[2.0.72] Crash upon loading save

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CrayolaConsumer
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[2.0.72] Crash upon loading save

Post by CrayolaConsumer »

I was loading up a save and once it got to “Running entity setup,” the game crashed. I expected it to run normally. Now, it crashes every time I try to load the save.
Reproducing the issue just requires the proper mods to be installed and loading up the provided save file.
Attachments
Space Exploration.zip
Save file.
(10.75 MiB) Downloaded 3 times
factorio-current.log
Crash log.
(27.02 KiB) Downloaded 9 times
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Re: [2.0.72] Crash upon loading save

Post by Rseding91 »

The save file was corrupt when you last played and the corruption was saved into the save file. The specific error is around an electric energy source and it no longer being owned by anything in the game (this should never happen). The only known way(s) this has happened in the past are failing hardware (bad RAM/CPU), or programs like cheat engine modifying the process memory in ways that break things.

Essentially: the save file is corrupt and you will need to load a different save or create a new save game.

If you know of a way to take a known working save file and get it into this state then it may be an engine bug (but so far nobody has been able to do that over the past 10+ years of Factorio work).

Based off your previous 2 posts having similar issues I lean heavily towards failing/failed hardware that keeps corrupting things.
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