Hello steam community,

I love HZD, but recently I decided to create a whole new build because my PSU went bad in my old one. Aside from that, I noticed that my newer build, despite having the latest hardware, is experiencing issues. I've also seen reports from other players experiencing crashes. Personally, I would get into the main menu and attempt to "Continue," only to have my brand new PC crash. It's worth noting that nothing is overclocked. I ran some tests, and all of my hardware comes back clean, as it should, I'd hope! All other games I have encountered no issues with lag or crashing, only HZD. Here is the solution I have found, as someone suggested, which will be below. Side note, I have closed and reloaded the game five times with success for further testing purposes of course, and via fast travel just in case. The only thing I notice is that loading times, like fast travel or entering the game, are slower due to this solution ( possibly ), but hey, at least you can play now, I hope. My old build had no problems, with an RTX 2060 and Windows 10 as the OS. I'm not sure if it has something to do with Windows 11 or my hardware in my new build. It seems to be working now.


The solution :

Find the .exe of HZD and right click the application.
Select Properties.
Go to Compatibility tab.
Click the check mark for 'Run this program in compatibility mode for'
Should already have populated Windows 8
-- I also personally checked "Run as administrator" for each time too.


Shout out to the steam community players that found this solution, as I now can play again. I hope this helps some of you or all.