Periodic Freeze/Crash (w/log)

[KitsuneSamurai]

Hello, recently got this game on Steam and mostly been having fun with it (have about 10 hours according to Steam), however, since I installed it I've been having problems with the game periodically and inexplicably freezing, but not crashing to desktop. The program doesn't recover, simply hangs indefinitely, forcing me to kill the process. I've tried verifying the game files repeatedly, deleted the appdata folder, completely deleted the game and reinstalled, all to no avail. At one point I thought it might be related to autosaving, but the last time it happened, I think it had only been about 30 seconds or so since the last autosave.

I'm not going to paste the logfile because it's not throwing a single error, exception, warning, or any other info. Updated with log anyway. It plays normally and then just freezes.

Crash occurs in both single and multiplayer.

[NoBlackThunder]

i think we have the same issue .. for me though it only happens on my server viewtopic.php?f=49&t=25014&p=157281#p157281

[DaveMcW]

I think it had only been about 30 seconds or so since the last autosave.

If you can make it freeze consistently, post the autosave.

[NoBlackThunder]

for me the save is not the issue. i can move the save to my main pc and it works fine without any issues

[KitsuneSamurai]

Here's the most recent autosave from the last time it froze: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3AZP ... l9HOWJPeGM

Note, however, it didn't freeze during an autosave. It was about a minute after the last autosave that it crashed this time.

Generally, though, I can play for 20+ minutes without freezing even if I load an autosave. I've been able to play a couple hours at a time without incident, I honestly have no idea when it's going to happen. I can't reproduce it with any reliability, and as I said before, the log isn't throwing an error at me. As far as I can tell, whatever's causing the game to freeze is freezing everything, including the logging. I have, however, noticed a couple times now that odd things happen on the screen after crashing occasionally. The first time I noticed it, I tabbed out of the application to kill it and it went from an in-game screen to showing the loading screen, stuck at "Loading Sprites; 51%". Another time, it showed the pause menu, and I hadn't paused for several minutes. It's like it's displaying screens that it's already rendered a long time ago. The display won't change until I tab out, interestingly. I don't know what's going on on that front.

I would post a log anyway, but the last few times it's happened have been in sessions where I also played in multiplayer, so there was a lot of clutter and I didn't want to paste it all. Though, as I said, it's not throwing any errors. I'll probably paste one eventually when I have a single-player only session crash.

I was genuinely hoping someone else had already had a similar issue or knew a cause, because it's extremely hard to identify problems when there appears to be nothing wrong...

[NoBlackThunder]

well again you problem is the same that i have .. so you are not alone .. i tested running the game just as a game on my server .. same as you describe is happening for me there .. exact same actually ... so you are not alone =)

[KitsuneSamurai]

Most recent log:

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   0.001 2016-05-07 12:32:02; Factorio 0.12.33 (Build 18092, win64, steam)
   0.001 Operating system: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
   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/****/AppData/Roaming/Factorio
   0.001 Binaries path: C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio/bin
   0.051 Graphics options: [FullScreen: true] [VSync: true] [UIScale: 125%] [MultiSampling: OFF] [Graphics quality: normal] [Video memory usage: high] [Light scale: 20%] [Screen: 255]
   0.052 Available display adapters: 1
   0.052  [0]: \\.\DISPLAY6 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 {0x80005, [0,0], 1920x1080, 32bit, 60Hz}
   0.053 Create display on adapter 0. Size 1280x720 at position [310, 162].
   0.259 Initialised OpenGL:[0] GeForce GTX 760/PCIe/SSE2; driver: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 365.10
   0.355 Desktop composition is active.
   0.421 Loading mod core 0.0.0 (data.lua)
   0.424 Loading mod base 0.12.33 (data.lua)
   0.508 Checksum for core: 3711505753
   0.508 Checksum for mod base: 2829195351
   0.781 Initial atlas bitmap size is 16384
   0.786 Created atlas bitmap 16384x5509
  14.514 Sprites loaded
  14.514 Loading sounds...
  15.891 Factorio initialised
  41.351 Loading map C:/Users\****\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\saves\_autosave1.zip
  41.696 Info Scenario.cpp:124: Map version 0.12.33-0
  41.898 Checksum for script C:/Users/****/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/temp/currently-playing/control.lua: 393467729

[KitsuneSamurai]

Okay, so I made a point to actually time it this time and it does seem to be autosave related.

[KitsuneSamurai]

Correction: Not linked to autosave after all, just coincidental timing on a few occasions. Still no identifiable cause. Any help greatly appreciated.

[kinnom]

The only similarity I can find

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0.001 2016-05-07 05:58:30; Factorio 0.12.33 (Build 18092, win64, steam)

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0.001 2016-05-07 12:32:02; Factorio 0.12.33 (Build 18092, win64, steam)

EDIT: from viewtopic.php?f=49&t=24899

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0.001 2016-05-03 22:33:47; Factorio 0.12.33 (Build 18092, win64, steam)