Elite Dangerous : Crash To Desktop/Console Crash Instances (Over Coffee?)

[varonica]

CMDR Varonica
Odyssey only
Game often crashes in FSS, usually when zooming into a body, often happens once near the start of the game then not thereafter. There are times when it happens repeatedly during one session and I have often noticed these coincide with instances when my internet is congested, that is several people in the house streaming at the same time so I am wondering if it is a network issue with updating data.

I always fill in the crash report with a short description of what I am doing at the time.

 

[dannysquid]

CMDR Leafy.
Odyssey.

I get seemingly random crashes, where the game stutters for a few seconds and then my whole computer freezes. It may be that my graphics card is slowly frying but because the whole machine freezes there's no way to look at temps.

I mostly get these at settlements, but it really seems to be anywhere.

 

[Scaletho]

I crashed 3 times trying to land on planets. The game fps drop quickly, the screen freeze and after that the game crash. Odyssey.

 

[uniguard]

CMDR Uniguard
Running Odissey on Steam
I encountered two crashes to desktop when leaving and fighting in on foot combat zones in solo mode, of course meaning that these areas were high volume. One of these crashes ocurred after completing the objectives and leaving the settlement, the second one during one of the respawns, it crashed the game with my character in the middle of the air.

 

[Angus]

CMDR Jayce Hird
Odyssey
Several CTD since update, always whilst in an on foot CZ. Not performing any specific activity, game typically stutters audio two or three times then blackness and crash reporter.

Carbon copy of my issues.

 

[William J Smith]

CTD issue.
I've used the crash reporter to send a crash report every time , however
Its usually on accessing the system map first after the game has completed loading and I'm sitting in the ship, or when accessing the galatic map for the first time just after loading is complete.
Almost as if an asset needed by the game has'nt finished loading in .....

On game restart, issue seems to never appear again
Win10
GTX 3060ti
16gig RAM.

Hope this helps a bit,

Bill

 

[nemolomen]

CMDR NEMO LOMEN
Odyssey
Today: At Piccard Dock in Orishis, while auto-launching, I went to the galaxy map, opened a system (don't remember which one), double-clicked on a station and CTD. I did submit the generated crash report.

 

[Aerodeon]

Always keen to help, Sally.

• Commander: Aerodeon.
• Odyssey, non-Steam version. Just Frontier's launcher.
• Happens to me any time I am killed on-foot. It's very consistent. Here's how it goes: --
  • Die on foot, usually through carelessness or just not paying attention.
  • The game goes to the Incident Report screen.
  • Clicking Continue results in a hard crash to desktop, complete with crash report dialog box.
  • Restart Odyssey and it goes back to the Incident Report screen. Again, clicking Continue results in a crash.
  • Restart the game in Horizons, and it goes to the Incident Report screen. Clicking Continue results in the ship being moved to the last station used.
  • I can then quit Horizons and launch Odyssey again.

I haven't tried seeing if there's a crash after using the escape pods, but I'll bet there is. I've used tonnes of different drivers, all with the same result.

 

[Kayrox]

In game Commander: E. K. Ripley
Odyssey or Horizons encountered? Odyssey.
Do you have any more information you can briefly summarise for me along with this information please?
A few days ago I redeemed my exobiology data. I had about 4 or 5 pages. Whenever I redeemed a page, the game would go through the acolytes and all that, when it dropped me back to the exobiology data list, the number of pages will remain the same than before but this time the first page was empty, trying to go to the next page or any other action will always end on a CTD.
Redeeming exploration data has the same empty page bug but without the CTD.

 

[Pigletslastand]

Cmdr Pigletslastand
Xbox
Horizons (Obvs)
36 Ophiuchi System

Trying to leave a planet's surface, continuous blue tunnels leading to a crash to main menu each time. 3 in a row. Orange Sidewinder.
Had to exit the game and restart it to be able to leave the planet. That fixed it (for now)

 

[Texas Terry]

ID b3jct8q
Odyssey, solo
Random CTD in high ground combat zones starting with update 8. Seems to occur after the 3rd run at the same settlement and about the time the enemy reinforcements are depleted. If I restart the game every couple runs, I don't crash. I have submitted a few crash reports on this. Nvidia 1080 ti

 

[FX2K]

• FX2K
• Odyssey Only - I wouldn't say update 8 made it worse, but it hasn't made it better either.

I only ever experience a crash in either the galaxy map or the system map. Absolutely nowhere else in-game, regardless of actions.
The issue can seem very random, but there is a very high (75%+) chance that a crash will occur in either of the maps.

