Wait a minute, you aren’t Alex Mercer! Hey! That is right. Prototype 2 is a based on a whole different character! You play as… *game crashes*. Ah.. f**k!!!

So many of you might experience some crashing and errors with this game. A lot of these problems on the PC should be similar to the original Prototype as well. Let’s see if we can go ahead and help you out. This serves as a guide till the PC official comes out. Also any lingering console problems will be added here as discovered as well.

Last Updated: April 20rd, 2012

— Added Initial Game Fixes

This may sound counter-productive, but try playing off the disk. If you are playing off the disk try installing it.

This may sound counter-productive, but try playing off the disk. If you are playing off the disk try installing it.

Option 1: Update to the latest NVIDIA and ATI Video Card Drivers. You can find links to the latest drivers here.
Option 2: Try disabling SLI or Crossfire if you have this set up.
Option 3: Disable V-Sync.
Option 4: Try to disable AA and lower game settings.
Option 5: Wait for new patches.

Step 1.Try setting your affinity to 1 core, or 2 cores. You can do this by hitting control+alt+delete and choosing a process and hitting “set affinity” after right clicking.
Step 2. Another way to fix this error is to download the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86).
Step 2. Now reboot and then try launching the game.

These problems can be the same as the, “Never Stops Loading” problems. Go with those fixes.
Option 1: Try disabling SLI or Crossfire if you have this set up.
Option 2: Disable V-Sync.
Note: If this only happens after an extended period of time, please go and check your temperatures.

There can be a few reasons for this. This happened on the first game too.
Option 1: Reboot your computer and try playing the game after loading back up. Yes I know this is generic but try it. It actually fixed the problem for a ton of people on the first game.
Option 2: Update to the latest NVIDIA and ATI Video Card Drivers. You can find links to the latest drivers here.
Option 3: If you purchased this game through Steam, verify all your Steam files are in-tact. There are plenty of times where you will have corrupted files and may have to re-install.
Option 4: Lower all your settings and try again. (Your computer is weak yo!)
Option 5.: Try running the game in combabitibility mode.
Option 6: Disable V-Sync.

1. Navigate to your control panel.
2. Open “Hardware and Sound” and then choose Sound.
3. On the playback tab, select your “speakers” and then click “properties”.
4. In properties, click the “Advanced” tab.
5. For “Default Format” choose “24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality)”
Note: Those of you who are getting lag can try “16 bit 144100 HZ” but this may not always work.
6. Press okay.
7. Run the game. You may want to reboot first though.

You’ll see that these are very similar to the original Prototype. There really isn’t anything new here.

OS: Windows XP (with Service Pack 3) or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ or better
Memory: Vista 2 GB RAM / XP 1 GB RAM
Graphics: All NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB and better chipsets. All ATI Radeon™ X1800 256 MB and better chipsets
DirectX®: Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or Above
Hard Drive: 8GB of free hard drive space
Sound: DirectX® 9.0c compliant sound card