Sonic Frontiers may not have the best PC port, but it shouldn’t be crashing on you.

Why Is Sonic Frontiers Crashing When It’s Switched to Full-Screen Mode?

Sonic Frontiers may exhibit a strange bug where the game doesn’t properly utilize your dedicated GPU.

sonic frontiers promotional screenshot

Image Credit:Steam

While running in windowed mode, Sonic Frontiers has no problem using the correct hardware.

However, when switching to full-screen, the game attempts to switch to your integrated GPU.

Either way, this causes the game to crash.

screenshot of the sonic frontiers graphics menu

Open this page by searchingGraphicsin the start menu search bar, and click onGraphics parameters.

From here, search Sonic Frontiers in the search bar.

If the game doesn’t appear, you could hitBrowseto manually locate the game.

screenshot of the windows graphics settings page

Next, click into Sonic Frontiers in the list of games and hitOptions.

Switch the game toHigh Performance, then stash your changes.

This should fix the crash entirely.

screenshot of sonic frontiers in the windows graphics menu

screenshot of sonic frontiers switching to high performance in windows graphics settings

screenshot of sonic frontiers in amd graphics settings