Game randomly crashing

[Kayvan]

As it says on the tin: recently, the game just randomly crashes. Sometimes when I'm about to enter a new system, sometimes in the middle of an instance. It's annoying to say the least. It's not a disconnect of anything like a Mauve Adder - the entire process crashes and I get a "send error report" splash screen.

As I'm writing this I'm waiting for my client to find the servers again, all the login panels are greyed out. But my internet connection is fine, as you can see by my posting this thread.

Crashes like these used to happen very rarely. Like maybe once a week or something. Now since my recent return (2 or 3 days ago) I sometimes had 3 crashes in a single session. Since I've been absent for about half a year, I have no idea which update shot the game.
Any advice?

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

most of us are having issues since the maj power play 2.0 update recently dropped
and the servers in general usually take time(a few days) to settle after todays downtime intrim serverside stability fixes
so one can probably expect some issues till they settle due to the upsurge in cmdrs returning to play the new content
try deleting the gpuworktable.xml in your products folder just in case there is not an old game asset causing you some issues is all i can recommend in the meantime and dont forget to reboot your pc so your ram is flushed
it is a rare that things run smoothly after a maj patch and can take upto a week or so to fully settle or a intrim patch is released again to fix the issues the maj patch caused, and then like like i say you have all the additional network traffic of cmdrs downloading that intrim patch yet again causing additional server wobbles upset
not a good time if you are a returning player and your better of waiting till the dust settles so to speak if you wanna fully avoid potential disappointment

there are always those who expect things to run smoothly regardless but the simple reality is thats never been the case in my experience after a maj patch
and i enjoy the rants of those expecting it to be just so...........

 

[Kayvan]

Okay, I'll try those steps, and otherwise hope that the stability fixes will drop soon.

Meanwhile, a cartoon fitting the situation (I crashed twice during an AX instance):

("Send issue report -- yes / no")

 

[varonica]

It hasn't happened to me since the update, does it only happen to people taking part in PP 2.0? I am not pledged to any power or doing any PP missions.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

seems to be sporadically random from what i can gather so just server wobbles i presume

 

[Kayvan]

It hasn't happened to me since the update, does it only happen to people taking part in PP 2.0? I am not pledged to any power or doing any PP missions.

Nah I haven't even looked at PP2, much less pledged to anyone.
Both crashes today occured in an active AX CZ with multiple other players in the instance and a lot going on in general; maybe understandable overload but still annoying. However, most previous crashes this week happened in entirely different environments and without anyone else around.

And my PC has plenty of reserves, RAM wasn't full or anything, for that matter.

 

[sfried]

most of us are having issues since the maj power play 2.0 update recently dropped
and the servers in general usually take time(a few days) to settle after todays downtime intrim serverside stability fixes
so one can probably expect some issues till they settle due to the upsurge in cmdrs returning to play the new content
try deleting the gpuworktable.xml in your products folder just in case there is not an old game asset causing you some issues is all i can recommend in the meantime and dont forget to reboot your pc so your ram is flushed
it is a rare that things run smoothly after a maj patch and can take upto a week or so to fully settle or a intrim patch is released again to fix the issues the maj patch caused, and then like like i say you have all the additional network traffic of cmdrs downloading that intrim patch yet again causing additional server wobbles upset
not a good time if you are a returning player and your better of waiting till the dust settles so to speak if you wanna fully avoid potential disappointment

there are always those who expect things to run smoothly regardless but the simple reality is thats never been the case in my experience after a maj patch
and i enjoy the rants of those expecting it to be just so...........

I also noticed that stutters seem more frequent even while in space. It's as if the whole Powerplay 2.0 subroutine is working in the background or something, and sometimes it tries to spawn in the appropriate factions causing a bit of drop here and there.

No crashes so far, but I do think something in the background is using up a lot of CPU cycles.

(I kinda wish FDev switched to Vulkan or something. Even the more upscalers like DLSS 3.x/FSR3.x/XeSS would help in reducing CPU load.)

 

[Suphalak]

My game has been crashing too, RX 7600 and Ryzen 5 5600.

I crashed when I walked too close to planetary settlements, I had similar issues like this before—my PC would shut down completely if my ship even came close to the surface port. But I realised it was a PSU issue, so I downgraded from no-name 750W PSU to Deepcool PK650D and I have had no issues since.

Of course, until today, I got a driver error from AMD. I'm not entirely sure if this is on Frontier or AMD, because Fortnite used to have this exact same issue six months ago, but after Chapter 5 Season 4 came out, everything was fixed.

