I've also experienced this in the past. Actually today is when I found out what actually was the culprit. This would happen extremely rare to me. The problem was my ram sticks not fully inserted. I must have nudged it after installing the cpu power cable or something because I remember hearing all ...

I ran memtest86+ all night again (ran it after the initial corruption to verify) and it revealed nothing wrong on any passes again. The CPU I just stressed tested it and monitored temperatures for an hour, do you have any recommendations for a good CPU diagnostic tool for linux? because I know a ...

Thank you again for looking into this. Judging from what you said here regarding platforms is it possible to delete entirely the suspect platform? or every platform if that is easier?

I looked at this save file but i am unable to identify where is it corrupted.


Just curious what in the save file are you looking at? is it the level.dat files through a hex editor?

Also not sure if this helps but I installed the visible planets mod at around the same time the saves became ...

Wow boskid I am very impressed you were able to fix this! I've got a very similar problem that I have described in another thread! I just uploaded the saved game. Maybe not all hope is lost!

Hello everyone.

I was playing my 486 hour long map, midway through designing a new ship when suddenly it just crashes to the menu with the error in the title. The full message was "Corrupt map: Unknown item prototype ID 20384. File has likely been corrupted due to failing hardware". I thoroughly ...