Call of Duty: Warzone Season 2 launched recently and Xbox players are experiencing crashing/freezing issues once again. Find out how to fix this issue effectively and enjoy the new stuff in the game.
The new season of CoD: Warzone launched this Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022, introducing two new map locations, new weapons, game modes, field upgrades, and a great list of bug fixes and performance issue resolutions. However, players playing on Xbox are still in trouble.
The game crashing and freezing issues are preventing them from playing the new maps and trying out the new content. Activision has acknowledged the issue publicly and is actively investigating it.
Warzone Season 2 Keeps Crashing/Freezing- What’s the Issue?
Call of Duty: Warzone is one of the most played battle royale games in the world. The game offers really exciting gameplay but the players are left sour when they face certain issues. One of the most annoying issues in Warzone is when the game crashes/freezes whenever you do something.
In Season 1, there was an issue where the game froze and crashed when you slide towards a Buy Station. This bug is still present in Warfare Season 2 but the game is now also crashing with the ground loot. This makes it pretty tough to stay alive at the start.
📢 We are continuing to investigate reports of an issue that is causing Players to freeze in various situations during a match in #Warzone.https://t.co/MMqQrZKKxh
— Raven Software (@RavenSoftware) February 16, 2022
The Warzone Season 2 crashing and freezing issue is most prominently reported on Xbox. On Xbox, Warzone players are facing multiple crashing issues. According to the reports, the game is crashing or freezing at several actions like loading the game, playing new modes, or the game just crashes randomly.
Why does CoD: Warzone keeps Crashing on Xbox?
Although the Warzone Season 2 crashing issue can occur on any device including your PC or PlayStation, the issue is very common on Xbox. The Xbox players have recently flooded the Internet by asking for a solution for the issue.
Any plans on fixing Warzone for XBOX users? Haven't been able to play any mode since the season 2 update. Game keeps crashing to the XBOX home screen.
— Nicholas Jackson (@Nichola09842630) February 17, 2022
Warzone keeps crashing as it’s loading into a game. Didn’t happen before the update. Rn season 2 unplayable for me. Any suggestion how to fix it? I’m on Xbox series S
— Chris may (@coachchrismay) February 15, 2022
Some Xbox players have also claimed that when they purchase the Xbox Live Gold subscription, the issue stopped appearing. However, the membership is not required to play CoD: Warzone as it is a free-to-play title.
Raven Software, the developer of Warzone has acknowledged the issue publicly on Twitter. They stated that they are currently investigating the issue. This also means that they could also roll out a patch to fix the issue soon.
There is no specific reason why the issue is particularly occurring on Xbox more as the problem lies at the developer’s end. Whenever a major update is rolled out, such issues become more common.
How to Fix Warzone Season 2 Keeps Crashing, Freezing on Xbox?
Xbox players are hit the worst by the Warzone Season 2 keeps crashing/freezing issue. However, there is no working or effective-for-everyone solution available for the problem currently. You can only try general resolutions to fix the issue.
We’ve also noticed that some Internet users are reporting that deleting the game and reinstalling it fresh, or deleting and restoring game files solves the problem. However, that isn’t true and we won’t recommend it to anyone who has a slower Internet connection.
❗️ We are investigating reports of some Xbox users crashing when attempting to join a match on Caldera.
Trello Card: https://t.co/2pU4FxCbew
— Raven Software (@RavenSoftware) February 16, 2022
Some Xbox users whose game crashed when they press the Xbox Home button twice or once suggest that the game stopped crashing when stopped pressing the said button.
Activision and Raven Studio will soon announce a fix for this annoying error. We can only wait for them to solve the problem. And, when they do, update your game quickly. Or else, you can try the tweaks that worked for other users.
General Fixes that worked for some Warzone Players
Here is a list of solutions that you can try if Warzone continues to keep crashing on your PC or Xbox One. These solutions are unverified and only recommended by the players in the Warzone community.
1. Delete Reserved Space for Warzone
- Go to the manage games/downloads section.
- Now go to the Warzone game files.
- Here, delete the “Reserved space” for Warzone.
2. Uncheck the Allow HDR10 Setting
- Go to Settings and navigate to General
- Go to TV and Display options.
- Next, go to Video modes under Advanced.
- Here, uncheck the Allow HDR10 box.
- Restart your Xbox One.
To all console users who are having issues with there game crashing and sending them to the dashboard on #Warzone do the following – Xbox settings. General. Tv and display
options. Video modes under
advanced. Uncheck allow Hdr10.
Restart console— DavL (@Davl_x) February 15, 2022
3. Remove Random Vehicle Customization
You can try removing the random vehicle customization from the paint, music, and horn. After that, put a single painting or none, and check if the issue is resolved.
I had the same problem. To get me to play the game, I removed the random vehicle customization from the paint, music, and horn. And I put a single painting or none and with that I could play.
— Fernando Carbajal (@FernandoCT200) February 17, 2022
4. Turn off Texture Stream
Another fix is to turn off the Texture Stream from the lobby. After that, hard reset your console. When it turns on, make sure the Texture Stream is still off. Now check if the issue is gone.
When in your lobby, turn off the texture stream and then hard reset your console. When you go back to your lobby, make sure it is still off. This worked for me.
— J.V 🇺🇸 (@2xATS) February 19, 2022
These are some of the fixes that worked for certain players. You can give them a shot too. Don’t forget to let us and other readers know which one worked for you.
Warzone is losing players at a very high rate due to such issues. Apex Legends is gaining them and its incredible gameplay grows on them. Activision should really look into the problem and solve it once, and for all.
Unplug your console completely.
Actually this is what did it for me
Nothing works for me the game is just busted. As I have a decent internet connection I also deleted and reinstalled and still the same.
I haven’t been able to play for a week and I just did the hd10 setting thing by turning it off and restarting it , it finally works now
If you have Dolby setting turned on as well turb that off and hard reset it fixed my crashing finally
Still crashes only when trying to play battle royal haven’t been on Caldera since season 2 can only play Rebirth and that gets old quick.
Disabling HDR10 FINALLY fixed this issue for me.
Im the same can only play rebirth on my xbox s series however on the xbox x it is working fine, tried all the uninstall, reinstall, change settings, different accounts, paid accounts vs non paid and nothing works! Driving me mental
Nothing works. I have Xbox one x. Have reenstalled 3 times. It worked the other night for first time since update and after doing all recommended fixes, now it’s back to the same trashy game that crashes Xbox. It’s pathetic that raven can’t fix this. Any other game works flawlessly!
having the exact same problems. i’m a big multiplayer and search player and i crash every time i try to load into any match.
Same here mate played this since day 1 and feel out of the game now, can only play resergence and that’s boring now. Need sort this or say they can’t and I’ll delete my profile and start again if need be
Bro Iv got it on haha, reset my audio settings and turned off hdr10 and that didn’t work last time but it has now cooome on!!!!! Switched my Dolby back on to headset and dropping in now 🙌😎😎
Warzone still crashing from lobby to home screen, very aggravating because ive tried everything ive researched….please fix asap Raven.