State of Decay 2 crashes on startup

I get the "A running process may be interfering" notification and crash.

I got this error on my laptop when reaching the camp in the first minute of the game, right after they prompt you to loot. My desktop does it during starting the first camp. 

Both my PC's were updated this week, automatically, because we can't control them and their updates anymore.

Its not my computers, or anyone elses; this game is broke.

Same issue here and I'm so p1ssed...

A fricking 20Gb update and they still completely sh@g the game for some proportion of customers.  

To be honest I see what Microsoft is trying to do. This whole SoD2 project has seemingly been commandeered by the marketing types in an attempt to springboard the MS Store as a competitive option with the likes of Steam. As usual however, the dream couldn't make it to a technical reality. 

The cost is extremely high for MS. Their efforts in this space have always been treated as a joke and all they've done is confirm what everyone's already been saying for years - Microsoft don't care about the community and they can't deliver. 

I feel for Undead Labs. I'm a big supporter of their franchise (300+ hours SODYOE) and they must be p1ssed since Microsoft bought them out, as they will have even less control over things like this. 

All they needed to do was embrace the Steam platform in this release and they would have actually sold 1m+ copies instead of gerrymandering the numbers using Gamepass subscribers. Like many, I almost didn't purchase the game because it was a Store/Xbox only release. 

Look at E3 - Sony pretty much pulverised MS with their presentation. 

I'm not sure Microsoft will ever learn.

Any way - I will just sit here and moan, but every day draws closer to a "delete and forget" scenario for SoD2... and I'm definitely not alone in this.

Of course they release it on the microsoft store platform and not steam :( Microsoft will refuse to patch this or give you any confirmation that they even recognise it as an issue. Instead they will post ridiculous time wasting copy/paste answers and "fixes" that they hope will frustrate you enough that you will just go away. We need them to release this on steam, a company who would have has this fixed in hours. You wonder why your Xbox doesn't have any good exclusives? Microsoft is behind it. They really thought sea of thieves was good? Oh sorry I'm ranting. I hear the pirate version has working patches out, allegedly. So funny if you steal this it works.

I strongly agree with you! As the poster of this question, i have not found a single working solution, the language pack one was just temporary. Microsoft does not give a **** about their games on the microsoft store and when they try to post ANY solution that THEY think works, it never fixes anything. Just like that first replier who was a "microsoft agent" and did absolutely nothing to help. I don't think this question will ever get a solution, Microsoft doesn't even try to help because they don't give a crap about their Windows 10 games, they just release them and forget them. Either wait for a patch, or hope this game releases on Steam, a company that actually cares!

Of course they release it on the microsoft store platform and not steam :( Microsoft will refuse to patch this or give you any confirmation that they even recognise it as an issue. Instead they will post ridiculous time wasting copy/paste answers and "fixes" that they hope will frustrate you enough that you will just go away. We need them to release this on steam, a company who would have has this fixed in hours. You wonder why your Xbox doesn't have any good exclusives? Microsoft is behind it. They really thought sea of thieves was good? Oh sorry I'm ranting. I hear the pirate version has working patches out, allegedly. So funny if you steal this it works.

Same problem.  Tries to load the menu and dumps.