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5 months ago

F1 23 Crashes on launch every time!

So this was my first time launching F1 23 since I had just got it off of gamepass and I wanted to give it a go especially since I had been hearing nothing but negative about F1 24. However, every time I launch the game, it goes into a windowed mode which is out of focus. On a normal situation, this is no problem, just click on the window to refocus right? Apparently not, this game hates it if I move the mouse anywhere but the game screen. Upon attempting to refocus the game window, it freezes for a few seconds before straight up crashing. It does the same thing if i try to alt tab. 

Diagnostic steps I already took without success : 

- Running the game in different display modes via the config file since ingame settings are not accessible. 

- Double checking that DLSS didnt somehow turn on even though I have an AMD GPU.

- Running the game as admin. 

Running the game as admin removed the crashing upon attempting to refocus, but after a while I just got a blank grey screen with the sounds of cars driving in the background until the window just closed itself and the game crashed. I saw no error codes for anything upto this point. 

My specs are : 
Intel Core i5-13600k 

AMD Radeon 7900XT

32 GB DDR4 

The game is stored on an SSD

Is anyone else facing this issue?

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  • @gamerstar2005 wrote:

    So this was my first time launching F1 23 since I had just got it off of gamepass and I wanted to give it a go especially since I had been hearing nothing but negative about F1 24. However, every time I launch the game, it goes into a windowed mode which is out of focus. On a normal situation, this is no problem, just click on the window to refocus right? Apparently not, this game hates it if I move the mouse anywhere but the game screen. Upon attempting to refocus the game window, it freezes for a few seconds before straight up crashing. It does the same thing if i try to alt tab. 

    Diagnostic steps I already took without success : 

    - Running the game in different display modes via the config file since ingame settings are not accessible. 

    - Double checking that DLSS didnt somehow turn on even though I have an AMD GPU.

    - Running the game as admin. 

    Running the game as admin removed the crashing upon attempting to refocus, but after a while I just got a blank grey screen with the sounds of cars driving in the background until the window just closed itself and the game crashed. I saw no error codes for anything upto this point. 

    My specs are : 
    Intel Core i5-13600k 

    AMD Radeon 7900XT

    32 GB DDR4 

    The game is stored on an SSD

    Is anyone else facing this issue?


    No. Paste or attach a dxdiag.txt please

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