The "Problem reading game content" error has been a common issue faced by PC players attempting to launch Destiny 2 on Steam. This error message can appear when Destiny 2 crashes during launch, and it can be quite frustrating for players who are eager to jump into the game.
How to Fix Problem Reading Game Content Error in Destiny 2
To address this error and get back to playing Destiny 2, it's essential to carefully follow the necessary steps. In the following methods, we will provide you with a detailed guide on how to fix the "Problem reading game content" error in Destiny 2.
Method #1
- Firstly, launch the Destiny 2
- When you get the error, leave it open so don't click the OK button.
- Navigate to ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2
- Delete the steam_appid.txt file in the Destiny 2 folder.
- If the steam_appid.txt file is not there, it should be in the x64 folder.
...\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2\bin\x64
Method #2
- Go to the folder where the game is installed.
- Right-click on the destiny2.exe application
Location: …\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2 - Tap the Properties
- Tick the “Run this program as administrator” on the Compatibility tab.
- Also, tick the “Disable full-screen optimizations“
- Click on the OK
- Run Steam as administrator.
- Go to the Steam library
- Right-click on Destiny 2, and go to Properties.
- Go to the LOCAL FILES tab
- Press the VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES button.
- Finally, try to play Destiny 2
Method #3
- Launch the Steam
- In the top left corner, Click on the Steam
- Go to the Settings
- Click on the Download
- Click on the "Clear Download Cache" button.
- Click on the OK
Method #4
Make sure your antivirus software isn’t blocking Destiny 2 from launching. Add the "Destiny2.exe" application to whitelist in your Antivirus / Windows Security.
Method #5
You can try to changing the monitor's cable connection. I don't know why, but Jokuhrax's problem was solved in this way.
Issue has been fixed. Reading your posts (specifically the one to adjust NVIDIA control panel settings) prompted me to check out a few things and realize that I had been playing the game through a KVM switch that was using a USB to HDMI converter to get to the KVM switch. The game either does not like that converter or the device driver associated with graphics going out of the USB port. Once I switched back to using a DVI cable directly from the computer to the monitor, everything started working again.
Jokuhrax
Method #6
You should change the language on Steam.
- Go to the Steam library.
- Right-click on Destiny 2
- Select Properties.
- Go to the Language tab.
- Select a different language. For example, if your default language is Polish, change it to English.
- Click on the Close button.
- Run the Destiny 2. Big thanks to Jump3r
Method #7
- Exit the Steam.
- Go to the folder where Destiny 2 is installed. (Steam Library > Right Click on Destiny 2 > Properties > LOCAL FILES > BROWSE LOCAL FILES)
- Delete everything except the packages folder.
- After the deletion is complete, run Steam and go to the Steam library
- Right-click on Destiny 2, and click on the Properties.
- Go to the LOCAL FILES tab
- Press the VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES button.
Method #8
I found this, maybe it'll help. It's very similar to the seventh method.
i just fixed mine!!!
Spidersteve
1) Head to C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2
2) move you destiny 2 exe into a new folder on your desktop (do not delete your destiny 2 exe)
3) delete everthing in your destiny 2 folder but the 3 folders (do not delete Bin, fonts, packages)
4) verify the files on steam while they are verifying immediately take your destiny exe and put i back into your C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2 let the game verify.
5) start game
Method #9
Uninstall and reinstall Steam. If possible, install it on a different Local Disk.
If the issue still exists do let me know in the comments below.
Nothing metods work for me, i can start the game normally, but when i go to tower i receive this error, i dont know what i do 🙁
INSTALLING JAVA &
DISABLING FULL-SCREEN OPTIMIZATIONS &
DON'T SELECTING any place on the navigador before entry into the planet
These things did the trick for me
o meu jogo não aparece a pasta fonts, acho que por isso nao esta funcionando, ja ate reinstalei o jogo e essa pasta nao aparece... deve ser por isso que nao esta funcionando
Mano, instala o java, desabilita as otimizações de tela cheia e também não seleciona nenhum lugar antes de entrar com a nave na parte do navegador, isso funcionou comigo. Agora só de vez em quando que meu jogo crasha ou dá esse erro, mas é pq tô jogando num notebook com iGPU e esse setup não é compatível com o jogo mesmo (se der o erro dnv é só esperar um tempo, ou insistir que tudo volta a funcionar, como mágica).
