Rendering Issues/Frequent Crashing (PS5) [Fixed in latest patch 5.051.000]

[toddumptious]

PS5 Legacy Save.

I was flying down to a disonant planet to get echo seeds, i was flying above the terrain when suddenly my screen went black and ship started taking massive damage.

I quit out and reloaded save. It loaded a black screen with the UI slowly appearing aftera while. Bringing up ship menu showed a completely whited out ship, but I could navigate menus.

I could tell I was in my ship, and could use thrusters but kept making wall scraping sounds.

I reloaded a save state from 18 minutes earlier, where I am on my freighter.

This black screen issue is plaguing this earlier save state too only it has frozen and is unresponsive.

Will keep trying and will add videos/images of the issue when they are done uploading.

Be careful out there Travellers <3

Actions I took before this happened.

After meeting the Autophage for new Story Content, I went to my freighter, I stored a bunch of ships in cold storage, I then left to go get the echo seeds, on approach to the dissonant worlds surface to land the issue happened. (I wasn’t aiming at the ground, but the horizon, looking for suitable landing area, no terrain near me)

Update:

This seems to be an issue with rendering atmospheric damage and the masks not rendering correctly, causing you to see the black and white contrasting on the masks used for rendering layers. This issue persisted constantly on the planet.

It was a frozen planet with extreme weather events, lightning storms and tornadoes.

Issue was not present on PC and I was able to recover on console by cross-save, relocating on PC, and then returning to PS5.

Maaaaybe, steer clear of frozen planets for the time being on PS5

[toddumptious]

It seems to have corrected itself, upon reloading the save again after the hard crash, I spawned safely in the atmosphere of the planet I experienced the issue with.

My save is safe <3

edit: Lol, just crashed as soon as I came out of the pause menu. Mmm, update day jitters.

[toddumptious]

This seems to be an issue with rendering, possibly atmospherics, and might be tied to the planet type I am on.

I had successfully landed on the planet, and then went into photo mode to take a photo.

I left it idling while transferring photo from ps app, to phone, to here.

When exiting photo mode, I was greeted with this.

For context this is what my photo mode was aimed on

I could access menus etc but my game screen was locked to this white and black image which seems to be a rendering mask for something. It is similar to the whited out ship I had mentioned with the earlier crash.

It’s a frozen planet with extreme weather. It just happened again. It seems that when the storms come all the masking gets thrown out of whack,.

edit:

Spending more time with the screen obscured, it did the “ice melting” thing eventually, it seems to be an issue with the enivornmental damage graphics and their masking.

Stuck on this planet as my screen is stuck like this on both save states, going to boot up my pc playthrough and load the save, see if it is same on PC. If not, I can just move my ass away. If it is, I can load my PC main, and then have my PS5 main join it, and relocate that way.

edit:

and now my cross save is no longer enable on PS5… I literally just used it earlier. I might just give it a few days for the kinks to iron out

[Mad-Hatter]

@toddumptious

PS5 Legacy Save.

I had a terrible moment just reading this.
I WILL NEVER use my Legacy Save on a new big update day.
We’ve had bad things happen.
… & I don’t have a cross-save rescue plan.

I will use either my Pirate or Permdeath saves to experience the new galactic awsomeness… once it eventually loads.
(PS4 version on PS5 console updated first & now I’m waiting for the PS5 version to finish)

[toddumptious]

Maybe just stay away from wintery planets and enjoy your southi hemi summer in the digital realm too or go straight to one and tell me if you get screwed too… for science (please don’t actually do this)

[Mad-Hatter]

Now, I’ve been told NOT to do it, my inner child now really wants to.
Maybe just a peek with my permadeath save wouldn’t hurt…

[toddumptious]

This seems to be happening on any planet now, just getting a weird masking issue followed by a hard crash… I have not had a successful entry on any planet with this update.

I may just reinstall the game, might be an issue there, because if this was widespread I’m sure we’d be hearing all about it, something mighta just got filed wrong during the update

[sheralmyst]

A patch for PS5 just released for crashes.

[Mad-Hatter]

Same types of issues for me.
Fired up my old PIRATE save. (Not a Legacy era save, just an older established game from an expidition).

Load in resulted in my base vanishing & a black screen with only HUD. Noticed I was deep underwater (even though my base is on a hill).
A couple of reloads got me a dark misty silhouette that allowed me to escape my base & get to my ship.
Launching the ship resulted in an all black, HUD screen again.
I was able to fly blind to the space station & land. Went to all single colour silhouette again.

