Suddenly... sinking

[Haggis]

Had an interesting experience last night while playing with a friend on a brand new world. About 45 minutes in, we had an OK raft, some supplied, a sail and were just moving along doing some admin work on the raft when suddenly, and for me only, the raft plunged down into the ocean like on the Titanic knew how. For my friend we were still on the surface! For me, we just went down and down until it was pitch black and I drowned. Lost all my metal tools that we'd just gotten.

When I came out of the world to the main menu, the raft in the menu was sinking too!

Closed the game, reloaded and we were fine... but I had still lost all my good stuff and a good chunk of food that was in my inventory (we were moving storage bins).

[Anonymous Helper]

What you describe can happen if for what ever reason the processor core running raft gets maxed out (100% utilization). This results it not being able to keep up with physics calculations needed to keep raft afloat leading to raft sinking. Usually closing and restarting the game fixes it as you found out.

You can lower the change of it happening by closing any applications you have running in the background, especially anything that hogs resources. Lowering graphics settings also might help reduce the changes but I'm not sure which settings lower burden on processor. The devs might also optimize the physics engine at some point (or they might figure out a way to prevent it from happening) but there is no telling when they do it. Unfortunately only permanent solution currently would be to get better processor.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

What you describe can happen if for what ever reason the processor core running raft gets maxed out (100% utilization). This results it not being able to keep up with physics calculations needed to keep raft afloat leading to raft sinking. Usually closing and restarting the game fixes it as you found out.

You can lower the change of it happening by closing any applications you have running in the background, especially anything that hogs resources. Lowering graphics settings also might help reduce the changes but I'm not sure which settings lower burden on processor. The devs might also optimize the physics engine at some point (or they might figure out a way to prevent it from happening) but there is no telling when they do it. Unfortunately only permanent solution currently would be to get better processor. :wftosad:

heh yep, CPU has to be able to keep up with the calculations or the game wont know what to do, had a similar thing like this in fallout 4 when i was testing my overclocking, shell ejections, player and enemy movement, grenades, all hung in the air because the CPU couldn't give what i asked it to for the game.

devs might be able to write something for a forced crash if such an even occurs to prevent people's rafts becoming airships and submarines.

in all honesty though, what kind of CPU can't keep up with this game? it has to be older than a 2XXX series intel core i3.

[Haggis]

I have this Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

Load was no where near 100% and I only had Discord and Thunderbird open. It's not CPU load.

[Anonymous Helper]

Originally posted by Haggis:

I have this Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

Load was no where near 100% and I only had Discord and Thunderbird open. It's not CPU load.

Your processor is better than mine (i5-4690K 3.5GHz) so it should not cause this issue. You didn't tab out by any change and/or have heavy programs running in the background?

You did check that no core peaked, not just overall CPU utilization that shows average of all cores, as Raft is single core application?

If none of the above applies, not sure what caused your raft to sink.

Maybe you should submit a bug report so the developers can take a look here:

https://support.redbeetinteractive.com/hc/en-us/requests/new