Starfield is out on PlayStation 5, and customarily Bethesda stilted character expressions aside, it's a gorgeous space epic that's sure to visually please, especially on PS5 Pro courtesy of PSSR. Performance is a bit uneven, particularly in big settlements, but by and large, it runs smoothly. Not a bad showing at all.
There's just one problem. The game's got crashes. Let me emphasize, this isn't a universal thing. At least, it doesn't seem so. But nor is it a few isolated cases. Big voices in the gaming community are backing up the crash claims with conundrums of their own.
"The game crashes a fair amount," says Digital Foundry's Oliver Mackenzie in the group's (delightfully exhaustive) overview of Starfield on PS5. "I ran into this crash for instance," he explains at one point in the above video during a trip through hub city new Atlantis. "Just roaming around. The game basically becomes totally unresponsive and needs to be restarted. And I had this happen across several modes on PS5 and PS5 Pro." Linneman classifies it as "new behavior" to him, which is to say, it wasn't something he'd encountered on Xbox Series or PC.
Digital Foundry's experience...
