New Horizon Mod crashing out on large populations / high RAM usage

[scaramunja]

Hey Taub.g.f and NHorz devs,

Im not on discord so Ill just throw it down here.

I tried to introduce the mod (New Horizons) into my current save and it seemingly worked.
- Had a crash initially on the opening cinematic for Horai which uninstalled and deactivated the mod on next entry (had to dl again and unzip).
- After reactivation, dl and unzip I loaded my save and it loaded in again. I was watching my resource allocation on Task Manager and both CPU and RAM were spiking up to 95-97%.
- Base game requires only 8gig base, I have a GTX t1070
- When I went to save - so that I hopefuly wouldnt get a hard deactivation on the mod if the cinematic failed - it informed me there was no ram left! 15Gig SSD left on the os drive, big page file aswell. It crashed when I tried to save.
- I had actually cleaned up my processes before this (hard shutdown on edge and unneeded windows services) so Anno 1800 and the mod had all the love. No joy!
- To be clear this was a windows popup informing there was no available ram allocation I will screenshot next time and add it here.

Not sure if there was a heap of testing with big populations, My Old world has 80k population, the game was running fine with that. FYI, Ill play around some more, but i might need to turn the graphics down to save performance and raw ram.

[Gregomoto]

I don‘t think the crashes are related to population, as i had 1.3 million population and the mod worked.
Only thing is the population (esp. Investors) decreased by a lot (300k), i guess due to unfulfilled new needs.

[scaramunja]

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

I don‘t think the crashes are related to population, as i had 1.3 million population and the mod worked.
Only thing is the population (esp. Investors) decreased by a lot (300k), i guess due to unfulfilled new needs.

Fair enough, might just be the 8 gig of ram. I have some other mods - Jakobs mostly - maybe the combination is just eating up too much ram and teh graphics have to be turned down. Ill try.

[Gregomoto]

Yeah, the mod is indeed quite big. (good that i‘ve increased RAM to 64GB cause of heavily modded Cities Skylines).

Maybe the issue was that a mod has been updated while you installed it.

There is also now available an update and bugfix mod for new horizons, maybe this will help you.

[scaramunja]

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

Yeah, the mod is indeed quite big. (good that i‘ve increased RAM to 64GB cause of heavily modded Cities Skylines).

Maybe the issue was that a mod has been updated while you installed it.

There is also now available an update and bugfix mod for new horizons, maybe this will help you.

I got both the initial release with the 7 or so dependencies and then saw, yes, that the dependencies had been removed inside the mod and now only 1 is needed. I have not tried again yet today but Ill recheck the mod.io page and just turn the graphics downas a first step. Yes 64gig of ram will help!

[scaramunja]

So on 3rd attempt at reactivate, re-dl, re-unzip and load of a save game, with settings now all turned down to medium, there was no change in the RAM allocation (8 gig base) at 97%.

This time the load up of the game (80k population) crashed before I could attempt a save game.

You may want to mention that min and recommended specs on the base game MAY NOT be enough. I do run the base game with some mods just fine but New Horizons is suffering from the aforementioned issues.