Dota 2 unexpectedly crashes: what to do
Technical questions
23.06.2022
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Dota 2 crashes, i.e. stops working.
What to do in this situation? There are several solutions to this problem.
- Add Dota 2 and Steam to the exclusions of all antiviruses, firewalls and firewalls.
- Open Steam, games library, right click on Dota2, select properties tab, local files and verify integrity of cache. This will help Dota 2 update its files if they are deleted.
- If the second option did not work, then delete the part of the Dota files responsible for the operation of Dota 2 itself. To do this, you need to go to the Dota 2 root folder (folder Steam, SteamApps</strong >, Common, Dota 2) and delete the bin folder in this folder. After that, check the cache. This folder weighs about 30 megabytes and the check will be quick.
- If you have any mods, remove them. They may not be compatible with DotA.
- If all this did not help, download the special program Steam Cleaner. It will clean your registry and blob files. In these files, an error may occur that prevents Dota 2 from starting or occurs already during launch, which leads to Dota 2 crash.
- Remove Dota 2 completely and redownload it.
- Delete the entire Steam folder and Steam itself. It is advisable to combine with the previous paragraph.
- If you don’t want to delete the entire Dota or Steam folder, then try the following things:
- Delete the bin folder;
- In the platform section, delete all cfg files;
- Remove files in the root with an extension similar to dmp (different in format) and from 30-32 mb scales;
- In the dota folder, go to addons and delete everything from there;
- Launch dota. There should be an error. Further RMB-properties & local files — check cache.
- Turn off Steam Cloud, delete all Dota 2 configs from cfg folder, enable Steam Cloud and recheck cache.
- Update your video card drivers. The lion’s share of problems are related to game updates that require the appropriate driver versions.
- If all this does not help, just wait for the next update. Often Valve install a non-working update and then fix it within a day.