MEGATHREAD - Random Crashing/Freezing on PC
Randomly while playing, seemingly for no reason my game will just freeze. More often than not, it's a hard freeze that requires I hold down the power button on my machine to get out of it because alt+f4 etc are non interact-able.
Even more curious, it seems to happen A LOT more often around the Block Party/Church area of the map than anywhere else.
Anyways, this time, it finally gave me an error on screen and didn't freeze my entire system this time so MAYBE finally a developer can see this and get a closer answer to this problem!
-Update 2/3 days later: (didn't want to make another duplicate post on this topic)
Almost immediately right after posting this, I decided to move to the EA App version of skate. to see if it was just a Steam issue. And to my surprise, all of the above issues with freezing my system/crashing have stopped altogether!
My CPU/Graphics usage are fairly low and my ram sits around 80% while playing and my machine isn't getting hot whatsoever (not anymore than average gaming temperature anyways). I don't know if it's a driver clashing with something after playing for awhile or what.
All drivers/software are up to date.
FINAL VERDICT: (about an hour or so after my last update above)
I have officially confirmed that this bug is NOT exclusive to Steam. It finally happened to me again on the EA App version after about 16 hours played!
Please consider looking into this cause I'm now hesitant to even play at this point with my friends cause having to hold the power button when things go south is such a bummer and overall not a good thing to keep doing to your PC in general.
I understand this is early access and things like this can take time to fix but i hope this gets across to at least one person in charge so this can be addressed quickly 😄(and hopefully before season 1!) 🤞
Yet another edit: I found that skate. saves their own crash dumps to the AppData/Local directory in a folder called Skate. Their dates range from 09/22/2025 - 10/10/2025. They're not all there but a good chunk of them are and could be of use to a developer.
However, your forum won't let me post them, even as a .zip which is says it accepts, but it doesn't work. (it's only 1MB). So if/when you guys see this, we can arrange something so i can get them over to you guys some how.