Reloaded & space station loaded in perfect.
Flew out, started the new mission & all was fine until I attempted to land on the gas giant.
Game locked up.
2 reloads & I spawned in (flying) but in fog & rocks but managed to land on hellhole.

While begining to search for materials game locked on a black screen with partial HUD.

3 reloads resulted in instant same locked screen.

While typing this, the locked screen randomly un-froze & I found myself, in my ship, black screen with HUD.
Managed to launch & am currently floating in utter blackness & trying to work out my next move…

[toddumptious]

It’s not so bad being lost in the black Abyss now that I know theres travelling companions in there somewhere with me

[Mad-Hatter]

…‘Marco?’…

[toddumptious]

[Mad-Hatter]

Hee hee
I hoped you’d get that reference.

Managed to pull up the GM & escape the system & blind land via HUD only onto my freighter.
Reload got the screen back.
Because I’m a sucker for punishment I returned to the Purple system.
Landed on a fungal moon.
All good.
Grabbed some Quartzite & left.
Screen froze as I cleared the clouds.
Time to attempt another reload…

Edit:
Im stuck. Every launch causes a freeze.
Looks like Im a resident now. Better start building…

[Mad-Hatter]

UPDATE.
I’ve learned that the lock/glitch is something to do with ‘weather/clouds/mist-effects’ type things.
By flying as straight as possible & avoiding 'obstacles/clouds/rocks etc I’m managed to land, build outpost bases on both a moon & a giant & even explore a bit.

[toddumptious]

It’s added a whole new survival element to the game for you.

You’ve nothing to worry about, except the fog that turns people inside out.

Looks like it’s set to be fixed soon, I just finished the quest line on PC but I want to save the sight seeing for PS5 so I’m going to hold off for now and wait out a patch.

[Mad-Hatter]

So…
I managed to finish the new story arc but noticed I needed more of the materials from the dreaded ‘Giant Hell-hole’ to utilise some new tech.
Decided I’d be smart & not fly but rather use my two outpost bases to access the system.
That way, I could finish up with the new tech installed & return for a look when things are patched…
But first… I decided to go to a local radioactive planet to get some neccesary ingredient to do the built-in nutrient gizmo.
That turned into an upper-atmosphere/black screen too. Reload. Nup. Reload. Nup.
Third reload attempt got glitchy just in the starry load-in screen, lost all the stars & then crashed.
About 5 attempts later, all yielded the exact same sequence & crashes & thus I think my Pirate Save is FUBAR.
I won’t attempt to fire up any of my as-yet untouched existing saves as the error code suggests its a faulty/incomplete update problem which may be in the main game files & not just in the individual save file.
Scary stuff.
Reminds me of the Atlas Rises era & how dangerous certain things could be to our fragile little saves.
I’ll chime back in after the 5.5 patch & update my situation.

[LordMarkov]

I had all of the issues that @toddumptious described for a Legacy save on PS5: The black screen, the white screen with black center, the webby scanning screen, frozen or nearly frozen game, and the fix was closing the app and reloading. Thankfully, it was autosaving.

The trap was that the black screen happened once early then waited for me to get gar into one of the new planets, then these problems happening every 30 seconds. I did what I could to reload limp back to a station to save in a more stable location.

[Mad-Hatter]

I pushed my luck .
I was safely back in my home system & could have just put my controller down. I’d had issues from the first instance however I was keen to see what I could achieve anyway.
I was quite surprised at flying by HUD alone & actually getting on board my freighter & space station on multiple occasions. Restarting the game would give me a clear run for a bit but planets, particularly the new ones were a minefield of drama.
I’d be upset of it was my Legacy Save but then I’d never risk it in the first place.
Was actually a fun adventure surviving the glitches…until I didn’t
Hopefully a patch allows my NMS to start up & then I’ll give it another go.

[sheralmyst]

[toddumptious]

Ah, Martin clearly read my posts and learned so much from me. There’s no way he could’ve realised it was a rendering issue to do with masks failing to render opacity correctly. How would he know that? Is he like, their GPU guy or something?

Trolololololo if it wasn’t obvious I was being facetious

I sorta assumed it wouldn’t effect saves permanently as it was a rendering issue but it’s nice to get that confirmed and set in stone by Sir Griffiths