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Game Crashing - 4.0.2 Hotfix Update
I recently updated Dead by Daylight on Steam to patch 4.0.2 which was the hotfix update. However moments after loading the game and being brought to the menu screen, the game will suddenly crash providing this error report:
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Fatal error: [File:Unknown] [Line: 3417]
Pak Decompression failed. PakFile: ../../../DeadByDaylight/Content/Paks/pakchunk5-WindowsNoEditor.pak. EntryOffset: 822215497, EntrySize: 78213, CompressionMethod:Zlib Output:00000225DDE50000 ProcessedSize:65536 Buf:00000225BAAA5560 Block.DecompressionRawSize:21299
0x00007ffc2d3aa799 KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b315a27 DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b317a10 DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b2d9b5a DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b29df77 DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b29de78 DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73c2d4c81 DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73c2d5d8b DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b1f523c DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b1f78cc DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b31ffcb DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff73b31d44c DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffc2e207bd4 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffc2f60ce51 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
Crash in runnable thread TaskGraphThreadBP 24
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Not sure if it's only happening to me, but regardless I hope this is fixed soon :/