Crash every 40-60min

[kttiger666]

im having crashes every 40min playing, idk why, i have a rtx 4090 and playing 4k with high settings (no ultra). Anyone having the same problem? -_-

[Energy Addict]

I am also having random crashing. I'm on an old school GTX 1080 and my six year old rig trucking along on Medium settings.

Crashing seems nearly random. Whether Fast Traveling on the Star Map to running around an outpost. Game just seizes, locks up, and then closes with no warning.

Had a handful over the past two days.

[Majuri]

0 crashes for me i think your pc is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ buddy

[Darth Sirius]

gtx 4090 better

[hk_prometheus]

I too have 4090 and running at 4k. Game is just really demanding and poorly optimized at 4k and the lack of proper DLSS is causing my card temperatures to reach the low 80's at times. What's weird is how this usually only happens during dialogue but when I'm out exploring the temps stay pretty low.

I may end up D/L'ing a DLSS mod soon just haven't gotten around to it yet but I will bet that it will fix the issue.

Also, turn off autosaves and just do manual saves. The game seems to crash a lot more during these autosave moments and when it transitions to new areas and such.

[Not "Sir" But Ser Davos Seaworth]

When do you crash? Just randomly or is there any common culprits or similar situations where you crash?
Are you using any mods?
What cpu do you have?
Are you using any OC? (afterburner/Amd pbo, etc..)
Is the game installed on an SSD ?
Is your windows 10/11 up to date?

[kttiger666]

my cpu is i9 10980xe
32 gb ram
and installed on m2 ssd
no mods instal, and try without msi afterburner on windows 10
the crash are random, could be on a space batlle, or in a city

[Saelath]

Same problems for me.
Running a i9-11900K with rtx 3090 and 64 gigs ram

[Ki11s0n3]

I get random crashes as well, but according to Todd "it just works" Howard it's our fault.

[hk_prometheus]

Originally posted by Not "Sir" but Ser Davos Seaworth:

When do you crash? Just randomly or is there any common culprits or similar situations where you crash?
Are you using any mods?
What cpu do you have?
Are you using any OC? (afterburner/Amd pbo, etc..)
Is the game installed on an SSD ?
Is your windows 10/11 up to date?

For me crashes seem to happen the most when transitioning to new areas or trying to save the game even, or opening the inventory tab, etc.

I have a top end samsung SSD, rtx 4090 with latest drivers, asus mobo with latest drivers, intel i9-13900k, 64 gig corsair vengeance 6600hz. Windows 10 Pro fully updated. No overclocked components, no background programs or anti virus, no mods.

I haven't downloaded any mods for the game because I wanted to see how well it would perform without them on my first playthrough. Sometimes I can make it an hour or two without crashing, but in certain segments I will get 4-5 crashes in an hour of play.

Like I said, I have been monitoring my graphics card with afterburner to see temperatures and I even forced a 60fps lock through nvidia control panel which did seem to help with some of the crashing but did not fix it completely.

I think the issue is with Bethesda and terrible optimization for 4k users and the obvious lack of DLSS support. But I haven't played enough at 1440p to really gauge that yet however. But I see a lot of people who have reviewed and tested the game at 1440p and did not have any crashing issues.

[mino871]

I get crashes as well, about every hour... locks up and quits to desktop. Usually when I'm opening a cargo container. Ryzen 5800X3D and Radeon 5700XT


"No bugs" my a$$, Todd.

[IntraH]

With 6800 XT, 0 lag or crash, except some crashes in akila during attacks on citizens/guards.

[hk_prometheus]

One more thing to note, is that my graphics card tends to run hotter than normal in this game and it does this during moments that should not be very gfx intensive, such as dialogue cutscenes. At times my 4090 will reach 82C degrees which is absolutely friggin absurd. That's why I had to limit the fps to 60 just to keep the heat levels down.

By comparison, I can run cyberpunk 2077 with 100+ mods at 4k and max settings and my card never breaks over 60C degrees.

Again, the issue here seems to be lack of proper DLSS for the game. I'm probably going to have to get a mod that adds it if I want to keep running Starfield at 4k without melting my card.

[Danyel]

Same, trying to pin point was is causing the game to crash but it friggin difficult without any kind of error messages and the crash txts at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Starfield don't tell me much other than I think it is a gpu issue but what causing the issues no clue.

BTW I do not think it is a dlss issue or 4k issue as people are getting this all across different resolutions and with both amd and nvdia gpus.

[PhiXX]

In 80 hours I only crashed once, when I attempted to quicksave. So it seems that some systems are able to run crash-free. I got plenty (64gb) of RAM and a 4090, though - maybe that mitigates some of the crash potential. Running a 7800x3d on a Gigabyte mobo.
Crashing could always hint to system instability, too. Some games love to induce crashes with seemingly stable overclocks.

[juskom95]

Originally posted by Danyel:

Same, trying to pin point was is causing the game to crash but it friggin difficult without any kind of error messages and the crash txts at C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Starfield don't tell me much other than I think it is a gpu issue but what causing the issues no clue.

BTW I do not think it is a dlss issue or 4k issue as people are getting this all across different resolutions and with both amd and nvdia gpus.

GPU crashes will dump a .zip file to the Documents game directory.