Doom Eternal freezes and crashes on startup, how do I fix?

[GraphicBleeder]

Hey, all. So whenever I try to launch Eternal through Steam, it crashes as soon as the bethesda and id logo animations are done and the little "teleporting" loading screen is done. I've tried restarting my computer, uninstalling and reinstalling the game, updating my graphics driver, verifying the integrity of game files, pretty much everything I can think of. I'm out of ideas on what I can do to fix this problem and I can't change the game settings because it crashes before I can get to them. Anyone have ideas for a fix?

[dylux]

I have no idea what pc you are using nor its specs so I will give you the general fixes:

 

1) I had the same problem and we aren't the only ones with this issue. DooM Eternal is one helluva fussy game. Turned out that my computer didn't meet the recommended requirements for the game. My graphics card met the minimum, but not the recommended requirements. (I had AMD Radeon R9 290 [4GB] and everything else met the recommended). I wasn't about to invest in a graphics card for just one game. So I ended up scrapping the whole idea and just bought it for the PS4. Steam sucks. All I ever hear is problems with them. So I would start with checking to see if you meet the recommended requirements (below).

 

2) You didn't hear it from me, *coughs*  but another solution I read about was that someone downloaded a *coughs* crack and installed it into the game installation directory folder, overwriting some Steam files, the voila! Problem solved.

 

3) Another solution was to update the game to its current version.

 

From the Bethesda site: https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/49836

 

PC Minimum Specs 

(1080p / 60 FPS / Low Quality Settings)

64-bit Windows 7/64-Bit Windows 10

Intel Core i5 @ 3.3 GHz or better, or AMD Ryzen 3 @ 3.1 GHz or better

8GB System RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 1050Ti (4GB), GTX 1060 (3GB), GTX 1650 (4GB) or AMD Radeon R9 280 (3GB), AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB) or RX 470 (4GB)

50 GB hard drive space

 

PC Ultra-Nightmare Specs 

(2160p / 60 FPS / Ultra-Nightmare Settings) OR (1440p / 120 FPS / Ultra-Nightmare Settings)

64-bit Windows 10

Intel Core i9-9900K or better, or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or better

16GB System RAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11GB) or AMD Radeon VII (16GB)

50 GB hard drive space

 

PC Recommended Specs (1440p / 60 FPS / High Quality Settings)

64-bit Windows 10Intel Core i7-6700K or better, or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X or better

8GB System RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB), RTX 2060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX Vega56 (8GB)

OR (1080p/ 60 FPS / High Quality Settings) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), NVIDIA GeForce 970 (4GB), AMD RX 480 (8GB) Note: On GTX 970 only - set Texture Quality to Medium

50 GB hard drive space