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Over close to 30 hours I have only had 2 crashes and no freezes. Is the curse broken?

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[–] faethon 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I played the game on PC for 8 hours, at least 5 crashes already. Additionally, it runs poorly with low FPS even at low settings. The game does not look nice, it has loading screens everywhere. I am very disappointed with the game. I am unfortunately already to far in to get a refund. I'll probably wait a couple of years to start playing for real.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] faethon 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Playing on 1440p res, PC config: 1080 TI with 11 GB VRAM + Intel i7 8700 + 32 GB + everything on SSD Not the newest of hardware, but still powerful enough to play basically anything I throw at it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're sitting g just around the minimum requirements for the game. You might want to try installing some performance mods, there's some available already in the nexus I think, but there will be more coming soon

[–] faethon 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I guess that may be the case. Actually, it feels as if the CPU is holding things back, since the FPS difference between low/med/high is just a couple of frames (all between 28-40)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you updated your graphics drivers? I noticed a new update came out recently for them

[–] faethon 2 points 1 year ago

I updated to the latest version, with Starfield optimizations. Using DDU and clean install (as I usually do with a new driver). But I guess I have to face the fact that an update to my hardware is unavoidable in the near future...

[–] off_apparition 7 points 1 year ago

I have 12 hours of playtime and the game has crashed more than 10 times for me. The crashes are quite annoying but thanks to autosave, I never lost too much progress.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's even quite playable on my 1660 Super which is below the required GPU. I can get above 60 in a lot of places, but the more dense areas are 25-30, though dips to 25 are rare. Might even manage to get it more stable if it still uses the same old INI parameters as Fallout 4 and Skyrim, but I've just been playing the game instead of messing with the files. No crashes either, in 11 hours total game time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nexusmods already have a bunch of performance ini tweaks. Its very much like fo4 and Skyrim. Same cheat codes too in console

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The rapid release of mod fixes says everything doesn't it... Same game so same issues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same engine mostly

[–] OscarRobin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is that possible when my 2070 Super Max Q can't even maintain 40fps on 1080P FSR?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't that a mobile card? Perhaps it's the rest of your laptop specs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've got 1day 12 hours on my save. Had 1 crash. I blame myself for it as i have another game running in the background (minecraft + a server) a nvr app running and edge and plex. Using a little over 60gb of ram and maxing out the vram on my 6950xt gpu.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Im on proton with amd cpu and 6700xt. Once i updated my mesa drivers I have had 0 issues or crashes. Running on high with fsr at 60%. Before I updated mesa i couldnt go 5 min without a crash at the mine where the digger broke through the wall it crashed every single time.

[–] jcit878 1 points 1 year ago

no crashes for me about same playtime, had a couple of freezes though. runs quite well, only minor bugs so far nothing game breaking

[–] BowtiesAreCool 1 points 1 year ago

I had minimal issues up until recently. The game now crashes after a black loading screen every time I try to enter “The Rock” in Akila

[–] Toasteh 1 points 1 year ago

I had one repeating crash in the kreet lab. Realized I didn't update my drivers. Updated and no crash since so far. Only a few hours in though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have not played a lot of Bethesda games. Are you really considering 2 crashes in 30 hours a positive? I would expect the nominal number of crashes to be 0.

Maybe it's just that I play mostly indie games, so my standards are higher. I guess AAA studios just don't have the resources to make working games like the little guys.

[–] ArchmageAzor 10 points 1 year ago

If you had more experience with BGS games you'd know that 2 crashes in 30 hours is heavenly

[–] elscallr 2 points 1 year ago

Bethesda games tend to be a bit buggy on release day. It's not even technically released yet, so this is pretty great. You've got to realize there's a difference in scale between Bethesda games and the indie games to which you refer and that difference is orders of magnitude. This game is massive.

Personally I've not experienced a single crash, and that's kinda surprising.