Is it just me or is Starfield more broken than it was at launch?

[Balthie]

When it first came out i completed a playthrough with some bugs but nothing game breaking, but now i cant even move around on the first planet without the game lagging horribly and my audio just not existing.

Is this just current Starfield or is it something on my end?

Edit: My first playthough was on High graphics settings and on the same PC, now im on Low settings and its very laggy.

Edit 2: Game just crashed after defeating the pirates and trying to talk to barrett.

[Xcorps]

Do you have mods installed, drivers updated?

I have about 12 mods installed, nothing major. Game runs the same for me as it did at launch, which is butter smooth, I can't say for sure but I'd bet money I haven't crashed 3 times since launch.

DLSS got released since launch, have you looked at that?

[Kathrynerius]

I am having an ungodly amount of bugs. The most annoying one is not being able to access creation club. (The major bug everyone is talking about where the game freezes if you try to open it, and the only way to fix it is by deleting all your creations.)

[Flippy]

The new updates have improved the game alot. Like really.

But two quests in New Atlantis lead to an npc in the middle of the lake, and so far under water cant even interact so both quests broken. I tried travelling away and waiting and everything but still broken.

Also the tram in New Atlantis does the move animation 1 in 10 times, but it still makes sounds at least. The tram was sort of lazy to start with but its even lazier now lol.




If there is an option turning off ability to fast travel so much would be good, im sure thats been requested 100 times already.

Also alot of the main story quests being forced on the player so hard constantly harassing the player to continue on would be great, but i havnt started the main quest yet since i stopped playing last year after the game came out.

100 updates still needed to be half as good a game as it would be before the blatant sabotage and bad writing basically.

[Flippy]

The newest updates made the game playable again as well. Like 2 weeks ago if i tried to play the loading screen were endless then had to reboot to get out. Seriously it was unplayable and broken 2 weeks ago.

But i wasnt playing the game at all since last year like i said, just seeing if it started up and worked basically.

The latest update today may have fixed the quest NPC in the middle of the large lake and broken tram but i dont know.

I am not rushing to update now because maybe the endless loading screens come back or performance takes a hit again or something.

Not impossible the quest npc in middle of lake and broken tram are from free mods from the store, dont know.

[stabbykitteh]

The last couple of patches made a lot of changes, and definitely introduced some new bugs.

Your problems sound more like drivers or a corrupted install though. Maybe start with uninstalling any mods and verifying your game files. As was mentioned above make sure your gpu drivers are up to date.

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

I am having an ungodly amount of bugs. The most annoying one is not being able to access creation club. (The major bug everyone is talking about where the game freezes if you try to open it, and the only way to fix it is by deleting all your creations.)

An easier way to fix that:
https://youtu.be/2EqK6Mhl5J8?si=CKYz6gMoG4VHTf_g

[ᴄᴀᴢᴅᴋ]

Originally posted by Kathrynerius:

I am having an ungodly amount of bugs. The most annoying one is not being able to access creation club. (The major bug everyone is talking about where the game freezes if you try to open it, and the only way to fix it is by deleting all your creations.)

can you tell me about this? ive been having this issue too and i was concerned that it was because of the unofficial patch by that arthuroom guy or whoever that no one likes... ive tried fresh install, validating files, deleting everything manually... nothing seems to be working.

[Balthie]

Originally posted by Xcorps:

Do you have mods installed, drivers updated?

I have about 12 mods installed, nothing major. Game runs the same for me as it did at launch, which is butter smooth, I can't say for sure but I'd bet money I haven't crashed 3 times since launch.

DLSS got released since launch, have you looked at that?

I have some things installed through the Creation function but nothing on nexus as that is broken for me. Ill do a driver update, that could possibly be an issue i overlooked

[momopovich]

When I started playing in january I encountered a fair amount of bugs and most if not all of them have been fixed since then.

Performance has been better pretty much every update for me.

[S'bass thulu]

Been playing on my laptop since day 1, so not an ultra fancy setup. NVidia card, 16g ram, runs perfectly fine, lots of mods going, completely stable. Once, when I'd had about 40k lbs of adaptive frames to sell from my outpost early on, I fell through the planet after loading into my ship. Even then, all I had to do was go to the map and pick my destination. I got there fine. I've played all other Bethesda lines. Starfield is the least buggy effort I've ever known. Good luck. Don't give up.

[S'bass thulu]

Originally posted by Balthazar "Balthie" Algathon:

Edit: My first playthough was on High graphics settings and on the same PC, now im on Low settings and its very laggy.

Edit 2: Game just crashed after defeating the pirates and trying to talk to barrett.

Balthie... time zones are so weird to me. Your post time says 7 hours ago. Vatican city (where you say you're at) is 6h ahead of where I'm at rn, and it's 6a here. So it is noon there. Your profile says you haven't played Starfield since the 14th, which now, would be over 12 hours ago.

Respect to the 10k hours spent in Rimworld. Seems like you're a way more competent gamer than me and play a lot of grand strategy too. Really hope you can figure the bugs out. Starfield rocks and I've had no major issues, so I am genuinely interested in hearing what's up.

[splatdeathbanana]

Personally i think the games been even more stable and runs better.

[Astronimo]

Most likely it's the mods. Either something is not updated, or there are conflicts

[Ksyro0]

I'm just delusional or it's really so much paid users that are saying that game is very stable and is playing well, but this problem with freezes, lags and audio cutting out is common for much more people. I have a decent rig and have the same problems, on release there were no problems with that. Every place where I search this kind of problem, I see that type of guys that are saying "I don't know, my game is not laggy, it's working great, try to update drivers or reinstall the game", those guys are like bots really. There is a real problem and not only for those, that have weak PC and Bethesda doesn't want to acknowledge that.

[S'bass thulu]

Funny that a bot would say honest folks aren't bots. What do you have against folks wanting to play the game? That's all it is. And we, who want to play the game, are clearly always willing to help folks who are having problems. I haven't had many than falling through the earth (above). I have an RTX 3050 TI in my laptop, which isn't a fancy card in the least these days. I don't say that to squash that others are having problems, I offer that as, 'this card to the gooderest of my wee brain works for this game.' For the price, this laptop has worked amazing for my needs. I'm curious to hear what others folks are running who crash more than not.

Your tag line, Ksyro0, 'there is a real problem and not just for those that have a weak PC' (can't stand your grammar, bot), does raise a good point, so evidence decides. My GPU with a 16 gig ram has had no real trouble. While I was hospitalized most of the end of last year... the GPU running pretty much only Starfield, did get hot enough to burn out my wifi card. So now I've got usb wifi and a fan going on... but that ish was my fault, and the air flow to the laptop... but the card itself kept up with the need of about 2 months of regular play since release... when I got out and solved the hardware issue, and I haven't had any lately.

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by Ksyro0:

I'm just delusional or it's really so much paid users that are saying that game is very stable and is playing well, but this problem with freezes, lags and audio cutting out is common for much more people. I have a decent rig and have the same problems, on release there were no problems with that. Every place where I search this kind of problem, I see that type of guys that are saying "I don't know, my game is not laggy, it's working great, try to update drivers or reinstall the game", those guys are like bots really. There is a real problem and not only for those, that have weak PC and Bethesda doesn't want to acknowledge that.

How can people help when all the information that gets posted is "runs laggy"? You literally have to pry out of people with multiple questions what system they are running, if the drivers are updated, are there mods installed. Those things matter and are the most common culprit when it comes to gameplay issues.

Think about it. If 1 out of 100 people post that they are having an issue and the other 99 say it runs fine, maybe it's not the 99 people or Bethesda that are the problem.