Fix Sons Of The Forest Not Launching, Unity Crash, PC Crash/Restart, Crashing, Freezing On PC
90Fix Sons Of The Forest Causing Computer Crashing/Restarting/Shutting Down,Fix Sons Of The Forest UnityPlayer.Dll crash, Crash to desktop (CTD), Crashing, Freezing & Black Screen on PC,Fix Sons Of The Forest Not Launching/Starting
Step 1) Restart your PC
Step 2) Unplug all the USB devices, hotas, steering wheel, additional joystick, throttle, Razer Tartarus gamepad, Cronus Zen. Close 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, Disconnect multiple monitor
Step 3) Rename SonsOfTheForest save folder
Step 4) Delete the save game files (This will result in loss of game progress)
Step 5) Switch power options to "Balanced"
Step 6) Try -dx11 or -d3d11 or -dx12 in launch options
Step 7) Increase the Virtual Memory:
View Advanced system settings
Initial Size: 1.5 x Total Ram
Maximum Size: 3 X Total Ram
Step 8) Run the game as an administrator from the game installation folder
Step 9) Do a clean installation of graphics driver
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
https://www.amd.com/en/support
Step 10) Roll back graphics driver
Step 11) Verify the game files
Step 12) Disable Steam Overlay, close all the overlay apps (Discord, GeForce Experience, Nvidia shadow play overlay, AMD overlay), close all the overclocking application, perform clean boot
Step 13) Run the game on dedicated graphics card
Step 14) Install Visual C++ Files https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-160
Step 15) Update your Windows
Step 16) Update System BIOS
Step 17) Try Windowed mode , set DLSS to Quality and lower down graphics settings
Step 18) Uninstall and reinstall the game to the different drive (Try SSD first)