Game crashing on startup

[SnowmanBTW]

Game crashes on startup. Using Most recent (591.74) and previous NVidia Drivers.
Only able to get in game by using -vulkan launch option.


Faulting application name: deadlock.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6971bd7e
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.26100.7623, time stamp: 0x5b6dddee
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000041a02
Faulting process id: 0x4A68
Faulting application start time: 0x1DC8E130D1972D7
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Deadlock\game\bin\win64\deadlock.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: fd9ec0a4-704b-47b0-b04e-5cfd5f288e40
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

 

[SnowmanBTW]

-vulkan is no longer working. Immediately crashing on startup.

 

[CapnSmacks]

C

Thread 'Solution with crash on startup the game'

Jan 28, 2026

Just reinstall steam

• CapnSmacks
• Replies: 2
• Forum: Bug Reports

 

[buckleybishops]

same issue here, started happening after graves' launch. -vulkan is working for me, atleast for now.
Running:
GPU: RTX 4060 8GB
MEMORY: 2x8 GB of DDR4-2400MHZ
CPU: Intel i5-9400f
OS: Windows 10 Build 19045.6456