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This article explains how you can fix an error wherein Monster Hunter Wilds crashes your SSD altogether, especially if it is a Western Digital product.
Monster Hunter Wilds can crash on your PC for a variety of reasons. For a new game, this is not unusual, and most of these are gradually fixed with patches from the developer. However, if you have installed the game on a certain SSD, your hard drive might crash entirely. This is one of the more critical errors and can be a worrisome problem in general.
We at Deltia’s Gaming have extensively researched to find the root cause of this error. If you have the 2TB variants of certain Western Digital SSDs, Monster Hunter Wilds might possibly crash the hard drive entirely and create errors. Solving this issue is rather simple and requires you to update your device’s firmware. In this article, we will explain how you can fix the Monster Hunter Wilds SSD Crash Error.
How To Solve Monster Hunter Wilds Crashing on Western Digital 2TB SSD for PC
Here is how you can solve the Monster Hunter Wilds SSD Crash Error:
- Download Western Digital Dashboard software. (Click here to download)
- Select your SSD, and then click on Update Firmware.
- Your updated firmware version should read: 731130WD
- Verify the integrity of game files from Steam.
Doing this fixed the Monster Hunter Wilds crashing on PC issue for us completely at Deltia’s Gaming. If you are using this same hard drive, this is a rather easy fix that will work for you.
For SSDs from any other brand, simply check and update your device’s firmware. This should eliminate the SSD crash error on your PC.
The PC Crashing Issue With Western Digital 2TB SSD for Monster Hunter Wilds
During a normal session, you will suddenly note that your shaders will fail, and a good chunk of your screen will turn black. Some figures might also lose their geometry as well. You will be able to control your Hunter and everything, but the game will soon crash with an RE Engine Error.
If you try to restart Monster Hunter Wilds, you will get the prompt that the game is not installed on your PC altogether. If you have Steam installed on the same SSD, then you will be unable to open Steam as well. Your PC will say it does not have an application that can run this software.
Generally, restarting the PC offered a quick solution, but the same issue recurred after around 30 minutes of gameplay. It is then that we realized the problem was actually caused by the Western Digital SN770 2TB SSD crashing altogether. We confirmed that Device Manager was not detecting the SSD at all, which was why the game was crashing in its entirety.
What Causes This SSD Crash Error?
The issue is caused by a multitude of factors. The Windows 11 update 24H2 admittedly has issues with the default firmware of Western Digital SN770 2TB, owing to problems with the HMB (Host Memory Buffer.) In all likelihood, the Wilds’ variant of RE Engine possibly causes some kind of conflict with the HMB issue and forces the SSD to shut down. Before installing Wilds, we also had Monster Hunter World installed on this same drive, which ran smoothly and did not cause any crashes.
Unless the firmware on your Western Digital 2TB SSD reads 731130WD, you will likely have Monster Hunter Wilds crashing your SSD and PC frequently. There have been many reports of this crashing and causing BSODs (blue screen of deaths). In fact, the company has released an official firmware update for this on their website as well.
This HMB issue has affected more than just the Western Digital SN770 2TB SSD. In all likelihood, you will experience this crashing issue if Monster Hunter Wilds is installed in any of these hard drives:
- WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 2TB
- WD_BLACK SN770M NVMe SSD 2TB
- WD Blue SN580 NVMe SSD 2TB
- WD Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD 2TB
- SanDisk Extreme M.2 NVMe SSD 2TB
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