Is Starfield crashing always? Your PC’s processor could be why

The long-awaited house role-playing recreation Starfield from Bethesda has been out there for obtain since Tuesday. Many gamers instantly plunged into the sport’s 1,000 explorable planets. Now, nevertheless, studies of sudden crashes are piling up. The solely repair is to restart the pc. And these Starfield crashes appear to be affecting some PC configurations greater than others.

Ryzen CPUs in focus

Although some house owners of Intel processors additionally complain about sudden crashes, the vast majority of these affected have a Ryzen CPU put in. Certain moments within the recreation appear particularly crash-prone, equivalent to getting the watch from Barret or speaking to sure NPCs. Unfortunately, the crashes are reproducible — so the following time you attempt to begin the dialog, the pc crashes once more.

This is especially annoying as a result of AMD is the “exclusive PC partner” of Starfield. The firm labored hand in hand to optimize the sport as finest they could on the Xbox Series X/S in addition to on trendy Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs.

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Bethesda help instructed one Reddit person to attempt briefly disabling all non-Microsoft packages. Third-party antivirus packages also needs to be turned off. Only the Steam consumer, which is important to make use of the sport, ought to stay lively.

That stated, a real repair will probably come through a patch for Starfield sooner or later sooner or later.

Crashes apart, Starfield already exceeded Bethesda’s expectations. Only a number of days after launch, there have been over a million concurrent gamers throughout the supported platforms PC and Xbox Series X/S. And in comparison with different Bethesda video games just like the Fallout or Elder Scrolls video games, Starfield appears comparatively bug-free… which makes this crashing drawback all of the extra annoying.

This article was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.

Author: Michael Söldner, Autor