Kenshi
crashsump.zip error help
I just bought Kenshi, I was playing normally for an hour, until I got an error that it saves itself in a zip file. "crashdump", and now every time I try to enter a game or create a new one it kicks me out of the game with the message and the box that the error is saved in that folder, I only had a few mods, but even deactivating them all it keeps crashing the game every time I try to create or enter a game and I honestly don't know what solution to give to all this.
I would appreciate your help please
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Shidan Jan 13 @ 11:41am 
You should upload that zip file to a service like Dropbox or Google Drive, then post the link here. Then I can download it to check if it is a known crash, and offer possible solutions.

You can find it in your Kenshi folder, wherever you installed the game at.

Outside of that, the best I can do is offer common crash solutions, like disabling distant town generation in the options menu. And using the Vulkan rendering mod, and/or the crash fix mod.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1294
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/506
Platanazo Jan 13 @ 11:54am 
Originally posted by Shidan:
You should upload that zip file to a service like Dropbox or Google Drive, then post the link here. Then I can download it to check if it is a known crash, and offer possible solutions.

You can find it in your Kenshi folder, wherever you installed the game at.

Outside of that, the best I can do is offer common crash solutions, like disabling distant town generation in the options menu. And using the Vulkan rendering mod, and/or the crash fix mod.
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1294
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/506
Here I leave the dropbox link
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixpj2lil0dwj7kmnr03y7/crashDump1.0.68_x64.zip?rlkey=229ray4xh9vkia4dmvl8l3xwu&st=rbabdxio&dl=0
If you review it and give me a more specific solution it would be very helpful, but I will try with the most common ones anyway.
Shidan Jan 13 @ 12:02pm 
It looks like an Intel gpu crash. So I'd for sure try the Vulkan renderer mod, as it has been known to bypass those kinds of crashes.

Might also try updating/repairing graphics drivers.
Last edited by Shidan; Jan 13 @ 12:02pm
Platanazo Jan 13 @ 12:05pm 
Originally posted by Shidan:
It looks like an Intel gpu crash. So I'd for sure try the Vulkan renderer mod, as it has been known to bypass those kinds of crashes.

Might also try updating/repairing graphics drivers.
Thanks for the help, I'll try to do the Vulkan thing and test it, thank you very much
I hope it works
Platanazo Jan 13 @ 12:23pm 
Originally posted by Shidan:
It looks like an Intel gpu crash. So I'd for sure try the Vulkan renderer mod, as it has been known to bypass those kinds of crashes.

Might also try updating/repairing graphics drivers.
Apparently it is not compatible with Vulkan since the game does not even start now, I don't know how it all happened and that's even though I was playing normally for an hour
And my drivers are all updated
Last edited by Platanazo; Jan 13 @ 12:24pm
Shidan Jan 13 @ 1:39pm 
I would suggest testing things like reducing graphics settings, or importing your save with reset positions ticked. Maybe grab some performance related mods, see if the changes they make help anything.

Another thing you might try is running it from the exe file directly, make sure it's not Steam interfering in some unusual way.

Unfortunately the dump isn't showing much information on this crash, just that it's coming from the Intel gpu. Very odd that it was working for a while before suddenly starting to crash, yet even new games don't work.
Originally posted by Shidan:
I would suggest testing things like reducing graphics settings, or importing your save with reset positions ticked. Maybe grab some performance related mods, see if the changes they make help anything.

Another thing you might try is running it from the exe file directly, make sure it's not Steam interfering in some unusual way.

Unfortunately the dump isn't showing much information on this crash, just that it's coming from the Intel gpu. Very odd that it was working for a while before suddenly starting to crash, yet even new games don't work.
The same thing seemed very strange to me, everything was fine, then out of nowhere the game closed and then when I opened it it wouldn't let me join an already created game or create a new one.
I already tried to reinstall the game by deleting everything, restarting the PC, changing graphics and nothing at all, the same error continues that the zip is stored
Originally posted by Shidan:
I would suggest testing things like reducing graphics settings, or importing your save with reset positions ticked. Maybe grab some performance related mods, see if the changes they make help anything.

Another thing you might try is running it from the exe file directly, make sure it's not Steam interfering in some unusual way.

Unfortunately the dump isn't showing much information on this crash, just that it's coming from the Intel gpu. Very odd that it was working for a while before suddenly starting to crash, yet even new games don't work.
Unfortunately the dump It seems that now I can create and play, but when I move to the south side of the map the game crashes, for example when I go from the core to squin it crashes and when I go to pila it doesn't crash.
Shidan Jan 14 @ 1:45pm 
If you go farther east or west, and then south, does it crash? Or only around Squin?
Originally posted by Shidan:
If you go farther east or west, and then south, does it crash? Or only around Squin?
Only when I go south and very high up north almost to reach the territory of the empire, When I get out of the meollob For the south it crashes and I tried it in another game and it crashes the same,In the same situation
gt07noor Jan 15 @ 9:01am 
i think im getting the same thing
gt07noor Jan 15 @ 9:06am 
i just bought..could NOT even play... it crashes when i start customizing the character
Last edited by gt07noor; Jan 15 @ 9:34am
Shidan Jan 15 @ 9:56am 
Originally posted by gt07noor:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1myIJWSji5Fj7-MccV78E8AXdMeP7PPCr/view?usp=sharing

Did you try the Vulkan Rendering mod mentioned above. Yours is a different crash, but also an Intel crash, so that mod should be the first thing you try.




Originally posted by Takt:
Originally posted by Shidan:
If you go farther east or west, and then south, does it crash? Or only around Squin?
Only when I go south and very high up north almost to reach the territory of the empire, When I get out of the meollob For the south it crashes and I tried it in another game and it crashes the same,In the same situation

If you don't mind trying some tests for me, I've got some testing mods that remove certain elements from the game. I am curious if any of the mods stop the crashing for you. Running these tests may help narrow down what exactly in the game is causing you to crash.

Simply try each one separately, and see if it crashes when you head towards Squin like normal.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408102438
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408102893
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408103422
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408103900
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3408104261
Spion Jan 17 @ 6:16am 
Originally posted by Takt:
Originally posted by Shidan:
If you go farther east or west, and then south, does it crash? Or only around Squin?
Only when I go south and very high up north almost to reach the territory of the empire, When I get out of the meollob For the south it crashes and I tried it in another game and it crashes the same,In the same situation

i had a similar problem had to go to kenshi/data/newland/land/overlaymaps and remove everything with new_overlay and then veryfi intergrity of game files
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