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SCP:SL crashes to desktop with no warning or pop-up (silent crash)!

NOTE:

Ensure your PC meets our minimum system requirements. Your PC specs should match or be more powerful than the current minimum specs on steam. Anything less powerful risks having issues occur simply due to your hardware not being able to keep up with SCP:SL. As well, please ensure you are on an up-to-date version of windows 8.1 or 10- Windows 11 and other operating systems are not supported at this time.

Resolution steps

Ensure your System & GPU Drivers are up-to-date

Check for System Updates

To check for system-wide updates, open Windows settings, (Press ⊞ Win + I) navigate to Update & Security. Then, click Check For Updates. If there are updates pending, press install now.

NVIDIA GPU

To check for updates for your NVIDIA GPU Drivers, You’ll need to install the GeForce Experience app. If you already have it installed, follow this video for how to check for updates:

AMD GPU

To update your AMD GPU Drivers, Follow this link to their website to download and install the AMD Driver Upgrade Utility.


Still having issues?

If none of the above steps are working for you, or if you’re having trouble following them, please open a support ticket on our discord, so that one of our staff may assist you directly. A link to our discord is found here.