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So this is a headless server save. But it freezes on the headless server and when I run the game locally it crashes. I can play it for about 1-2 minutes and then it freezes. I can "wait for program to respond" for hours and it never unlocks.

This is a large world that for some reason I was unable to get into for a long time. I came back and it was overrun with biters. I cleared them from the save thinking that was overloading the file but it didn't help. Watching my computer processes nothing spikes. Computer is never above 50% utilization.

No matter what I do the game freezes in 1-2 mins max. Likely quicker. I can hide map chunks, delete chunks, anything and everything to lighten the load and it still crashes. I would be happy to provide more files or data as requested but I think I have provided everything for now.

You left the save file running for too long and hit the tick limit (2.26~ years).

This will also be extended come 2.0 to "2.37 million years' worth of ticks".
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-388

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:22 pm You left the save file running for too long and hit the tick limit (2.26~ years).

Wait.... Thats a thing?! That is so depressing. This map has been so fun. Ugh.

Any way to manually change that?

I guess this got me to update my bios and everything lol

jagr_200 wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:40 pm

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:22 pm You left the save file running for too long and hit the tick limit (2.26~ years).

Wait.... Thats a thing?! That is so depressing. This map has been so fun. Ugh.

Any way to manually change that?

I guess this got me to update my bios and everything lol

Well, yeah. The game works based on an incrementing tick count. Unfortunately, it can't count to infinity. It was also mentioned in another thread (this one: viewtopic.php?f=230&t=107837) that they hadn't anticipated the maps being run for that long, so I imagine they also didn't plan their systems around when the count overflows.

There are a few different ways to reset your map and tick count, but there are issues with each method. There should be a number of threads around here on it.