[SOLVED] Raft doesn't crash... IT RESTARTS MY PC!

[Merbola]

Fix: Who would've guessed that it was an issue with the monitor. I have 3 monitors and im able to play when I just use 1 instead of 3.

On July 3, my friend and I loaded an old save from a year ago (chapter 2) and I saved the game right outside of Varuna Point. The next day, July 4, my PC would restart entirely the moment I reached the menu screen. Video linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T8gH8RdjSc

After spending more than 10 hours trying to debug and identify the problem, I can confidently say that it's a problem with Steam Cloud, but specifically only to my computer (maybe since it's Windows 11). Today I had a friend login to my Steam account and play my Raft world completely normally (his laptop is Windows 10). Specs are not the issue as his laptop was much less powerful.

My GeForce drivers are up to date and Windows Updates all installed. IT IS NOT AN ISSUE WITH THE PC'S HARDWARE. Raft only crashes my PC whenever it tries to save the game and sync with Steam, such as during the first part of the Loading World stage and saving the world while exiting to main menu. I was able to save/load and play Raft completely fine in Steam's Offline Mode. It's the moment I go online that Steam's syncing kills this game.

My Rocket League also crashed today when unboxing my drops, video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyFP3K1PbBY. However, I have yet to get the same error again since Rocket League has their own servers and probably corrected the corrupt Steam cloud files.

My issue is that I CAN'T DELETE THE STEAM CLOUD DATA. Since there's no button to clear the cloud saves, I've followed guides online, forcing a steam cloud conflict and deleting from LocalLow BUT RAFT KEEPS DOWNLOADING THEM BACK. The problem is that Raft's steam cloud save keeps a history of all the old worlds for some reason in the remotecache.vdf file in LocalLow. I don't know how other games work but usually when you delete the saves they should just go away on the cloud also.

I have, however, found a very inconsistent workaround. Whenever I restart my computer manually, I basically get one successful load. I can play for anywhere around 5-30 minutes before my PC dies and restarts again. Until I MANUALLY press the restart button (not from the Raft-induced restart), Raft will ALWAYS die on the loading world screen (at the very start of the loading bar).

I've given up at this point but if anyone has any insight, please do share. It's not an issue with Raft per se as all my friends are able to run it completely fine. It's just something caused this to happen for some reason, maybe like a corrupt save. If anyone has any insight, please share. Please don't just tell me to update my drivers T_T.

EDIT: I see a lot of people talking about overheating and power supply. These are valid BUT I'm able to run both Red Dead Redemption and Rocket League at the same time smoothly and according to SpeedFan, GPU peaks around 78C. Raft only goes up to around 68C. It's these contradictions that are really confusing me. I've tried uninstalling my GeForce drivers and trying the newest and older versions but all have the same outcome. Thanks to everyone for all the feedback though!

[Anonymous Helper]

If it's Steam Cloud Save issue, you're probably better off contacting Steam Support. Cloud storage and syncing is done entirely by Steam Client, not the game. Saves are synced from the cloud when you launch cloud enabled game and synced to cloud when you close the game.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/68D2-35AB-09A9-7678

As far as I know, the only way to delete cloud save data is to delete saves (either from the game or going to save folder and deleting unwanted saves) while the game is running and then close game normally so Steam can sync the saves to cloud removing any that no longer exist in the computer.

[Xas]

If you insist its the error of your Steam Cloud data, and
not any other personal system issue,
will respect that and assist you in ' that ' direction.

~drive:/ Program Files/ Steam
add various STEAM( or related).exe to OS Administrator rights.
~Steam Library/ Raft/ Properties/ Disable Steam Cloud Sync. or
Steam/ Setting / Cloud/ disable ....
~Steam Settings/ Downloads/ Clear Cache option.
~Check Security programs to trust/exclude/allow Steam.exe and Raft.exe
~Make a Backup of
\AppData\LocalLow\Redbeet Interactive\Raft\User\User_XXXX,
or move to desktop.
Then Delete the User Folder,
followed by SteamLibrary/ Raft/ Properties/ local, verify integerity of game date/
~Restart Steam
~Run Game in Steam Online, No Cloud,
see if any changes.
~Make a proper named World, try load into world. Save.

Above is simply to rewrite your cloud data, allow Steam and Raft process and a clean new game.

Share what you observe from here, or if knowledgeable,
reverse and allow Cloud sync to write the physical save onto the Cloud.
~Reattempt, Steam Online, Cloud Enable, the same world.


May or may not help, tried.
Good Luck troubleshooting.

Truthfully, a save file does not have that much of a power to restart your pc,
best it could do is offer a prompt, warning, forced terminate to desktop.
A conflict of process, software, hardware and engine on the other hand is another story.

[Archie]

a long shot?? I had a similar situation with conan exiles.
I think it is your mother board.
there are several voltage regulators feeding the pc and if one of those is not well it may dip the voltage on heavy pc usage and cause the pc to reboot because of loss of voltage.
some manufacturers making the expensive mother boards have heat sinks on them, the voltage regulators, and they are way over spec.
I replaced my mother board , well everything and the same games worked fine.
your pc has no problems with other programs as they are less load on your system.
not knowing how the game is sharing the game on yours and your friends i assume that the major usage or a lot is on his one and no so much on yours when you dont play', only he.
you could play around with how the program uses the multiple cpu's in your processor.
I fiddled with that and had a logitech setup on my keyboard that showed all the seperate cpu temperatures and activities and 1 of them was always in the red.
thing is i had to change out the mother board also the cpu as the old original wouldnt work on the new motherboard. same with other stuff.
my old pc works fine but not on heavy pc usage games.
thing is, yours and my pc would reboot.
My new one doesnt.

mind you this is assumed as the reason for a power on reset needs to be thought about.
your symptom is like pressing your reset key on your pc.
the only 2 things I know or recall that will do this is if the system program hits a blank spot in the memory or a voltage spike or drop.
expensive fix for you why dont you go to a pc shop to get an opinion.

[turk0gamer]

I had a similar problem but after repasted my GraCa all problems were solved.
Look for a heat issue. GraCa, RAM, CPU, SSD, MoBo etc...

[꧁༺Razgriz༻꧂]

if your computer is restarting on its own. its your hardware.

[lpnlizard27]

gonna take a bet and say your power supply is going.

[꧁༺Razgriz༻꧂]

or your computer is ojver heating