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Games crashing on PS5. It's a PS platform issue.
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I'm not denying there's work needed to make it stable (whether that's on the game or OS side), I'm saying a checkpoint system would at least significantly soften the blow of having the game crash mid-run instead of completely losing potentially hours of effort.
I used to have the same issues people are describing here but that was solved in the first firmware update that came a week after the system launched. Since then I have still had a few crashes by those were clearly the game's fault.
Weird how it's still going on for some people and that I haven't heard more about it. For the first week, it was rough but I was expecting a rough launch anyway. I'd be pissed if it was still going on five months later.
Weird how it's still going on for some people and that I haven't heard more about it. For the first week, it was rough but I was expecting a rough launch anyway. I'd be pissed if it was still going on five months later.
I've only crashed twice in Miles Morales and I think once in Demon's Souls. But that's when it launched. Haven't had any issues since then. Returnal is going to be the next PS5 game I'll be playing since then.
My PS5 doesn't crash much to be honest, except with Returnal, Immortals and Control. It's really bad with these three games, which is why I send it back to Sony for repairs or to get a new one.
It started with Immortals which crashes constantly when HDR is on. Fortunately when turning HDR off, or to the lowest settings in the game, it doesn't crash at all. Control constantly crashes in RT-mode, as in every few minutes, performance mode runs fine. Returnal unfortunately is the worst, it keeps crashing immediately when the gameplay starts, each and every time. So that game is literally unplayable. Hopefully it's all fixed when I get my PS5 back in a few weeks (they say it takes about 15 days).
It started with Immortals which crashes constantly when HDR is on. Fortunately when turning HDR off, or to the lowest settings in the game, it doesn't crash at all. Control constantly crashes in RT-mode, as in every few minutes, performance mode runs fine. Returnal unfortunately is the worst, it keeps crashing immediately when the gameplay starts, each and every time. So that game is literally unplayable. Hopefully it's all fixed when I get my PS5 back in a few weeks (they say it takes about 15 days).
Yeah I had miles crash on me 2 times while playing, both within the first week. No problems since then, but there's definitely something fucky
does anyone with crashing PS5 from tropical area? it could be temperature issue.
sorry, I managed to get normal priced PS5, it should be arrived at 5th May and kinda worried about this. I'm from Tropical country so the temp is kinda high. around 31C in normal day.
sorry, I managed to get normal priced PS5, it should be arrived at 5th May and kinda worried about this. I'm from Tropical country so the temp is kinda high. around 31C in normal day.
That's certainly an explanation, but there's more than one.
It could be an issue related to environmental factors, such as temperature.
This could be an issue that affects all PS5s across the board, but is a somewhat rare occurrence. Some users would see nothing. Some would see a couple of crashes. Some would see a lot. All based on luck.
It could be similar to the above, but become more likely depending on how the system is used. This would imply a race condition to me, which is a particular type of software bug that can be a real pain in the butt to even reproduce, which makes them rather difficult to fix. Oh, and while it's not exactly likely, there's a chance even something like this could be compounded by environmental factors if they even marginally affect performance.
The fact that it's been identified as some sort of system level pre-start feature more strongly suggests a software issue to me than a hardware variance one. It can't be ruled out, but chip verification should catch these things before they're put into machines.
Seems I've been lucky so far then, I finished Spider-Man Miles Morales with zero crashes and not had Returnal crash on me yet or any other game to be honest.
I'm always surprised when people meme on stability firmware updates, considering how crucial they are to a good console experience.
I'm always astonished when I hear about the severe crash issues some people seem to be having, wondering what's going on there.
I've played through Miles Morales, Astro, Immortals, The Pathless, Bugsnax, Hitman 1/2/3, Olija, Cyber Shadow and played about 15 hours of Disco Elysium, Demon's Souls and Returnal on PS5 and had exactly one crash (Miles Morales, launch weekend). Hopefully the issue is identified and can be fixed soon...
