Cyberpunk 2077 crashing or not launching on PC? CD Projekt Red’s official fixes for Update 2.5: drivers, MSVCP140_1.dll, scripts error, Intel CPUs

Video: “Cyberpunk 2077 - Official Edgerunners 2 Update Overview Trailer”, IGN YouTube channel (re-upload of CD Projekt Red’s official trailer; IGN is not the publisher), published October 21, 2026 (17:51 Paris time), about 1 min 40 s. It presents the content of Update 2.5; it does not show any crash fix, which comes from CD Projekt Red’s support pages below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wPOA6a85S4

Cyberpunk 2077 has been back in the spotlight since the free Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5), released on October 22, 2026 on PC, Mac (Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and since its arrival on Battle.net on November 10. If the game now crashes, refuses to start or closes with an error message on your PC, CD Projekt Red’s technical support pages give a precise procedure for each case. Here it is, in order. Everything below comes from CD Projekt Red pages read on November 11, 2026; TricknFix did not test these steps, and the support pages do not mention Battle.net specifically.

Before anything: check your PC and your Windows version

• CD Projekt Red’s first step is always to check that your PC meets the Cyberpunk 2077 system requirements.

• Windows 10: the support says crashes on launch happen on older builds such as version 1607 (build 14393) and 1703 (build 15063), because the game uses a newer version of DirectX 12. If your Windows 10 version is below 2004, update it (press Win+R and type winver to check).

The game crashes: CD Projekt Red’s official checklist

• Clean install your graphics drivers. NVIDIA and Intel: download the latest driver, remove the old one with Display Driver Uninstaller, then install the new one. AMD: uninstall the driver with the AMD Cleanup Utility, then clean install the latest one.

• If the crashes started right after a driver update, CD Projekt Red advises going back to the previous driver and reporting the issue to them.

• Verify the integrity of the game files in your launcher.

• Disable overlays (for example Discord, Ubisoft Connect or GOG Galaxy), or close those applications completely.

• Close all unnecessary apps before launching the game, including hardware monitoring tools and antivirus/anti-malware programs.

• Do not overclock or underclock your CPU or GPU: CD Projekt Red says any change of clock rate may cause crashes and can damage your hardware.

The game does not launch at all

• Same checks (requirements, Windows, clean driver install, file verification, overlays), plus two specific steps: run your launcher (Steam, GOG GALAXY or Epic Games Store) as an administrator, and reinstall the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages (x86 and x64) as an administrator.

Exact error messages

• “The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140_1.dll was not found” (Steam and Epic Games Store, when REDlauncher does not start): download and run, as an administrator, vc_redist.x86.exe and vc_redist.x64.exe from Microsoft (https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x86.exe and https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe). For GOG GALAXY launch issues, CD Projekt Red points to GOG support.

• “Cyberpunk 2077 encountered an error caused by a corrupted or missing scripts file and will now be forced to close”: CD Projekt Red’s answer is a clean installation of the game (below).

Crashes on an Intel Core 13th or 14th Gen CPU

• CD Projekt Red says crashes on these processors may be linked to the instability issue affecting some of them, and advises installing the latest BIOS from your motherboard manufacturer, since Intel distributes the 0x129 microcode fix for the root cause.

Mods: the most common trap

• Update 2.5 added cross-platform mod support through mod.io. CD Projekt Red reminds that mods can cause unexpected behaviour whose effects may be kept in save files, and that it does not support individual mods; the fix it suggests is a clean installation, or contacting the mod’s creator.

Last resort: the official clean reinstall

• Back up your saves (%userprofile%\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\Cyberpunk 2077\), ideally to another drive, and disable cloud saves for the game.

• Uninstall the game, then delete the Cyberpunk 2077 folder in your launcher’s directory, the Cyberpunk 2077 folder in %userprofile%\Saved Games\CD Projekt Red\, and the REDEngine and CD Projekt Red folders in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\ (show hidden items in File Explorer if needed).

• Restart the PC and reinstall the game on an SSD, without any mods. If it is on the system partition, install it at the drive root (for example C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Cyberpunk 2077) so Windows permissions do not block it.

• For a technical issue, test the game first, then copy your saves back; you can re-enable cloud saves afterwards.

What is not known

• CD Projekt Red has not published a list of known crashes specific to Update 2.5 or to the Battle.net version on these pages; the support pages show “updated 8 to 9 months ago” for most of these entries (2 years for the Intel page).

• TricknFix has no crash data of its own. Update 2.5 also changed the AMD FSR options (FSR 3 upscaling removed; FSR 2.1, FSR 4 and FSR 3.1 Frame Generation remain), which is a settings change, not a crash fix.

More Cyberpunk 2077 news and discussions: the #cyberpunk-2077 community on TricknFix (https://tricknfix.com/tags/cyberpunk-2077/).

Sources

• CD Projekt Red Support, “Game crashes” (Cyberpunk 2077, PC), read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/1700/game-crashes-6).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “Game is not launching”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/1568/game-is-not-launching).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “Game crashes on launch on older Windows 10 versions”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/1880/game-crashes-on-launch-on-older-windows-10-versions).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “Error: The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP140_1.dll was not found.”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/1915/error-the-code-execution-cannot-proceed-because-msvcp140-1-dll-was-not-found).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “Cyberpunk 2077 encountered an error caused by a corrupted or missing scripts file…”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/2372/cyberpunk-2077-encountered-an-error-caused-by-a-corrupted-or-missing-scripts-file-and-will-now-be-forced-to-close).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “How do I perform a clean install of the game?”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/2233/how-do-i-perform-a-clean-install-of-the-game).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “Instability issues when playing on 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/2731/instability-issues-when-playing-on-13th-and-14th-gen-intel-cpus).

• CD Projekt Red Support, “I am experiencing issues after modifying game content”, read November 11, 2026 (https://support.cdprojektred.com/en/cyberpunk/pc/sp-technical/issue/2230/i-am-experiencing-issues-after-modifying-game-content).

• CD Projekt Red, Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) patch notes, October 21, 2026 (https://www.cyberpunk.net/en/news/52120/check-out-whats-coming-to-night-city-in-the-edgerunners-2-update-for-cyberpunk-2077).

• Blizzard, “Discover Night City on Battle.net this November” (Battle.net launch on November 10), October 21, 2026 (https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24301148/discover-night-city-on-battle-net-this-november).

• Video “Cyberpunk 2077 - Official Edgerunners 2 Update Overview Trailer”, IGN, October 21, 2026 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wPOA6a85S4).

• Image: official visual from the CD Projekt Red news post of October 21, 2026 (1920 x 1080 original), © CD PROJEKT RED.

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