For those voyaging the vast universe of Starfield, your adventure might be hampered by technical issues (mostly on PC). If you are one of the gamers suffering from Starfield crashing issues on PC, we’re here to help with the known workarounds.
Starfield Crashing Issues on PC Known Issues and Fixes:
Crashing with 7000XTX
Solution #1: Turn FSR off (via voiceafx)
Solution #2: Cap the framerate to 60 FPS. For AMD GPU’s you can do this via Guru3D RTSS Rivatuner.
Crashing with a RTX Series GPU
Solution #1: Turn FSR off
Solution #2: If that doesn’t work, open the Nvidia control panel via desktop and lock the framerate. Test it, though it seems 60 FPS eliminates the crashes.
Crashing when trying to enter the Kreet research labs
Solution: Update to the latest AMD drivers (via okguonng)
Crashing when using cheat engine or command prompt
Solution: Avoid using either, as at the moment, they both seem to be causing random crashes.
Starfield Crashes on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S
Sadly, due to the nature of consoles, there isn’t much you can do right now to combat crashes on the Xbox Series X or S. You’ll need to wait for Bethesda to release an official patch addressing these. In the meantime, we recommend using our Starfield bugs and issues reporting guide to find the proper channels to report issues directly to the team.
We’ll be adding more crashing issues and workarounds as more are spotted by the community, so expect this article to be updated.
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Is there any current fix for not being able to save in game at all? Attempting to press save or autosave will result in a popup that says, “failed to create save game.” Other attempts such as sleeping or waiting whilst having the autosave options on will result in the same outcome. Please help!
Same fucking issue man
same here, fuck it
same some help us pls
Hey guys, if you are on PC I found a fix for this issue. The game must be installed on your C: Drive. I had it on an external drive and as soon as I moved it to C: it worked.
really? man!! My drive c has a lot of programs.
Interesting. External drive as in a drive connected via usb, or just another drive within your computer. Either way that doesnt seem to make a whole lotta sense. Not saying your incorrect, but that does seem to be a weird fix.
Nah, today it means a drive that isn’t part of your motherboard (not an NVMe\M.2 drive).
Fo some it fixes it. Actually it’s permissions\antivirus issue.
My game is on c and its not saving
that doesn’t work for me. I have reinstalled to C: still have the same issue
same here i cant save bois
Friends who get the “failed to create save” error in Starfield should turn off the windows firewall and try. The Windows firewall is meaninglessly preventing the game from accessing the save file.
Yea just tried this and it fixed it for me. Cant wait to grind another 4 hours into the game again! But seriously good find man hopefully you didnt make it too far into the game before resetting again.
Didn’t work for me.
Sorry mate. When I had this problem there was no solution at all. When I saw that the Windows firewall was giving an error, I found the solution with this method. I wish it worked for you.
As far as I can tell, as I was having that issue too, it means your save is corrupted. I’ve got to start again because of it
I started again twice and it’s the same
Is there any reason that it is corrupting? I can keep playing for a while but dont want to keep restarting my game over and over due to this issue.
started 4 times already with different setting but still doesn’t work
Trash game
Guys, try adding a new user to your windows system and start game with this user. I couldn’t play Skyrim or fallout4 without this procedure, some weird bugs occurred. I suppose the same shitty engine still has this problem.
Dude thanks a lot !!!
tried your method, it worked at first time.
Solution/workaround FOUND:
what i did is i created new local windows user on the PC.
run the game from there and the save started to work.
test loading the save and re-save, it’s working fine.
however will have to use this new local user to play from there since i couldn’t play on my main windows account user. even after i resolved the issue.
so the only way for now is to play on local user.
Playing on PC through Steam. Started playing on keyboard then tried using my wired Xbox 360 controller. When using a wired Xbox 360 controller, the game has crashed 2 times while in dialogue conversations. Wondering if this older style controller is locking my game up for some reason?