The Blood of Dawnwalker PC Troubleshooting: Shaders, Stuttering and Controllers

Choose the matching check for shader-compilation crashes, windowed-mode stuttering or controller problems using the publisher’s known-issues references.

Keep platform-specific workarounds separate. The existing Japanese guide discusses fixes through version 1.0.5 and Steam DualSense support introduced in 1.0.3; those version numbers describe historical guidance. Check later official notes and preserve the result of each comparison.

If the game will not start

Try one change at a time and test the game afterward, so you can see whether it helped.

  1. 1
    Install available game updates; the original guide’s baseline is version 1.0.5 or later.
  2. 2
    For affected Intel 13th/14th-generation desktop CPUs, follow the manufacturer’s stability and BIOS guidance for the exact model. Do not treat it as a universal laptop procedure.
  3. 3
    If windowed display stutters, compare fullscreen in the same scene.
  4. 4
    If controller sprinting stops unexpectedly, check the official known-issues thread. Its sensitivity-0.8 workaround was for consoles; PC applicability was not verified.

Sources

We checked these official pages and wrote the steps in our own words. Follow the publisher’s page if it has changed.

Bandai Namco: official game siteOfficial known issues and workarounds threadSteam: The Blood of DawnwalkerPCGamingWiki: reference retained from the Japanese guideJapanese version of this page