Game crashes unpredictably with no crash log

Does the game crash on other colonies as well? I may have a similar intermittent crash issue. I thought it was limited to one colony, but turns out it is any colony. Anecdotally, the less advanced colonies took longer to crash, but I am not 100% sure about that. Mine will crash even if I just start the colony, load it up, then pause it and walk away.

Do you have Frosty Planet Pack or Spaced Out?

I only ever played two colonies extensively, and the issue presented itself in both.I don't have any DLC.

I loaded the colony and let it run for over 10 cycles without a crash.

The game might have generated a SimDLL_CRASH_<something>.dmp file, it would be located in the same directory as the game's exe. Right click the game in Steam -> Manage -> Browse local files. If it exists could you please attach it?

I too am seeing this bug. I've not idea what causes it.

I'm running Ubuntu/Steam; no DLC; I'm not especially far into the game.

I've attached what look like crash logs by the file title.

mono_crash.mem.2340018.1.blob

In my case, it does not seem to generate a new DMP file every crash. (Unless there is another spot to look?)

I do have a relatively recent DMP file from same directory as exe though, which should be related to the similar intermittent crash I am seeing. (Attached)

SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241127-20.35.51.dmp

Edited December 3, 2024 by kalinoAltes

@kalinoAltes Could you attach your Player.log?

@LordMatt The blob is unfortunately blank. Could you attach your Player.log?

Note that these reports might all be unrelated, it's difficult to say without more info.

I have a couple of log files from after crashes. Unfortunately, I am not sure if they are sync'd up with the DMP file.

Player.log Player_log (1).5f5b7095403efa73657e31cb16d92e5b

@icecold2897 and @kalinoAltes you both have Intel CPUs which are affected by the instability issue. Have you applied the BIOS update Intel has provided?

I have a few .dmp files, but I think these are related to a NRE in PathProber.UpdateProbe, which was still a problem but way less frequent than the other straight CTDs I got in droves. In fact, the crashes I posted about above did not throw a "oops-a-daisy, we're sorry" screen, so it's probably not a sim crash. I'll try updating the BIOS, I'll keep you posted.

SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241128-11.30.33.dmp SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241128-13.21.09.dmp SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241129-19.56.47.dmp SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241201-10.23.41.dmp SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241201-17.50.17.dmp SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241128-10.47.20.dmp SimDLL_CRASH_release_643502_20241128-11.18.40.dmp

16 hours ago, EricKlei said:

@icecold2897 and @kalinoAltes you both have Intel CPUs which are affected by the instability issue. Have you applied the BIOS update Intel has provided?

Updating the BIOS seems to have solved the issue for me. Thank you!

Hope it works for you too, @icecold2897