How to fix Mount and Blade: Bannerlord 2 Crash on Launch Issues

Mount and Blade: Bannerlord 2 Crash on Launch
Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord

Mount and Blade: Bannerlord 2 is finally available on Steam as an Early Access title. If you’re running into Mount and Blade: Bannerlord 2 Crash on Launch Issues, here’s how you can mitigate those.

The game had a peak user count of 228k on Steam, surpassing even Grand Theft Auto V.

Fix Mount and Blade: Bannerlord 2 Crash on Launch

If you’re getting any sort of crashes when you launch the game, you can try some of the methods below to fix it.

Download and Install the following Executables

Download each of these and install them.

Update your Windows

Make sure you are on the latest versions of Microsoft Windows.

You can manually update it by navigating to Windows Settings and then Update and Security.

Add an exception to your anti-virus

Sometimes, a lot of third and first-party anti-virus software can flag the crash reporting tool as a false negative. To alleviate that, just add your game’s folder into the Anti-virus’s exception folder.

If you’re using Windows Defender, follow the steps below.

  • Go to Start  > Settings  > Update & Security  > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection
  • Under Virus & threat protection settings, select Manage settings, and then under Exclusions, select Add or remove exclusions
  • Select Add an exclusion, and then select the folder where your game is installed

Update GPU Drivers

You can download the latest drivers for your GPU from the links provided by Guru3D below

Remove a file mentioned below

Head over to the following directory and remove the file available here

SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Mount & Blade II Bannerlord/Modules/SandBox/ModuleData/Languages/CN

Delete whatever is present here.

That’s all you can do to fix the crash at launch issues.

While you’re here, make sure you check out our other guides for Bannerlord 2 as well.

Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord on Steam

The game is currently available on Steam as an Early Access title.

You can purchase it from the following link.

If you purchase till 13th April, you will get 10% off, and more discount if you own previous entries.

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