System Crashes on start of game
The game DOES NOT CTD or BSOD.
When loading the game, the entire PC catastrophically crashes, is hung (and not in a good way), does not work, is kaputt, borked and has to be restarted.
Just so that we are clear on the problem.
System Specs
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor 4.70 GHz
Installed RAM 96.0 GB (95.6 GB usable) Corsair Vengeance EXPO 30-36-36-76
Storage
12.73 TB HDD WDC WUH721414ALE6L4
14.55 TB HDD WDC WUH721816ALE6L4
1.82 TB SSD WD_BLACK SN770 2TB - Game Disk
1.82 TB SSD WD_BLACK SN770 2TB
1.82 TB SSD WD_BLACK SN770 2TB
3.64 TB SSD CT4000P3SSD8
12.73 TB HDD WDC WUH721414ALE6L4
12.73 TB HDD WDC WUH721414ALE6L4
Graphics Card AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16 GB) XFX Mercury Magnetic Air
Motherboard GigaByte X670E AORUS Master
PSU SeaSonic Prime 1000 Watt Titanium TX-1000
Cooler Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360
OS Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
There is no error in the Event Viewer in either the System or Application logs except the following in the System log:
"The previous system shutdown at 2:28:17 PM on 3/14/2026 was unexpected."
My diagnosis
In a previous incarnation I was Senior German Engineer for Enterprise Disaster-Recovery Tech-Support EMEA at Veritas, before which I was in the same position at Seagate Software NSMG (Network Storage Management Group).
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This is obviously a hardware issue, and, due to the nature of the complete crash it must involve a kernel (Ring 0) driver, and the only one I can think of which would be relevant would be the graphics driver.
From the very beginning your game did not function on AMD GPUs, with the same issue I am now relating (total system crash), to the point where, to get the game started you (Keen) had to circumvent the opening video, to even get the game to load in survival mode.
What this tells me is that your developers are ONLY developing the game on Nvidia GPUs, and you will get around to AMD GPUs when you are forced to, i.e. when you envisage a Console release of SE2.
I have invested 9.914.7 hours into Space Engineers over the years, so I think that tells you how gutted I feel with regard to the situation as it relates to SE2.
I did manage to play 94 hours of SE2 but that ended after the smaller updates over the past months since VS2 was released.
No doubt those minor updates probably addressed Nvidia issues and borked AMD GPUs in the process.
What is inescapable is that this is a hardware issue, and I am not exempting AMD drivers (I am on the latest 26.2.2 version) for being the culprit.
I have the same bug
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