[Client Crash] - Constant crash after a few minutes, host or client

[outseeker]

Bug Submission:

Category: Client Crash

Issue Title: Constant crash after a few minutes, host or client

Issue Description: As host, I constantly crash, typically before I see anyone join me. I thought it was a mod, or that I needed to verify the game cache but I went as far as unsubscribing from FOV and gesture wheel mods to ensure they weren't the cause and now I find even as a client, after a few minutes I crash out.

Steps to Reproduce: Just try to play the game for a few minutes.

I've attached the log.txt for whatever that's worth

[AsciiGDL]

I'm crashing constantly too and I don't even have to start playing the game to crash, it can just be sitting there at the first screen and it will crash at random times, 3 of my friends don't have that problem, we tried to play together.

 

I tried re-installing, re-validating the files, changing the settings, changing the game content installation to another physical HDD and I get the same result (log attached)

log.txt

[rezecib]

@outseeker,@AsciiGDL,  If you could attach the log file from immediately after a crash, that would be helpful. The current log file looks like it was just a launch into the game's main menu, followed by exiting out.

[AsciiGDL]

@rezecib

 

That is the werid part, seems the crash doesnt get logged, sometimes I see several messages of "unable to load ***" and it varies. What I do is that I delete the log to try to catch a specific error but it comes back with a different message every time. The attached log is from a clean start, I hosted a server selected a character and started playing, picking up stuff and boom, it crashed, I hope it logged something useful.

log.txt

[rezecib]

@AsciiGDL, Hmm, that's really weird... Yeah, it ends before the actual crash, there, too. Hopefully a dev will be able to figure this one out, but it's looking pretty mysterious to me

[AsciiGDL]

Stema updated the game but I keep experiencing the same random crashes, I verified the integity of the game files, also I have the latest non beta nvidia driver for my gpu so I'm not sure what the problem is. Like I said before the 3 other people I play this with have not experienced any crashes so far

[AsciiGDL]

If it helps, my game screen blinks often when in windowed mode. is that normal?

[MarkL]

I took a look at @outseeker crash file.   It looks like we are running out of memory (trying to create the minimap).

 

What are your system specs?  How much RAM do you have?

 

 

[outseeker]

@MarkL It's really weird.. Because of the running out of memory thing when I enable almost every mod available, I ran the generic 4GB .exe patch on the game and I was able to run everything no worries. Now when I use Steam to Validate the game and it replaces the .exe I can't even start the game up due to out of memory error lol..

 

My system is beast mate, I have I7 4930k, 16GB RAM with a 64 bit Windows 7 OS. I can't really understand how I encountered an out of memory error ever.

 

*edit* Attached is a log.txt from attempting to generate a default world, no mods loaded and no 4GB patch applied! I forgot I had to be generating a world for it to crash.

log.txt

[outseeker]

@outseeker,@AsciiGDL,  If you could attach the log file from immediately after a crash, that would be helpful. The current log file looks like it was just a launch into the game's main menu, followed by exiting out.

 

Apologies, I received no email notifications of these replies and just now noticed the topleft icon XD

 

I actually fixed the game's constant crashes for no apparent reason at any point whatsoever and have the solution here for the record. I had to install the VC and DX redists (located in 2 folders within the game folder) for some reason.. I am rather certain the VC redists at the very least auto-install upon installation of DST so I'm not sure why that was the case..