Starfield Crashing when Loading Saved Game / Save File load? - RESOLVED! / Bug Fix!

If you're like me, you may have been completed distraught / bummed out / upset when you went to load your Starfield saved game and the game crashed to desktop.

The fix is simple! You can adjust your game display settings and your saved game will load just fine. Consider this problem RESOLVED!

[DoctyrEvil]

I don't know how you figured this one out but I'm really impressed. Thank you for taking the time to share your solution. I thought my save file was corrupted!

[jeanjones]

Thank you SO much. I thought I was going to have to start an entirely new game and this worked for me. I had over 100 hours invested already and the thought of having to restart was just depressing.

[babushkasboi]

I’m stuck on an infinite loading screen after selecting load previous save

[Desert-edDave]

**This is not the fix for all who encounter this problem. Disabling FSR2 does not address the crashing when attempting to load issue that was just recently introduced. It's a shame devs at Bethesda actually make a living.

[bryanbruebaker]

This needs more attention. Bethesda needs to fix this and all of the stuttering across the game regardless of platform.

[keith]

My game will crash even before that and just an FYI, my FSR setting is off on my system but the game still crashes 3 or 4 times before it eventually loads and runs it seems to crash mostly on transferring to another area like ship landings, but sometimes just running around in the world or moving through a loading screen ie a door.

[xander.]

This worked. OMG thank you. I just saved myself 100+ hours of gameplay

[NeuroTheory]

Mine just crashes to desktop everytime I try to load up a save, regardless if I have on upscaling or not. Just completely broken.

[daggrag]

I can't load save. I tried a new game. Then i loaded my old save. It looks like it worked. But then i tried to launch an older save file it crashed again.

[TheMaverickq]

Nope, crashes everytime on PC. Saved yesterday, no issues. Now finished work and it doesn't work...omfg. New game works fine. I had to load older save, like very old and reload the new one. Now it works

[USJbroly]

Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work for me unfortunately. In my case, the game crashes pretty much instantly after selecting a save. I don't even make it to the loading screen

[deividaszemaitis]

samo thing but my game just turns off and i try everything and nothing helps, +50hrs of game gone....

[reveldhyevan]

i have this problem after i updated it to 1.7.36. I try to follow your step but in my case it didn't work. So how i troubleshoot then :))

[Danny_from_the_beer_store]

Every time I have more than 40 saves for a play through it starts crashing while loading saves. I tried your method and had no luck, but deleting half of my old saves fixed it for me. Wondering if anyone else has tried getting rid of saves fixing it? Thanks for the video.

[davejohn]

Starfield has some other problem...My day old save loads and works, my new saves that I worked a day before, the next day get all the way to the point where I can play for a second or more (Depending) on the save...Then crashes...happening after 90 hours...I did have over 400 saves but deleting them never makes the new saves work. Doesn't make much sense that some saves work and new ones do not. Having so much fun...sure hope either the next Bethesda update or Nvidia driver fixes it. (Already had FSR off...also have tried every other fix on youtube)

[edhart]

That did not help me. I can no longer load any saved games.

[tilu]

Did not work for me, I have to launch new game or to load my older save in order to play the game....

[ChookyChuck]

didnt help for me, i all ready had that turned off. ... something with auto saves is crashing my games.

[idbuxhy]

Cant even load a game. Crashes before i can even click anything

[canadianbird]

Sadly this didn't work for me. I tried pretty much everything, and yet Bethesda don't seem to be doing much to fix blaring issues like this at all 🤣