solving errors, connection problems, crashes and other problems

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Survival MMOs are becoming very popular these days and many gamers are interested in them. This spring, a new type of game was released – PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This project is still in Early Access, but the developers are supporting it based on feedback from their community.

Since PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is in Early Access, it directly guarantees that you will definitely encounter any bugs. Which, in fact, happened to many players. The most common problems with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds include freezing on loading, connection problems, the game won’t launch, image bugs and other annoyances that prevent you from enjoying the game.

The developers release patches weekly, but if you are so unbearable to play PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, you can use the methods below to solve problems of various origins. However, as a precaution, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the system requirements for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

Minimum system requirements

  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300
  • RAM: 6 GB of RAM
  • Video card: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Network: Broadband internet connection
  • Disk space: 30 GB

Fixing problems with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds connection error

When trying to play PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, you may encounter a connection error. This is the biggest problem for all users. We will now describe how to try to fix this. Tips come from the developers themselves:

  • Just try restarting your Steam client. This is the most effective way to solve the most common problems.
  • Disable Windows Defender and other third-party firewalls that can stop the game from making connections to servers.
  • Try restarting your router or try connecting to the network directly without any intermediaries.
  • If you still can’t find a solution to the problem, then you can try using some kind of VPN.
  • You can try to open ports 80, 81 and 443…
  • You can also try checking the rules for Windows Firewall. It is possible that your firewall simply prevents the game from creating a connection to the server.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds not starting

If you click on the “Play” button, but it does not lead to any result, then you obviously encountered a problem that affected many players. Some of them report that the problem is with the BattlEye anti-cheat service. Try going through this list of solutions:

  • Check the integrity of the game files via Steam.
  • Install all Windows updates.
  • Launch the Steam client through the Administrator.
  • Try to run the game itself on behalf of the Administrator.
  • You can try manually starting the BattleEye service:
    • Click on Win + R, write Services.msc and press Enter.
    • Find BattleEye in the list of services and double-click on it with the left mouse button.
    • Select “Startup type – Automatic” and click on the “Start” button.
  • Set Launch Options to -noborder, -autoconfig or -windowed.
  • Resize the screen manually. To do this, do the following:
    • Walk through C: Users username AppData Local TslGame Saved Config WindowsNoEditor2…
    • Open GameUserSettings.
    • Find the options
      ResolutionSizeX =
      ResolutionSizeY =
      DesiredScreenWidth =
      DesiredScreenHeight =
       and set them to the desired resolution.

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds crashes

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds can sometimes crash, which has already been indicated by many users more than once. To fix this problem, try the following:

  • The game may crash due to the fact that it is launched at a strange resolution. Follow the steps above and replace your resolution with something standard like 720p or 1080p.
  • Crashes when starting Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds may be due to a missing file api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll… If so, then follow this link with our article, which describes all kinds of ways to solve the file missing error api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll…
  • Install the .NET Framework.

Picture tearing in Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds

First of all, try enabling Vsync via the utility for your graphics card. If this does not help, then you can make some changes to the configuration file. Walk through C: Users \ AppData Local TslGame Saved Config WindowsNoEditor and open the config with Notepad. Then find the line “ViewDistance” and replace the value 0 on the one…

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds crashes

You need to understand that the game is still at the development stage and problems with optimization are quite an expected situation. However, if you are faced with a really terrible frame rate, then you can try setting the launch parameters of the game on Steam to malloc = system + mat_antialias 0 window -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -sm4…

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