Do you have the latest patch? There was a bug whereby the game would crash if a "space battle" was in progress in your current planetary system even if you were not engaged in the battle. It happened to me (before the patch) when I was trying to mine an asteroid field and just didn't want to be bothered by the battle (needed some iron, maybe, to have enough to recharge shields). Pucketa-pucketa [Iron-7] pucketa [iron-5], pucketa ... crash! Very annoying.

Could also be a graphics driver issue. My sense is that the NVidia drivers from a year ago were more stable with NMS than the most recent releases. Unfortunately, there was a (buffer overflow?) vulnerability that was recently patched so one is kind of stuck. Might try turning down the graphics features, though, to see if that helps with stability.

Also try this:
When the 3D world appears, go quickly inside your ship and then out of it. This will write a new savegame and correct a previous corrupt one (can also happen without mods). Quit the game and restart with the new save after deleting the shader caches both in your game directory and in the 'cache' savegame folder.

As for v.1.24: After reading all stories and solutions about crashes in Steam discussions, it's best not to use the newest NVidia drivers.

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