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Common problemEscape from TarkovWindows PC
Escape from Tarkov keeps crashing
Game closes with or without a Unity error
The game closes on its own, sometimes with a Unity error, and in worse cases the PC restarts. Battlestate lists folder permissions, security software, damaged files and unstable overclocks as causes.
How to fix it
Give your user full rights to the game and launcher folders and run the launcher as administrator.
Temporarily turn off antivirus, firewall and Windows Defender.
Run Integrity Check from Game Settings in the launcher.
Set the paging file to at least 20 GB and remove any CPU, GPU or RAM overclock.
Do a clean install of your graphics driver and install Windows updates.
If it still crashes, send a bug report from the launcher with the files from the Crashes folder.
From Escape from Tarkov's help pages: escapefromtarkov.com, in our words. Checked on 5 November 2026. If the steps do not help, Escape from Tarkov's own support is the next stop.
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