Crashing To Desktop

[rzrz]

In my case it's seemingly random, happens quite often, using beta patch, anyone else ? No error messages....

[Lemiarty]

I had to turn off DLSS, both frame generation and upscaling, to get the CTDs to go away. I played for about 7 hours today with them off and not a single crash.

[rzrz]

Originally posted by Lemiarty:

I had to turn off DLSS, both frame generation and upscaling, to get the CTDs to go away. I played for about 7 hours today with them off and not a single crash.

Well I'am playing it again after some time mainly to utilize DLSS.....

[Vlad 254]

I saw where a user was having occasional crashes and what finally fixed it for them was rolling back their graphics driver. They had an Nvidia GPU and once they rolled the driver back they opened Nvidia Ge Force Experience and chose "Optimize settings". Then launched from there. Said they've been running great ever since.

[[GAZArts]]

When the beta first launched I was overjoyed by the smooth experience I was suddenly getting in heavy populated cities, played for about six hours, got to Neon, rinsed it of quests, logged off for the night. The next morning i saw that the Beta had been patched, tried to load up my game and as it was loading up Neon the game exited to desktop. This happened to all my saves at Neon, I had to go back 6 hours before I even arrived at Neon to be able to get the game going. Not sure if this is the beta or if Neon is just a buggy mess but I disabled the beta and started a new playthrough as a result.

[rzrz]

I've thought that reset of overclocking and turning of any possibly associated programs will help, but it didn't, in my case. I've even tried disabling Steam overlay and Cloud save and still crashes, I guess it's called " beta " for a reason.....

[rzrz]

and after some testing it looks like for me it doesn't matter if DLSS or other upscaler is on or off, game simply crashes at any settings in beta state seemingly randomly

[sdunnyw506]

1. Beta
2. Post your PC specs

[Beule]

i got these new crashes ,since a few Days. without the beta patch.. trying now the beta patch but had same issue.. deleting all Temp files,check Drivers etz.. Crashes on Loading Screen. when i would land or start with ship... Games is instant down... have tried all my Save Games...i have play 300 Hours without Problems..since a few Days..

[Terry]

Have you deleted your pipeline cache file? i find this really helps me as well as deleting old saves as the game engine struggles with 250+ saves.
Located User\AppData\Local\Starfield the file Pipeline.cache
Warning, after deleting, the game will rebuild the shaders once you open it, so if it starts up laggy, unresponding and your fans going up, thats why.
I find most games that save shaders, get issues and crash when settings change or they bug out, that causes the game to crash.

The other issue is big out posts, that cause alot of lag and issues, so its worth trying to slim them down and see if that help :-)

One other thing i find with Bethesda games is bugged out game settings, deleting your settings file manually, located User/Documents\My Games\Starfield files StarfieldPrefs.ini and some times StarfieldCustoms.ini if you have mods, just remember to add them after if you run mods :-)

[Beule]

yeah thx Terry.. yeah save Games okay.only 15 left. pipeline i have cleaned before.. ini. is new... but the outpost could be the PRoblem..?? but about the crashes i cant go throw.. :) .these crashes are only after start or before landing. in the loadingscreen. no probs with fighting on Planets or Space.. nice 100 fps ,with beta patch, on a 3080.. i would try an older "grafiktreiber"..

[Vlad 254]

Anyone with an issue especially of this nature should always start with their complete PC specs. That's first.

Easiest and best way is what Steam sees so the steps are as follows (very simple):

Go up top here in Steam and find "Help"
Next choose "System information"
Give it a second or 2 to populate
Then simply copy & paste the info here in this thread, all of it.