 

[varonica]

My game has been crashing too, RX 7600 and Ryzen 5 5600.

I crashed when I walked too close to planetary settlements, I had similar issues like this before—my PC would shut down completely if my ship even came close to the surface port. But I realised it was a PSU issue, so I downgraded from no-name 750W PSU to Deepcool PK650D and I have had no issues since.

Of course, until today, I got a driver error from AMD. I'm not entirely sure if this is on Frontier or AMD, because Fortnite used to have this exact same issue six months ago, but after Chapter 5 Season 4 came out, everything was fixed.

So not PP 2.0 specific, I did quite a few runs into and out of settlements the last few days doing delivery missions, so not specific to that either it appears, is it specific to AMD cards and/or drivers? I have an RTX 4070 Ti Super and nothing amiss here, what are people who are having problems using?

 

[Suphalak]

I'll describe what happened in detail.

I was doing my first 'kill everyone in the settlement' mission, and just got Odyssey yesterday. I landed about 900 metres from the base and walks slowly to the settlement.

I was exactly 300 metres from the base, and the last thing I saw before the game crash is temperature warning going on. I'm not sure if this is entirely coincidental or if there is a bug which causes the game to immediately crash when some assets of the surface base loads in.

 

[varonica]

the last thing I saw before the game crash is temperature warning going on. I'm not sure if this is entirely coincidental or if there is a bug which causes the game to immediately crash when some assets of the surface base loads in.

The ingame temp warning? Not sure what you are seeing here, but the settlement assets should already be loaded in at that point, you can see all the assets from kms away.

 

[Suphalak]

It's 'warning, temperature critical' or something. It might not be assets, it could be NPCs that cause the crash.

 

[varonica]

It's 'warning, temperature critical' or something. It might not be assets, it could be NPCs that cause the crash.

In game? You shouldn't see that walking, that's a ship or SRV warning, means your ship or SRV is overheating, but really the "or something" comment has me harking back to my computer repair days, it's almost PTSD, ask the user what message they see, " it was an error of some sort!" No, get it up on screen and read it out to me,"....."memory exceeds blah blah blah some random numbers." No, they are not random numbers, READ THEM TO ME!"

If you are telling people about an error message never say "or something," you never know when the person reading may have bad memories of such exchanges from the past!

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

next time you see a warning screenshot it and post it here

 

[Anticon]

I've also been getting random CTDs, but fewer over the last 2 or 3 days, since last update. 4070, Intel. No common cause evident. No PP2 involvement, just trading mostly.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

that is indicative of server side wobbles(stability issues) and nowt to do with your machine if you have rebooted the pc and deleted the gpuworktable.xml
as old cache assets can get stuck in ram and are reused instead of being refreshed

 

[varonica]

that is indicative of server side wobbles(stability issues) and nowt to do with your machine if you have rebooted the pc and deleted the gpuworktable.xml
as old cache assets can get stuck in ram and are reused instead of being refreshed

It's this "warning temperature critical" message that puzzles me, I am wondering if that poster has bound the "landing gear down" and "silent running" to the same keypress and is walking away from their ship while it burns up, sees the message and it's his ships that's exploding, it still shouldn't cause the game to crash I suppose, anyone want to test it out?

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

ya thats why i asked for a screenie it can also be if parked on the 1km boarder of a settlement the base cannon opens fire late as the fire has been known to clip through some obscuring terrain and heat the ship without the ship under attack warning which is rare
dismiss to orbit is usually the best option if infiltrating and parking close
but like you say shoudnt cause a pc crash.........

 

[Saltyseadog]

I've been getting these freezes the last few days. Pretty sure the first time was prior to the PP2 update and twice more yesterday and the day before after updating. Twice it happened while I was mining tritium, first time it happened I had just finished mining and was heading out of the rings and the game just froze for no obvious reason. I waited to see if something would reset or such but no, I ended up having to reboot my PC and restart EDO. The other two times I was mining, in one instance I had just finished blasting a 30% tritium rock and waiting for the collectors to finish and once when I was still laser blasting. Had to reboot PC both times and on reboot and EDO restart all was well again.

For context I play on a 42" 4K tv and am at present somewhere between SagX and Colonia in my fleet carrier and haven't been near the bubble for approx two years.

 

[the100thmonkey]

The freezing seems to have been introduced with the latest update - I have noticed it in conflict zones and general space flight. I am not currently pledged.

I've also noticed long load times and hyperspace jumps, although it is not clear to me that this is the cause of the freezes, which happen in open instances rather than between them.

I haven't seen a single crash.