How are y’all getting onto compatibility, mine doesn’t even pop up when I go onto properties
Make sure it is the "Destiny 2.exe" file, not the folder itself
I found a fix that worked for me. The issue was that I had my monitor hooked up to my motherboard instead of my graphics card and it was causing the game to think I only had 128mb of Vram and then giving me the error that everyone is getting here before crashing. Once I switched my monitor to the video card input the game booted right up with now issues. Hope this helps
alright guys/gals I think I've finally found the fix! So after trying all of the above methods with some success it wasn't perfect. the best fix for me was changing the language. However I still crashed just not as often. So if your here I'm sure your frustrated. So the way I fixed mine was simply UPDATING JAVA to the newest update. so far I've played 2 days with no crashes. I was crashing left and right before I updated. Hopefully this helps!
Ive tried everything but its still not working it was working earlier today
tried everything nothing helped
In the process of all these methods, will any of them delete my progress of destiny?
I updated to the steam beta client when I had this error and that immediately fixed it, might be worth a try?
Thanks, it might work.
How did you change?
Go to settings its in Account tab and read the page its in there
None of this has worked for me. I have tried every single fix various times in the past few months. I have also posted on the help forums and not ONE person has replied. This is beyond ridiculous, I can’t believe the amount of money I have wasted on this broken game with no support.
have you managed to find a fix yet? im in the same boat at you 🙁
me too
i still have issues with mine everytime i go into earth it freezes and i see a black screen with the error of not able to read game files i need help ive tried all of these methods
I still have issues when I try to do a strike or go to a planet to patrol or whatever it crashes bu t when I play crimson days and go to the tower it’s fine what do I do
nothing of this worked for me, and i just waste my money buying the upgrade edition
6 and 7 seem to have done it
change language on Steam
What worked for me is changing language on Steam.
I would get error while starting in polish so i changed language to english and it started without any problems after that i changed language to polish again and it needed to download some more files and now it's starting in polish without problem.
how do you download the missing files
After changing language back to polish it started downloading automatically
I've tried everything and none but your metod worked. Just here to thank you guardian.
What the f***, thanks mate, i tried everything, and that really was the only solution, I'm amazed hahahaha
my first language is english then i change it to german, work like what you say but when i change it again to english there no auto download and the pop up start to showup again, how can i download it manually or wheres the language file location so i can just delete it and then verify.
For me it worked that way :
I've uninstalled the game+Steam (backup your other games if you planning to do that) Then i installed steam in other than the default path ( now for me is C:\\Steam) Since im running this game on a pc with integrated graphics i believed it has to be memory handling issue. Ive changed my default screen resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x720,did that in destiny settings with everything at low and turned off also on borderless windowed mode. Did put a tick on the properties of destiny2.exe to run as Admin and disable full screen optimization. Then ive installed Razor Cortex app from the official Razor website so it would prevent unnecessary things to run while gaming. Now im 3+ hours in playing without this stupid error popin up (thanks the Gaming Jesus for it)
what are your pc specs? i have integrated graphics (intel 630), i5 7400 and 8gb ram and my game still crash
Hello, my game gives me error when I am doing patrol, some mission or activity, when I go anywhere (Not counting the pvp, for some reason in the pvp games it does not give me error) It always asks me to verify the integrity of the files , but nothing has solved my mistake and it is quite frustrating to not be able to do anything
My PC has 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 630, Intel Core i5-74000 and Windows 10
My PC can take the game, I use cross save
Help! Thank you!
after many hours of struggling I can confirm that Method #3 and Method #7 and Method #8 worked for me
Thank you for letting us know. I'm glad I could help.
delete BURNING_TOWER_README.pdf and Burning_Tower.razerchroma files then restart steam
This is what worked for me after I've tried everything above.
Uninstall, installed the game to a different drive. After the instalation finished, went to Steam, clear the downloads cache.
Relogged to Steam, started the game, went to the moon, everything ok.
Hope it helps
Thanks
I've tried all the methods, but my game just won't stop crashing. Help!
Sorry about that. I'm researching solutions. I will update the post.
just a note, it happens in only 3 locations for me, tower, moon, and crucible.
@Michael Brennan Do you have the DLCs of Destiny 2?
yes, i have all of them
the ,most frequent times i crash is normally during matchmaking. which means crossing into different zones and so forth, reinstalling the game fixes the issue for a few hours but then it pops up again, i'm thinking the servers may be throwing some data into files that could corrupt the way the game works for matchmaking. that's my thesis, but it could be wrong.
