MGS V: The Phantom Pain PC Error: Fix For Crash On Startup, Low FPS and Resolution, Slow Download Speed & More

MGS V: The Phantom Pain is released for all platforms including PC. There are few issues with MGS V: The Phantom Pain PC version which will be fixed with patch time to time. But here we try to sum up the workarounds to fix issues which are most common.

First verify if you system is compatible with minimum system requirements of the Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain:

Minimum System Requirements

OS: Windows 7x64, Window 8x64 (64-bit OS Required)
Processor: Core i5-4460 (3.40GHz) or better; Quad-core or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 card required)
Direct X: Version 11
Hard Drive: 28 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Recommended System Requirements

OS: Windows 7x64, Windows 8x64 (64-bit OS Required)
Processor: Core i7-4790 (3.60GHz) or better; Quad-core or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (DirectX 11 card required)
DirectX: Version 11
Hard Drive: 28 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct 9.0c compatible sound card (Surround Sound 5.1)

1:

Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain crashing on launch
Many PC users are reporting issues of MGS V: TPP being crash on launch i.e. startup of the game, mostly this issue is occurring with AMD users with ATI graphics cards. The trick is obtaining the right driver for your graphics card.

For NVIDIA graphics card users, get latest GeForce drivers.
For AMD graphics card users, latest released beta driver doesn't do any good for MGS V: TPP so stay with latest stable release for your graphics card, which you can obtain from this LINK.

2:

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has stopped working
This issue happening in which users click on mgsvtpp.exe, but nothing happens, no game launch. There is a workaround as below, might work for some:

Locate the MGS_TPP folder in SteamApps -> Common
Go inside "_CommonRedist" > "vcredist" > "2012"
Run either vcredist_x64.exe or _x86 depending on what you have
Select uninstall
Run that again and click install
Go back to "MGS_TPP" and run "mgsvtpp.exe" as administrator

3:

Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain Slow Download in Steam:
To fix slow download issue with Steam, head to this LINK.

If this doesn't work for you then, go to this official steam support thread and post your configs. We are updating this guide with more issues, fixes and workarounds, so stay tune. Let us know in comments if you are facing different issues.