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Hello all forum dwellers!

I have a slight issue with Factorio at the moment which is annoying and means I can't play the freaking game...

In short terms, the game crashes around 5 minutes after I load up my save.
I have no idea what causes this and I can even just do nothing and this still happens.

Also, I updated my game after not playing in a few months, and now all the power values for my machines and everything have been deleted, thus meaning I need to recharge everything. The main issue here is that my base is powered by around 3.5K Solar Panels and so I only produce 200K power. This means I can't recharge the accumulators and so it's hard to survive the night.

Do let me know what's wrong with the game. I would send a log file, but I don't know where to find it, and I've already searched the game's directory.
Also, please let me know if there is a config file I can look through to manually charge everything. I'm finding it hard to keep the base going and I don't know how long I could last without more power.

Thanks

-Drew [Gamerdudes]

Hey, I am sorry to hear that.
Your power issue could be caused by change in laser turrets. Their properties (including power demand were increased by factor of 4), so if your factory has lots of laser turrets they probably use up all your power.
As for the crash, please try to find and provide your save and log files. Their location may vary based on your operating system, see https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... _Directory

Alright, thanks for the info! I'll need to remove most of the turrets then :/

As for the crash file, I've looked all around and I can't seem to find the thing anywhere. I am on Winows10 and so I don't know where the file may be stored compared to Windows7,

Sorry for the late reply, and thanks for the quick response!

-Drew

Never mind, I found the files...

I shall attach both current and previous files.

Thanks!

-Drew

Hello, is it still happening in 0.12.4?

If so, we will need the save so we can reproduce the problem and fix it.

Yeah, it still happens. I've tried running in compatability mode for Win8, which changes nothing, nor does running in Administrator mode.

I have attached the save file. Do let me know if there are any changes on your side or if there's anything I need to change on my side to get the game working properly again.

Thanks!

-Drew
Ps; sorry for the late reply once again.

Hi, do you happen to have save from before you updated to 0.12? We found out one of the roboports is in inconsistent state and older save would help us understand how it got to that state.

The problem is fixed for 0.12.5, thanks for the report.

Good to know, thanks!

Just curious, what was it within my world that caused such an issue?

thanks!

-Drew

EDIT: When will the update be released?

I think it is very likely the update will be released this Friday.

Crash was caused by roboport that had connections to unpowered roboports (which it shouldn't). When those roboports charged and started transmitting, the game detected the invalid state and crashed. We didn't figure out how this happened. We assume the invalid state was migrated from pre 0.12 version of the save game. So kovarex added check to load game process that corrects this kind of invalid state.