New update broke game

[Bassdude89]

I updated the game and now when i launch the game i hear the sounds but no visuals at all.

[Afanickton]

same

[chipartist]

Same here, except that I can see the game opening screen on the Taskbar preview. When I select it, the game window does not open. I also updated the Nvidia driver before trying the updated game.

EDIT: Closing the game in the Taskbar and restarting via Steam Library, seems OK now.

[Flux]

ctrl + alt+ del to open your task manager. search for starfield, click the little > to open the sub bar, and right click starfield and click on maximize.

[Midarc]

followed the same steps chipartist did,
I'm not even getting sounds.
Just opens, looks like its active in the task manager and then after a couple of minutes reports an error and having to close. no feedback to indicate what the issue is.

[Diernayr]

It just works.

[Mephitic]

If you have mods, delete them, especially DLSS and FSFE-dependent mods.

[Vlad 254]

What Mephitic said in post #6^

Also:

Anyone having issues should post their system 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.

Having this information can be valuable and we should assume nothing until we see it

[Midarc]

No mods.
Didn't even beta the update.
only changes made are downloading the new nvidia drivers and steam downloading the update.
Appreciate the advice though and hope it's of help to someone.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Midarc:

No mods.
Didn't even beta the update.
only changes made are downloading the new nvidia drivers and steam downloading the update.
Appreciate the advice though and hope it's of help to someone.

Yes, depending on your GPU I've seen some say after updated their drivers all was fine.
But I've also seen some say they had to roll back to the previous driver.
I've seen this before with other games.

[Midarc]

Well, the time I had aside for this evening has almost run out so will probably call it a night as see what tomorrow brings. hoping for a hotfix, would be happy with a rollback option for those who need it.
thanks again for engaging and offering help.

[chipartist]

Originally posted by Midarc:

No mods.
Didn't even beta the update.
only changes made are downloading the new nvidia drivers and steam downloading the update.
Appreciate the advice though and hope it's of help to someone.

I also updated Nvidia driver and that seemed to break something -- no monitor image, just intermittent short flashes as if something was trying but failing to boot. I had not tried the updated game as yet. Hard shutdown and restart, all OK graphically, but then the SF failed open. As I could see it in the Task Bar preview, I closed it there and re-launched from Steam Library and it's playing fine so far, no graphics glitches I can definitively say are happening, but then I had a smooth game going before the driver update and game patch, so I did not expect any probs.

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I built this rig myself for 2 principal reasons: Working in Blender and playing Starfield. All my other games play much better on it, and Blender is so fast it takes my breath away now and then, even in Cycles. So far SF has been excellent graphically on Ultra/High.

[RickRama]

probably changed the output of the speakers to the controller..

[chipartist]

Two emerging bug-ish incidents:

1) At one of the manufacturing sites run by robots, I could not engage the computer inside the domed Hab to shut them down. Poor Andreja was outside getting pulped but the E-KEY interaction repeatedly failed. I had to hose the metal men with my Magshear.

2) A few minutes later, about half the audio FX went dead -- no music, no boost-pack sounds, a lot of the ambient (heavily populated biome) were gone. I quit to Main Menu and on restart, all but the music returned. I already miss the music. It's not a great soundtrack but I've become used to it.

This was not a particularly innocuous patch, it seems.

[townsgr]

New Atantis is furbar and so are Outposts are also fubar.

[Orim]

My fans keep on screaming...just as they did PRIOR to this...patch...no change - same intensive rendering demand...even when nothing is moving, shooting, exploding or being EATEN....