When the game crashes, what happens to my inventory?

[Elydine]

i9 9900KF
32gb ram
4090
Win 10 22H2

It's crashed twice now and I've had a full inventory of what I consider hard earned treasure.

It probably goes into the void but this makes playing difficult and not rewarding.

Is there a possibility to have auto saves hold onto that information while I'm out and about?

[Cahalith]

From what I can tell, the game only autosaves in camp. So if your game crashes, I assume you revert to your last autosave in camp, losing all the inventory you have gained since last save. It's a bummer because if you die on an excursion, you at least get to keep some of the items you've collected.

The devs have been very good at communicating here, so perhaps they can implement some kind of occasional autosave that triggers at specific intervals during excursions.

It might take quite a while to implement such a system, though, if indeed it's feasible in the first place. Can you give us some additional information on how the game crashes (crash to desktop, bluescreen, is there an error message etc.?) Perhaps if we find the reason for these crashes, you could keep playing even with the save system as-is?

BTW: I've noticed the devs have created a "Bugs & Issues" sub-forum. Perhaps you could post there to make the devs find your post more quickly.

[Elydine]

Happened again twice. In Upper Dynevron. Here's the message from Breadcrumbs file: Breadcrumbs 'RHIThread'
Context 1/2
00 Scene
01 NiagaraGpuComputeDispatch

Win 10 and GPU drivers are up to date.

[Cahalith]

From what Google tells me, that appears to be an Unreal engine error. I'm pretty sure I've seen other players mention they have trouble running the game because they get Unreal engine errors, maybe search for thread in this forum.

Have you tried the usual combination of verifying game files and deleting/re-compiling your shader cache?

[Elydine]

Had 20 hours when it started crashing. 1 yesterday, 2 this morning.
Was working fine until yesterday.

[lennykravic]

Originally posted by Cahalith:

From what I can tell, the game only autosaves in camp. So if your game crashes, I assume you revert to your last autosave in camp, losing all the inventory you have gained since last save. It's a bummer because if you die on an excursion, you at least get to keep some of the items you've collected.

The devs have been very good at communicating here, so perhaps they can implement some kind of occasional autosave that triggers at specific intervals during excursions.

It might take quite a while to implement such a system, though, if indeed it's feasible in the first place. Can you give us some additional information on how the game crashes (crash to desktop, bluescreen, is there an error message etc.?) Perhaps if we find the reason for these crashes, you could keep playing even with the save system as-is?

BTW: I've noticed the devs have created a "Bugs & Issues" sub-forum. Perhaps you could post there to make the devs find your post more quickly.

I have crashes often (but I’m playing on steam deck on windows partition, so not ideal) but I had one where I found new Loomgate and after crash I had it opened even I wasn’t in camp before game crashed.

[76561199730406677]

Originally posted by Elydine:

i9 9900KF
32gb ram
4090
Win 10 22H2

It's crashed twice now and I've had a full inventory of what I consider hard earned treasure.

It probably goes into the void but this makes playing difficult and not rewarding.

Is there a possibility to have auto saves hold onto that information while I'm out and about?

Really sorry this is happening!

A couple of follow-up questions & troubleshooting actions to try:

- What CPU do you have?
- Have you verified the integrity of your game files on Steam? (right click on the game in your library - General - Installed files - "Verify game files are installed correctly")
- Have you tried deleting your shader cache?

Let us know if any of this helps!

[Evangelion]

From my experience, on crash I never lost anything.

Game autosaves during the time you're exploring. Not sure what triggers autosaves, but I had a crash right after killing a boss and once after randomly running around and while it loaded me back in the camp, it still saved all the loot and strand that I collected on the run. (Got some mats I didn't have before, so that's how I knew it saved them as well).

My game only crashed on longer sessions though, 4-5-6 hours and it just ctds with fatal error (it was pretty consistent as it happened almost every time). I tried verifying files, purging cache etc but nothing seems to have worked. It was happening both in demo and full game.
CPU: 5800x3d, 3080ti, 32gb ram.

[Hades]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

From my experience, on crash I never lost anything.

Game autosaves during the time you're exploring. Not sure what triggers autosaves, but I had a crash right after killing a boss and once after randomly running around and while it loaded me back in the camp, it still saved all the loot and strand that I collected on the run. (Got some mats I didn't have before, so that's how I knew it saved them as well).

My game only crashed on longer sessions though, 4-5-6 hours and it just ctds with fatal error (it was pretty consistent as it happened almost every time). I tried verifying files, purging cache etc but nothing seems to have worked. It was happening both in demo and full game.
CPU: 5800x3d, 3080ti, 32gb ram.

same here. apparently the game does autosave after killing an area boss. i havent really checked how often the game autosaves when picking up loot from crates or regular mobs.

and i know it autosaves because when you go to the loom, the area boss you killed will be crossed out

[lennykravic]

Just hint, do manual saves. I did but two days ago a kept forgetting to manual save. Yesterday I noticed that I have missing main quest. It should end Act 3 (according to neoseeker walkthru) but I can't talk to person I should. It's probably bugged because one crash I had when moving to camp. Unlucky, I had about 8 hours of side-quests and no way to fix this.

[kaeju]

Originally posted by lennykravic:

Just hint, do manual saves. I did but two days ago a kept forgetting to manual save. Yesterday I noticed that I have missing main quest. It should end Act 3 (according to neoseeker walkthru) but I can't talk to person I should. It's probably bugged because one crash I had when moving to camp. Unlucky, I had about 8 hours of side-quests and no way to fix this.

What will manual saves help during a run though? Even if you save at camp, you're screwed if you crash while out scavaging.

[Ketamarine]

Originally posted by Evangelion:

From my experience, on crash I never lost anything.

Game autosaves during the time you're exploring. Not sure what triggers autosaves, but I had a crash right after killing a boss and once after randomly running around and while it loaded me back in the camp, it still saved all the loot and strand that I collected on the run. (Got some mats I didn't have before, so that's how I knew it saved them as well).

My game only crashed on longer sessions though, 4-5-6 hours and it just ctds with fatal error (it was pretty consistent as it happened almost every time). I tried verifying files, purging cache etc but nothing seems to have worked. It was happening both in demo and full game.
CPU: 5800x3d, 3080ti, 32gb ram.

This is what is happening to me. Play for like 4 hrs and it throws up a UE error and hard crashes to bsod or soft locks entire system.

Games should not be doing this in 2025...

[Smartik1]

Lower Denevon, crashed with fatal error popup. Doesn't let me fully alt tab so when I alt tab to it (without seeing it) I press enter to ok it which closes the game. Crashed twice today after a long run along with a boss fight, a quest and 2 craft recipes. This is painful.

Edit: So, I got on again today and looks like the quest and recipe unlocks survived the crash, though don't think the resources did as I picked up something from one of the Arks for a gear upgrade and don't have the material now. I'm glad the recipes are there as they were hard to find.