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Bethesda says it’s working on Starfield’s PS5 crash problem and wants a fix out this week

The studio said it has narrowed the issue down to a small number of causes after reports of crashes on PS5 and PS5 Pro kept piling up over the weekend.

Angel Kicevski April 13, 2026

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Bethesda has confirmed it is aware of the crashing problems affecting some Starfield players on PS5 and says it is aiming to release a hotfix this week.

In a statement posted on Bethesda Game Studios’ official X account, the studio said it had narrowed the issue down to a small number of causes after players spent the weekend reporting repeated crashes across Sony’s consoles. Bethesda did not give a detailed breakdown of the problem, but it did say the fix is being worked on now.

Thanks for sharing your adventures across the Settled Systems this weekend — we’ve loved reading them! We’re aware of some reported PS5 crashing issues and have narrowed them down to a small number of causes. We’re addressing these in a hotfix we’re aiming to release this week.…

— Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) April 13, 2026

The timing matters here because the announcement is landing just days after Bethesda outlined Starfield’s PS5 features ahead of launch. Instead of settling in after release, the game has been dealing with crash reports from both PS5 and PS5 Pro owners, with some players also saying they received refunds after contacting PlayStation support.

Starfield’s PS5 launch has worked for some players, but the number of complaints has been hard to ignore. Bethesda now says it has identified enough of the causes to move toward a hotfix, and the studio is aiming to get that update out by the end of the week.

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Starfield is a single-player action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and set in an open-world space environment. Players create a customizable character and explore a region of the Milky Way galaxy spanning approximately 50 light-years, landing on over 1,000 planets with procedurally generated landscapes. Gameplay includes first-person and third-person combat using firearms, explosives, and melee weapons, as well as spaceship construction, outpost building, resource gathering, and crafting. Players recruit companion characters, join factions, and progress through skill trees spanning Physical, Social, Combat, Science, and Tech categories.