Fix for crashing.

[Josh]

Introduction

Hi,

I have had the bug where the game crashes any time a bird like creature on the second area of the game takes off flying.

I found a fix for me and posted it in discussions and a lot of people it seemed to fix crashing problems, for some it did not, but still I decided to make a guide for it so more people can get their crashing bugs fixed

Steps

1. Run the game.
   
2. Open task manager.
   
3. Go to the “Details” tab.
   
4. Find JediSurvivor.exe.
   
5. Right click it and change set priority to High or Real-time (Loads have recommended not to set to real-time due to it prioritising a
   game over more important pc functions).

Another fix by @Davidero

Another user commented this fix which has also been helping users:

Publicado originalmente por author:

This worked for me:

1. Disable Fullscreen Optimizations
   
2. Full-screen optimization and DPI settings are the default ones on Windows. You should try disabling it by following the steps below:
   
3. Locate STAR WARS Jedi Survivor game directory.
   
4. Find and right-click on STAR WARS Jedi Survivor.exe file.
   
5. Select Properties > Click on the Compatibility tab.
   
6. Checkmark the ‘Disable Full-Screen Optimizations’ box.
   
7. Now, click on the ‘Change high DPI setting’s button.
   
8. Checkmark the ‘Override high DPI scaling behavior’ > Select ‘Application’ from the drop-down menu.
   
9. Click on Apply and then OK to save changes.

Conclusion

Hopefully one of these fixes work, a lot have been commenting on my post in the discussion page that it does work and some said it doesn't, let me know below.

UPDATE

Update my game was working fine for ages, its now started to crash usually when I go to meditate, so it seems to work for a while.

UPDATE 2

Other users have also discussed disabling ray tracing seems to help also.

[Roland]

So I finished the game yesterday, and setting priority to High via a regedit held me over through most of the game, at one point I did randomly start getting crashes again, but only experienced like 5 over the last 10 or so hours of the game; taking my time (versus prior to setting High priority where I was crashing every other fast travel or death).

I have no understanding as to why but somehow this game just runs worse and worse the farther you get, even in starting areas where little has changed. For example at the beginning of the game I had no problem holding 45 fps in Koboh, but in the same areas around the second to last boss fight, I'd randomly get dips down to 38 even though nothing has changed visually. And like this persists after a full system restart so it's not a memory leak or anything; it reminds me of the Skyrim ps3 bug with save files, except surely that can't be the case here....

[artillery75]

Iv had this exact same issue. In the desert with the walkers and mainly the darth vader fight scene recently. After every i've tried. Disabling ray tracing is ultimately what has hard fixed the issue. For some reason ray tracing on the rtx4090 is a no go at the moment. hopefully they release a patch soon. Still a great game but don't offer ray tracing if it cant run with it. i love the game but what a headache on the PC.

[sgingras]

Ok this 100% worked for me. I did both the change set priority (didn't work by itself) and the other fix by @Davidero and I haven't had a single crash in three hours of gameplay on GHOBO (or whatever the first planet.

[Josh]

Publicado originalmente por sgingras:

Ok this 100% worked for me. I did both the change set priority (didn't work by itself) and the other fix by @Davidero and I haven't had a single crash in three hours of gameplay on GHOBO (or whatever the first planet.

Yeah it worked for me, I completed the game.

[nieudacznik2115]

Hello, I have a problem that after some time in the game I kill every single boss, even the boss, with one attack, and the same way, everyone is able to inflict 95% of my health with one attack. Maybe someone had the same problem and managed to solve it?

[WeeHammy]

I tried both these "Fix's" in DECEMBER 9TH, 2023. I have a 4090, capable of blowing RAY TRACING away and I can confirm, neither of these "fix's" worked for me. In matter of fact, these actually made my game run so much worse.

[ace]

Publicado originalmente por WeeHammy:

I tried both these "Fix's" in DECEMBER 9TH, 2023. I have a 4090, capable of blowing RAY TRACING away and I can confirm, neither of these "fix's" worked for me. In matter of fact, these actually made my game run so much worse.

Some people are reporting that disabling RT stopped the crashes.

Publicado originalmente por artillery75:

Iv had this exact same issue. In the desert with the walkers and mainly the darth vader fight scene recently. After every i've tried. Disabling ray tracing is ultimately what has hard fixed the issue. For some reason ray tracing on the rtx4090 is a no go at the moment. hopefully they release a patch soon. Still a great game but don't offer ray tracing if it cant run with it. i love the game but what a headache on the PC.

I've been reading all these threads to see if this is the problem, since i`m thinking about getting the game and i want to know if this is in fact the reason why the game is crashing so much

[Quite-Gone_Gym]

game keeps crashing in the same location for me too. Always when I take the shortcut from the previous meditation point to the one on Derelict Dam. Right after I take the zipline from the previous Meditation point.

[Roland]

If you guys are stopping your crashes by disabling ray tracing, then we were not having the same crashes.
I have a 1660 OC, RT was never enabled for me from the beginning.

Publicado originalmente por WeeHammy:

I tried both these "Fix's" in DECEMBER 9TH, 2023. I have a 4090, capable of blowing RAY TRACING away and I can confirm, neither of these "fix's" worked for me. In matter of fact, these actually made my game run so much worse.