The crashes are not related to plotting routes, whilst there can be a minor lockup when doing this, it always recovers immediately (essentially, once the task completes).
Most occurences of the crashing happen when I open the system map and want to browse things, these can be settlement lists, planetary landing lists, clicking on a station or fleet carrier to view the information / names. In most cases I will have the right hand info panel open/available when selecting items from the lists on the left or the icons on the map.

With the galaxy map, again, it can crash when clicking on systems (but not necessarily plotting a route), similar to above.
It's sooo frustrating, but I'm sure you will fix it. EDH (which I run from time to time) does not exhibit the same behaviour, at all.

Specs: i9 9900k, 32gb ram, RTX 3090, all SSD / NVME drives, 300dl / 40ul Fibre connection (BT). Win 11 atm, but was identical with Win 10.
Edit: Many reports from crash reported sent in with brief descriptions

Example:

 

[Arkazius]

Arkazius
Odyssey
Open
On-foot combat zone

 

[Viajero]

• VIAJERO
• Odyssey
• Crashes to desktop while multi crewing after having completed a mission but before delivering at station. Usually in jumps to super cruise or hyperspace. The crew member that received the share mission losses the completed mission after the disconnect and upon relog, which is really annoying as all his/her work is lost. The disconnect itself is not a big issue as we can reconnect in seconds, but the loss of the shared completed mission is crucial. If there was a way to keep completed shared missions in the transaction panel after we disconnect that would go a long way to mitigate the eventual disconnects.

Issue in the issue tracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/44339

 

[Ultime]

CMD Ultime

Crash to Desktop to me only happening in Oddessey ( not horrizon) i will ONLY crash in oddessey if i have the gaME in dedicated full screen, theN i may of may not crash, if i alt -tab and come back in the game, it almost garanty crash within 15 min.

so far in borderless windowed mode, i didnt crash yet

additional info ( using Gsynch with a GTX 1070, AMD 5800x 32 gig ram)

 

[Ingram]

Most of time crash when there is a server transaction on going:
Env: EDO
1. When first time landing on a settlement. Screen freeze then crash. After restart, no sreen freeze as relog dont generate locker items.
2. When mission object met. Mission server is trying to locating mission object. Especially open galaxy map, you will see no mission icon in galaxy map view, and after a while game crashed to desktop.
3. When exiting / entering supercruise to / from a mission POI before / after mission done.
4. When exiting supercruise in APEX, from a very long in-system travel. (long time not interacting with server)

So basically many cobra (not recoverable unless restart game client) I ran into now they turned to crashes instead, very handy as I don't have to kill client everytime with task manager any more.
To me it's more like a server capacity issue as more ppl start playing right after new patch released

 

[Mr T]

CMDR MrTx
Odyssey

The only time it happens to me since update 8 is when I leave RivaTuna Statistics Server running in the background. It happens even though I don't have the EDO executable added in that software. If I remember to stop RTSS before I start EDO then no crashes happen. Before update 8 EDO would also crash if I used AMD CAS or FSR in the graphics settings but that's no longer the case.

 

[Cmdr Alison]

Cmdr Alison
Odyssey (PC)
The power play screen with the fortification numbers flickers very unhealthily and regularly produces CTDs for me. (only Odyssey)
Did a couple of on foot CZ yesterday, that gave several CTDs accompanied by sound problems.

 

[Aerodeon]

• Commander: Aerodeon.
• Odyssey, non-Steam version. Just Frontier's launcher.
• Happens to me any time I am killed on-foot.

Just happened again, so here is the sequence of events in pictures.

Spoiler: Probably going to take up lots of screen space

I have just been shot on foot. Too slow to use a medicine pack, so I croaked. I get this screen.

Click Continue

Click Redeploy

Click Confirm and Redeploy

Crash to desktop

Restart Odyssey. Go straight to Incident Report screen again.

Click Continue

Click Redeploy, then Confirm and Redeploy. Crash to desktop again.

It will continue to do this as long as I try in Odyssey. So I restart in Horizons. I get the Unable to Load screen.

Choose to reclaim my ship.

Game loads fine, despite my ship being dropped off in a station that I've never docked at. I can quit and restart Odyssey.

 

[ThirdNostril]

I noticed that Odyssey crashes at 48% terrain generation if RTGI is enabled through Reshade. However it doesn't affect Horizons. I know it's a third party issue and FDEV isn't responsible but I figured I'd throw it out there.

edit: Correction, it now flat out crashes with Reshade on and no shaders enabled.