Need help please, game is suddenly freezing completely even with previous saves

[GrenadesAndHamm]

I'm at about hour ten of a colony with no issues until now and no mod changes. I have quite a few mods going which is typical for most of my play throughs, probably yours as well. I have never had the game freeze like this since I started playing around Alpha 2 before it was even on Steam.

I'm at a point where the game completely freezes, even in Dev mode, to where I have to force close it. When I load earlier saves, the game plays for a bit and still freezes as well. I've let it run specifically to see if I could get to a point where it would play again and show an error, but it never continues.

I have Mod Manager, and it shows there are no conflicts. It recently showed that Dub's Paint was out of date for some reason, and gave a strange "404 error" in the Mod Manager. I removed it, and still get the same issue even with earlier saves.

I have no idea where to start to figure this out and would appreciate any help.

[Astasia]

If you went 10 hours without issues and didn't change your mods, and now suddenly stuff is freezing, that suggests one of your mods updated in a way that is either causing issues with your saves, is no longer compatible with other mods, or is just currently broken and might need to be reported to that mod dev. You can sort your subscribed mods on the workshop by date updated to see what has been changed recently.

[GrenadesAndHamm]

I started this colony Friday night with no issues.

Last updated mod was on Sept 14th according to my workshop mod list which is well before.

Would the error that freezes the game be saved somewhere, and where might I access it? Hopefully, it logs the error before freezing.

[Astasia]

It might be in the player.log file, the game writes to that as you play, and then erases it the next time you boot the game.

\Users\*\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Player.log

[GrenadesAndHamm]

I had to start a new colony. This is the second colony I've had to restart in the last week because of various errors, even though there was no indication of errors in the mods.

I see other people are having similar issues with this version, so I think something might need to be fixed.

[Astasia]

I'm not sure that is the case. I've been playing a pretty heavily modded (~150 mods) playthrough for about a week now, probably about 40 hours in, I haven't had any issues. That doesn't rule out the possibility of a base game issue, but I wouldn't say it's likely at this point.

The game's "error" system was designed to debug core, so if there was an issue with core there's a higher chance it would be caught than if a mod was doing something weird in a script which isn't tracked at all by the log.

[HunterSilver]

It may be worth checking to see if your game files are corrupted or if something is corrupting your save files. A 404 error would be a web browser error, which shouldn't be showing up in the game at all, so that likely has to do with mod manager.

[GrenadesAndHamm]

I verified all the files already.

One thing to note is that with the last play through, a NON active mode was causing the error. I've been playing a long time and I've never seen that before. I didn't even think that was possible. I unsubscribed from the mod, rebooted, and the error went away finally. Unfortunately, that was after I cleared my User file as that had helped others regarding configurations. Since the error I was getting at the time was that two hot keys were assigned to the same key, I thought configuration might have been the issue despite resetting and doing a number of other things.

So the game itself has been doing some strange things I've never seen before (playing since Alpha 2 back in 2013).

[GrenadesAndHamm]

So I started yet another colony and still having freezing issues. I've unsubscribed from mods I don't use and all mods active have no listed errors.

Very annoying to have the game freeze randomly and for what appears to be no apparent reason. I play with dev mode on to see errors and I'm not able to figure out what mod is causing the errors when they occur.