Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak: 'Crash on startup' error - How to fix, possible reasons, and more

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The highly-anticipated expansion, Sunbreak, for Monster Hunter Rise has finally been released and players are excited to see which new adventures await them in the two new locales of Sunbreak, the Citadel and Jungle. While the expansion's release was fairly polished and bug-free on Nintendo Switch, the PC release, however, has created a few challenges for some players.

There have been reports of players facing constant crashes on their PCs while trying to access the DLC or even booting up the game. Monster Hunter Rise was previously exclusive to Nintendo Switch and was only recently ported over to PC and made available via Steam. The launch of Sunbreak, however, was simultaneous on both platforms.

Given the fact that the expansion is in its early release stage, some minor errors and issues are bound to be there, especially on PCs. It's obvious that Capcom themselves are not oblivious to the problems players are facing with Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, and therefore, a patch or hotfix might already be in the works. However, until then, there are a few things that players can try to get the game to launch without crashing.

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak on PC can have several reasons for facing errors like crashes, stuttering, framerate drops, and so on, due to certain factors such as the PC not fulfilling the specified system requirements for the game, not having up-to-date graphics drivers, conflicting with rogue background tasks, outdated Windows version, antivirus or firewall blocking the game's executable, and many more.

The ideal and official way to fix Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak crashing issue is to wait for Capcom to issue a hotfix or patch that rectifies the error, but given the nature of these games, it might