Star Wars Episode I: Racer

Problems players report

We read the 246 most recent negative Steam reviews of Star Wars Episode I: Racer on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

1. Crashes and freezes74 of 246 (30%)

   It crashes and doesn't work upon launch and people are acting like this is ok because you can download a file some random guy created to fix it.

   Steam review, 3 May 2026 · 0 hours played · 69 readers marked it helpful

   Steam refuse to refund this game despite the game immediately crashing when loading, which has been reported by a lot of people.

   Steam review, 30 April 2020 · 0 hours played · 67 readers marked it helpful

2. Will not launch or install33 of 246 (13%)

   Won't even start up without dropping community created dll files into the folder.

   Steam review, 4 January 2025 · 3 hours played · 8 readers marked it helpful

   Can't play a black screen and game that refuses to load.

   Steam review, 10 November 2023 · 2 hours played · 7 readers marked it helpful

3. Performance and stutter10 of 246 (4%)

   - If you play the game at 144 FPS, the game utterly breaks.

   Steam review, 17 November 2022 · 8 hours played · 10 readers marked it helpful

   Thirdly, the game is not really meant to run at an FPS that is very high, so a frame limiter is needed to get the original experience (if you can manage to get it working).

   Steam review, 1 October 2025 · 0 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

A further 3 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.