When you have trouble playing games on your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One console, it is frustrating. Similarly, several Evil West players reported crashing or loading issues on their Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S which is quite unfortunate.
However, if you’re one of them, you shouldn’t worry about it. Most of the time, developers are powerless to prevent such startup or mid-game crashing difficulties with the games. Users of the Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X consoles are also experiencing this issue, especially with recently released games.
You can attempt manually correcting it if you don’t want to suffer any longer until developers come up with a fix.
How To Fix Evil West Crashing or Not Loading on Xbox One & Series X/S?
You can fix the Xbox console’s crashing problem for only a few potential causes or solutions. Fortunately, we’ve included all possible fixes below; try them all out one at a time until the issue is resolved for you.
1. Switch to Go Offline Status
Be sure to disconnect from the internet before playing or re-launching the game. Even though the procedure could take a few minutes, it’s worth giving it a go.
- Pick up the controller, and press the Xbox button.
- Select Profile & system from the profile area (the last one on the right side).
- Select General from Settings.
- Choose Your Xbox console’s Network Settings > Select Go offline.
- Once finished, go to the game library and launch Evil West once more.
2. Checking for Game Updates
Instead of bugs, an out-of-date game version might lead to a number of compatibility problems. Therefore, it’s always preferable to maintain your game’s version updated. To accomplish this:
- Your controller’s Xbox button should be pressed.
- Select My games & apps > See all after that.
- Choose Manage, followed by Updates.
- Your console will immediately begin downloading & installing the latest patch if an update is available.
3. Checking for System Updates
Before making any decisions, be careful to check for console system updates. You could occasionally have problems with an older system version or even a brief bug.
- Press the Home button to access the Dashboard menu on the Xbox console.
- From the menu’s bottom, choose Settings > Select All Settings.
- Select Updates under System.
- Update Console (if accessible) by selecting it > To finish the update procedure, adhere to the on-screen instructions.
- To make changes effective, restart the console after finishing.
4. Reinstall Evil West
On your Xbox system, you may try totally deleting and reinstalling the game to see if the issue persists. It’s also conceivable that your game files have disappeared or been corrupted. Try reinstalling Evil West on your console as a result. For that:
- To access the Guide menu, press the Xbox button on the controller.
- Choose My Games & Apps then click See all and select Games.
- Then choose Queue after selecting the Ready to Install page.
- Choose the Evil West video game which you want to reinstall.
- Press your controller’s Menu button now.
- Choose Manage app or Manage game & add-ons.
- Select Uninstall all after selecting Evil West.
- Once you finalize the action, be sure to choose to Uninstall all.
- Watch for the removal procedure to be finished.
- Restart the device to make changes.
- To reopen the Guide menu, press the Xbox button on the controller.
- Select My games & applications and then See all and head to Games.
- The Ready to Install tab should be selected. To install Evil West, click.
- Restart the console when the installation is complete.
5. Resetting the Console
Try doing a factory reset on your Xbox console using the instructions below if none of the other solutions worked for you.
