So I literally spent a whole day whittling it down to customizations. If you customize your car to a certain point, races don’t like it - and even getting to a race will make the game crash.
So, to PREVENT this — do not use any body kit customizations past a certain number. 5-8 is a safe number. Skin/wraps/decals count as one customization.
If you experience a crash, you WILL have to do the following to “initialize” the vehicle in order to use it again:
1.) Remove all customizations — including wheel customization — from your car.
2.) Exit out to the main menu.
3.) Load the game and complete a race. In the beginning levels there’s one just straight ahead from where you exit the garage.
4.) When you get back to your garage, add on no more than 5 visual customizations.
5.) Play the nearest race to test. If it doesn’t crash, you may add another 3.. maybe even 4 —- at the max. Test again.
Add no more than 8 customizations. If your game crashes and you get the ever-irritating CE-34878-0 error, you WILL need to repeat the initialization steps above. Simply removing one or more customizations doesn’t fix the problem once you’ve experienced a crash.
Until EA/Ghost creates a fix for this.. we need to be counting how many visual upgrades are “safe” for each car.
Fortunately tuning/performance upgrades aren’t affected, as far as I can tell.