Elite Dangerous

Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Elite Dangerous on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

1. Crashes and freezes16 of 300 (5%)

   My experience for the last 3 hours: - Log in the game, disembark to a station to buy gear to do operations, games crashes and I get stuck on a black screen.

   Steam review, 12 July 2026 · 44 hours played · 20 readers marked it helpful

   nothing works, game crashes on splash screen and reporting a crash is impossible.

   Steam review, 11 August 2026 · 10 hours played · 13 readers marked it helpful

2. Performance and stutter12 of 300 (4%)

   A paid DLC was launched to abysmal failure in the form of "space legs" which lets you walk around on the barren rocks and attack settlements in some of the worst FPS gameplay you'll ever come across.

   Steam review, 23 June 2026 · 113 hours played · 395 readers marked it helpful

   if you want to experiment with ships, well, you're looking at few hundreds hours of BS grinding for materials (fun, right?) - FPS gameplay is just trash.

   Steam review, 5 July 2026 · 140 hours played · 19 readers marked it helpful

3. Will not launch or install11 of 300 (4%)

   Within five to ten minutes of logging in, I can almost guarantee I'll encounter some kind of bug—overlapping ship menus, interface glitches, or a black screen after disembarking.

   Steam review, 19 July 2026 · 2,298 hours played · 149 readers marked it helpful

   My experience for the last 3 hours: - Log in the game, disembark to a station to buy gear to do operations, games crashes and I get stuck on a black screen.

   Steam review, 12 July 2026 · 44 hours played · 20 readers marked it helpful

4. Servers and connection10 of 300 (3%)

   I spent 5.6 hours trying to play this game, but I spent all of that time troubleshooting server issues, fighting invisible walls, and wrestling with a terrible interface.

   Steam review, 16 August 2026 · 6 hours played · 10 readers marked it helpful

   Co-op desyncs randomly, multiple times a day.

   Steam review, 27 July 2026 · 88 hours played · 8 readers marked it helpful

A further 17 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.