How to Fix Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim Crash to desktop CTD, Crash on startup, freezing & Black Screen Issue
Step 1) Restart computer
Step 2) Do a clean installation of graphics driver https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/ https://www.amd.com/en/support
Step 3) Allow the game exe file to your antivirus program/Windows Security and Firewall
Step 4) Run the game on dedicated graphics card
Step 5) Verify the game files
Step 6) Run the game as an administrator
Step 7) Disable Steam Overlay, close all the overlay apps, close all the overclocking application, perform clean boot
Step 8) Install Visual C++ Files https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-160
Step 9) Update your Windows
Step 10) Disconnect multiple monitors, unplug all the USB devices, Logitech wheel, joystick, Razer Tartarus gamepad, vjoy, Turn off Razer Synapse (razor lighting effects) and MSI Dragon Center, corsair software, end nahimic services & lightingservice.exe in task manager, remove the undervolt
Step 11) Uninstall and reinstall the game to the different drive (Try SSD first)
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