free camera key crashes game. who else got this?

[Wendelstein Stellar]

Yes, is absolutely the keybinds that got corrupted in the update.

You need to go into your bindings directory and delete all the files and then just restart the game. You'll obviously have to do all your key bindings again but it completely solves the problem

Two of us were affected and both of us sorted it by doing this!
o7

Oh, wow. Thank you, I'll try this.


For those of you who are affected, there are a least two useful tools to print your keybinds before you delete them:

EDRefCard

Elite: Dangerous Keyboard Map

 

[Viggen]

Getting this same problem, found F9 was also mapped to "Open Conflict Zone Battle Stats" in On Foot Mode Switches, tried changing this but it didn't help.

Weirdly, the camera works for a short time if it's inside the ship (at least for me, anyway)...

 

[Lu-v H8-2020]

Don't know if it will work for me specifically or not so here goes;
Sc Suite AND Free Cam game crash have been fixed by changing the binding of "speed camera" in the Free Camera tab (general controls):
Changing the bind to not use mousewheel fixed it for both crashes (they seem related I guess)

 

[Bam]

This fixed the SC-Suite issue for me, I had a custom binds file renamed inside the file, and have done for about 6 years, Fdev dont overwrite these files on a patch is they are also renamed inside the xml. BUT they dont get any new additions added to them. Looking at the xml there are a whole bunch of entries relating to colonisation that didn't get added. plus one odd one <TriggerColonisationModule>
I added these to my custom binds and everything is working again. Not sure if changing the minor revision to 2 in the start for the xml did anything but I doubt it. Saved me rebinding EVERYTHING. A easier in -game workaround is to just change the General Controls from your custom binds to a default and editing that little bit, this is how I got started and worked out what was wrong.

 

[Imo]

Same here. The entire game freezes when I try to use the free camera.

 

[Wendelstein Stellar]

I couldn't help it but try to narrow the problem down further. Creating new keybind configs and diff'ing them I found the problematic part (at least of my configs) are the binds for "free cam up" and "free cam down". I usually use Joy1POV_Up/Down here (i.e. hat switch up/down). If these binds are set, the game crashes in freecam. If I remove those binds the same settings file works fine. (Tried back and forth to make sure it's not just an update problem.)

I have not yet found out if there is a conflict with other binds or what happens if I use my throttle's hat switches.

Sounds very similar to this:

Sc Suite AND Free Cam game crash have been fixed by changing the binding of "speed camera" in the Free Camera tab (general controls):
Changing the bind to not use mousewheel fixed it for both crashes (they seem related I guess)

Concerning the new binds:

This fixed the SC-Suite issue for me, I had a custom binds file renamed inside the file, and have done for about 6 years, Fdev dont overwrite these files on a patch is they are also renamed inside the xml. BUT they dont get any new additions added to them. Looking at the xml there are a whole bunch of entries relating to colonisation that didn't get added. plus one odd one <TriggerColonisationModule>
I added these to my custom binds and everything is working again. Not sure if changing the minor revision to 2 in the start for the xml did anything but I doubt it. Saved me rebinding EVERYTHING. A easier in -game workaround is to just change the General Controls from your custom binds to a default and editing that little bit, this is how I got started and worked out what was wrong.

IIRC the colonization binds are added automatically if the version string in the keybinds file is lower than the game version?

You should have files named somethin3.x.binds, something4.0.binds, something4.1.binds...

 

[Cmdr Esteban]

Don't press "free camera"

A good variation on -
Patient: “Doctor, whenever I raise my arm like this, I get a pain in my chest.”
Doctor: “Well, don’t do that then.”

 

[aRJay]

I couldn't help it but try to narrow the problem down further. Creating new keybind configs and diff'ing them I found the problematic part (at least of my configs) are the binds for "free cam up" and "free cam down". I usually use Joy1POV_Up/Down here (i.e. hat switch up/down). If these binds are set, the game crashes in freecam. If I remove those binds the same settings file works fine. (Tried back and forth to make sure it's not just an update problem.)

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I have tried removing those binds and the free cam seems to be working now.

Thank you.

When I stop blowing things up in the CG I will head back to the colony I am building and see if I can now start on the surface of a planet.