Is your Unity game crashing on you, and you can’t find the solution? It can be very frustrating and quite frankly, it can kill the mood sometimes.
It can make development a lot harder if the game keeps crashing, and add a lot of time to it. But don’t fear, as with many technical issues, there is a solution for this. Depending on your system, however, it can be simple or it can be a lot more complicated than it seems.
If you are doing it on a PC, remember that the solution may not work for you, because every PC is it’s own thing. If you have an issue that’s not very common, and not many people are having it, than it may be your system and not Unity. But here are some of the things you can do to fix whatever issue you are having. Or at least, start on your journey towards a solution.
What’s happening?
First of all, you have to know what’s going on if possible. If you get an error message and get sent to the desktop, write down what the error is. If your game just freezes suddenly and doesn’t respond, you know it’s a different problem. The same goes for if you get a BSOD and had to restart the computer. Know what you are looking for.
This sounds very obvious, especially if you already have experience with dealing with this sort of issue but bear with me. A lot of inexperienced users may end up skipping this step entirely, and spend hours in forums and Reddit posts for nothing. If you are in this situation, don’t even start your search before having an idea of what is going on.
Update your drivers
Another obvious one, but a good first step solution regardless to any PC problems. Sometimes the issue is as simple as an old graphics card driver that needs to be updated. But sometimes there’s no obvious way of knowing which driver needs updating, especially if you are using the same PC for a while. Also, remember to update your sound drivers, as a lot of people just forget that those exist. It’s a good thing to remember to install the latest version of DirectX, too.
Sometimes, however, updating the driver is not enough. If there is an issue with the driver, you can always reinstall the driver. Whatever the case, we urge you to be careful with what you are doing, or else you risk doing something you’re not supposed to: updating a driver can do more damage than good in some cases.
Search the game forums
If nothing helps, then maybe someone had the same issue as you do now, and found a solution. Try and search on the developer’s forums and community pages for people that are having crashes and that have the same errors as you do. Preferably, you will take note of the person’s PC specs and compare them to your own. The solution is usually found when many people are working on it, so it’s a safe bet that you will find it there.
But if you can’t, you can always ask the community, and sometimes some other developer will know the answer. Remember to add in your PC specs, and any error messages you may have, to make people’s lives easier when trying to help you.
Conclusion
A game crashing on Unity can be a lot of different things. Maybe it’s your RAM, or your GPU drivers, or the latest Windows Update that messed everything up. It’s hard to tell exactly, but usually, the issues can be fixed or at least worked around. It may even be the case that one time Unity is working fine, but another one is crashing all the time, so it may not even be something with Unity.
A lot of things can happen during development, and if you are not very experienced, it can be frustrating most of the time. But why not seek help from professionals instead? You know, people that have already been there and know how to make it stop crashing. Contact us today!
