Hood Crashes or Won’t Start – Players face crashes, launch issues, and various other bugs while playing Hood: Outlaws & Legends for PC. This guide consists of a list of errors and how to fix them.
Hood Outlaws & Legends PC – Black Screen Startup Failure – Game Won’t Start – How To Fix It
The game does not start
Does your system meet the minimum requirements?
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS:Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor:AMD FX 6300 X6 / Intel Core i5-3570K
- Memory:8GB RAM
- Graphics:2GB VRAM, Radeon HD 7870 / GeForce GTX 660
- DirectX:Version 12
- Storage:40 GB available space
- Additional Notes:40 FPS, 1920 × 1080 in low.
Method 1: verify game files
STEAM
- Right click on Hood: Outlaws & Legends in LIBRARY
- Select properties
- Click LOCAL FILES> VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES.
EPIC GAMES STORE
- Go to Hood: Outlaws & Legends in your library and click on the three dots
- Once open, click Verify in the drop-down navigation.
Method 2: Do you have the Unreal Engine 4 prerequisites installed?
- Right click on Hood: Outlaws & Legends> Manage> Browse Local Files
- Go to Hood> Engine> Extras> Redist> en-us
- Right click UE4PrereqSetup_x64.exe application> Run as administrator
Method 3: update video drivers
It seems that a lot of people have managed to fix the game crashing problem simply by updating their video drivers.
Here are the links to the latest drivers for AMD and Nvidia graphics cards:
Method 4: update your Windows operating system
- Right-click the Windows Start button> Settings
- Click Update & Security
- Click the Check for updates button from Windows Update
Method 5 – Run HOOD: OUTLAWS & LEGENDS in Admin mode at startup
- Right click on Hood: Outlaws & Legends> Manage> Browse Local Files
- Go to Hood> Binaries> Win64
- Right click on Hood.exe application> Properties
- Click on the Compatibility tab
- Check Run this program as administrator and click OK
Method 6 – Allow HOOD: OUTLAWS & LEGENDS in Windows security or antivirus on your PC
- Right-click the Windows Start button> Settings
- Select Update & Security> Windows Security
- Click on Virus & Threat Protection
- Click Protection History under Current Threats
- Look for the Hood.exe application from Protected Folder Access Blocked.
- Click Actions> Allow on Device
- Close Windows security
Fixing the black screen problem
Here’s how to fix the black screen issue on Hood:
EPIC GAMES STORE
- Go to Epic Games> Hood> Hood> Binaries> Win64.
- Right-click the Hood.exe application> Properties.
- Click on the Compatibility tab.
- Check Disable full screen optimizations and click OK
STEAM
- Right-click Hood: Outlaws & Legends> Manage> Browse Local Files.
- Go to Hood> Binaries> Win64
- Right click on Hood.exe application> Properties
- Click on the Compatibility tab
- Check Disable full screen optimizations and click OK
Startup problem failure
Application loading error 3: 0000065432
- Launch Steam and click on Steam (top left)> Settings> Downloads
- Click the CLEAR DOWNLOAD CACHE button and click OK
- Steam will restart automatically
- Right click on Hood: Outlaws & Legends in LIBRARY> Properties
- Click LOCAL FILES> VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES
NOTE: This process will not affect your currently installed games, but you will need to log into Steam afterwards.
If you are using MSI Afterburner
- Open the RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS)
- Click the Add button (bottom left)
- Go to Steam> steamapps> common> Hood> Hood> Binaries> Win64
- Add the Hood.exe application in the application profile properties
- Set the application detection level to None for the game application
- Close the RivaTuner statistics server
Some third-party app could be the reason
The game does not explicitly support and may even see certain applications / software as a conflict or threat and as such refuses to run or crashes.
Disable all background software or applications, including antivirus, firewall, and any FPS boosting or monitoring software. Here’s Steam explaining everything. Temporarily disable these apps and find which app is interfering with the game:
- Right-click the Windows Start button> Task Manager
- Click the Home tab (click More details to display the tabs)
- Restart the computer
Note: Many of the methods written in the “Game won’t start” section may also work in this scenario.
Note: All the methods included in this article have been recommended by the developers themselves. If none of these work for you, you can focus on technical support.
