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I would like to thank Bethesda for making sure i dont overplay Starfield in one sitting... by making sure it crashes on my xbox every 3 hours!! (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Is it only me?

If you think flying through space is thrilling, imagine how thrilling it is to forget to save for the past half an hour and see that load symbol slowly start to freeze because you walked into a shop.... ...

Adding a pic of the merch I got today at least.

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[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven’t had any issues. I had my first momentary freeze yesterday but then it unfroze within 15 seconds.

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is this on Xbox? Do you know approx how long into the game you are? I had great runs early in the game, it isn't until 48 hours in I think I started having issues.

[–] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I play on Xbox and PC. No issues on either and my PC play is loaded with mods.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hmmm.

I wonder if you two guys are using Xbox versions with different amounts of memory, since Microsoft is doing this "high/low" model for consoles.

My PC hasn't seen stability issues with Starfield, but it's high-spec: has 24GB VRAM, 128GB RAM, running off NVMe, and a high-end CPU.

A response to me says that someone is seeing a bunch of stability problems. They said that they were running it on a PC below minimum required specifications.

An XBox Series S has 10GB of combined VRAM/main memory and an XBox Series X has 16 GB. That's a a substantial difference between the two versions.

[–] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

This is likely also true, I play on a Series X and my PC is well above recommended specs.

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I’m only about 21 hours in.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven't played it at all (at least yet) but is it possible that this may be an issue with the Series S and not the Series X?

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that may be the case, I'm on the s and it started happening on like 48hrs in, noticed it gets better if I delete my older saves too. So probably related to the limited hardware.

I do think there must be some memory leak involved though, and seems to be worse when Xbox uses its "suspend" mode.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I can see that

Doesn't seem to be as great a game as it was anticipated to be overall for sure... Not as bad as Redfall but still.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You get 3 hours?

When I actually play I make a habit of hitting f5 before big transitions or literally anything related to the lodge.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's been fine on my PC. Actually, come to think of it, that's a little odd. I have a new PC, and I was definitely running the memory faster than the system could handle, would occasionally get errors until I cut the speed. But there's still something causing Firefox -- normally rock solid -- to die frequently, and some other freezes have shown up. Starfield, which one would expect to stress the memory, CPU, and GPU more than anything else I've been running, has been fine. And I've been playing a bunch of Starfield.

In fact, I've only seen two issues out of Starfield that I can recall.

The first has occasionally been some outpost stations not letting me use them, saying that they're obstructed. That goes away if I quicksave and load.

The other issue has been occasionally some body textures on followers becoming invisible. This is usually one or both eyes, which is disconcerting as hell, because I'm talking to Sarah Morgan or someone and she's got these dead sockets looking at me.

The other variant I've seen is most of the body, including the face, being invisible and only the eye textures showing up, so that there are two floating eyeballs looking at me and no face. Which is kind of disconcerting too.

Haven't had stability problems, though. When they said that this was Bethesda's most bug-free game release, they were right.

EDIT: Well, okay, this is on a PC. I can't speak as to the Xbox release.

[–] keefshape@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hahaha i have been getting one missing eye on Sarah and a few others in conversation. I figured it was perhaps a nod that a need for eye patches are in order.

Pirated copy via Steam, proton ge 817.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Non-pirated copy, Steam, Proton Experimental. Hmm. You and I are both seeing it and are using Linux, so maybe it's something specific to Linux. amdgpu 23.0.0-1 drivers.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It's funny, I haven't had any visual issues, but the stability is awful on my rig. But I can't complain too loudly, I'm below minspec.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this pic from the game?

Like, does it actually have Uber eats ads in it?

[–] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha nah, they did a promotion here where you can buy in-game items IRL. Some of the items where better then others though. But you will find all these in game except the uber eats box.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha.

The branding certainly on the few items that have it certainly didn't look like real life brands to me.

[–] M137@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seriously? How can you not see the difference between a real photo and a game? I swear, you can fool people with the most obvious things. Life must be extremely confusing for you, not being able to figure out things that you never would expect anyone to have a problem with.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

God damn why are people like you such fucking assholes?

It was a simple question you fucking dickhead.

Fuck the fuck right off.

[–] smoof@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I've only had 1 crash in several weeks on the Steam Deck.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

As a PlayStation owner I'd like to thank Bethesda for being considerate of my bank account. I'd love to give them my money, here I am holding it out, but bathesda apparently doesn't want my money.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Past the 40ish hour mark the fast resume option or whatever its called stopped working. I need to force quit the game and start over at every gaming session on my XSX

Otherwise I get a crash on my next autosave

Its the only game I have that has that issue

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

ive only had it crash twice ever, and the 2nd was on the main menu for some reason lol

[–] Newby@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

Haven’t had a single crash since early access.