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)

submitted 1 year ago by trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org to c/starfield@lemmy.zip

26 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

all 27 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tal@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

There is debugging software that can limit the amount of CPU time a program gets, delay I/O completion, or limit memory that a program can access, designed to stress-test software as it gets near resource limits. Well, there is in Linux, and I'm sure that someone makes equivalent software for Windows. Dunno about failing requests for video memory, but that probably exists too.

I imagine that it'd be possible to run Starfield under them and see whether, on a given system, the frequency of stability issues increases.

[-] Jelly_mcPB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Why did you feel the need to flash your computer specs.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

People are discussing stability issues and hardware is like 80% of the cause lol

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m only about 21 hours in.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year 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.

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I must know: did the sandwich come pre-bitten?

[-] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Lol YES! I really hope it was just a cut out since I had the sandwich for lunch. But yeah it came with the bite out of it.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 1 year ago

Todd Howard has personally taken a bite out of every sandwich that goes out the door.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

I must obtain one so I can have his DNA to make my own Todd Howard clones.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I know it's not the same but I've actually been very impressed on the PC version even with a bunch of mods I've only had one crash so far after about 40 hours of gameplay

[-] Newby@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Haven’t had a single crash since early access.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is this pic from the game?

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

[-] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

God damn why are people like you such fucking assholes?

It was a simple question you fucking dickhead.

Fuck the fuck right off.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023

63 points (81.8% liked)

Starfield

2850 readers

6 users here now

Welcome to the Starfield community on Lemmy.zip!

Follow instance rules (no spam, keep it civil and respectful, be constructive, tag NSFW)

Helpful links:

Spoiler policy:

No spoilers in titles; if you want to share images with spoilers, preferably post the image in the body of the post. If you do make an image post, mark it NSFW.
Add [Spoilers] to your title if there will be untagged spoilers in the post.
Game mechanics and general discoveries (ship parts, weapons, etc) don't need a spoiler tag.
Details about questlines and other story related content are spoilers. Use your best judgement!

Post & comment spoiler syntax:

&lt;spoiler here>

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Demigodrick@lemmy.zip