CRASH - CTD Steam Overlay is the prime suspect

[El Presidente]

I used the Steam Overlay in game to look at the American vehicle list to estimate the money I would need to set up a long distance food network for my three hungry cities, The network would use several trains, trucks and about five Tr stations and three truck stations so Probably several million dollars! I couldn't find out because while the guide was loading the game abruptly switched off the steam overlay and every thing slowed to a crawl including the music which became very slow and would pause some times. It seemed like the FPS took a major hit! A few moments later and both the game and Steam for Linux client crashed to the desktop! I rebooted and posted this thread. I am using the TpF 2 Linux client with Vulcan. I use Kubuntu 24.04 soon to be 25.04 in April.

[RadiKyle]

Hi, I don't use Steam, or any other similar marketplace-type launchers, partly for reasons like this, so the only suggestion I can make is that you try sending a crash report to the devs if it's repeatable.

[numbat]

I have found the game will CTD when there is a lack of memory.

It happens to me infrequently, mainly when either chrome or firefox have a memory leak and start to use all my available RAM. The pre-cursor to the crash are very similar to what you have described. I'm running on Windoze tho.

Cheers,
Chris.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Steam Overlay works fine for me.

Does this occur only in specific maps/saves or any?

Use an app that keeps track of hardware usage - MSI should work for Linux - and check your hardware usage as you use the Overlay, or anything else for that matter.