Can you try playing the game after disabling DLCs?
What I'm trying right now is a new steam, I uninstalled and reinstalled steam along with destiny 2, plus I refragmented my drives and used ccleaner.
so far my fix has worked, i just deleted steam and reinstalled steam and that seemed to work.
alright, so that didn't work, just increased the time from a few hour to a few days.
it's gotta be steam related.
what if i don't have steam_appid.txt in the files already?
You can skip that method.
i've done all these methods and still crashed.
Having the same issue followed all steps, nothing seems to work.
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: Z270X-DESIGNARE
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.2GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
Card name: Radeon RX 580 Series
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor
After I did every step the game no longer launches
There is nothing to cause this. Did you try after restart your computer?
Same.
At first, it still launches, but crashes every once in awhile with problem reading game content error (usually shortly after entering a new map while trying to pull up character gear or ride the vehicle).
After doing all the above and restarting the computer, it just crashes straight from launch with the problem reading game content error.
None of the methods work for me (including 3 reinstalls). I don’t get the message at the launch of the game. I get it after I load into an area and move around for about 1 min. The game progressively gets slower, freezes and then gives me error after an extended time of being frozen.
What are your PC specs and OS?
Did you disable full-screen optimizations?
https://www.ghostarrow.com/increase-performance-fps-in-destiny-2#7_Full-screen_Optimizations
First of all - thank you for your efforts to help people resolve problems. I'm a fan of your contributions to the community.
I tried disabling full-screen optimizations and it did not help.
OS: Windows 10 Home
System (mother board) info:
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Tech
Model: Z170XP-SLI
Type: x64-based PC
Processor: Intel Core [email protected] GHz, 4 Cores, 8 Logical Processors
Installed Physical Memory: 32.0 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Adapter RAM: 1GB
Issue has been fixed. Reading your posts (specifically the one to adjust NVIDIA control panel settings) prompted me to check out a few things and realize that I had been playing the game through a KVM switch that was using a USB to HDMI converter to get to the KVM switch. The game either does not like that converter or the device driver associated with graphics going out of the USB port. Once I switched back to using a DVI cable directly from the computer to the monitor, everything started working again.
Thank you again for all you helpful posts. They were easy to read and I've now got better FPS than what I had before (in addition to you prompting the line of thinking that uncovered and resolved this issue).
Great! I'm glad I could help.
I am having the same issue. but I don't want to get rid of my KVM switch :/
I'm not having the error now, but my Quests, Character, Destination, etc. Interface won't load now though and when I return to orbit it freezes the game.
Can you share your PC specs and OS?
**PC Info:**
Computer - HP HP Laptop 17-bs0xx
OS - Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64-Bit)
System Bit - x64-based PC
**RAM:**
Name - Physical Memory
Manufacturer - Kingston
Size - 8.0 GB
Clock Speed - 2133 MHz
Total RAM - 8.0 GB (1 Slots)
**CPU:**
Name - Intel® Core™ i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Type - CentralProcessor
Cores - 2
Clock Speed - 2.40 Ghz
**GPU:**
Name - Intel(R) HD Graphics 620
Refresh Rate - 60 FPS
AdapterRAM - 1.0 GB
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Follow these steps
Right-click on the Windows desktop
Click on the Graphics Properties
Click on the 3D
Set "Application Optimal Mode" to Enable
Set "Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing" to Turn Off
Set "Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing" to "Override Application Settings"
Set "General Settings" to Performance
Also, go to the Power settings on the main Intel HD Graphics Control Panel
Go to the "Plugged In" tab
Set the "Graphics Power Plans" to Maximum Performance
Play the game with your laptop plugged in
You should also check out this guide
https://www.ghostarrow.com/increase-performance-fps-in-destiny-2
I hope it helps
game is good , steam launcher is ****
After much reinstalling, steam_appid.txt finally appeared (uninstall game, clear cache, reinstall). I deleted it, started the game, it started loading and it crashed again du to integrity of files.
I tried all of them, nothing works. It just gradually gets worse - I have to reinstall game, then it works fine for a few hours, after that error keeps popping up. While checking files integrity helps, it eventually gets to the point when I'm unable to launch it at all.
Did you tried reinstall the game on a different local disk?
No, and unfortunately it won't be possible in my case, since I don't have enough space on other discs.