BL3 Crashes - Xbox Series S
My wife had constant crashes on her Xbox One X and load times were unacceptable so we decided to grab an S. If anything the S crashed more. We tried reinstalling and all of the items listed as common advice for this situation but it made no difference. On a whim I pointed a box fan at the console and it completely stopped the crashing. She could play for hours with zero crashes where before she couldn’t even make it 10 minutes. I ordered one of those $20 Series S specific fans from Amazon and have it running on low and have had zero crashes. The fan barely moves air but evidently it is just enough.
Anyhow, sharing this in case it helps anyone else.
Posted Feb 13, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC
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It is unfortunately an issue that has been around since launch and WILL NOT get fixed by Gearbox. They say it's an Xbox issue, Microsoft says it's a game issue. All I know is, BL3 is the ONLY game to make my Xbox One X completely turn off, and no, I don't get an overheat warning. I absolutely loved this series, but refuse to play it anymore (and likely any other BL game tbh) since Gearbox decides that this isn't a glaring key issue that should be addressed. Not that they probably care, but they lost a lifelong fan because of it.
I have never seen the overheat message either just the console shutting off. I want to hook her One X back up and see if blowing a fan across it fixes it too.
At any rate our problem is fixed on the S now so pretty happy about that. We played all day yesterday with zero crashes. If we turn off the fan it doesn’t last 10 minutes before it crashes. Really annoying.
Is yours still under warranty? I had almost the same exact issue with my series x where it thought it was overheating…opened a repair order online, shipped it to MS and they fixed it. Haven’t had any issues since then with “overheating”
One X isn’t but S is. No other game has this issue even heavy hitter titles.
I wouldn't be happy about requiring a fan just to play a single game. I love the series so much, but having to find a workaround just shows the devs don't care about the issue imo.
Not thrilled about it but at least it solved the issue for us.
Mine did the same shit pretty frequently. More than a heavily modded fo4 could even manage on my xbone. On the series x fallout with at least 50 mods has crashed once and I think that was a mod conflict but bl3 crashed at least once per session. No other games do that on the x.