CONSTANT RANDOM CRASHES

[Dtizz]

DEVELOPERS CLEARLY DONT WANT TO FIX THIS ISSUE, MY GAME WILL RANDOMLY CRASH TO DESKTOP IT COULD BE EVERY 5 MINUTES OR NEVER OR 20-30 MINUTES INTO GAME ETC WTF? ANYONE HELP>?

[DANEDANGER]

Sounds to me the game bottlenecks on you, at some point the game try's to use something that is not able to be procesed resulting in a crash. This also can happen due to memmory being flooded, computer shuts down the issue in order to protect important pieces

[ZombieHunter]

Others are not crashing this often. Look to your local system to see what is going on. If all of us were crashing this often, it would have been fixed a long time ago. One system does not an emergency create.

[Vlad 254]

We need to see your PC specs.

Easiest and best way is to show us what Steam sees.

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.

[Dtizz]

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: System manufacturer
Model: System Product Name
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x9e
CPU Stepping: 0xa
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3696 MHz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 31.0.15.4617
DirectX Driver Version: 31.0.15.4617
Driver Date: 11 9 2023
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1b06
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.73" (23.94" diag), 53.1cm x 29.8cm (60.8cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 11263 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (HyperX Cloud II Wirel
Memory:
RAM: 32691 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 8107140 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 5002253 MB
OS Install Date: Sep 25 2020
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: 503f36048367547ee2c245c406d49332990c478a
Storage:
Disk serial number hash: e9889212
Number of SSDs: 1
SSD sizes: 500G
Number of HDDs: 2
HDD sizes: 8001G,2000G
Number of removable drives: 0

[Chaz]

Well well, seems you have the same graphics card as me - and looks like you have the same amount of crashes as me as well.

It took me ages to find fixes to reduce the crashes.

There are two.
1. Run the Starfield.exe as an administrator - this is the one that made the most difference, if you don't know how - ask me here and I'll type it out for you.

or

2. If you are overclocked on the cpu return it to default speed, Starfield is very touchy about overclocking.

Edit: While I'm thinking about it, the amount of saves you have can cause jank as well - try the other two first and if it continues remove excess saves, it seemed to help.

[VeemonZ2]

It happens to me too since the native DLSS support update. I tried setting on FSR2, like the previous version of the game but the game keeps crashing as well. Every fast travel result in a crash.

[Dtizz]

CHAZ YES, please tell me how you ran as admin, i find myself f5ing constantly in game under fear of game crash, glad to hear im not the only one..

[Peculiar Head]

Originally posted by Dtizz:

DEVELOPERS CLEARLY DONT WANT TO FIX THIS ISSUE, MY GAME WILL RANDOMLY CRASH TO DESKTOP IT COULD BE EVERY 5 MINUTES OR NEVER OR 20-30 MINUTES INTO GAME ETC WTF? ANYONE HELP>?

I don;t think I've ever had a game crash on me every 5 minutes the way this one doe. It's absolutely insane. I't unplayable, basically.

[Botji]

Im also a 1080ti user with frequent CTD, have tried most things but its the first time I see the "run as admin" answer so I will give that a go next time.

Ugh, wish the GFX makes would stop gouging the market and return to sanity. At this pace it will make sense to upgrade in another 2-3 years when the cost to performance difference isnt abysmal anymore, hopefully.

[Vlad 254]

I've not had a crash in 1000 hours. i9-12900K, RTX 3090, Windows 11, and I have the game installed on an SSD which is a hard requirement.

As for a 11080ti I've seen many struggle with it on Starfield.

Originally posted by VeemonZ2:

It happens to me too since the native DLSS support update. I tried setting on FSR2, like the previous version of the game but the game keeps crashing as well. Every fast travel result in a crash.

What GPU are you running?
Windows 10 or 11?

[Jarsonne]

Originally posted by DANEDANGER:

Sounds to me the game bottlenecks on you, at some point the game try's to use something that is not able to be procesed resulting in a crash. This also can happen due to memmory being flooded, computer shuts down the issue in order to protect important pieces

I have regular irregular CTD, and it seems aggravated with last update.

There nothing special on my OS, it's a generic cloud computer, with just some games installed and un installed, and some game client, last GPU driver.

But I'd never thought memory could be a problem, but ok on my main computer I have 16Gb but I don't play Starfield with it, and the computer with Starfield and gamepass has 12Gb when on shop page minimum quoted is 16Gb.

Sigh. That said I admit I pay for a crap, 12Gb and name this a game offering (base) is a rip off.

[Jarsonne]

Originally posted by sixpackofmonkeys:

Is that in required specs?

Shop page is clear, SSD required, 16Gb RAM required (lol I doubt any console has that much memory). I didn't saw come the 16Gb requirement.

[Vlad 254]

Not only is SSD Required clearly listed in the Requirements but Bethesda went out of their way to talk about this for months before the game released.

The game will not run properly on a HDD.

[radblue]

Originally posted by sixpackofmonkeys:

OMG... Smalll print bandits. I meet reqs but was necver given the option. Shame...

It will default to where ever you installed Steam, you had the option to install Steam where ever you wanted

[Vlad 254]

You always have the option to install games to where you want.

Steam Support - Moving a Steam Installation and Games

There's also a section titled:
"How do I change the default installation path for my games?"