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Can someone from PUBG - (maybe u/SteveTheHappyWhale) please provide us with acknowledgement that their CS/Dev teams are aware and actively looking at the current crashing issues that are plaguing players?

Although anecdotal - if I were to use myself as a 'canary in the mine' - then this is someone who has played for x thousands of hours, over x years, now considering seriously, for the first time ever, to stop playing the game entirely. This is due to repeated crashes to desktop from almost every other game. (for myself I work in technology and confident the issue does not lie with local hardware/software. Others have said similar).

You also have high profile streamers making highly visible statements on the matter: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1460609690?t=0h0m27s) and now refusing to play the game.

A quick search on this sub sees numerous reports since the last major update - and the best those reporters are told is to contact CS. Which is fair enough for typical background rate of issues, but when critical mass is reached, companies are expected to acknowledge the issue and provide some comfort statement that it is being address in a certain time frame. Communication needs to improve here.

A statement either here or on twitter PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS Support (@PUBG_Support) / Twitter would be most welcomed.

The game has finally gained some momentum from the influx of new players via F2P - but this will be quickly squandered away as people will be leaving in significant numbers.

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almost 2 years ago - /u/SteveTheHappyWhale - Direct link

Hey op, we've been working with the dev team for several weeks now, forwarding any and all reports that we see on our platforms to be looked into. So far there has not been a conclusion that an issue is caused by something internal, nor that the issues are widespread.

The team has not noticed an increase in overall crash rates and looking at pretty much any reported thread so far, I can see that there are players who report that their issues were caused by either a corrupted system file or a corrupted game file, a third party app or that they do not experience any issues at all.

We've been looking at reports on all our platforms and were collecting information / tips from those who reported, identified and resolved their issues over the last several weeks. List of those troubleshooting tips can be found here.

Majority of reports I am seeing ended up getting resolved after an OS corrupt file check was made and corrupt files were replaced as well as corrupt game / config files. Game / config files can get corrupt due to a faulty update download and many players note that after verifying game files or performing a clean game reinstall has resolved any performance or crashing issues. A guidance on how to perform a clean game reinstall (deleting all game files + clearing steam server download cache) is also noted in the guide above.

We advise players to send their crash report logs to support as this is the most efficient way to identify game issues and crashing trends.

almost 2 years ago - /u/SteveTheHappyWhale - Direct link

Originally posted by rwhockey29

Hey Steve, you might not see this, but has the dev team looked at the possibility of something backend/server side leading to the crashes? We have a decently active pubg discord, and we have been having multiple players crash at the same times in a game. We all have high end pc's, and 2 players in our main group are software/game developers, so I can't imagine all of us somehow simultaneously having OS issues.

Last night playing squads, our BDRM driver (playing on a thread ripper, 256gb ram, nvme drive, and 3080) says "my frames are dropping BAD" and within q5 seconds he has crashed. 10 seconds later a 2nd player on our team crashed in the same way. We had a 2nd squad of 4 playing in the same game (we matched in together), and they had 2 players crash to desktop at almost the same time in the same game.

I have a very hard time believing that 4 players in the same game can all have OS issues at the same time.

Thanks for the details man. We're sharing any info we see and hope an issue will get identified and resolved.