The second part of the thriller Little Nightmares has finally made it to its release. Many players were satisfied with the new project of Tarsier Studios, however, some of them note that they had to face some unpleasant technical problems, for example, crashes and freezes during downloads.
In today’s article, we’ll take a look at potential solutions to the most common Little Nightmares 2 problems.
Little Nightmares 2 system requirements
Minimum system requirements
- Requires 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-4350
- RAM: 4 GB of RAM
- Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
- DirectX: Version 11
Recommended system requirements
- Requires 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 | AMD FX-8350
- RAM: 4 GB of RAM
- Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB
- DirectX: Version 11
Little Nightmares 2 is by no means a demanding toy, but on a PC weaker than the minimum requirements, problems are still expected. Make sure your PC is at least suitable for the minimum wage!
In-game resolution
The main reason for Little Nightmares 2 crashes is a discrepancy between the set resolution and the resolution of your monitor. To fix this problem, you need to get the game to run in windowed mode. If your Little Nightmares 2 crashes right on launch and you can’t even get to the graphics settings, then you need to change the resolution through the game’s configuration file or through the Steam launch parameters.
To do the latter, you need:
- launch the Steam client;
- go to the library of your games;
- right-click on Little Nightmares 2 and select Properties;
- go to tab General;
- enter values into the empty string of launch parameters -windowed -noborder;
- save changes.
After that Little Nightmares 2 should stop crashing. If everything is still the same and the problem has not been resolved, then use the solutions below.
Launching the game with default settings
After downloading the game, do not change any of its settings! If crashes appeared immediately after changing certain settings in Little Nightmares 2, then this is the problem. We suggest that you play with the default settings and change them systematically, one at a time, to avoid crashes. To reset all settings to their default values, you need to delete the game config files in the documents on the system partition of the disk.
Updating video and sound card drivers
Little Nightmares 2 may crash to the desktop if your graphics card drivers are out of date or damaged. But what about sound card drivers? We rarely think about them, and they are the ones that can cause frequent crashes of video games. Do you have a discrete sound card in your computer? Then you definitely need to install drivers for it from the manufacturer, and not be content with drivers from Windows. As for the video drivers, use the following links to update them:
If you have an Nvidia GPU and Little Nightmares 2 crashes even after updating the drivers, try installing the so-called studio drivers. Apparently, this version of the drivers eliminates the crashes of Little Nightmares 2, at least according to some players on the net.
Launch Little Nightmares 2 after Clean Boot
Some games do not tolerate third-party software running in the background of the OS. We recommend that you perform a clean boot and see how Little Nightmares 2 reacts. To perform a clean boot, you need to do the following:
- click Win + R;
- write in msconfig and press Enter;
- go to tab Services;
- check the box next to the option Hide Microsoft services;
- click on the button Disable all;
- go to tab Startup;
- click on the hyperlink Open task manager;
- deactivate all third-party programs;
- restart your PC.
Try starting Little Nightmares 2 again to check if the game is working fine or not.
Updating DirectX Libraries
Another reason for Little Nightmares 2 crashes is the lack of required DirectX libraries. Go to the following link and update these libraries:
Reset overclocking the processor and video card
Have you overclocked your graphics card and processor? This may be the reason for all the problems with Little Nightmares 2. Try resetting the clock settings for the CPU and GPU to factory settings and see if the situation changes. Is MSI Afterburner running on your computer? First of all, turn it off and restart your PC, then start the game again.
Recovering game files
Something may have gone wrong and Little Nightmares 2’s files were corrupted during their initial upload to Steam. It is very easy to fix this by running the process of checking the integrity of the game files in the Steam client. Here’s what you need to do:
- open Steam;
- go to the games library;
- right-click on Little Nightmares 2 and select Properties;
- go to tab Local files;
- click on the button Run integrity check of game files;
- wait until the missing files are downloaded.
Launch Little Nightmares 2 and test it. If some files were really damaged, then the game should now work as intended.
Disable Steam Overlay
Some players claim that they managed to get rid of crashes and problems with the launch of Little Nightmares 2 when they deactivated the in-game Steam overlay. To disable the overlay, you need to do the following:
- open Steam;
- go to your games library;
- right-click on Little Nightmares 2 and select Properties;
- go to tab General;
- uncheck the option Enable Steam overlay in game;
- save changes and restart Steam.
At the moment, this is all that can be recommended regarding crashes and problems with the launch of Little Nightmares 2. If you know of any other solutions, please share them in the comments below the article.