Crashing on new game, or loading existing saves

[WraithNX01]

I'm completely unable to play this now. Over a month ago the patch of the day broke the ability for me to run Starfield on my SteamDeck; the game would open, but then crash when opening a save, or creating a new game. For the last couple of weeks, once again since the patch of that particular day, the same thing is now happening on my PC.

No mods installed for either system, and experienced no issues prior to this either.

I have fully removed the game from both systems, and reinstalled, with no benefit.

Has anyone else experienced this, and more importantly, figured out how to fix it?

[zpc]

Check this guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3033949254

First thought: did you try to remove the shader cache? It's stored in a location other then the game profiles (saves etc) and the game directory. So it might still be broken no matter how often you uninstall etc. Check the guide for further details (paths and the like).

[WraithNX01]

I hadn’t tried that. Odd that it would fail on both devices in the same way, but I’ll give it a try over the weekend. Thanks for the suggestion.

[VonSmallhausenQQ]

Originally posted by WraithNX01:

I'm completely unable to play this now. Over a month ago the patch of the day broke the ability for me to run Starfield on my SteamDeck; the game would open, but then crash when opening a save, or creating a new game. For the last couple of weeks, once again since the patch of that particular day, the same thing is now happening on my PC.

No mods installed for either system, and experienced no issues prior to this either.

I have fully removed the game from both systems, and reinstalled, with no benefit.

Has anyone else experienced this, and more importantly, figured out how to fix it?

HI, YES Indeedy. I'm a 850 hour PC Starfield Player. I have NOT progressed to NG+. Before the 19March2024 patch was introduced, my game saves and loads were fine, but I found my game slowing down over time. Then, one day, walking into my Skills Farming Outpost crashed my game. I "fixed" that by downgrading my Display settings. A few weeks later the game was getting really slow as I started to build a Home Outpost and set up Cargo Links.
Once the 1.10.31 patch was installed, I couldn't load the last 4-6 saved games. when I did go back and progress an old saved game, the next day I couldn't run that updated Save Game file, as the game crashed when I tried to run that file.
I have been working with the Bethesda Tech Support for over a week checking all MY computer systems etc. No issues on my system.
HOWEVER, during a recent conversation, the Tech Support person said that Some People are Experiencing game crashes during saved game loading process. Apparently, that issue will be fixed in an upcoming patch - this comment was today, Thursday, 28th March 2024.
SO, hopefully, that patch will be released soon, but don't hold your breath.

[DKegman]

I'm having this issue as well... any updates? Game loads fine, loading save crashes game. I've tried like 5 older ones, same thing. Tried different protons, nothing.