FOR ANYONE WITH CONSTANT CRASHES OR STUCK AT START GAME

[MooMoo]

They absolutely SCREWED something up. Game ran fine, butter smooth, until season 2 update. Crashed to desktop more times than I could count, until it just wouldnt get past Start Game at all. HOWEVER. I have found a fix for myself and potentially everyone else. First go here in your files-
C:\Users\<UserID>\AppData\Local\M1\Saved\Config\Windows

Delete the GameUserSettings.ini file
(You could also try deleting ALL files here, but just this one worked for me)

This will be recreated next time you launch the game. ALL settings will be reset to default.
So if you changed any key binds or turned voice chat off, youll need to redo them.

Thats it. I suggest not messing with any graphics settings for now until a hotfix is sent out that specifically addresses this. Ive kept everything on low, no RT, capped my fps at 120, and havent had a single issue since.

[StuffyDee]

thanks mate, worked also for me

[76561198117925304]

it worked, thanks

[greyDawn]

it is ray tracing. you can keep everything on ultra, but do not enable ray tracing.

[Sonikocow]

So far this has worked

[Charliebrownau [HIGH]]

More crashing with the latest 'update'
- Exiting Dungeons
- Going back to town

Its getting worse , not better

[Nycher]

It works but I have to do it every time before starting the game, and also because of this my English layout in Windows is deleted

[Conargle🦆]

bet $5 it's where they've added the new "cinematic" detail settings.
After deleting my config, the new "low" settings look better than the previous low, so im certain they've been doing funky graphics tweaking behind the scenes

[Musenge]

Originally posted by greyDawn:

it is ray tracing. you can keep everything on ultra, but do not enable ray tracing.

Seems about right. Enabled it and was fine for a bit but something with the hotfix last night borked everything and I was frozen just before the Nexon splash screen until I deleted the User Settings file to reset it all.

Even the NVidia app recommends Ray Tracing off for TFD, so either their team or whatever algo they run to check rendering options for a game say it's no bueno.

[Nycher]

I found a problem, you can't run fsr, dlss and frame generation at the same time. As soon as I turned it off, the game stopped crashing.

[ChriS]

I dunno why Korean games tend to have this issue. It happens in black desert and other korean games i've played as well. For some reason, something in the user settings files gets corrupted and crash the game on start or when trying to login into the server.

[siX]

Originally posted by greyDawn:

it is ray tracing. you can keep everything on ultra, but do not enable ray tracing.

They made something with the water reflection i think. Just put in without testing. Sucks tbh, i mean they don't even test their own content so don't expect miracles i guess...

[Grimzy]

Originally posted by ChriS:

I dunno why Korean games tend to have this issue. It happens in black desert and other korean games i've played as well. For some reason, something in the user settings files gets corrupted and crash the game on start or when trying to login into the server.

Are you sure its not because there were random tweaks posted on the net where it told you to edit either the engine.ini or gameusersettings.ini and set as read-only that people blindly followed and now there are issues? (Not saying thats the case here too but.....you would be surprised the things you see when you play a lot of games xD )

[siX]

Originally posted by Grimzy:

Originally posted by ChriS:

I dunno why Korean games tend to have this issue. It happens in black desert and other korean games i've played as well. For some reason, something in the user settings files gets corrupted and crash the game on start or when trying to login into the server.

Are you sure its not because there were random tweaks posted on the net where it told you to edit either the engine.ini or gameusersettings.ini and set as read-only that people blindly followed and now there are issues? (Not saying thats the case here too but.....you would be surprised the things you see when you play a lot of games xD )

Never had problems with BDO so i guess ppl with weak hardware tryed to tweak it and at some point the engine had problems. Here in TFD its not the problem of the tweaking. After the game got updated to season 2 i had no problems with ctd in the first days but than it started to crash. Almost everytime i had a freyna in the group or i played with freyna that caused a ctd for me, maybe because of the rediculous aoe she does. Something happens with her, after i restarted the game and joined the lobby again i had huge lags until i got out of the lobby. And Ray Tracing is not the problem since it crashed with RT off.

[ChriS]

Originally posted by Grimzy:

Originally posted by ChriS:

I dunno why Korean games tend to have this issue. It happens in black desert and other korean games i've played as well. For some reason, something in the user settings files gets corrupted and crash the game on start or when trying to login into the server.

Are you sure its not because there were random tweaks posted on the net where it told you to edit either the engine.ini or gameusersettings.ini and set as read-only that people blindly followed and now there are issues? (Not saying thats the case here too but.....you would be surprised the things you see when you play a lot of games xD )

No idea. I'm not aware of .ini tweaks for such games. Also i never mess with live service games' files due to risk of ban. Too much time and effort is spent, it's not worth the risk.

[ChriS]

Originally posted by siX:

Originally posted by Grimzy:

Are you sure its not because there were random tweaks posted on the net where it told you to edit either the engine.ini or gameusersettings.ini and set as read-only that people blindly followed and now there are issues? (Not saying thats the case here too but.....you would be surprised the things you see when you play a lot of games xD )

Never had problems with BDO so i guess ppl with weak hardware tryed to tweak it and at some point the engine had problems. Here in TFD its not the problem of the tweaking. After the game got updated to season 2 i had no problems with ctd in the first days but than it started to crash. Almost everytime i had a freyna in the group or i played with freyna that caused a ctd for me, maybe because of the rediculous aoe she does. Something happens with her, after i restarted the game and joined the lobby again i had huge lags until i got out of the lobby. And Ray Tracing is not the problem since it crashed with RT off.

I never tweak live service games since i don't like risking my long time played accounts. What i described happend to me twice withing 3 years, randomly. After doing some research i found a post in the official BDO forums talking about the game's user settings "cache" (apparently in the settings window there's an option to clear cache). I tried doing that and i didn't fix the issue so i decided to blindly test deleting all the user settings files and it fixed the issue. To this day i have no idea why it happened in BDO and blade and soul back in the days. Also i don't have issues with performance in BDO, my hardware is above suggested requirements.