Error multiple-crashes-detected-on-startup
Enginefall "multiple crashes detected on startup": crash at launch
What you see
The game launches to the blue Enginefall screen with a train sound, then freezes or closes, sometimes leaving a black screen. On the next start a message says "Game user settings will be set back to default due to multiple crashes detected on startup!"
Cause not confirmed yetReported
The game crashes at launch and resets your settings. It is still being reported on the September playtest. Support helpers on the official Discord have given the launch option -Disable3rdPartyRenderingPlugins as a temporary fix since June, though it did not work for everyone.
What players try
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Add the launch option -Disable3rdPartyRenderingPlugins in Steam
In Steam, right-click Enginefall, open Properties, and paste it into Launch Options, then restart the game. Members with the Hospitality Officer role in the official Discord support channel have given it as a temporary fix since 10 June, saying the team was looking into a permanent one. It worked for some players, but one said it only got them to an infinite loading screen. It is not a confirmed fix.
Reported - 2
Do not expect a reinstall to fix it
A player on Steam reinstalled the game twice and it still crashed at the same point.
Reported - 3
If you report it, include your logs and NVIDIA driver version
The reply written as the studio asked for logs from %localappdata%\Coltrane\Saved\Logs, whether you launch on the dedicated GPU, and your NVIDIA driver version.
Reported
What we know and don’t
Still happening. On 24 September, the day the closed playtest went live, two players on the official Discord posted this exact message and said they were then stuck on the loading screen, and asked how to fix it. Another player posted the same message during the August playtest, on 25 August. A player also reported random crashes on 24 September on a PC with current drivers.
On 10 June a player on a gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti (mobile) posted that the game stayed on its launch screen and crashed their PC. A second player on a 50-series laptop got a black screen and then the message above, followed by the game closing. They said adding -Disable3rdPartyRenderingPlugins to the launch options let them in. A third player, with an RTX 4090, said the game froze on that screen and that they sometimes saw the same message.
A reply from an account named PokerPlate (the official Discord lists its Community Manager under that name, though Reddit shows no staff badge) said they were tracking a few similar reports from 50-series gaming laptops, had no confirmed fix or ETA, and had seen some reports of success with that launch option. In the Discord support channel, members with the Hospitality Officer role gave the same launch option between 10 and 21 June.
A Steam thread from 10 June describes the same message at the loading screen, with reports from players using an RTX 5090 and an RTX 5060.
That is a pattern around 50-series NVIDIA cards, not a proven cause: a player with an RTX 4090 saw it too. The launch option is a workaround that helped some players, and the team called it temporary, not an official fix.
Sources: r/Enginefall, “NOT LAUNCHING” and the Steam thread Game Crashes with the intro train sound..
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Last checked September 24, 2026. Source: r/Enginefall, "NOT LAUNCHING".
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Enginefall Playtest, Steam build 25439640. Updated 2026-09-24. Numbers can change between builds. Maintained byLynxx.