I've played through Miles Morales, Astro, Immortals, The Pathless, Bugsnax, Hitman 1/2/3, Olija, Cyber Shadow and played about 15 hours of Disco Elysium, Demon's Souls and Returnal on PS5 and had exactly one crash (Miles Morales, launch weekend). Hopefully the issue is identified and can be fixed soon...
Was this on launch? I had the same exact problem with the disc version but after a patch or 2 it stopped (I completed the game in 3 days and never played it again, so maybe I was just lucky).
What I have noticed are some system menu getting stuck, the overall OS feels unfinished and I can't remember the last time a console launch was so buggy and barebones.
Nope, literally every PS4 game i´ve played runs without problems at all and i had no Returnal crash at all so far, yet in the beginning after launch most games crashed. it is their shitty and buggy firmware, nothing else.
the crashes are completely random, someone can claim that everything is fine and suddenly the crashes occur out of nowhere.
Oh, okay. When you said "Or you could add temporary mid-run checkpointing," I thought you meant one or the other. But I agree a checkpoint system could help with some things. If this is the same issue that's causing the game to always crash during the intro cutscene that another user was having, then I hope they'll find a fix soon so they can play.
The most my PS5 crashed was with cyberpunk (and LOL not sure that was a ps issue..). Haven't experienced any crashes apart from that though, maybe 1-2? But not enough to really take notice.
I never had Miles crash but when SM:Remastered crashed it crashed so hard it told me to delete the game and reinstall it.
Going to try to figure out more about my situation today. I had very consistent crashes with MM and Returnal (within 5-10 seconds of opening cutscene), but then tried Control UE in RT mode yesterday, which worked fine. After that I tried Returnal again and it didn't crash in the same spot any more. Didn't have time to play more, but will try to continue from Rest mode today and see how long it works.
Just bizarre.
Just bizarre.
Ok so if anyone is having crashes constantly in RT games assume it is your console that needs replaced. I would act accordingly to avoid being stuck with a console that cannot play the vast majority of next gen games which will make advantage of the hardware whether or not it uses RT.
I don't remember if Miles Morales ever crashed on me, but I heard people had issues. I've been playing Returnal like crazy the past couple days and had zero crashes thankfully! Yesterday the game was running well past 10 hours.
EDIT: not trying to be rude or start shit, but I don't know about the title of the thread. The Returnal dev mentioned the crashes they're seeing are a platform issue, but I'm not sure that means crashes from other games are from platform issues as well. Pretty sure my Cyberpunk crashes every 30 minutes (almost like clockwork) was definitely not a platform thing, although that was a PS4 game technically.
EDIT: not trying to be rude or start shit, but I don't know about the title of the thread. The Returnal dev mentioned the crashes they're seeing are a platform issue, but I'm not sure that means crashes from other games are from platform issues as well. Pretty sure my Cyberpunk crashes every 30 minutes (almost like clockwork) was definitely not a platform thing, although that was a PS4 game technically.
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Yeah i has been pretty bad. Even HZD crashed a few times on me the other. I don't think I've so many crashes playing on consoles before. PS5 has been terrible. Games like Dirt 5, CP2077, Spiderman all have been bad with crashes.
Different games can cause a console to pull different wattages I believe. Circuit is like 1500w. Can't imagine sackboy pulls more than 200w - so that circuit must be really overloaded. Tell them to move something off the circuit.
I'm unwilling to touch Miles Morales until they sort the crashes out. I've not had many crashes elsewhere, but that game seems cursed and I have the illogical feeling that it'll cause more crashes in the other games if I play it.
I'm itching to play the damn game though.
I'm itching to play the damn game though.
yep! Weirdly no crashes. I got the platinum too so I played for at least 30hrs. I heard loads of people had problems with it crashing though.
I had crashes a lot on miles morales on the ps5 launch,stop playing it untill February and never had anymore crashes beat the game since then and played other games with no crashes .
Damn, not bad. Here (around ten PS5 owners) we still can't play it. Some can play it for 20 minutes before it crashes, others max. 5 minutes. Super annoying. And it looks like Insomniac is done with patching the game. So maybe it really is the PS5 firmware causing all this.
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