Here's the fix that worked for me:
- Open windows > settings > App Volume and Device
Preferences
- Make sure steam is set to Default
- Launch Destiny
- Navigate back to your App volume and device
preferences
- Set Destiny to Default
- Force quit Destiny via task manager
- (I deleted my cars. xml here, this may or may not be required)
I tried everything to no avail before I found this fix. Wasn’t me that found it so can’t take the credit! Please share this as I was stuck for 3 days. Uninstalled twice, rolled back drivers and nothing.
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I just found this and saw a comment about HDMI Audio being the cause. In this case it was for me. If you just started Destiny 2 or got a new setup and have a monitor connected with HDMI cord. disable the HDMI audio in your sound mixer / settings.
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As of September 4th 2025 this fix still works. Just happened to my girlfriend and we were able to fix it with this post, she also had uninstalled and reinstalled and did driver things. Thank you for the post!!
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Does work once and then its back to loading screen for ever... bungie should be ashamed to have this stupid bug for this long and still charges money for their game. THE ONLY constant fix for me is to use a VPN, its absolutly stupid but it works somehow
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doesn't work for me
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1 ReplyCan confirm this work's as of 23rd of March, 2025. Damn 2 years later is crazy. Thanks you fellow Guardian!
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1 ReplyEdited by THEBaGanZa: 12/25/2024 4:36:02 PMi'll be damned, 2 years i've being free from destiny and you broke my freedom with this fix. why do you bring the curse back on this land!?!!?!? 25/12/24
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What a God send. Spent 4 hrs trying to figure this out. Uninstall and everything you can imagine. Still works on 12/4/24. Just upgraded to a Odyssey g9 and everything else loaded except this game! Thank you!
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worked for me,legend 11/25/2024
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this worked for me with one extra step i had multiple instances of hdmi audio driver. had to uninstall that before game would launch. found this thread in r/destinytechsupport after searching for like an hour for a possible fix. https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTechSupport/comments/11y9lz2/destiny_2_wont_launch_on_pc/
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You're an Absolute Legend, it resolved my problem today as I changed hardware stuff of my pc, that caused some sound applications settings to be blank and not as default. Thank you very much
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1 ReplyI have NEVER commented on any help or game forum but this was the only solution I could find as of 6/15/24 and it worked. Such a random problem and solution
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works 06-12 why is this an issue
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6-9-24 works.
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THE -blam!- GOAT WORKS AS OF FINAL SHAPE DROP 06/06 LEGEND
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As of May 26th 2024 this worked for me. Thank you so much! The weird thing was all I did was turn off my PC to clean it out with air in a can and when I booted back up I had this weird issue.
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Works as of may 4 2024. Thank you for having this up your awesome as well as the mad man who found out this fix.
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This happened to me after i updated my bios. weird bug. Just done the audio stuff and back to normal.
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Bro you are actually the GOAT! Even if you didn't find the fix yourself you're still a hero <3
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Just worked for me. What a weird issue lol.
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man gotta love the bungo forums to help, have to wonder why that was a problem, but it is nice to know that others felt the pain of this.
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No clue why this works but it does, thanks! as of the 28th march 2024.
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Crazy! This just worked for me also.. Had stripped my PC for cleaning and unable to load since turning it all back on. Thanks a lot!
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1 ReplyI did this and it's still not working. Is there anything else you can recommend?
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WORKS AS OF 2/4/24 THANK YOU
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works as of jan 18 2024 thank you
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Can confirm this works as of Jan 15th, 2024. Thanks for the help!