Need for Speed Unbound "crash to desktop" error: How to fix, possible reasons, and more

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Developed by Criterion Games, Need for Speed Unbound marks the NFS franchise's first exclusive release on current-generation consoles, i.e., PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, as well as PC.

While the game performs great on current-generation consoles, players on PC have been facing issues with its random crashes.

Many have been reporting crashing issues with the game ever since Need for Speed Unbound was available on early access for EA Play subscribers and pre-owners of the more expensive "Palace edition."

In some rare instances, the game crashes even before reaching the main menu, rendering the title virtually unplayable for many players.

While Criterion Games is yet to release a patch for the game, there are a few workarounds that players can try.

Need for Speed Unbound is easily one of the most visually arresting games released this year. With a gorgeous art style that mixes photorealistic graphics and unique graffiti-like aesthetics, Need for Speed Unbound is not an easy game to run on underpowered PC hardware.

While the game's requirements aren't that high, with the minimum GPU requirements being a demi-decade old Nvidia GTX 1050ti and just eight gigabytes of RAM, it does require a relatively powerful mid-range CPU.

The game also has a shader cache-related issue which requires players to manually remove the cache file from the game's directory.

Thus, the possible reasons why the game might be crashing on certain PC configurations are:

Here are the steps that players can follow to potentially fix the crashing issue with Need for Speed Unbound:

One of the biggest reasons for games crashing on certain PC configurations is that they don't meet the minimum system requirements.

It could be the GPU having less VRAM than the