You should have heeded the warning to not set it to Real Time.
If you set it to High there is no way it ran worse. Disabling Fullscreen Optimizations has 0 affect on performance, and High does not make it worse, as myself and many others have tested for ourselves. (I also have 22 years experience, and can say with extreme confidence you did not rigorously test if you think it made it worse; or like I said you went Real Time when no one should use Real Time ever.)

[Tinmantle]

I waited until steam sale to play this and just had some crash/freeze issues every 30 min or so but got worse on the 2nd planet. Turned off overlays, prioritized jedi and seems to be working flawlessly after 2 hours now. Thank you so much for posting.

[WeeHammy]

Publicado originalmente por Roland:

If you guys are stopping your crashes by disabling ray tracing, then we were not having the same crashes.
I have a 1660 OC, RT was never enabled for me from the beginning.

Publicado originalmente por WeeHammy:

I tried both these "Fix's" in DECEMBER 9TH, 2023. I have a 4090, capable of blowing RAY TRACING away and I can confirm, neither of these "fix's" worked for me. In matter of fact, these actually made my game run so much worse.

You should have heeded the warning to not set it to Real Time.
If you set it to High there is no way it ran worse. Disabling Fullscreen Optimizations has 0 affect on performance, and High does not make it worse, as myself and many others have tested for ourselves. (I also have 22 years experience, and can say with extreme confidence you did not rigorously test if you think it made it worse; or like I said you went Real Time when no one should use Real Time ever.)

I never set it to real time. I am not an idiot. I know NEVER to set it to real time just a heads up.

How dare you say I "did not rigorously test". I spent over 12 hours doing every possible "test" you can imagine.

So your telling me you have 22 years of experience optimising STAR WARS JEDI SURVIVOR? ok, think your on some sort of drugs here mate.

Thank you for showing how "helpful" the community is of this game. Rather than asking me, showing me e.t.c if I have tried these fixes, rather than offering and ideas to fix it you just show how stuck up you are and full of yourself you are. Thanks for that.

[Roland]

Publicado originalmente por WeeHammy:

Publicado originalmente por Roland:

If you guys are stopping your crashes by disabling ray tracing, then we were not having the same crashes.
I have a 1660 OC, RT was never enabled for me from the beginning.


You should have heeded the warning to not set it to Real Time.
If you set it to High there is no way it ran worse. Disabling Fullscreen Optimizations has 0 affect on performance, and High does not make it worse, as myself and many others have tested for ourselves. (I also have 22 years experience, and can say with extreme confidence you did not rigorously test if you think it made it worse; or like I said you went Real Time when no one should use Real Time ever.)

I never set it to real time. I am not an idiot. I know NEVER to set it to real time just a heads up.

How dare you say I "did not rigorously test". I spent over 12 hours doing every possible "test" you can imagine.

So your telling me you have 22 years of experience optimising STAR WARS JEDI SURVIVOR? ok, think your on some sort of drugs here mate.

No what I am saying is that High would almost never break an application and if it were to it would not do it for 1 person and not another, it would be universal. This is how I know that if you think High made it worse you didn't test enough, and if you put it on Real Time you should have listened. Since you say you didn't put it on Real Time, I know for a fact your tests were faulty or incomplete.

Seriously, go learn what those priorities do before you argue with me; you'll find what you're saying can't be true, (putting it on High did not make it worse) and I'd hope that would eventually lead you to find the real cause of your issues.

I'd say I'll wait, but frankly I have nothing more to say on the matter.
I put the game down over 6 months ago and probably won't ever return to it, except maybe to do one more playthrough before the Sequel. I have no skin in this game, so do what you want.

[lofejü]

Disabling RT worked for me. (rtx3080)

[Rui]

I don't own this game in Steam, only in EA Client, but I'll share my two cents. My hardware is above the recommended system requirements, which didn't prevent the app from crashing every 10 or 15 minutes; considering the nature of this game, in which save is mostly manual via the meditation points, it's annoying to lose progress and deal with the anxiety of being forced to go back every now and then, between exploring, to the closest save point; once the game crashed literally 1 meter away from the save point.

The solutions presented in the OP solved the matter partially, generally extending the playtime between crashes - about one hour tops. Still, not a ideal solution, so I decided to fiddle with the visual settings - and pretty much turning off Ray Tracing solved it for me. The game never crashed again, now matter how long the gaming session was; not to mention the astonishing performance improvement, this game months after release is still far from being optimized.

Having hardware capable of handling the Ray Tracing technology, and then turning it off to be able to actually enjoy a game is a "meh" solution of sorts, but at least it worked for me.

EDIT: I just saw the guy literally above my post wrote essentially the same thing, lol. Oh well.

[Lisan al-Ghaib]

Crashed for me every 10-20 minutes of gameplay. I tried all suggestions in this thread one at a time and the only thing that helped was turning off ray tracing. Been playing for over 2 hours since disabling ray tracing without any issues. Playing in 4k with everything maxed on a 4090.

Edit: I also had to launch the JediSurvivor exe as administrator. No crashes since