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Hello, a quick summary: I have experienced a lot of crashes since the release of 2.0, no idea why, some were related to random graphics card switch (?) no idea what the hell that meant, but it just showed dialog asking to switch to OpenGL or restart (no idea why it happens too, i was not switching cards or anything - did not happen in quite a while - not an issue), but lately i was experiencing some random corruption in saves, which happens at least once per session (since playing more-or-less daily since 2.0 release, happening daily), i have narrowed it to be an issue with auto-saving? no idea, since it occurs randomly, see the logs and save for yourself.

Description according to guidelines below:

What did i do?

• nothing, just played the game as usual

What happened?

• game crashed out of nowhere when auto-saving

What did i expect to happen instead?

• not to crash randomly when auto-saving

Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?

• it happens out of nowhere, sometimes. Sometimes it crashes gracefully with an in-game dialog which warns about possible corruption in save file itself, prompting me to quit and reload different save, but usually the game crashes completely, showing a windows dialog that mentions that crash log is available in factorio-current.log and that i should mention it on these forums

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Attachments

• Including also auto-saves just for a good measure

There is this one save from few days ago that really surprised me as it happened first time ever to me:

• when you try to load this save, it shows just an error: "Corrupt map: unknown tile prototype ID 230."

• i have just reloaded earlier save, which worked fine with regular crashes as previously (better than fully corrupt i suppose heh)

• i cannot provide exact steps as it is just too random, i couldn't reproduce it myself unfortunately, just that it happens every session i play, after at least few hours it seems it just happens

• unfortunately i did not copy the log file of this crash

Additonal notes

• i am using no mods, just "vanilla" (base game, see for yourself in the log file)

• i was initially playing with a friend, (hence the file name) where we were transferring this save file between us via discord, but for the last two weeks i was playing alone, kept hosting multiplayer if my friend would like to join but switched to singleplayer for the last week or so, maybe that helps

• these frequent crashes are starting to drive me mad, hence why i wrote this forum post. In comparison, after years of playing factorio i have never experienced a single crash (or at least i do not remember such frequent cases as this)