[SOLVED] Century: Age of Ashes keeps crashing on PC

Century: Age of Ashes is now available for free. However, just as everyone rushed in to master a growing roster of dragons and rule the skies, many PC gamers are interrupted by the game crashes. If you’re running into the exact same issue, don’t worry. You’ve landed on the right page, and you should be able to fix this issue easily after reading this article.

System requirements of Century: Age of Ashes for Windows PC

Check if your PC meets the system requirements of Century: Age of Ashes first. If you don’t know the system requirements of the game, just take a quick glance at the table below:

If your PC fails to meet the system requirements of the game, you may need to upgrade your PC first.

If you’re using a powerful PC but still suffer from game crashes, don’t worry. Just read on and try the fixes below.

Try these fixes

Whether the game crashes on startup or crashes in the middle of the game, you’ll find a fix to try in this article. You don’t need to try them all. Just work your way down the list until you find the one that works for you.

1. Verify integrity of game files
2. Update your graphics driver
3. Install the latest game patch
4. Disable overlays
5. Temporarily disable anti-virus software
6. Perform a clean boot

Verify integrity of game files

Century: Age of Ashes will crash if some of the game files are broken. Before trying anything more complicated, you can verify and repair game files easily in Steam:

1. Launch Steam and go to your Library.
2. Right-click on Century: Age of Ashes and select Properties.
   
3. Click LOCAL FILES on the left, then click Verify integrity of game files…. If Steam finds anything wrong with the game files, it will re-download them from its official server.
   

Depending on the size of the game files, it may take some time to verify all your game files.

Launch Century: Age of Ashes after the verifying process is complete. See if the game crashes again. If this issue persists, try the next fix, below.

Update your graphics driver

Graphics driver is essential to the functioning of video games. If Century: Age of Ashes keeps crashing on your PC, it’s likely that you have the corrupted or outdated graphics driver on your PC. So you should update your drivers to see if it fixes the game crashing issues.

You can update your graphics driver manually: first go to the manufacturer’s download page (AMD / NVIDIA), then search your model and download the correct driver installer. But if you don’t have the time, patience or skills to update the driver manually, you can do it automatically with Driver Easy.

Driver Easy will automatically recognize your system and find the correct drivers for it. You don’t need to know exactly what system your computer is running, you don’t need to be troubled by the wrong driver you would be downloading, and you don’t need to worry about making a mistake when installing. Driver Easy handles it all.

You can update your drivers automatically with either the FREE or the Pro version of Driver Easy. But with the Pro version it takes just 2 steps (and you get full support and a 30-day money back guarantee):

1. Download and install Driver Easy.
2. Run Driver Easy and click the Scan Now button. Driver Easy will then scan your computer and detect any problem drivers.
   
3. Click Update All to automatically download and install the correct version of all the drivers that are missing or out of date on your system. (This requires the Pro version – you’ll be prompted to upgrade when you click Update All.)
   
   Note: You can do it for free if you like, but it’s partly manual.
4. Restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

Install the latest game patch

The developer of Century: Age of Ashes releases regular game patches to fix bugs and improve gaming performance. It’s possible that a recent patch has caused the game crash issue, and that a new patch is required to fix it.

If a patch is available, it will be detected by Steam, and the latest game patch will be automatically downloaded and installed when you launch the game.

Launch Century: Age of Ashes again and check if the this fix works. If it didn’t work, or there was no new game patch available, move on to next fix, below.

Disable overlays

Overlays are handy. However, sometimes they may interfere with the game and would block the game files, which may cause the game to crash.

If you’re using the Steam Overlay while playing the game, try disabling Steam Overlay for Century: Age of Ashes:

1. Launch Steam and navigate to the LIBRARY tab. right-click on Century: Age of Ashes. Then select Properties.
   
2. Uncheck Enable Steam Overlay while in-game.
   

If you’re using other apps with overlay features (e.g. Xbox Game Bar, Nvidia GeForce Experience, Discord, etc.), make sure you’ve disabled the in-game overlay in those apps feature:

To disable Xbox Gamr bar:

1. On your keybaord, press the Windows logo key and I at the same time to open Windows Settings.
2. Click Gaming and go to Game Bar. Then turn off Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar option.

To disable Nvidia GeForce Experience Overlay:

1. Launch the Nvidia GeForce Experience app and go to Settings.
2. Click on the General tab, then disable the In-Game Overlay option.
3. Restart Windows to apply changes.

Launch the game and see if the it crashes again. If this fix doesn’t work, try the next fix, below.

Temporarily disable anti-virus software

Many 3rd party antivirus software may also interfere with game files. Once some important game files are blocked by those 3rd party antivirus software, the game would crash.

You can try adding both the game folder and Steam as an exception to your third-party antivirus application. If necessary, temporarily disable the 3rd party antivirus software before playing the game.

Launch Century: Age of Ashes to see if it crashes after you disabled the anti-virus software on your PC.

If this fix didn’t work, try the next fix, below.

Perform a clean boot

Century: Age of Ashes will crash when there’s a certain app conflicting with it. If you don’t know exactly which app is conflicting with the game, just follow the steps below to perform a clean boot:

1. On your keyboard, press the Windows logo key and R at the same time to open the Run Dialog. Type msconfig and press Enter to open the System Configuration window.
   
2. Navigate to the Services tab, check Hide all Microsoft services and then click Disable all.
   
3. Select the Startup tab and click Open Task Manager.
   
4. On the Startup tab in Task Manager, for each startup item, select the item and then click Disable.
   
5. Go back to the System Configuration window and click OK.
   
6. Click Restart to restart your PC.
   

Restart Windows OS and launch Century: Age of Ashes to check if the game crashes again. If not, open the System Configuration window again to enable services and applications one by one until you find the problematic software.

Once you find out the problematic software that crashes Century: Age of Ashes, you can uninstall it to avoid game crashing issues in the future.

If the crashing issue reappears after you disabled all the 3rd party apps and services, try reinstalling Century: Age of Ashes.

Normally, after reinstalling the game, you’ll be able to fix the crashing issue.

Tips:

If these common fixes didn’t help you fix the Century: Age of Ashes crashing issue, you can also try investigating Windows crash logs to analyze and troubleshoot the causes of the crash. For more details, see the article: How to view crash logs in Windows 10.

Hopefully, one of the fixes above helped you fix the Century: Age of Ashes crashing issue. If you have any questions or suggestions on this issue, feel free to leave us a comment below. Thanks for reading!