Infinite loading screen?

[HeyYou]

This is new..... Never had this problem until the latest update. (May 15) Now, far too frequently, I get a black screen with the loading spinny thing, and it never loads. I can load saves just fine, but, if I fast travel, take the tram, go thru a load door.... that's it, I'm done. Gotta use task manager to kill the game, then go back to my last save. Searching the web doesn't turn up much of a solution.

There is zero disk activity when this happens. The game is still running, but, not hitting the disk at all.

Any help?

[tkwoods]

How long did you wait?

Couple days ago I was doing the Legacy exit after getting the credits. Messed up and took to long getting to the ship and died just as I hit R at the airlock. Materialized dead falling out the bottom of the ship. It auto saved and would spawn me outside every time.

I had to reload a prior save and it came into a black screen like you are saying. I just waited, seemed like it was hung but finally did come back.

[Unturned]

This seems like normal typical behavior for the game, this game is all about loading screens.

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

How long did you wait?

Couple days ago I was doing the Legacy exit after getting the credits. Messed up and took to long getting to the ship and died just as I hit R at the airlock. Materialized dead falling out the bottom of the ship. It auto saved and would spawn me outside every time.

I had to reload a prior save and it came into a black screen like you are saying. I just waited, seemed like it was hung but finally did come back.

Normally, my loading screens are a few seconds, to at most a minute. These have gone on for more than five minutes..... at which point, task manager shows Starfield burning about 25% of the CPU, 80+% of the GPU (even though its a black screen....) and absolutely zero disk activity. Alt-Tabbing away from the game, nothing changes, and the music continues... which normally, it doesn't. Previously, if I switch to my browser, the music stops.

I am only like level 14 in a new playthru..... and I have seen this way too often. Before the patch, I played to level 240 or so, and never had this problem.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

yeah, the gears are grinding...
sooooo
I'm currently thinking it might have something to do with graphics settings and graphics drivers. I would look there first.... choose another render method, DSR/FSR. switch Vsynch on or off... somehow help the graphics card to find the entry into the graphics display again. ♥♥♥♥, I would even use an older graphics driver...if recently updated... Driver updates are not always good...

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ:

yeah, the gears are grinding...
sooooo
I'm currently thinking it might have something to do with graphics settings and graphics drivers. I would look there first.... choose another render method, DSR/FSR. switch Vsynch on or off... somehow help the graphics card to find the entry into the graphics display again. ♥♥♥♥, I would even use an older graphics driver...if recently updated... Driver updates are not always good...

Don't recall how old my drivers are. :D I did a fresh reinstall of the game, and am actually using FEWER mods this time around. Checked: Vid Drivers are 6/23.... maybe do an update, and see what happens. :D

[oak]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Originally posted by Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ:

yeah, the gears are grinding...
sooooo
I'm currently thinking it might have something to do with graphics settings and graphics drivers. I would look there first.... choose another render method, DSR/FSR. switch Vsynch on or off... somehow help the graphics card to find the entry into the graphics display again. ♥♥♥♥, I would even use an older graphics driver...if recently updated... Driver updates are not always good...

Don't recall how old my drivers are. :D I did a fresh reinstall of the game, and am actually using FEWER mods this time around. Checked: Vid Drivers are 6/23.... maybe do an update, and see what happens. :D

List of mods in use?

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by oak:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Don't recall how old my drivers are. :D I did a fresh reinstall of the game, and am actually using FEWER mods this time around. Checked: Vid Drivers are 6/23.... maybe do an update, and see what happens. :D

List of mods in use?

SFSE
Plugins to remove reactor limit, weapon count/power limit, console command runner, plugins enabler, achievement enabler, engine power limits, kill my games folder, Address library....
StarUI inventory. (not using StarUI Hud, or ship builder, as they were broken by the latest update.... Easy lock picking, a mod to shorten the various 'vision' cutscenes, Mantis spacesuit replacer. (this one also does something with UC security, and they appear as heads, hands, with weapons..... the rest is missing... need to look into that.) and a few QoL mods, clean reflex sights, high vis scopes, etc.

The mantis replacer I think is suspect... as the ILS seems more prevalent on Jemison.... I'll poke into that, and retest, see what happens.

[oak]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Originally posted by oak:

List of mods in use?

SFSE
Plugins to remove reactor limit, weapon count/power limit, console command runner, plugins enabler, achievement enabler, engine power limits, kill my games folder, Address library....
StarUI inventory. (not using StarUI Hud, or ship builder, as they were broken by the latest update.... Easy lock picking, a mod to shorten the various 'vision' cutscenes, Mantis spacesuit replacer. (this one also does something with UC security, and they appear as heads, hands, with weapons..... the rest is missing... need to look into that.) and a few QoL mods, clean reflex sights, high vis scopes, etc.

The mantis replacer I think is suspect... as the ILS seems more prevalent on Jemison.... I'll poke into that, and retest, see what happens.

You probably know where I was heading with that (and thankfully not too big of a list for us bleeding edge Starfield modders at this stage at least)... disabling mods 1 by 1, testing (in a new save if needed, assuming new saves also exhibit the issue) until a possible culprit is found.,

Good luck on the hunt for the cause. PITA for it to spring up now after so long.

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by oak:

Originally posted by HeyYou:

SFSE
Plugins to remove reactor limit, weapon count/power limit, console command runner, plugins enabler, achievement enabler, engine power limits, kill my games folder, Address library....
StarUI inventory. (not using StarUI Hud, or ship builder, as they were broken by the latest update.... Easy lock picking, a mod to shorten the various 'vision' cutscenes, Mantis spacesuit replacer. (this one also does something with UC security, and they appear as heads, hands, with weapons..... the rest is missing... need to look into that.) and a few QoL mods, clean reflex sights, high vis scopes, etc.

The mantis replacer I think is suspect... as the ILS seems more prevalent on Jemison.... I'll poke into that, and retest, see what happens.

You probably know where I was heading with that (and thankfully not too big of a list for us bleeding edge Starfield modders at this stage at least)... disabling mods 1 by 1, testing (in a new save if needed, assuming new saves also exhibit the issue) until a possible culprit is found.,

Good luck on the hunt for the cause. PITA for it to spring up now after so long.

Yeah, I was really surprised by that one. :) I probably have over a thousand hours in game, (I play off-line most of the time, so, steam doesn't track it) and never had a problem. It crashed *maybe* three times in 240 some levels..... I *AM* using some different mods this time, so, I'll start with those. :)

I appreciate the assist. :D I am brain dead this morning.... Need more coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[HeyYou]

Hokey Doke. Updated video drivers, deleted shader cache, and blew away the folders for the UC Security cloths/suits. That seems to have solved it. Been playin for a couple hours now, no issues.

Excellent. :D

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

fresh oil, good :)

[milkybootyhole]

So I am sure this is still an issue for most, but I also have a list of mods installed (with the exception of a few that are not working properly). I actually had my companion stay outside of the door, in the final mission after clearing the room and it seemed to work. Not sure if this would apply to all loading issues but thought I would share my findings.

[VK.DE]

Nice, still happening