Crashing all the time now ... is it just me?

[Indianer]

My game keeps crashing all the time, every 10 minutes at least. Before it was very smooth with almost no crashes. Is this just on my end, or is this something new to game?

[flu007]

Are they video memory crashes? That suddenly started happening to me a few weeks ago. Not sure what fixed it. I lowered a few - not many - graphic settings slightly, updated my nvidea driver, and close my browser while playing now, and it stopped.

[Indianer]

Originally posted by flu007:

Are they video memory crashes? That suddenly started happening to me a few weeks ago. Not sure what fixed it. I lowered a few - not many - graphic settings slightly, updated my nvidea driver, and close my browser while playing now, and it stopped.

I am not sure. It doesn't say. It just crashed now every 10 minutes or less no matter what I do. I could just sit there with the game on pause and it will still crash.

I am running two mods, btw. 256 max recruit, and make prisoners slaves mod.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

How to report a crash/bug

[tebow baggins]

i get hit by storms that i manage to barrel thru with many restarts and sometimes remove a mod but usually just barrel thru it then it will clear up sometimes a few hours

things like unplugging hardware or HDMI will crash it for me or messing around on firefox

[Scorpio]

you could validate the install to fix or add files that may be gone or corrupted. Remove any mods and such,then do an import and see if that solves the problem,if not then i would uninstall the game and delete all files in the steam folder and reinstall it.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Indianer:

My game keeps crashing all the time, every 10 minutes at least. Before it was very smooth with almost no crashes. Is this just on my end, or is this something new to game?

Every ten minutes?

That's the interval for the auto-save feature, I think.

Check your anti-virus software and make sure your system isn't prohibiting the game from accessing the files it needs to auto-save, perhaps?

PS - And, if you have mods... Well, then it could be just about anything a mod could reasonably touch. No crash patterns like that at all for me. Also - Check your Windows Event Log to see if there are any clues.

[tebow baggins]

Originally posted by Indianer:

Originally posted by flu007:

Are they video memory crashes? That suddenly started happening to me a few weeks ago. Not sure what fixed it. I lowered a few - not many - graphic settings slightly, updated my nvidea driver, and close my browser while playing now, and it stopped.

I am not sure. It doesn't say. It just crashed now every 10 minutes or less no matter what I do. I could just sit there with the game on pause and it will still crash.

I am running two mods, btw. 256 max recruit, and make prisoners slaves mod.

i'm running those 2 plus about 100 more.. i can go 3 or 4 hours without crash or i can crash 5x in an hour.. silldolls slave mod was crashing me but when i reinstalled it it wasnt... i'm guessing something goes on in the game that catches on and then it clears up... i get crashes that come and go in waves, and at least 1 every 2 hours... you should not be crashing from 256. i have stopped crashing with imports...

[Indianer]

Originally posted by SCARE:

Originally posted by Indianer:

I am not sure. It doesn't say. It just crashed now every 10 minutes or less no matter what I do. I could just sit there with the game on pause and it will still crash.

I am running two mods, btw. 256 max recruit, and make prisoners slaves mod.

i'm running those 2 plus about 100 more.. i can go 3 or 4 hours without crash or i can crash 5x in an hour.. silldolls slave mod was crashing me but when i reinstalled it it wasnt... i'm guessing something goes on in the game that catches on and then it clears up... i get crashes that come and go in waves, and at least 1 every 2 hours... you should not be crashing from 256. i have stopped crashing with imports...

I used to not have any issues either, even after adding those mods. But just lately it started doing it. It crashed on me, which usually only happens once every few hours or less, and then when I reloaded the autosave it keeps crashing. Could it be the autosave that occurred from the crash that causes it to keep happening? It will autosave a new while I am playing, but maybe that autosave is also bugged since it came from the autosave that crashed initially.

Does the game create an autosave if it crashes, because there seems to be one at the same time of the crash each time? That might have something to do with it also. It does seem to happen just after an autosave.

[Indianer]

Originally posted by HaTsUnE_NeKo:

How to report a crash/bug

Ok, so it is definitely happening now each time a save occurs. Not just the autosave but when I manually save, the game also crashes.. Any ideas of what it might be or how to fix it?

[Lonedog]

This may sound too easy try when you first launch selecting borderless as a tick box.Let me know if this helps you stop crashing.

[yippeekiay]

Mine was starting to crash repeatedly everytime it tried to autosave. As much as I hate having to do it, I imported my game after 400+ game days and played for 12 hours yesterday without a single crash after that import.

TL/DR
I had all sorts of weird crap happening in the game before importing, seems the longer in you are the more likely things go t!ts up.

I just found a nice spot to build the first outpost in that playthrough but took me days trying to get turrets to stay where they were - no luck, kept disappearing or being unassigned.

Once imported (after rebuilding the wall 6 times!) all but 1 of the 12 turrets on the offending wall have now decided to play ball along with no crashing. Seto has finally shown his face on the world & most things seem fine......so far

I say most, Seto & his Wrath of God raid has been trying to raid me in Stobes Gamble for the last 19 days...19 days walking around in circles as they can't locate me!! lol.
I actually ran to greet them & not one of them battered an eyelid so I followed them around for a while watching them get attacked along with the skeleton beam kick their butts hehe, but still they are walking around. Gonna have to send my guys out to paste them I guess.

And I had a crab raid just before finishing last night where I killed the NPC's before they got to my gate, the crabs stayed down the slope before my base so I went & killed all them. Neither the "raid has arrived" or "raid was defeated" notification came up. Despite all of the raid now being burnt in the corpse furnace the faction tab still says there's a crap raid....along with the 17 day old Wrath of God raid...oh, and my poor Shek allies are now homesick too as their protecting contract expired weeks ago ;D

[6000 Chipmunks]

TL/DR

Re-Start STEAM!
90% of ALL my issues go away, if I simply, save my game, shut it down(ish), and shut-down STEAM, and re-start it.

I spent a week making Voodoo dolls of the devs and every reviewer I watched...only to discover that STEAM was BORKING my game!

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

I was having loads of crashes after recently returning to the game. My problem was something to do with either Malwarebytes or Kaspersky Total Security. I solved 90% of the game crashes by adding Kenshi's game folder to exclusions in both of my AV suites.

Might not be the fix for you but it's worth pointing out.

[Brin/Evin]

seems like every time I hit a random crash the last couple of days, I shut down steam and lo and behold when I restart it needs to update, so. Wonder if it has something to do with that?

[CommandDork]

I get at least one crash a day. No after-market antivirus running and autosave is turned off.

It's frustrating.