If you like to check yourself and/or share your DxDiag you can use this I expect there might be other issues as well. Main suspect would be an issue with your graphics drivers at the moment.

We could look into it more with a DxDiag report. Since you got the game fresh it is very weird what might trigger the issue.

The error code indicates that something is triggering the DRM at start. Originally posted by Subaru: here you go, saw you helping other people on other threads so I'm glad to see you here lol Share a screenshot of your game's folder content. Originally posted by Subaru:Error code 88500201 on startup. I have never bought the game on switch or played on switch because I do not own one so that is not an issue either. Currently running on Windows 4, X470 Pro Motherboard, RTX2060, Ryzen 5 2600x, playing in the US and bought the game off of steam during a sale. May get a refund and buy sonic frontiers instead because this is insane. Reddit and other steam discussion sites have been no help and youtube has just gone through the basics that I've already done above. I've disabled all DLCs, restarted my PC, reinstalled my drivers, reinstalled the entire game, verified game files, changed my compatibility settings in MHR to Windows 7 and Windows 8 followed by restarting the computer, excluded the entire folder and the MHR application from my anti virus, installed on a different hard drive, changed my download region in steam and cleared my download cache, and restarted my PC several times. Been trying to figure this out for the last day and a half since I bought the game and ive still found no solutions that work.

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