[0.16.51] Crash as soon as autosave started

[DHunger]

I just cleared off some biters, and went back to my iron outpost to build defense. the nautosave started and the game crashed...

[Loewchen]

You ran out of memory when saving. NaB.

[donny]

Similiar thing just happened to me. Looks like out of memory as well, which is surprising with 16 GB of RAM. The log looks a bit different though. I added it for comprehensiveness. No current save was created.

[Rseding91]

In 0.17 it will *attempt* to just fail the save/autosave if it runs out of memory. I say attempt because depending on when/where it ran out it might not be recoverable.

[Zavian]

I assume it will make some attempt to alert to player that the autosave/save failed? It would be a royal pain to lose 3-4 hours of play because autosave had been failing for a while, and only discover that saves weren't working when you attempt to make a named save at the end of a session.

[donny]

Crashing due to an out of memory exception feels fine to me, I also have the 2 min old autosave. It seems like factorio is leaking memory somewhere or has memory fragmentation issues which accumulate over time.

[Rseding91]

Crashing due to an out of memory exception feels fine to me, I also have the 2 min old autosave. It seems like factorio is leaking memory somewhere or has memory fragmentation issues which accumulate over time.

Memory leaks I doubt or we'd have a lot more people here reporting issues. Fragmentation possibly. If you can reproduce it let us know.