Game Crashes when hitting Return To Ship when mission is completed when partied with 3 to 4 people

[Thyme et Basil]

I am not sure if anyone else is experiencing this issue but when I click Return to Ship after completing a mission, I always crash thus causing the people in my party to be kicked and lose out on the additional missions. This has always been happening since day 1 and I am not sure what to do to fix it.

I also found that if I were to join someone with a group of 2 or more after doing quick play, I can select all of my gear but when hitting ready to drop hell pod to join the session, my game will crash. If I am actively playing solo and I have 3 other people join in, I never crash and can play all the way until after extraction where, once I have to click Return to Ship after a successful mission, the game will crash.

Here are my specs:

GPU/CPU Specs: Processor AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics, 4001 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)

Game Settings:

Crossplay - Off
High Dynamic Range - Off
Camera Shake Strength - Medium
Render Scale - Ultra Performance
Frame Rate Limit - 60
V-Sync - Off

Motion Blur - 0
Bloom - Off
Texture Quality - Low
Object Detail Quality - Low
Render Distance - Low
Shadow Quality - Lowest
Particle Quality - Lowest
Reflection Quality - Lowest
Space Quality - Low
Ambient Occlusion - Off
Screen-Space Global Illumination - Off
Vegetation and Rubble Density - Low
Terrain Quality - Low
Volumetric Fog Quality - Lowest
Volumetric Clouds Quality - Lowest
Lighting Quality - Low
Anti-Aliasing - Off

I even went as far as utilized Process Lasso assuming SMT was the cause that was causing me to get disconnected when hitting Return to Ship after completing missions with only 3 or more and the same when joining missions with 2 or more people. If anyone has any idea what this could be or what other solution I can take, let me know as I am desperate to fix this so that it doesn't feel like I am kicking people from the squad when it's just the game crashing or trying to help those in needs on other missions.

[Thyme et Basil]

Forgot to mention, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics Driver is 31.0.14003.38003

[FFS_Fenix]

Probably something with the new update, my game now freezes being on the ship then closes its self. I did about 5 missions without issue now i can't even get to the galactic map before it freezes.

[Captain Worthy]

I would try the trick of deleting the shader cache file of the game and adding a Steam launch command that forces the game into using DX11.

This has made it more stable for a lot of AMD users(myself included), and it could work for you as well. It might even increase your framerates enough so that you can increase some of the graphics settings and still get 60 fps.

Oh and if you use the ingame fps limiter, it will increase your CPU temperature. Though using it might be your only way to keep your GPU alive, so it's probably mandatory in a laptop.

Just monitor those CPU temps to see if they remain tolerable. With my desktop PC the in-game fps limiter basically increases the CPU temps from 60 Celsius to 70-72 Celsius, which is tolerable. But in a laptop the temp difference could be much higher due to worse cooling efficiency.

[Thyme et Basil]

Noticed my Graphics Driver was 1 year out of date which I upgraded and noticed that I am able to join 3 player matches and able to return to ship without crashing. I still did the -d3d11 for the game just in case.

If anyone is looking for the specific AMD driver upgrade that I performed for my hardware, here are the details:

AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U Drivers & Support | https://www.amd.com/en/support/apu/amd-ryzen-processors/amd-ryzen-7-processors-radeon-graphics/amd-ryzen-7-7840u

I will test it out further and even alter the graphics to see if I notice any new issues.

Originally posted by Captain Worthy:

I would try the trick of deleting the shader cache file of the game and adding a Steam launch command that forces the game into using DX11.

This has made it more stable for a lot of AMD users(myself included), and it could work for you as well. It might even increase your framerates enough so that you can increase some of the graphics settings and still get 60 fps.

Oh and if you use the ingame fps limiter, it will increase your CPU temperature. Though using it might be your only way to keep your GPU alive, so it's probably mandatory in a laptop.

Just monitor those CPU temps to see if they remain tolerable. With my desktop PC the in-game fps limiter basically increases the CPU temps from 60 Celsius to 70-72 Celsius, which is tolerable. But in a laptop the temp difference could be much higher due to worse cooling efficiency.

I will keep in mind about the fps limiter to see how it performs but overall, haven't noticed anything too crazy. Thanks for the details on the DX11!

[OptSeven]

Same thing happens to me. I have ptsd when I’m about to click return to ship