[0.18.1] Error Occurs when saving

[huffsam]

When opening the Menu to manually save the game this error occurs and Factorio freezes, autosave does not have this issue. This happens when I'm on a completely new vanilla map as well.

I've also asked and no one seems to have the json that the error is referring to or even a beta folder in campaigns

log

0.019 [0]: \\.\DISPLAY1 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti {0x05, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
0.019 [1]: \\.\DISPLAY2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti {0x01, [-1050,-603], 1050x1680, 32bit, 59Hz}
0.020 [2]: \\.\DISPLAY3 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti {0x01, [-2100,-599], 1050x1680, 32bit, 59Hz}
0.089 [Direct3D11] Display: 0, Output: 0, DisplayAdapter: 0, RenderingAdapter: 0; d3dcompiler_47.dll
0.211 Initialised Direct3D[0]: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti; id: 10de-1b82; driver: nvldumdx.dll 26.21.14.3200
0.211 D3D Feature Level: 11.1, DXGI 1.5+, SwapChain: 3,flip-discard,-,-,-,none
0.211 [Local Video Memory] Budget: 6868MB, CurrentUsage: 2MB, Reservation: 0/3636MB
0.211 [Non-Local Vid.Mem.] Budget: 7347MB, CurrentUsage: 0MB, Reservation: 0/3878MB
0.211 Tiled resources: Tier 2
0.211 Unified Memory Architecture: No
0.211 BGR 565 Supported: Yes
0.211 MaximumFrameLatency: 3, GPUThreadPriority: 0
0.211 Graphics settings preset: very-high
0.211 Dedicated video memory size 8080 MB
0.250 Desktop composition is active.
0.250 Graphics options: [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: all] [Light scale: 25%] [DXT: high-quality] [Color: 32bit]
0.250 [Max threads (load/render): 32/16] [Max texture size: 0] [Tex.Stream.: 0] [Rotation quality: normal] [Other: STDC] [B:0,C:0,S:100]
0.284 DSound: Starting _dsound_update thread
0.285 DSound: Enter _dsound_update; tid=10928
0.390 Info ModManager.cpp:242: Found duplicate mod BigWinter, using higher version (0.0.6 > 0.0.5).
0.396 Info ModManager.cpp:242: Found duplicate mod biter_eggs, using higher version (17.0.2 > 17.0.1).
0.402 Info ModManager.cpp:242: Found duplicate mod b_light_poles, using higher version (1.4.0 > 1.3.0).
0.403 Info ModManager.cpp:242: Found duplicate mod b_light_poles, using higher version (1.5.0 > 1.4.0).
0.497 Info ModManager.cpp:242: Found duplicate mod SchallPickupTower, using higher version (0.17.5 > 0.17.4).
0.547 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
0.660 Loading mod base 0.18.1 (data.lua)
0.962 Loading mod base 0.18.1 (data-updates.lua)
1.121 Checksum for core: 754498064
1.121 Checksum of base: 4035372542
1.316 Prototype list checksum: 4109119676
1.359 Loading sounds...
1.452 Info PlayerData.cpp:70: Local player-data.json unavailable
1.452 Info PlayerData.cpp:73: Cloud player-data.json available, timestamp 1579830508
1.588 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
1.594 Created atlas bitmap 16384x8668 [none]
1.595 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1872 [decal]
1.596 Created atlas bitmap 8192x2576 [low-object]
1.597 Created atlas bitmap 4096x2320 [mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
1.597 Created atlas bitmap 8192x3552 [terrain, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
1.597 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1216 [terrain-effect-map, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-mip-level]
1.598 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1600 [smoke, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification]
1.598 Created atlas bitmap 4096x928 [mipmap]
1.599 Created atlas bitmap 4096x2128 [icon, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level]
1.599 Created atlas bitmap 2048x192 [icon-background, not-compressed, mipmap, linear-minification, linear-magnification, linear-mip-level, ]
1.599 Created atlas bitmap 4096x756 [alpha-mask]
1.602 Created atlas bitmap 16384x4428 [shadow, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
1.602 Created atlas bitmap 4096x1328 [shadow, mipmap, linear-magnification, alpha-mask]
1.607 Texture processor created (2048). GPU accelerated compression Supported: yes, Enabled: yes/yes. Test passed. YCoCgDXT PSNR: 35.83, BC3 PSNR: 33.82
2.111 Parallel Sprite Loader initialized (threads: 13)
5.041 Sprites loaded
5.054 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [2] of size 8192x2576
5.065 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [3] of size 4096x2320
5.076 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [4] of size 8192x3552
5.087 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [5] of size 4096x1216
5.098 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [6] of size 4096x1600
5.127 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [7] of size 4096x928
5.138 Generated mipmaps (5) for atlas [8] of size 4096x2128
5.157 Generated mipmaps (3) for atlas [12] of size 4096x1328
5.160 Custom mipmaps uploaded.
5.220 Factorio initialised
13.209 Loading level.dat: 1010310 bytes.
13.210 Info Scenario.cpp:187: Map version 0.18.1-1
13.265 Checksum for script C:/Users/Sam/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 3715418880
15.390 Error Util.cpp:83: Error while parsing __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json:
File __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json not found (The system cannot find the path specified.
)
19.548 Error Util.cpp:83: Error while parsing __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json:
File __base__/campaigns/beta/description.json not found (The system cannot find the path specified.
)

[Loewchen]

You cut the beginning from the log, if you are on steam delete the campaign folder and then verify the game files, if this does not work post the complete log.

[huffsam]

oops here's rest of the log

I just deleted the campaign folder and verified files, the campaign folder did not reappear or download, and still have same error

0.001 2020-01-24 11:39:50; Factorio 0.18.1 (build 48982, win64, steam)
0.001 Operating system: Windows 10 (version 1903)
0.001 Program arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\bin\x64\Factorio.exe"
0.001 Read data path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/data
0.001 Write data path: C:/Users/Sam/AppData/Roaming/Factorio [212222/475871MB]
0.001 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
0.009 System info: [CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor, 16 cores, RAM: 4375/16328 MB, page: 7310/18760 MB, virtual: 4331/134217727 MB, extended virtual: 0 MB]
0.009 Display options: [FullScreen: 1] [VSync: 1] [UIScale: custom (100.0%)] [Native DPI: 1] [Screen: 255] [Special: lmw] [Lang: en]
0.018 Available displays: 3

[huffsam]

Seems it was a corrupted campaign save that was causing the issue

[Loewchen]

Seems it was a corrupted campaign save that was causing the issue

Then,

This happens when I'm on a completely new vanilla map as well.

makes no sense.

[huffsam]

I agree, but when i deleted that save the error doesn't occur anymore

[guyhalestorm]

I have the same error. I went and copied my old campaign saves out, deleted them in the game (generates the same error whenever the file is read by the game) and that removed the error. I've uploaded one of the saves that was causing the error if you want to check it out.