Caspian Sea crash

[Petrus]

I'm at the desert part and I have to rescue a woman at the lighthouse, when I get to a sort of destroyed boat, out of the cave, my game freezes. I saw some people saying that you have to look down to avoid this crash, but it didn't work for me, I tried lowering everything on the graphics and the game still crashes, any other solution?

[Asleep_At_The_Wheel]

This happened to me too, it gave me the option to start the game in safe mode which basically lowered the resolution and graphics quality. After I finished that segment I turned the graphics and resolution back up to what I had before and it worked!

[JUViKO]

I somehow solved it. But im playing on a GTX 1060 6GB and on Win 11 so i dont know if it works for people with other specs.

Delete 3 Files following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjsZ7-Jqcdw&ab_channel=MisaKiiMoe

Night vision always needs to be turned off.

After the game crashes, dont restart your pc!! Press ctrl+alt+del and open the task-manager. If the task-manager doesnt appear, try to get it on your screen with Windows key+arrow keys. Then close Metro Exodus in the task-manager.

After that, start the game over steam in save mode on. Dont change any graphics settings, its unnecessary. Load your previous save and kill the last 2 guys. Then do it exactly like in this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbpg7v_haUY&ab_channel=DoctA

Then the game should crash again. Close the game again and start it NOT in save mode!! The game should have applied the poor graphics settings onto the normal game.

So make sure you have the poor graphics settings from launching in save mode into not launching in save mode. After that, kill again the last 2 guys and do it again exactly like in this video.

That was the solution for me, I was able to walk past the boat and save the game.

Good luck!

[John McGuire]

Originally posted by Juviko:

I somehow solved it. But im playing on a GTX 1060 6GB and on Win 11 so i dont know if it works for people with other specs.

Delete 3 Files following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjsZ7-Jqcdw&ab_channel=MisaKiiMoe

Night vision always needs to be turned off.

After the game crashes, dont restart your pc!! Press ctrl+alt+del and open the task-manager. If the task-manager doesnt appear, try to get it on your screen with Windows key+arrow keys. Then close Metro Exodus in the task-manager.

After that, start the game over steam in save mode on. Dont change any graphics settings, its unnecessary. Load your previous save and kill the last 2 guys. Then do it exactly like in this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbpg7v_haUY&ab_channel=DoctA

Then the game should crash again. Close the game again and start it NOT in save mode!! The game should have applied the poor graphics settings onto the normal game.

So make sure you have the poor graphics settings from launching in save mode into not launching in save mode. After that, kill again the last 2 guys and do it again exactly like in this video.

That was the solution for me, I was able to walk past the boat and save the game.

Good luck!

Hi Juviko: After searching for many hours and giving up I finally found your solution. Thanks you were a great help.