Hi,
It's been 5 days since my previous post, and after 20 hours of intense gaming the situation remains stable : no crash at all (and this game is insane 😎 )
Please keep me posted, I am quite interested to see if I am just lucky.
I rebought the game today for Star Wars day.
Crashes in normal configuration still occur very frequently (current windows 10- 64bit / current nvidia driver 445.87).
So I did some more troubleshooting:
What helps in the configuration:
- borderless window instead of full screen (fixes crashes, but performance deteriorates quite a lot)
- reduce shadow detail to medium (crashes occur less often, but they still occur)
What I also did, is installing from these nexus mods:
https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsjedifallenorder/mods/9?tab=description
- no intro fix (unrelated to crashes, but SIGNIFICANTLY reduces load time with a much bigger impact than moving the game from the HDD array to SSD)
- CustomEngineNoAA - this fixes the game for me so that there are no crashes (or almost no crashes, need to test further) and great performance, at the detriment of some visual effects
Oddly, I found one other game in the meantime, which shows a similar crash behaviour while running in full screen mode:
Jurassic World Evolution (runs on Cobra Engine, with a significant performance penalty when running in windowed mode)
all other games I have run fine without any stability issues.
Edit: I also followed Swatouille's extensive action plan, which unfortunately didn't make any change for me.
Edit2: AA is the one key element that seems to break the game for my setup. Forcing AA off as described here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1172380/discussions/0/3342162929518454596/
allows me to play without any mods (pak files).
Note: if you change any visual settings in the GUI, the ini file will be overwritten and you have to edit again. You cannot set "0" via the GUI.
