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What are you trying to do?
Pick the closest task below. If WARDOGS never produces a process or window, use Not launching. If it appears and then exits, use Crashing.
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How to playCheck the current legal access path and where to stop if no build is available.Download and installCheck access and install the correct Steam app.HOTAS supportSee the current official HOTAS support boundary.Arcade or simulation?Understand the intended tactical FPS direction.CrashingUse this path when a process or window appears before the game exits.Not launchingUse this path when no game process or window appears at all.
Before troubleshooting
No launch and crash are different symptoms.
Use the no-launch path only when starting the game produces no observable WARDOGS process or window.
Use the crash path when a WARDOGS process, Easy Anti-Cheat window, or game window appears and then closes.