SolvedFixUpdated 2026-11-04 · 14 replies on Steam

Phantom Blade Zero: Crash issue (Fix)

Short answer

In the main menu before hitting continue, disable ray tracing under graphics settings until the you're back in game. This solved it immediately for me.

The problem

I really love this game I’ already put in 28 hours of gameplay, but I’m hesitating to stop until a patch comes out because the game crashes a lot, and it’s really annoying to have to restart certain sections every time because I didn’t have time to save at a bell and it’s even more frustrating when it happens at the end of a boss fight and I have to start over. it’s the only game where I have…

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What players suggest

In the main menu before hitting continue, disable ray tracing under graphics settings until the you're back in game. This solved it immediately for me.

Ash

In the main menu before hitting continue, disable ray tracing under graphics settings until the you're back in game. This solved it immediately for me.

Ash

I was crashing at the cutscene going into the fourth region. This fixed it for me

seanyisthehottie

Phantom Blade Zero – Constant WHEA errors and BSODs after a game crash. Anyone else experiencing this? I played Phantom Blade Zero for the entire first day without any issues. At one point, the game gave me a message saying that my BIOS needed an update, so I updated my ASUS PRIME B760-PLUS motherboard to BIOS version 1836. After the update, I loaded Intel Default Settings, enabled XMP and left…

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Source: original Steam Community discussion. Quotes are shortened; all credit goes to the posters. Tags: crash, black-screen, performance, nvidia, amd, save

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Known issueFix

keep crashing after new patch

No confirmed fix yet. Players suggest: same here , 4070ti super, 7700x, it worked great before the patch.

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