UPDATE: CRASHING SOLVED Why does this game have such a hard time with saves?

[Darth Invader]

EDIT: See comment 88.

At least 10 crashes so far... I'd say 7 or 8 have happened during world saves, teleporting, or sleeping. Not to mention I get a full 2 second mini-freeze during world saves.

If anybody knows how to turn-off world saves, I would like to know how. I'm not worried about auto-saves because I am logging out every 10 minutes anyways out of fear of crashes and losing all my progress.

I'm playing the game with everything turned off or set to low and in 720p. True fullscreen. Win10, rtx2070, 16gbram, i9, ssd.

[daggaz]

The game is exceptionally stable, so if you are crashing all the time its indicative of a problem on your end. Mods. Drivers. OS. Hardware (ram, mobo/memory controller, psu).

[Wariat117]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3102389184722589684/#c3102389184722942640

also what do you use to crash your game?
some program or mod ;D?

[Darth Invader]

Originally posted by daggaz:

The game is exceptionally stable, so if you are crashing all the time its indicative of a problem on your end. Mods. Drivers. OS. Hardware (ram, mobo/memory controller, psu).

What's your setup just out of curiosity? I've tried everything, and I mean EVERYTHING (including updating my drivers lol), and I still get crashes. That's why I'm looking for a specific operation, not generic troubleshooting.

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by Darth Invader:

What's your setup just out of curiosity? I've tried everything, and I mean EVERYTHING (including updating my drivers lol), and I still get crashes. That's why I'm looking for a specific operation, not generic troubleshooting.

and what does your log say when you crash?

[Darth Invader]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3102389184722589684/#c3102389184722942640

also what do you use to crash your game?
some program or mod ;D?

Thanks for the link. I'm not using any mods. No overclocking, no overlays, no antiviruses, no recording software, no discord, etc. Totally vanilla.

[Mowglia]

Originally posted by daggaz:

The game is exceptionally stable, so if you are crashing all the time its indicative of a problem on your end. Mods. Drivers. OS. Hardware (ram, mobo/memory controller, psu).

Utter crap.

Dyson Sphere Program would be an example of an EA game that's exceptionally stable.

Valheim, on the other hand, is an example of an EA game that's exceptionally unstable.

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by Mowglia:

Valheim, on the other hand, is an example of an EA game that's exceptionally unstable.

if you use citrox workshop then it will crash any unity engine game :P it's not valheim related

[SylenThunder]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

Originally posted by Mowglia:

Valheim, on the other hand, is an example of an EA game that's exceptionally unstable.

if you use citrox workshop then it will crash any unity engine game :P it's not valheim related

Fact. People usually only run Citrix on systems they use for work, and shouldn't be gaming and working on the same PC anyhow.

MSI Afterburner is also know to crash Unity titles when they're in EA.

Originally posted by Darth Invader:

Originally posted by Wariat117:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3102389184722589684/#c3102389184722942640

also what do you use to crash your game?
some program or mod ;D?

Thanks for the link. I'm not using any mods. No overclocking, no overlays, no antiviruses, no recording software, no discord, etc. Totally vanilla.

"No anti-virus" usually still means you have Windows Defender. And even if you think you've turned it off, it usually isn't actually fully turned off. Be sure to exclude the client, or use a reputable program and exclude it there.

[Username]

I have only Crashes when i use a memory editor

[Wariat117]

no idea what's this but it's not the log from game ;D

when you start game, there is small button in left bottom corner, press it to see saves and logs (player.log is what you look for, and it resets each time you start game so look at it directly after crash)

if you go this way:
crash -> start game -> go to log
then there is backup of log next to log, you will have to open the backup one in such situation because "start game" created new log already

[Killaton]

