r/StarfieldPS5

Pre-patch mod load order turned to trash after the patch. Crashed every 10-15min, buildings wouldn’t render, failed saves, etc. Took about two hours of trial and error but finally got my mods in order. Been running smooth, no crashes, no issues whatsoever for almost 6hrs consecutive playtime. Sharing it and console details with all my fellow Starborn hoping it works for you.

Console:
2nd gen fatty
Game settings:
+35% XP
Save on Rest OFF
Save on Wait OFF
Save on Travel ON*
Save on Pause 30min
Frame Rate Target 60
VSync OFF*
Prioritize PERFORMANCE

*Save on Travel was a personal preference but the goal was to have as few auto-saves as possible. VSync ON made things worse graphically so I turned that garbage off.

Things I did during trial and error that seemed to have made a huge difference:

1. Grabbed the vanilla Frontier and flew to space. Manually saved the game while in space overwriting the autosave. Exited to menu.
2. Disabled all existing mods then deleted them.
3. Deleted all but the manual save, loaded that save, then manually created a new vanilla save while in space. Uploaded that to the cloud.
4. Deleted Starfield, then reinstalled Starfield (clears out Creations cache doing so and provides clean post-patch install)
5. Redownloaded the Creations I wanted one at a time.
6. Once all were downloaded I began placing them in the order pictured. I would only move 2 or 3 at a time then back out to menu and let Creations update.
7. With all downloaded Creations enabled I loaded the vanilla save.
8. Once in game I landed on Venus, slept 24hrs, flew to space, and created a manual save overwriting the autosave just created. Now I had two saves, one vanilla and one modded.
9. While in game, anytime an autosave was created I stopped and overwrote it with a manual save.
10. Always loaded the manual save.

Screenshots of MLO are numbered and in comments.

I know alot of the mods say load order friendly but I learned the hard way on both pc and console the wrong load order can really break your game, after much sorting many restarts and just load order headaches, I finally found one that is working perfectly fine in my game, so I thought I would share and hope it helps someone else.

I used the L.O.ST load order sorting tags so my order will be the names of them. I've put some examples of the mods i have to give an idea of what will go in each category, if your not great with where to put thing properly like me lol. Most are self explanatory

1. Bug fixes and patches

2. Compatibility patches (useful infirmaries/ mess halls)

3. Gameplay overhaul

I. Gameplay tweaks ( terrifying terrormorphs, )

5. Added quest

6. Quest and story expansions. (Cryomancers everbright)

7.added locations ( neon houseboat the lodge redone)

8. P.O.I mods,

9. Skills perks and powers

10. NPC changes,

11. Companions and crew,

12. Crafting and economy,

13, Cheat mods

14. Audio mods,

15. Faction changes and additions

16. Clothing and armour

17. Added weapons

18.outpost building

19. Outpost decorating

20. Ship building and customization.

21. Added ship parts

22. Ships and vehicles

23. Miscellaneous

24. Load last,

Any environment or texture mods i guess would go between points modsband skill mods, I don't use anything that changes weather or anything, I hope this can help someone because I spent ages trying to find help with one and couldn't hence the share.

As the title says. My son and I have 2 characters. Maybe 10 total saves. Now recent saves have disappeared and new saves never show up. No error messages, just no save files. This makes the game completely unplayable. We have over 200 GB of free space on the ps5. Have tried turning off auto saves and deleting old saves. Nothing has worked. At this point I just feel like I was scammed out of $60. Has anyone found a fix for this???

PSN ID: AlphaBack

Nuggets of knowledge…

*Creations is not communicating correctly with Bethesda.net to save your mod load order to their server so don’t even try it. Waste of time. Confirmed by Bethesda.

*The game/ps5 will remember your mod load order so set it and back out.

*If you’ve altered a mod load order always choose CURRENT when asked after selecting a game save to load.

Booting your ps5 into safe-mode and clearing cache then rebuilding the database will help performance but to be truly clean…

1. disable and delete your mods
2. load into your save file (choose no when prompted to download missing mods)
3. create a new fresh save file…not a quicksave
4. delete Starfield (but not your saved game data)
5. run safe-mode cleaning
6. reinstall Starfield and go to Creations, mod load list should be empty
7. back out of creations, load your clean saved game file, fly to a system with NO DLC OR MOD AFFILIATION (that means no Sol, no Alpha Centauri, no Wolf, no Porrima, no Volii, NOTHING) and stay in space. Manually create a new save file. Quit to menu.
8. go to Creations, library, redownload your mods one at a time. Let it download completely before backing out and selecting another. IF YOU CRASH DURING DOWNLOAD GO BACK INTO CREATIONs MOD LOAD AND DELETE THAT MOD if it’s there. Repeat.

*Mods are gonna crash the game, can’t stop it…”yet”, but the goal is to make it manageable.

*Stable mod load order requires two things. Compatibility and dependency. Pay attention to the mods descriptions/instructions.

The Fallout mod load order template is good to follow but Pay attention to the mods descriptions/instructions. Some mods will be an overhaul despite not labeled as such. File size and what the mod does will be the tell.

**Now…**here’s where the “yet” comes into play and if you’ve invested a lot of outpost or ship creation time this is going to hurt…Passing through the Unity after setting your mods will compress/restructure ALL the files for the universe, rebuilding the universe from scratch WITH the mods and 99% of your game crashing will stop.

HI Folks,
I’m ploughing through Starfield on PS5 (with daily crashes!). I’m level 38, piloting skill 4 and starship design skill 2.

I’ve played around with shipbuilder and would like to build my own ship using Deimos Habs for a consistent look. However, I’m only being offered two or three of the same habs at most locations such as Cydonia, the Den, Akila, outpost ship builder etc.

I’ve tried the other ship manufacturers parts, Hopetec, Stroud, etc. and have the same issue

I want the captains quarters, control, infirmary, workshop and armoury habs but they don’t appear anywhere as far as I can tell.

I can see engines, reactors and other items that are greyed out and not available due to ship design skill.

Does anyone know what level or skill is needed to unlock all the habs?

Thank you kindly.