How To Fix Starfield Freezing, Crashing or Not Launching (Windows PC Guide)

#starfield Is your starfield lagging or stuttering? Or is it freezing and crashing? How to fix starfield crashing or not launching errors? This guide will show you several things you can do, whether you have Nvidia GeForce GTX or AMD Radeon graphics cards. I found some of these solutions on Reddit, simply reading comments where players actually said it worked for them.

Also check out how to fix Starfield crashing via this supporting article:

How to fix Starfield crashing on Xbox:

Nvidia drivers:

AMD Radeon drivers:

Timestamps:
00:00 Starfield Crashing Fix
00:16 Device Manager Fix
00:36 Update your graphics card drivers
00:51 Get latest version of nvidia drivers and control panel
01:05 Launch Nvidia Control Panel
01:29 Turn VSync on
01:46 Cap Max Frame Rate (Limit fps to 60)
02:03 How to disable PBO in AMD BIOS (Precision Boost Overdrive)
02:36 Download latest AMD drivers and settings software
02:51 Turn CHILL mode ON (AMD Radeon)
03:10 Closing CPU hungry applications in Task Manager on Windows
03:18 Update your WIndows OS to latest version
03:37 Starfield MSConfig FIX
03:52 Starfield Settings Disable FSR or FSR2

[Antoon]

Selecting the "Quiet" tuning preset in AMD Adrelin fixed it for me (Performance -> Tuning -> GPU -> Tuning control). I also use the Chill setting btw.

[kramb]

games running fine with at least 90-100 fps, still freezes randomly when not even doing much. very annoying

[captaina-d]

The 3rd method actually helped me. Thanks a ton for your help

[underhandedjoe]

Be careful when doing the 1st solution with AMD GPU's. If you installed Adrenaline manually this will only install a 2nd set of drivers, and wont replace the ones that are currently installed.

[SasisaPlays]

Game is poorly written and the biggest crush reason may be caused by architectural differences issues. Game is almost always crushes on Ryzen CPUs, right now, the only thing we can do with this issue - is waiting for a patch.

[itssj]

Try loading your with a different file that you saved. I found that the file I kept trying to load for saved progress was the reason I kept crashing. I just loaded a diffrent saved game file and it works now!

[TheMissingDislikeButton]

Crash everytime when i press any button to start :/

[lenirodriguez]

This video helped!!! 😭🔥 thank you so much!!

[sebastianschmitt]

Didnt see, that you clicked "Hide all Microsoft services", at the point MSConfig Fix... i thowed hm maybe this is not good to disable all services. But will be ok... After that my pc didnt start anymore and i needed hours to find out how to get back to a restartpoint for windows! XD
From the bad to the worse... but now the PC runs again... ok, but not the game :S

[Enderking]

i find it absolutley ridiculous that a triple a studio cant make a game that runs properly.

[periperez]

Hi there,
Not only didn't worked, that did it worse. Before I was able to play for 5 to 20 minutes, now as soon as the game load it crashes. In my case it freezes the whole computer, forcing me to press the power button for 10 seconds. I don't know what else do to make it work. At the beginning the problems were more sporadic, but now is unplayable.
I have a Windows 11, 32GB of RAM, 1TB SSD where the Starfield is installed, Intel Core i7-7800X CPU, Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 Ti, and I did a clean Windows install 2 days ago.

[ivanmandic]

I've also got gtx 1060 and game keeps on crashing few secounds on Bethesda screen, no clue what to do QQ

[sorscha]

not a single thing helped, even a full clean install. it still keeps crashing at the load screen

[lasthope]

I found CPU spikes happening when it froze foe me. Not sure what causes the spikes but maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.

[mayhamk]

Is 60hz like a hard line? Id like to be able to enjoy more of my 165hz screen

[kangarooguru]

So with my game on the Xbox game pass it would crash when I try to load the current save even the second one before that but I went back 3 saves about 10 minutes before the current save and it loaded me in with no crash. Idk maybe a bad save or two… but I was able to get in with the 3rd.

[danieljordan]

The download raidon app worked thank you so much.

[chriswilson]

This game is the biggest piece of shit I've had the honor of playing in a while. Every time I try to load it, it restarts my PC, happened after the latest update.

[complainergamer]

Thing is i had no issues until I connected my PC to my LG

[edwinjcruz-monserrate]

I have a HP pavilion 27 inch all in one, fully updated but still saying that graphics does not meet the minimum requirements. what can I do if someone know?