If you are getting a startup crash in Alan Wake 2 with authentication failed message, make sure that you don’t have any background applications running.
As if the steep system requirements weren’t enough for Alan Wake 2, players could suffer from startup crashes as well. I suffered from the same issue when I first tried to boot up the game; however, there is a fix for that, and I was lucky enough to stumble upon it quickly.How to fix Alan Wake 2 Startup Crash
Upon launching the game for the first time, After a couple of starting screens, I was greeted with Menu_Authentication_Failed_Epic error.
