Alright, let’s talk about something I ran into with Destiny 2 recently. I started calling it ‘code mutations’ in my notes, mostly ’cause I didn’t know what else to call the sheer weirdness happening on my screen.
So, I was grinding some Vanguard Ops, pretty standard stuff. Suddenly, enemies started acting… strange. Not the usual glitches, mind you. We’re talking Taken Vandals freezing mid-animation, Thralls running in perfect circles, stuff like that. Then came the crashes. Not your regular ‘Beaver’ or ‘Weasel’ disconnects. These were hard crashes to desktop, sometimes even blue-screening my whole machine, but only when playing Destiny 2.
My Process Tackling This Mess
Naturally, I started with the basics. First thing I did was verify the integrity of the game files through Steam. You know, the usual suspect. Came back clean. Okay, weird.
Next up, drivers. Checked my graphics card drivers, updated them to the latest version. Still happening. Checked Windows updates too, made sure everything was current. No dice.
Then I went down the hardware rabbit hole:
- Monitored temperatures – everything was cool.
- Ran memory checks – RAM was fine.
- Checked my SSD health – good to go.
None of the usual culprits seemed to be the cause. It really felt like the game code itself was just… degrading? Mutating? It wasn’t consistent. Sometimes it ran fine for an hour, other times it would crash three times in ten minutes doing the exact same activity.
I spent a good chunk of time digging through forums and Reddit. Found a few people describing similar random issues, but no concrete solutions. Lots of guesses, reinstall suggestions (which I dreaded, Destiny 2 is huge), but nothing solid.
Why It Felt Like ‘Mutations’
The inconsistency was the main thing. It wasn’t like a typical bug that you could reliably reproduce. It was chaotic. One crash might give a bizarre, undocumented error code, the next would just vanish without a trace. It genuinely felt like the underlying logic was getting scrambled somehow after patches or hotfixes.
This whole mess reminded me of this old laptop I had back in the day. It wasn’t even that old, maybe three years? But one day, after some weird Windows update, it just lost its mind. Programs would open randomly, the mouse cursor would drift, files would sometimes refuse to save. I spent weeks trying to fix it. Reinstalled drivers, ran every diagnostic under the sun, even tried system restore.
Nothing worked. It was like the core system files were just fundamentally messed up, corrupted in a way that the usual tools couldn’t detect or fix. It felt haunted. I eventually just wiped the whole thing clean and did a fresh OS install from scratch. That finally fixed it, but the feeling of fighting against something broken deep inside, something that wasn’t following the rules anymore, stuck with me.
That’s what these Destiny 2 issues felt like. Not just a bug, but something deeper, more unpredictable. A ‘mutation’ in the code’s expected behavior.
In the end, for Destiny 2? I ended up doing a full reinstall. It took forever to download again. Did it fix it? Mostly. The really weird stuff stopped, but I still get occasional crashes. Maybe it was corrupted files the verification missed, maybe it was sheer luck, maybe the next patch just happened to iron things out quietly. Hard to say for sure. But that’s the process I went through – exhausting the usual options, feeling that weird sense of the code itself being unstable, and finally resorting to the nuke option. Sometimes, that’s all you can do.