[Beule]

okay
CPU-Hersteller: AuthenticAMD
CPU-Marke: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
CPU-Familie: 0x19
CPU-Modell: 0x21
CPU-Stepping: 0x0
CPU-Typ: 0x0
Geschwindigkeit: 3800 MHz
16 logische Prozessoren
8 physische Prozessoren
Hyper-Threading: Unterstützt
FCMOV: Unterstützt
SSE2: Unterstützt
SSE3: Unterstützt
SSSE3: Unterstützt
SSE4a: Unterstützt
SSE41: Unterstützt
SSE42: Unterstützt
AES: Unterstützt
AVX: Unterstützt
AVX2: Unterstützt
AVX512F: Nicht unterstützt
AVX512PF: Nicht unterstützt
AVX512ER: Nicht unterstützt
AVX512CD: Nicht unterstützt
AVX512VNNI: Nicht unterstützt
SHA: Unterstützt
CMPXCHG16B: Unterstützt
LAHF/SAHF: Unterstützt
PrefetchW: Nicht unterstützt
Betriebssystem:
Windows 10 (64 Bit)
NTFS: Unterstützt
Krypto-Anbieter-Codes: Unterstützt 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Grafikkarte:
Treiber: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
DirectX-Treibername: nvldumd.dll
Treiberversion: 31.0.15.3734
DirectX-Treiberversion: 31.0.15.3734
Treiberdatum: 1.9.2023
OpenGL-Version: 4.6
Desktopfarbtiefe: 32 Bit per Pixel
Monitor-Bildwiederholfrequenz: 143 Hz
DirectX-Karte: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Anbieterkennung: 0x10de
Gerätekennung: 0x2206
Revision: 0xa1
Anzahl Monitore: 1
Anzahl logische Grafikkarten: 1
Kein SLI oder Crossfire erkannt
Prim. Anzeigeauflösung: 2560 x 1440
Desktopauflösung: 2560 x 1440
Primäre Anzeigegröße: 23.54" x 13.23" (26.97" diag), 59.8cm x 33.6cm (68.5cm diag)
Primärer Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primärer VRAM: 10239 MB
Unterstützte MSAA-Modi: 2x 4x 8x
Soundkarte:
Audiogerät: Dell S2716DG (NVIDIA High Defin
Arbeitsspeicher:
RAM: 32679 MB
VR-Hardware:
VR-Headset: Nicht gefunden
Sonstiges:
UI-Sprache: Deutsch
Medium: Nicht festgelegt
Verfügbarer Festplattenspeicher insgesamt: 1410849 MB
Größter freier Festplattenspeicherblock: 353624 MB
Installationsdatum des Betriebssystems: Aug 31 2021
Spielcontroller: None erkannt
MAC-Adresse (Hash): f1db6c55faa536947e3907266042dbde13f071d1
Speicherplatz:
Hash der Seriennummer (Laufwerk): 417116e7
Anzahl SSDs: 1
SSD-Größen: 1000G
Anzahl Festplatten: 1
Festplattengrößen: 480G
Anzahl der Wechseldatenträger: 0

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Beule:

okay
[...]

Specs look good. Thank you for posting as it's always best to get that out of the way first.

I know you said you've tried several fixes but have you tried any of these from Bethesda?

WHAT CAN I DO IF STARFIELD IS CRASHING ON PC?
https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/61089

ADVANCED TROUBLESHOOTING - CRASHING/FREEZING ON PC - STARFIELD
https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/62766

The above info can be found in this forum's Helpful Links and References

(we are trying to get it Pinned in these Forums but so far to no avail)

[Beule]

yeah .thx .the most of all.. but i will test tomorrow delete Steam when the Problem is still there. i have cleaned up everything. have a clean Driver Inst.. with Driver from September.. now i have too sleep.. i tell you tomorrow.. sry for my bad englisch.. i m oldfatgerman guy ! thx

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Beule:

yeah .thx .the most of all.. but i will test tomorrow delete Steam when the Problem is still there. i have cleaned up everything. have a clean Driver Inst.. with Driver from September.. now i have too sleep.. i tell you tomorrow.. sry for my bad englisch.. i m oldfatgerman guy ! thx

No problem at all Beule, get some rest and pick this up tomorrow.
Also if that doesn't help you might try rolling back your drivers.