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Found a solution for some of the crashes and performance issues.

By Atom Dream

Trying to help community that have performance issues and crashes in Starfield

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10 Sep, 2023 @ 11:10am

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Found a solution for some of the crashes and performance issues.

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Found a solution for some of the crashes and performance issues.

Please note that this works for me and might not work for you and i would be happy if this actually helps you. Also would be cool if some of you guys test it out on your rigs too.
Lets get straight to what i have done:

1. Go to your Starfield folder and find your settings file which will be called Low.ini (or High.ini, Medium.ini, High.ini, Ultra.ini or whichever you will use)

2. Make a copy of this file and name it something like LowOLD.ini

3. There is a section in this file called [Shadows] which should look like this:
[Shadows]
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance0=6.0
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance1=12.0
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance2=50.0
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance3=400.0
uTerrainShadowMapSize=256
uShadowMapCount4096=0
uShadowMapCount2048=0
uShadowMapCount1024=16
uShadowMapCount512=44
uShadowMapCount256=128
uShadowMapCount128=128
uDirectionalLightShadowMapResolution=1024
uFocusShadowResolution=1024
uShadowFilteringQuality=0
uShadowFilteringTransparencies=0
bContactShadowsEnabled=0
uTotalDynamicShadowMapRenderCount=12
uAdditionalDynamicOnlyLightsBudget=0

4. Edit this section so it would look like this:
[Shadows]
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance0=6.0
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance1=12.0
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance2=50.0
fShadowCascadeSplitDistance3=400.0
uTerrainShadowMapSize=256
uShadowMapCount4096=0
uShadowMapCount2048=0
uShadowMapCount1024=0
uShadowMapCount512=0
uShadowMapCount256=0
uShadowMapCount128=1
uDirectionalLightShadowMapResolution=1024
uFocusShadowResolution=1024
uShadowFilteringQuality=0
uShadowFilteringTransparencies=0
bContactShadowsEnabled=0
uTotalDynamicShadowMapRenderCount=12
uAdditionalDynamicOnlyLightsBudget=0

5. save this file as Low.ini

6. Set your setting in game to Low profile or whichever *.ini configuration you just edited and give it a go.

Hope it helps.
Fly safe o7

17 Comments

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EyeBeBangin 5 Feb @ 8:09am

Good thing I don't have anything Nvidia than. My AMD 7900 xtx seems to handle any other game out there quite fine, for the workhorse it is. I don't play any FPS games, so I couldn't tell ya how it does under tham circumstances. But handels games like Shrouded, PAL World, No Mans Sky, Space Engineers, Empyron, and suchnlike a dream though.

scobaun 12 Jan @ 5:56pm

Doesn't help if you have an NVIDIA GPU

EyeBeBangin 22 Oct, 2023 @ 7:50am

Ok, After much testing, and making sure all my hardware isn't at fault, I've concluded that the times within a given area (The Lodge, The Rock, Exct.) when an NPC grabs your attention is the exact point where my game crases streight to the desk top. And yes, I can reproduce this. And yes, this is still after applying this change (Which did seem to help a bit, seems to crash less times now) but it still crashes.

Nic 27 Sep, 2023 @ 9:11am

Atom Dream: Thanks, but I did (I run a de-lidded CPU with liquid metal and water cooling). And I finally, after trying everything but a hard re-install of Windows, ran a MemTest, which of course showed that one of my RAM blocks was at fault, so I deleted my original post, because I don't want people to think that Starfield was causing my PC to crash, when it was really a hardware problem. Which is now fixed, and I'm happily playing Starfield again :-)

Atom Dream [author] 26 Sep, 2023 @ 11:06am

Nic, sounds like you got some hardware issues, please check your GPU and CPU temperatures, might be time to change your thermal paste.
, sadly im unable to fix anything that i cant replicate on my system, might be same problem that Nic has or maybe its a good idea to look for a mod that removes menu animation on Nexus.

 21 Sep, 2023 @ 9:45am

the only issue i seem to have is the game crashes when i open menus, any idea what that could be? it happens on the character screen or inventory or such.

EyeBeBangin 18 Sep, 2023 @ 5:09pm

I just applied these changes, but can't test it until later this evening. I'll Edit/Repost my results after a decent attempt at making it "Quit to Desktop", I've noticed a pattern that will make it do it almost every time...

zentr 15 Sep, 2023 @ 4:55am

Thanks! Appears to have got me 4 or 5 more FPS.

Zone-tan 14 Sep, 2023 @ 2:21pm

Just applied this to my settings and the game runs much smoother now. Thanks for the guide!

Atom Dream [author] 12 Sep, 2023 @ 9:33am

leafcomb, the one you made should be named low.ini, medium.ini, high.ini, ultra.ini in the game folder.
For example you modified low.ini and saved the original as lowOLD.ini then to use the settings with changes you made to it choose display setting profile called LOW in game. This setting will use low.ini file.
Settings correspond to *.ini files
Low.ini = LOW
Medium.ini = MEDIUM
High.ini = HIGH
Ultra.ini = ULTRA
if you name it something like random.ini a profile RANDOM wont appear in the game on itself without further game modification. So please keep the naming convention as it is.
Hope i managed to explain to you.

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