Whoa Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined error code: How to fix the 'flatline' error message on PC

Cyberpunk 2077is finally available across the world, with millions of players jumping into Night City to experience CD Projekt Red's latest game, originally set to release in April 2020.

Naturally, players are bound to run into various bugs, issues and crashes that even the most dedicated Quality Assurance team could not find. Cyberpunk 2077, according to countless reviews published earlier this week, suffers from more bugs than most, meaning it's even more likely something will go wrong during your playthrough.

One of the most recent errors that keeps occurring sees players met with a slightly whimsical, but ultimately frustrating 'Whoa! Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined' error. Here's what you can try to resolve it.

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What is the 'Whoa Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined' error?

This 'flatlined' error message has begun appearing for numerous PC players when they try to boot up Cyberpunk 2077 from the launcher.

Essentially, the line 'Whoa! Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined' is a nicer way for CDPR to tell players that the game has crashed, and will not start up.

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How to fix Whoa Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined error

While Cyberpunk 2077 is still in the early stages of its release, and a new patch will hopefully resolve some of the already reported issues, the community has reported some methods that have fixed the 'Whoa!' issue once and for all.

We'd first recommend doing a hard restart of your PC, as this can often resolve many issues games face when trying to launch.

The next method to try involves updating your graphics cards drivers. NVIDIA and AMD regularly release updates to ensure the best possible performance on their cards. You can download the latest NVIDIA drivers here, or the AMD drivers here.

If this doesn't work, we'd recommend trying to repair the Cyberpunk 2077 game files. You can do this on Steam by selecting Cyberpunk 2077 from your library, going to Properties and then Local Files. Here, you can click on 'Verify Integrity of game files', in which Steam will check your game files and replace any that may have corrupted.

Cyberpunk can also be launched via GOG, and repairing files on here takes a similar route. Simply right-click on Cyberpunk 2077 and select Manage Installation. Here, you can select Verify/Repair, and it should check for any corrupted files.

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