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JUNNNKEN 31 Aug @ 9:50am
HELP! FF7 Rebirth Crashing on Steam — Losing it
I’m at my wit’s end here. The game keeps crashing, and I can't figure out why. Here’s everything I’ve tried so far:

Updated motherboard, GPU, and Windows 11.
Deleted saves and turned off cloud sync.
Uninstalled and reinstalled the game.
Disabled Steam overlay.
Swapped out the .dll files from Final Fantasy 16.

After a crash, the game messes up the startup of all other games on the SSD. I get error messages like:
“An error occurred while launching game: Invalid platform”
“Disk write error”
“Missing game executable”

After restarting, all games can launch again.

Before launching the game, I validated the files (all good). After a crash, I validated again, and around 900 files are corrupted and can’t be re-downloaded due to a write error.

I can’t even get to Nibelheim. The game generally crashes at the loading scene or during a save.

Any software engineers out there who can offer advice? I’m seriously stuck.
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nullable 31 Aug @ 10:01am 
If hundreds of files are randomly corrupted I'd be curious about that. Doesn't seem likely that's caused by the game. Might want to look at the drive and run that through some diagnostics.

Write errors might also indicate disk issues.

The wrong platform error also raises questions. Make any hardware changes recently? Or could be the drive exhibiting even more serious issues.

If it were me I'd want to rule the disk out, if it was failing might want to look at saving important data and replacing the drive if you get consistent bad test results.

Also what are your system specs, make sure to detail SSD/HDDs since that seems like a reasonable place to start.
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JUNNNKEN 31 Aug @ 10:16am 
Hey, thanks for your response. I should’ve mentioned my specs earlier; they’re pretty decent:

Windows 11

Nvidia 3080 Founders Edition

GIGABYTE Z690 AORUS Master 1700 ATX (4x DDR5, 64GB RAM)

Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB

Intel Core i9-12900K

I checked the drives, and they seem to be healthy. I used the system storage tools, though, not any third-party software. I’ve got a dozen games saved on the drive, and they all run fine—except they crash after Final Fantasy VII crashes, which is pretty weird.

I haven’t made any hardware changes since I built the PC two years ago, and I’ve never had issues starting up or playing any games until now. This is really doin my head in.
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