Game froze and stopped responding

[Klandor]

I just got forced out of a 2.5 hour play session that ended when the game froze and the OS reported that it stopped responding. Things had been going well. I had just gotten back from the first town visit. It was not my first return to base, but the first extended return and had gone out to collect some surface resources that tenants of the town had requested (6 Grass to decorate the town for a celebration). I had just started to look around for QB, was looking towards the sky and the game froze. No errors, no text crash boxes, just froze. Eventually the OS reported that it was not responding. I haven't gone back into the game to see how much work I've actually lost, but I'll report that info once I have it...

I do understand that this is a Demo and will have bugs. It's just frustrating and NOT reporting it won't help get the issue fixed. I'm open to questions if you have them.

System Specs:
12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900HK
64 GB RAM
2 TB M.2 SSD with 1.25 TB Free
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU w/ 8 GB vRAM
Windows 11 Pro
Up-to-date Graphics Drivers direct from nVidia's Web Site

This is an Alienware x17 Gaming Laptop. Let me know if you need anything else.

[Klandor]

Well, it looks like I didn't lose any progress. It *MAY* have been a "quick save" that triggered the crash, but, if that's the case, it obviously didn't do a great job of maintaining the integrity of the game during the save. I'll keep an eye on things and let you know how things go.

EDIT: I'm now up to 3.8 hours into the same Save. The last 1.3 hours were continuous play, picking up where I left off. I've just repaired my Ship and I'm working on gathering 50 MORE Silver Ore and 50 Gold Ore for Quests (I got 2 of the Silver Quests), and, I believe 8 Shells (where do I need to go for THOSE?!?). I've got the Grass I need...