Elite Dangerous Odyssey is unstable and crashes [SOLVED]

[Radi5h]

Diagnosis: Older PC, good enough graphics card, RAM and processor, Wifi internet connection. Game crashes randomly, can sometimes play for a while other times it just crashes. Other AAA games are crashing too.


Easy Stability Checks
Check that your computer’s power is plugged in properly, also check that it’s not loose where it plugs into your computer
Before installing the game, install DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer from Microsoft.
Try setting the Frame Rate Limit to 50 or 60FPS in the graphics options of elite dangerous odyssey

If you have unidentified devices/chipset in Device manager (Intel)
Before installing the game install Intel® Driver & Support Assistant from the Intel website.


Diagnose why your game is crashing
Press start and type Event Viewer.
In the left panel towards the top expand Windows Logs.
The logs below explain what errors caused your computer to crash, this is how you can figure out what is wrong on your PC.
If there are errors to do with the timing of the application being too late, this could be because TPM is slowing your processor down too much.
If there are errors to do with not having administrator rights, this could be because TPM is blocking elite from having the rights it needs or because you disabled TPM. If you want your computer to work without TPM you will have to reinstall windows because TPM encrypts parts of your system so that when it’s disabled you can’t access it.


Last Resort Stability Improvements, Reinstall Windows without TPM [THIS WORKED FOR ME]
Ask an 'adult' first

1. Check you can reinstall windows, you will need a working product key and disk image
2. Backup the files you want to backup, remember to backup your key bindings, saved games and web browser bookmarks.
3. Use Steam to backup your game files, there is nothing wrong with them and you won’t need to download them again.
4. If you have fooled around with your mother board BIOS now is the time to get the latest BIOS from your manufacturer and re-flash your motherboard.
5. Disable TPM in your motherboard’s BIOS
6. Reinstall windows (try to get the latest installer set up on a USB3 flash drive so you don’t have to update it because windows update fails a lot in the last 2 years.)
7. Check for updates
8. Install DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer from Microsoft.
9. Install your graphics card drivers
10. Install elite dangerous, when prompted to have your graphics card settings automatically setup for your hardware choose NO
11. Follow the instructions below for your graphics card settings

Graphics settings in Elite Dangerous
The settings aren’t straightforward, there is a great explanation video on youtube called My Graphic Setting for Elite Dangerous Odyssey by down to earth astronomy
Set the Frame Rate Limit to 50 or 60FPS
Generally set things to medium
Anti Aliasing FXAA
Terrain LOD Blending OFF
I recommend turning head bobbing off to avoid motion sickness

Easy Performance Improvements
Check that you have the latest windows updates
Check that you have the latest graphics card driver
Disable the steam overlay, settings>In Game>Enable Steam Overlay while in-game UNCHECK
Disable the Xbox Game Bar overlay (yes on windows)

• Enter windows settings from the start menu
• Select Gaming
• Toggle the overlay to the off position

Disable other overlays you might have from other programs like the epic game launcher...
Close other programs running in the background
Disable your real time virus protection while you are gaming




This fix worked for my hardware (asus pro gaming z170 mother board, intel i7-6700K, GTX1080).
Please comment if it worked for you and say what processor and graphics card you were using.
If you found something that works for you please post it in this thread so that others can have a better time, enter your hardware so people can google your post.

 

[emix]

The most important is to disable TPU (keep default or current settings) and disable others peformance enhancer for better stability, but still the CPU can be overclocked imo.
Terrain quality to high

 

[vanelsting]

using a recent intel UHD 730 it hadnt really crashed on the inital planet generation system, it froze up and the crash report window popped up sure, but on 6th or 7th attempt i was reading something from the crash report window when the planet generation system kicked in, so i pressume for other people it hasnt really crashed either you just have to wait less then a minute

 

[Marcus Bronco]

Game is crashing without even a message, just crashed and also my team mate is taken down with me with the same type of crash.

Faulting application name: EliteDangerous64.exe, version: 308.767.0.0, time stamp: 0x67589b78
Faulting module name: EliteDangerous64.exe, version: 308.767.0.0, time stamp: 0x67589b78
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000003545153
Faulting process id: 0x5b4
Faulting application start time: 0x01db54da92e7e37d
Faulting application path: xxxxxxsteamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-odyssey-64\EliteDangerous64.exe
Faulting module path: xxxxxxsteamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-odyssey-64\EliteDangerous64.exe
Report Id: 0bab3688-40b2-4073-9de7-d27648fda333
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Maybe someone from support can help?

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

if it does not crash in solo as often its almost certainly a networking peer to peer aspect to another player
which is not uncommon at all tbh as that is the nature of a peer to peer connection over the internet by internet service providers
the only thing the game does is establish an initial connection the stability of which is completely and utterly beyond there control to which the final nail in the proverbial coffin is usually wifi connected pc's

 

[Marcus Bronco]

Roger that Sir, yes, p2p is weak, we did not have anymore a problem after that, but 2 times in a row, and never had something similar ever.
It was an abrupt stop and just kick out of the game to the launcher, no message, no report... like someone entered our spacecraft and hacked us out.
Anyway ... I hope this game can move to a higher level Hotel California talk or not, I really hope this can be made one day.. maybe not soon. but it really deserves it...
I understand things can keep going like this but still... some stuff can leave lot to be desired. Like when u go for Ground CZ with others, better put your hands before your eyes...
And other things like Humanitarian help, can't drop the evacuated lads as there is no free landing pad... Request gets denied and other stuff...

What I did to try to fix is remove the Port Forwarding, which if u set it in the game is something of your choice 5100 or others like 5200 etc.
and I also went into Graphic settings and noticed I had Texture on the ground set to Low and also V sync was recently turned off .. so I turned that one back on and also Ultra or high for it...

One can have a "tearing effect" that can damage something in the game when one sets all to a type of level and then something very low.. .. but this is valid with anything in life not only videogame settings... you auto create artificial bottlenecks and innefficiencies happen:

However I guess that was mainly due to high presence in servers or stuff like p2p issue maybe indeed the port forwarding I had and team mates did not had.