Windrose - Known Bugs, Crashes & Community Fixes
About this game
Windrose is a PvE survival adventure set in an alternate Age of Piracy where you can fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft, and explore procedurally generated biomes filled with hidden mysteries, hand‑crafted dungeons, and quests. Recruit a crew, command a ship—ketch, brig, or frigate—through brutal naval combat that blends cannon fire and boarding actions, with seamless transitions between ship and shore. Defeat challenging bosses, trade with factions, and uncover supernatural forces as you pursue revenge against Blackbeard and a growing conflict among empires and pirate clans. Customize your ship, build settlements, recruit NPCs, and use a wide arsenal of melee weapons and firearms, parrying, dodging, and chaining strikes while buffing yourself with food and potions. Play solo offline or in co‑op with up to four players on self‑hosted or dedicated servers; procedural generation ensures each journey feels unique, and progress carries over between worlds.
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Disable Steam Cloud in the game’s Steam Properties and remove the corrupted character folder from SaveProfiles so the game no longer boots into the glitched purple-quit menu tied to that save.
Backup the character save file you want to keep, delete other save files, restart your computer, load the game, exit, then re-enable cloud saves.
- Log into Steam, right-click Windrose, select Properties.
- Disable Steam Cloud in the General tab.
- Navigate to C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Local\R5\Saved\.
- Backup the SaveProfiles folder, then delete or rename it.
- Launch the game to reach the main menu.
- Exit, re-enable Steam Cloud, and launch again to choose local or cloud save.
Turn off overlay applications before launching, as they frequently conflict with the game's graphics process and trigger crashes.
Lower in-game graphics settings like shadows, texture quality, and resolution scale to reduce GPU load and prevent crashes caused by VRAM pressure.
Install the latest GPU drivers from NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel, as outdated drivers are the leading cause of crashes and black screens in PC games.
Add the game's install folder to your antivirus exclusions, since security software can mistakenly quarantine game files and block the game from launching.
Run your launcher's file verification to repair any corrupted or incomplete files that may be stopping the game from starting.
Press Escape to pause the game and click the unstuck button above settings. Note: This will kill and respawn your character at the last revival point, losing current items.
Ensure all players have completed the in-game tutorial.
Change your preferred DNS to 8.8.8.8 in your network settings.
Make sure your internet connection is stable, or switch the server host to one with a better connection.
Add Windrose to your antivirus exceptions to prevent it from blocking the game’s network access.
Make sure that you have your GPU driver is updated to the latest version.
Disable DLSS Frame Generation.
Set texture quality setting to Low or Medium.
Update the game to the latest patch.
Open in-game graphics settings and change your upscaling method from TSR to FSR to fix texture flickering on items.
System requirements
Minimum
- OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8700K / AMD® Ryzen™ 7 2700X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GTX™ 1080 Ti / AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
Recommended
- OS: Windows® 11 or later (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-10700 / AMD® Ryzen™ 7 5800X
- Memory: 32 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® RTX™ 3080 / AMD® Radeon™ RX 6800 XT
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
