Continual crashes - any response from FDEV?

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Also, I assume that file does something important, else it'd not exist. Is it one of these that the game will just regenerate if deleted? Going to see if my game crashes, not played in a few days as the servers have been dead flaky.
Edit: Thought I'd log in to test stability - can't actually play, no time - just leaving game running while docked at a station. No issue so far (10 minutes) but, despite being in Solo, I'm having constant network activity, more than would be usual unless other players were perhaps around. Seeing such network activity while sat in a station, in Solo, is odd, right?
My Steam account works just fine, but from Oculus I cant get passed the shader prep screen unless I delete that file. When I delete that file the Oculus account works perfectly.
 
Any updates on this? You would think that with such a major and wide spread issue there would be some regular updates.
They are the type not to answer unless they have an answer to give, so the logical conclusion is they don't have a fix yet and don't know when there might be one.
 
OK so I have just spent 2 hours checking this "work around" and can confirm.

Deleting the file fsave_optionsXXX in %APPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options lets the game run with no problems - BUT:

then exiting and starting again produces the CTD crash within minutes of starting the game.

So - workaround of deleting that file EVERY TIME you want to start the game, allows the game to run normally.

What on earth causes this as a result of server maintenance yesterday? ¯\(ツ)

BTW - I believe @sallymorganmoore has already passed on this information to the devs.
 
Afrer a new reinstall I don't have an fsave file and it still crashes. It is a direct download from Frontier not Steam or Epic. Oh well.
 
You be unable to launch/play due to down time planned soon...
 
OK so I have just spent 2 hours checking this "work around" and can confirm.

Deleting the file fsave_optionsXXX in %APPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options lets the game run with no problems - BUT:

then exiting and starting again produces the CTD crash within minutes of starting the game.

So - workaround of deleting that file EVERY TIME you want to start the game, allows the game to run normally.

What on earth causes this as a result of server maintenance yesterday? ¯\(ツ)

BTW - I believe @sallymorganmoore has already passed on this information to the devs.

Interesting.
It seems that for some people, not everyone, whatever they changed/activated during the last maintenance on server side is inducing a CTD to the game client.
It may be relevant to certain machine configs or apps running

What's that file content?
 
What's that file content?

I suppose it is machine code, I don't have an editor that can view it, notepad just shows:

savFUK.jpg
 
If you'd taken the time to actually go read the reddit thread, you'd have seen that it's different from your workaround proposition, hence mine. Deleting the file didn't change anything for me, nor for many others (again, read the reddit thread).
 
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If you'd taken the time to actually go read the reddit thread, you'd have seen that it's different from your workaround proposition, hence mine. Deleting the file didn't change anything for me, nor for many others (again, read the reddit thread).

i see the same workaround, namely delete the above mentioned file, and then one other post recommend using older nvidia drivers, which may look as nonsense since the op from reddit mentions using amd hardware - so new nvidia drivers wont crash amd hardware, right?
 
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Game crashed, now can't connect to frontier servers; FDev must be working on a fix to Tic Bomb that went off during weekly maintenance. Just saw the above post; No longer surprised by how things happen, still amazed though.
 
I tried to connect and I still crash. Im guessing the server downtime has happend ?

Asking because my launcher has said server status GOOD since 17:32 and hasnt changed :)
 
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