there since it looks like the crashes can be tied to the available VRAM on your system.

Some players have also been reporting crashes due to insufficient memory errors. If that’s also the case for you, turn off all passively running programs in the background, including your antivirus software, before launching Gray Zone Warfare.

While some crashes come with error codes and bug reports, it’s difficult to find their root causes. “Unreal Process Has Crashed – UE-GZW,” “GPU Crash dump Triggered,” “GZWClientSteam_Win64_Shipping,” and “kernel32 ntdll” are some of the errors that pop up with random GZW crashes, and all are on Madfinger’s to-do list when it comes to bugs to fix.

These crashes can be a real buzzkill, especially when they cause progress to be lost or character factions to be reset. Imagine finally picking the same faction as your friends, only to have a crash switch you to the other side. Considering you may not be able to change your factions for a while, this can drive away quite a few players.

Additionally, at the time of writing, the main base area itself might be a crash hotspot. Most crashes happen in the main base, and players who make it out of there have been reporting that they could play the game without any crashes for hours. In my case, turning off the programs with overlays temporarily fixed the crashes, but then I had to deal with other problems like the initialize Skalla plugin error and the anti-cheat failed to start error. These errors, including the random crashes, should resolve as more optimization patches become available.