Surviving Mars - Surviving Mars Crash to desktop

[Spaldini]

Description
Surviving Mars Crash to desktop


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1009413

What DLC do you have installed?
Space Race, Green Planet, Below and Beyond, Marsvision Song Contest, Colony Design Set, Project Laika

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Game crashing to desktop around every 2 hours.
Started a new game after latest patch, not running any mods.
PC is non-overclocked desktop i5-4690 and GTX 970 16gb ram on Win 10 latest update.

Can you replicate the issue?
No, crashes after a while, not straight from loading save game. After first crash, loaded previous autosave and was able to play another hour or two.


File(s) attached, last autosave, last two crash+dmp files, dxdiag.txt and backtrace_io.json from logs subdir

 

[AndrewT]

So these crashes are random rather than being triggered by any particular event or action in the game? And that save you attached does not necessarily trigger the crash for you either?

A bit tricky to diagnose if so! But crashes that only occur after 2 hours' play could be overheating. Have you limited the refresh rate in the game's settings to, say, 60?

Please report the temperatures of your CPU and video (GPU)
1/ before starting the game up and
2/ after say 10 minutes' play.
If your PC's vendor has given you no way of reading temperatures, install
SPEEDFAN http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

 

[Spaldini]

Hi, I've just played Surviving Mars again this evening. As requested I set framerate limit 60, and also turned down some detail settings like antialiasing, bloom, ssao.

The game crashed twice more, each after about 20 mins of gameplay. I was mostly mining an asteroid and clearing up afterwards with a couple of rockets.

Both crashes happened after switching from asteroid to mars, instead of screen fading to black and showing mars after a second, screen goes to black, sits there for a few seconds, then crashes to desktop.
I think I remember my previous crashes happening transitioning from underground to the surface, because I was aiming for the stop 100 cave-ins achievement.

Measurements
1/ Before starting game : GPU temp 38.4°C fans 38% using 9.7 watts, CPU temp 37°C

2/ During game, and just before crash: GPU 50°C 30-60% load (clock speed) using 30 watts and 2590 Mb vram, CPU 50°C, total system ram usage 5735 Mb, no Performance Cap limits hit

 

[AndrewT]

If it happened with map switching it is probably this issue, which the devs are looking into and trying to reproduce:

Surviving Mars - Crashes to desktop (usually during or right after map change)

Description Crashes to desktop (usually during or right after map change) Windows Steam What is your game version? What DLC do you have installed? Space Race, Green Planet, Below and Beyond, Stellaris Dome Set, Colony Design Set, Project...

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