Game Crashes mostly while in GUI

[KodiaRok]

After around 10 Hours of playtime without any major issues like bugs or crashes, they started to happen now. Usually within the inventory, star map, etc.. not while walking around or flying. It just happens randomly, but mostly when I am looking at missions then star map or inventory. Either my PC just reboots completely or the game freezes + my pc. I dunno if there is a issue with a corrupt safefile or something else.

All my drivers are up to date and like I said, before the 10 hour mark I had no crashes or anything. While I really enjoy my time in Starfield, right now it is just getting annoying, no other game causes my pc to crash so hard. Any thoughts?
I even uninstalled the game, verified the files, updated to the latest nvidia drivers, turn off overlay in steam, did changes to my graphic settings, no luck.

Annyone had or has the same issue? Despite this problem, the game has so far been really amazing.

[Alcohol Bear]

Glad to hear you are enjoying the game past the issues you’re having. I think the game naturally gets less stable over time. Remember to use an SSD of some sort and try to close any background apps.

[KodiaRok]

Yeah, all my games are running on an SSD. Everything else that could interfere is closed.
Dunno what else I could be doing tbh. I mean some people play for over 50 hours without issues, looks like I'am unlucky then.

[RodroG]

The game is great but is highly prone to crash to the desktop randomly when you enable some third-party overlays, such as the one coming from the AMD Radeon Adrenalin Software or RTSS in-app overlay plugin. Also, the game may CTD when running on some CPU/GPU/RAM manual overclock settings and when AMD AntiLag(+) or Nvidia (Ultra) Low Latency features are enabled in some configs.

However, it is hard to isolate and determine the root cause of these possible game crashes, as it could be the game itself, the GPU drivers, third-party applications, weaknesses in the custom users' system config, an unknown factor, or even an interaction between some of these factors.

[Josh]

Originally posted by KodiaRok:

After around 10 Hours of playtime without any major issues like bugs or crashes, they started to happen now. Usually within the inventory, star map, etc.. not while walking around or flying. It just happens randomly, but mostly when I am looking at missions then star map or inventory. Either my PC just reboots completely or the game freezes + my pc. I dunno if there is a issue with a corrupt safefile or something else.

All my drivers are up to date and like I said, before the 10 hour mark I had no crashes or anything. While I really enjoy my time in Starfield, right now it is just getting annoying, no other game causes my pc to crash so hard. Any thoughts?
I even uninstalled the game, verified the files, updated to the latest nvidia drivers, turn off overlay in steam, did changes to my graphic settings, no luck.

Annyone had or has the same issue? Despite this problem, the game has so far been really amazing.

Similar pattern here but I got more playtime out of it. Random CTD at ganymede and now it doesn't stop at New Atlantis either. Was like a light switch went off. And I have a top of the line rig. Extremely frustrating as I can't play like this.

[Josh]

Originally posted by RodroG:

The game is great but is highly prone to crash to the desktop randomly when you enable some third-party overlays, such as the one coming from the AMD Radeon Adrenalin Software or RTSS in-app overlay plugin. Also, the game may CTD when running on some CPU/GPU/RAM manual overclock settings and when AMD AntiLag(+) or Nvidia (Ultra) Low Latency features are enabled in some configs.

However, it is hard to isolate and determine the root cause of these possible game crashes, as it could be the game itself, the GPU drivers, third-party applications, weaknesses in the custom users' system config, an unknown factor, or even an interaction between some of these factors.

Possible, I disabled everything in my AMD adrenalin software but that didn't fix anything. Is there something I need to disable the overlay entirely?

[Josh]

Nvm found it, disabled it. Let's see if it does anything.

[Josh]

Nope, disabling adrenalin overlay didn''t do it. Sad.

[SergeyAlexson]

The same. I'm so wait for patch. Want to play, but can't.

[Andi_1970]

I had encountered the same issues. Finally I could only fix it by removing the AMD Adrenalin software Package, however keeping the latest driver called Adrenalin 23.9.2. So I did just remove the AMD stuff where you can adjust the perfomance settings of the native driver, not the driver itself.

On my system I am using a Sapphire Nitro RX 7900 XT with the TRIXX APP from Sapphire (Windows 11).

Since I removed the AMD Adrenalin Software suite no crashes at all. No difference in performance at all. Even less noise from the fans with the original Sapphire settings.

So its just my personal experience, However it may help preventing crashes with other AMD graphic cards as well.

When updating graphic drivers there is an alternative auto update app available on the AMD site where you can install only the drivers and nothing else. A bit less comfortable however to me it seems more stable so far.

[KodiaRok]

Since I use an nvidia gpu, before updating drivers, I always uninstall physx and the gpu drivers, reboot into safe mode and run the display driver uninstaller to properly uninstall the driver, take out the safe mode and boot normally into windows and reinstall the drivers with the ethernet cable unplugged so windows does not install the "default" driver. Been doing that since years and I always only install the latest drivers and physx without the geforce experience or hd audio drivers. Never had an issue.

However, now I get the same lights out problem with cyberpunk, pc just rebooted, like in starfield. Yet I played cyberpunk 2077 2.0 before Starfield for a few hours without problems. Dunno if something on my system went bad now.

Checked the health of my ssd's, all good as I am only using SSD's. I got a 1000Watt PSU, I9 9900K and NVIDIA 3090 GPU. Got 32GB of DDR Ram.

I know the CPU & GPU may not be the latest Gen but since I play all games in 1440p, all games run on max settings, even starfield ran great so far.

Weird times ahead.

[RodroG]

Originally posted by Josh:

Originally posted by RodroG:

The game is great but is highly prone to crash to the desktop randomly when you enable some third-party overlays, such as the one coming from the AMD Radeon Adrenalin Software or RTSS in-app overlay plugin. Also, the game may CTD when running on some CPU/GPU/RAM manual overclock settings and when AMD AntiLag(+) or Nvidia (Ultra) Low Latency features are enabled in some configs.

However, it is hard to isolate and determine the root cause of these possible game crashes, as it could be the game itself, the GPU drivers, third-party applications, weaknesses in the custom users' system config, an unknown factor, or even an interaction between some of these factors.

Possible, I disabled everything in my AMD adrenalin software but that didn't fix anything. Is there something I need to disable the overlay entirely?

Is the full Adrenaline Software overlay feature disabled (go to Settings > Preferences > General) or only hidden performance metric overlay via hotkey in your case?
Of course, I'm not saying disabling overlays will solve the CTD issues for everyone. But, for example, in my case, the game had been crashing when using the Radeon driver version 23.9.2 with HYPR-RX profile (it enables some driver features such as Anti-Lag+) and Adrenalin's overlay feature enabled. The CTD issue stopped when I activated the default Adrenalin driver profile with the Adrenalin overlay feature disabled entirely.

[Drogean]

- sell or store everything in your inventory on your ship- the more inventory stuff you have the more crashing
- drop your mining lazer - it causes crashes as well
- wait for SFSE to update on nexus and get the "Disk Cache Enabler" - should be available tonight

basically the game crashes no matter what on 50% of setups

[SergeyAlexson]

Update on recent update. Nothing changed, the same crashes.