Random Freezing

[masoncrb]

Game randomly freezes. Sometimes I can play for over an hour until it freezes. Sometimes it takes just 10 minutes. This never happened to me until I played this game again with the newest update. My drivers are fully updated. Any ideas?

[Blackrainbow]

game just started freezing then crashed maybe last update ,the game needs to save more often ,

[masoncrb]

Yeah. I do save often so luckily I haven't lost a lot of progress. With that being said I wish I could figure out what the problem is. I have tried all kinds of stuff and nothing seems to work. I tried clearing the cache but that doesn't seem to work. I messed around with the settings and none of that worked either. I just don't get what happened with this new update.

[Notoshy]

I dont think anyone can do anything about that. For aslong i know this Game, sooner or later the flickering will begin.
Something in the Gamecode lets the System pile up junk data. No matter how strong your System is... at some point it will choke. Subnautica early Access was released almost 10 years ago, so its most likely foundation-Code or even Engine-Code. If the Devs could have removed this issue, im sure they would have done it years ago.
I guess if only this Game runs on a System, you have more time before it happens, but as soon the Lags occur, i always saved my Game and if it gets worse, i close the Game to give my System time to recover.

[masoncrb]

That's weird. I have never heard of a game doing that. For me my game freezes, and then it crashes. It doesn't start to lag at all so I get no warning which means I basically have to save any time I make any bit of progress at all. Thanks for responding.

Originally posted by Notoshy:

I dont think anyone can do anything about that. For aslong i know this Game, sooner or later the flickering will begin.
Something in the Gamecode lets the System pile up junk data. No matter how strong your System is... at some point it will choke. Subnautica early Access was released almost 10 years ago, so its most likely foundation-Code or even Engine-Code. If the Devs could have removed this issue, im sure they would have done it years ago.
I guess if only this Game runs on a System, you have more time before it happens, but as soon the Lags occur, i always saved my Game and if it gets worse, i close the Game to give my System time to recover.

[Notoshy]

Every Game is unique in the Way its code is written^^
Even if it has the same Engine, it can behave totally different. Bugs as such can be a tradeoff to achieve something else or they happen by accident and are very very hard to fix later.
Thats why Clipping is a common issue of Subnautica. Its a Bug that is connected to the Engine, so it cant be fixed.

Sudden freezes with crash to Desktop like you, is something that i never experienced in Subnautica. But i know that modern computers tend to kill any Process, that takes more time to finish than the System allows them. So maybe (im guessing) your System tried to process a Subnautica task, but didnt manage to finish it in time, so it closed the Process... which was either the Game itself or a Process that dragged the entire Game into the crash.

I think that only the Developer could maybe help you with your issue.

[masoncrb]

Yeah. I have had my fair share of clipping issues with this game as well. Hopefully the crashing and freezing doesn't happen to me in Subnautica Below Zero. I haven't played that one yet, but I was planing on playing it after I finish this again.

[admiral1018]

Have you overclocked your CPU by any chance? Not sure why, but this game consistently crashes for me with any overclock. Completely stable at normal clock speeds.

[masoncrb]

Funny that you mention that because I did overclock my CPU. Last night I turned it back to normal hoping that that might be the issue, but it crashed twice. The first time it crashed I got a blue screen saying "your device ran into a problem and needs to restart" and of course my whole computer restarted. That never happened to me before.

Originally posted by admiral1018:

Have you overclocked your CPU by any chance? Not sure why, but this game consistently crashes for me with any overclock. Completely stable at normal clock speeds.

[richtex]

I haven't played the game in a while, but I had the same problem (complete PC crashes). The only thing that helped was limiting the game to one CPU.

[dhitch89]

Maybe this could help? https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/subnautica-crashing.html

One of the options mentions how to adjust max memory size of the save data, which seems one of the key reasons it can crash, according to him.

[masoncrb]

Hey guys. Thanks for all of your suggestions but I have fixed it. I'm honestly not sure what fixed it, but I played around with the BIOS and I think I set everything back to normal. I'm not sure what exactly the problem was but it works fine now. Apperantly this game isn't too friendly to overclocked PCs which is a problem that I have never seen before.

[Notoshy]

Originally posted by masoncrb:

Hey guys. Thanks for all of your suggestions but I have fixed it. I'm honestly not sure what fixed it, but I played around with the BIOS and I think I set everything back to normal. I'm not sure what exactly the problem was but it works fine now. Apperantly this game isn't too friendly to overclocked PCs which is a problem that I have never seen before.

Did you diabled XMP in your Bios?
I did a quick search again on that Topic and it seems, that the Unity Engine has some issues with (unstable) overclocked PCs. That includes an automatic memory overclocking in Bios, called XMP.
Found several entries regarding overclocking issues under Unity. Which is odd, since some Computerparts (mostly graphics cards) can be already overclocked by factory default.
So its most likely another Problem with the Game Engine, not the Game in general.

[masoncrb]

I have AMD so I think I have EXPO not XMP. I think what might have fixed it was when I decreased the front side bus memory, and I don't think I did it in EXPO.