I don't get Valheim crashes often at all but I definitely get the constant 2 or 3 second freezes every time the game autosaves. The only times the game has completely frozen up and become totally unresponsive for me has been during these autosaves. It happens infrequently but at no other times besides during autosaves has Valheim crashed on me. I use a 1TB Samsung EVO 970 Plus NVMe M.2 drive, not a hard drive. It has plenty of free space. It is fast and stable and relatively new. SMART detects no errors or problems with it. I have an RTX 2070 Super. The drivers are up to date. I have 16 GB of PC 3200 system RAM and plenty free to spare while playing Valheim. No other games or programs give me any problems like this. My system is generally rock solid. Very stable. The problem is Valheim. It's a bug. It's a serious one and it can be game-breaking and world corrupting. It should be way up high in the priority list of bugs to fix. It is very jarring and disruptive every time the game saves. I know it happens to plenty of others too. I see it happening to people I watch on Twitch streams as well. They need to sort this out.

[Darth Invader]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

no idea what's this but it's not the log from game ;D

when you start game, there is small button in left bottom corner, press it to see saves and logs (player.log is what you look for, and it resets each time you start game so look at it directly after crash)

Ok I'm going to delete it then.

[Darth Invader]

Originally posted by Killaton:

I don't get Valheim crashes often at all but I definitely get the constant 2 or 3 second freezes every time the game autosaves. The only times the game has completely frozen up and become totally unresponsive for me has been during these autosaves. It happens infrequently but at no other times besides during autosaves has Valheim crashed on me. I use a 1TB Samsung EVO 970 Plus NVMe M.2 drive, not a hard drive. It has plenty of free space. It is fast and stable and relatively new. SMART detects no errors or problems with it. I have an RTX 2070 Super. The drivers are up to date. I have 16 GB of PC 3200 system RAM and plenty free to spare while playing Valheim. No other games or programs give me any problems like this. My system is generally rock solid. Very stable. The problem is Valheim. It's a bug. It's a serious one and it can be game-breaking and world corrupting. It should be way up high in the priority list of bugs to fix. It is very jarring and disruptive every time the game saves. I know it happens to plenty of others too. I see it happening to people I watch on Twitch streams as well. They need to sort this out.

Sounds a lot like what I have going on, except my game has crashed while just walking in a straight line, not saving or anything like that. I get a pause, the I get a grey box with a Unity error and a whole bunch of numbers and letters. Such a buzzkill when it happens.

[Mowglia]

Originally posted by Wariat117:

Originally posted by Mowglia:

Valheim, on the other hand, is an example of an EA game that's exceptionally unstable.

if you use citrox workshop then it will crash any unity engine game :P it's not valheim related

Really? Good to know.

Not that I use Citrox Workshop.

I play vanilla Valheim on a mid-range PC. Terraforming aside, I'm typically running at about 80 fps on maxed settings (capped to 60 fps as this appears to improve stability), so I'm reasonably sure I'm not taxing the PC too hard. I also play many other games, and crashes, while not unheard of, are relatively uncommon; to the extent that I'm surprised when they occur.

After the first hundred or so hard-locks in Valheim I actually started to worry that so many "ungraceful" exits might have repercussions for the general health/stability of my PC, and therefore decided to cut right back on playtime, until they clean Valheim up some at least.

Tweaking GPU settings helped a bit, but nowhere near enough.

Don't even try to convince me Valheim is stable; I literally cannot remember the last time a game crashed this frequently - takes me right back to the early '80s where I'd be trying not to move or breathe too hard while certain games loaded off tape.

I ought to point out that I didn't get a single crash until I built a two-storey spiral staircase; the crashes started during that process and persisted ever since. While it's impossible to say whether the crashes and building are connected, it will be interesting to see what happens when I eventually relocate to a fresh world.

[Wariat117]

Originally posted by Mowglia:

Don't even try to convince me Valheim is stable; I literally cannot remember the last time a game crashed this frequently - takes me right back to the early '80s where I'd be trying not to move or breathe too hard while certain games loaded off tape.

welp, in my experience it is stable~~
I have tried to bring ragnarok to valheim world with mod :D

It literally destroyed every building/stone/tree/mob/etc in my render distance in split second~~
My computer froze... after *forgot amount of time* min it unfroze, everything was destroyed and laggy because of the enormous amount of items on the ground... but the game didn't crash