Are More Players Causing the Crashes?

Bird125 · Jul 21, 2015

I've been in the Elite: Dangerous Preview since it was announced at E3.
The game ran great pre and post update patch. No matter what system I was in or what was going on around me.

Recently, I never got the amount of game crashes that I'm getting now. Not that many mind you (about 1 an hour on average) but enough to raise concern.
Should I be worried that the Xbox One will not be able to handle this game with its current hardware or is it just a question of adding more servers to handle the influx of new players?
Thoughts?

MickOps · Jul 21, 2015

I haven't had any crashes since I uninstalled ED and reinstalled about 3 weeks ago. Before that I had one every so often and then a really bad one where I couldn't even load up the game anymore. Now its seems fine to me, haven't had any problems bro.

TheJammer · Jul 21, 2015

There is definitely something wrong. Up until today the game crashed for me about 15 times in all, but today i can't stay in game for more than a few minutes. When i bring up the system/galaxy map, try to dock or even leave a station, the game crashes every other time. I have given up for today but will try again this evening.

Far from this being a moan about a game I am fully aware is not complete, this is more a heads up to others that may be suffering, including the OP, that this may be a temporary set back and one that i hope is cleared up soon.

I just hope that the issues clear up quickly because i NEED to trade!

Edit: Going to do another re-install now.

Bird125 · Jul 21, 2015

MickOps said:
I haven't had any crashes since I uninstalled ED and reinstalled about 3 weeks ago. Before that I had one every so often and then a really bad one where I couldn't even load up the game anymore. Now its seems fine to me, haven't had any problems bro.

Good idea. It didn't occur to me to uninstall and reinstall.
Hope it works. I'll assume my progress is saved on the ED Servers.

DoctorHotWings · Jul 21, 2015

I don't have this problem. I've learned to stay away from systems that have a potential for heavy trade traffic.

ekename · Jul 21, 2015

I played last night for several hours with no crashes. I was in what I expect to be pretty sparsely populated systems. Didn't see any other non NPC players - and very few NPCs.

TheJammer · Jul 21, 2015

This is so frustrating! I was in a wing of 4 last night in a combat zone and all was good. Now I can't even dock in solo play.

The game crashes everytime now and I have done a full reinstall with a copy going on both internal and external and i crash playing on either install after a couple of minutes.

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I can't even stay in game long enough to leave this system.

DoctorHotWings · Jul 21, 2015

Since we don't have a heatmap that shows current player density for a time period, all you can go off of is the local station's Traffic Report, which lists all human CMDRs who have docked at that particular station.

Guywired · Jul 21, 2015

DoctorHotWings said:
all you can go off of is the local station's Traffic Report, which lists all human CMDRs who have docked at that particular station.

That's ALL platforms though, right? Not just Xbox?

DoctorHotWings · Jul 21, 2015

Guywired said:
That's ALL platforms though, right? Not just Xbox?

I don't know how that information is tied into the logical galaxy as a whole, since we do not actually play together with PC and Mac.

walterioo · Jul 21, 2015

I had this problem too, was farming HRE's at Kremainn and the game kept crashing the whole time. At first reseting the X1 seemed to work but after i went to the station to collect the bounties it crashed again.

The best thing to do right now its to go to unpopulated systems. I did this yesterday with a friend and we didnt had a single crashed farming HREs