technical troubleshooting guide
You have been waiting for this day for a long time and it has finally come: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has been released! The product from TaleWorlds Entertainment has received quite positive reviews from both critics and ordinary players. If you go to the game’s Steam page now, you will see that it has received 83% of positive reviews. However, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a game with a ton of technical glitches.
Various bugs, black screens, freezes, brakes, crashes on startup and even blue death screens are what players have to deal with when they try to play Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. However, the game is currently in Early Access, and therefore some of its problems can be forgiven.
In this guide, we’ll take a look at some of the most common errors and issues with Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and show you how to fix them. Before we move on, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the system requirements for the game.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord System Requirements
Minimum system requirements
- Requires 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 7 (64-bit only)
- Processor: Intel® Core ™ i3-8100 / AMD Ryzen ™ 3 1200
- RAM: 6 GB of RAM
- Video card: Intel® UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon ™ HD 7850 2GB
- Disk space: 60 GB
- Optional: When using the integrated video card, 2 GB of additional RAM is required. In the final version, the requirements may change.
Recommended system requirements
- Requires 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
- Processor: Intel® Core ™ i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen ™ 5 3600X
- RAM: 8 GB of RAM
- Video card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon ™ RX 580
- Disk space: 60 GB
- Additional Notes: Requirements may change in the final version.
Fixes bugs and other issues with Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord DLL Errors
When launching Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, see errors with missing DLL files such as d3d11.dll or msvcp110.dll? To troubleshoot such errors, you need to install the latest DirectX Libraries and the Visual C ++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2012. Use the links below:
You can also try to install the software located in the game folder itself.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord not working in full screen
First, try pressing Alt + Enter on your keyboard. This combination will help move your game from windowed to full screen mode. Next, go to the graphics settings of the game and check if the parameters you need are set there. If you tried to play Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord in a borderless mode, you shouldn’t. Set it to full screen mode and try changing your refresh rate, for example, from 60Hz to 59Hz.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord crashes on startup
Such a problem can be caused by a number of reasons: the hardware does not meet the minimum system requirements, the Windows operating system does not have the software necessary to run the game, the antivirus blocks some files of the game after its launch, etc. etc. By the way, about the antivirus: some users claim that Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord worked fine for them as soon as they turned off their Avast installed. You can also try updating your video driver.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord installation hangs
Make sure the Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord installation path does not contain any Cyrillic. For example, the installation of a game will likely hang if you install it to the D: Entertainment Games directory. Removing the Cyrillic alphabet – the problem is solved. Installation still hangs? Free up extra space on your disk and try not to overload your PC when installing Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Freezes
Some players complain that Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord may freeze at random moments in the game. Faced the same problem? Check if any component of your system is overheating. Get rid of overclocking the CPU or video card, if you have done so. Close all programs running in the background that require an active Internet connection.
Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) when launching Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
That’s right, launching Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord can cause a Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) to appear. Unfortunately, BSoD when launching video games often indicates some kind of problem with the player’s computer. Test your RAM, processor, graphics card and disk for problems with them. You can easily find all the necessary software for conducting tests on the net.
Black screen when launching Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Black screens when launching Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord may be caused by an outdated video driver or, in more rare cases, some kind of RAM problem. Use the links below to download and install the latest driver for your graphics card:
Low FPS in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Most importantly, check that your computer meets at least the minimum system requirements that were set by the developers. If your PC’s hardware does not even reach the minimum, then it is not surprising that you have a low FPS. Also, do not forget that you can go to the graphic settings and reduce some of the parameters. Be sure to try lowering the resolution, like 900p or even 720p. Of course, it’s also worth updating your graphics driver, especially if you haven’t done so in a while.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord not saved
There should not be any Cyrillic characters on the path of the game saves – only Latin ones! Remove all Cyrillic letters from the path to the document folder, restart your computer and check for the problem.
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Out of Memory Error
Possible cause: the game does not have enough RAM; lack of free space for the paging file; some programs cause RAM leaks. Free up free space on your disk, then look in the task manager, which programs consume the most RAM for their work and close the most “gluttonous” ones.
Controls not working in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Reconnect all USB input devices to your computer, and then re-check for an issue with the game.
Error 0xc000007b in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Be aware that this error most often occurs among owners of Nvidia video cards. If you have such a video card, then we advise you to start updating the video driver or reinstalling it completely. In the case of the latter, you can use such a useful program as Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU). Also make sure you have all the necessary software on your computer, i.e. DirectX, Visual C ++, .NET Framework, etc. etc.
