Continuous space elevator causing crashing
Started a week or two ago, weird because i'm pretty sure neither the mod nor the base game had any updates around that time. I was playing fine one night, saved like normal, and then the next day (and every time thereafter) I load into the save and the game crashes soon after, like 10-20 or so seconds. Not doing anything in game in particular, just hoverpacking around my base, or standing still, it still happens. I've tried standard troubleshooting like loading an earlier save, restarting my PC, loading the save file into Calculator and redownloading without changing anything and loading that one instead.. nothing solved the problem, besides unloading this mod.
I've been loading the game mostly as singleplayer, locally hosting, but early in the save I locally hosted another player who's pioneer is still there sitting. (no dedicated server involved)
The only two mods I have installed are this one and Infinite Nudge. When I offloaded Nudge the issue persisted, but with CSE offloaded I didn't receive a crash (at least for a minute or two, didn't continue playing for super long bc didn't want to autosave with all the modded content gone). Also played plenty of hours on other vanilla saves since. so by process of elimination, the CSE mod is the culprit.
@AndreAquila or anyone else, thanks for any insight you can offer!
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The Mod Manager is reporting an error because it's trying to modify an outdated copy of the game. This could be caused by one of two things:
1. One of the installs connected to the Profile you have selected is still running a previous version. To fix this, either uninstall it, update it, or switch to a different Mod Manager profile so that it isn't considered in the update process.
2. You have leftover files in your install directory from downgrading to play a previous version. To fix this, uninstall the game (verify files won't fix this!), delete the game install directory if it still exists (this is NOT the AppData folder, but the location where you installed the game), then reinstall the game, and reopen SMM.
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In response to Fred, I forgot that I also tried a clean install of the game, according to his instructions, and that didn't help either. I'm using current versions of everything (as far as I know)
Hey guarneri. Thanks for reporting it.
If you dowgrade one version of continuous elevator, that crash persists?
I believe i did try a previous version without success, but when i get home later I'll try again to be sure
At one point maybe a year ago this sort of thing happened and i never got around to reporting it here but then i was fixed when 1.1 released ,and i think it was a different problem based on the crash reports anyway, but the end result was the same
Thanks for getting back to me
Also thanks for makin this mod, its great!
yeah still crashed on the previous mod version
this is what the satisfactory crash report told me
Hmmmm... Do you have the full log ? I think the cause maybe is on the line above it.
Is there any items in your current vanilla space elevator?
If you reset it using that mod, the crash will persist? https://ficsit.app/mod/ResetSpaceElevator
If you want, dm me the savegame , ill do some tests here
i might not have successfully "used" your suggested reset mod correctly, i just used the smm to install it and loaded into a save and pretty soon it crashed and i got this pop up (maybe it includes more info than what i sent above, but I'm assuming it's largely the same)
I actually don't have a vanilla SE built in game at the moment (though didn't the latest update merge the two buildings into one or something?)
the continuous SE is rather full of some of the items, since the in game time and the CSE time seem to be sliiightly off, but that hasn't seemed to be an issue overall, i just sink the excess project parts after the SE fills
happy to DM a save file, stand by
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The Mod Manager is reporting an error because it's trying to modify an outdated copy of the game. This could be caused by one of two things:
1. One of the installs connected to the Profile you have selected is still running a previous version. To fix this, either uninstall it, update it, or switch to a different Mod Manager profile so that it isn't considered in the update process.
2. You have leftover files in your install directory from downgrading to play a previous version. To fix this, uninstall the game (verify files won't fix this!), delete the game install directory if it still exists (this is NOT the AppData folder, but the location where you installed the game), then reinstall the game, and reopen SMM.
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@guarneri8 I read this message from the bot some times, but i dont know if this is the culprit for the crashes
i'm unsure what else to try. i just tried creating a new SMM profile but that didn't help
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downgrade_duplicate error is unrelated to the crashoops sorry didn't see this til now lol
i was gonna write an update anyway
i thought i saw something about a new experimental build available, so i tried again, issue persists
sorry to hijack this thread but i have been experiencing crashes, it could happen in different sections of the game, but now If I had a 4th elevator and start to give him nuclear pasta it will crash when it receives around 5 items, it has the other items to unlock the next phase.. i played most of the other phases without crashes tough i stopped playing for over a month and just started this week
I think we discovered what was wrong... I think it was related to the hidden items not having a category 🙁
Im uploading a new version soon as possible. If you still playing with that mod, let me know if it fixes. Thanks!
awesome, I dont know if it related but uploading the save to satisfactory tools and getting it back resolved it on my case, It didnt crash at that specific point anymore
Good to know Kublick. Thanks for that info!
just returned to try and see if the update to both the mods and the game would help, and at least on the stable version i still got a crash
yep, crashed with the experimental build as well. i'll check back in when the devs push another update for the game i guess, since that's what fixed things for me last time (long ago)
oh hey, did you conect to epic? you gotta uninstall the epic soacial andn than the launcher for epic if you logged into epic, i was in the same boat took 2 hours of truble shooting
i dont believe i ever have no
but i did just log in from my laptop and it ran for at least 5min without issues, so that's frustrating but explains why andre was able to run it no problem
maybe i have a hardware issue that only presents itself when playing the game with this mod, haha iunno
hi sorry to interject (i hope it isn't a problem if i add myself in). I believe I'm also experiencing a similar problem. mi on the game version 1.1.1.7 and the mod version 1.0.18 and have been playing around with mods recently. i was testing the continuous space elevator when the game crashed. i have reloaded a previous save a couple of times and the common factor seems to be the SE. I'm playing around and testing with a rather extensive mod list so i was expecting instability but this mod in particular seems to be the problem. I'll post the latest chrash report after this message
here
I'm having the same issue, I have several mods installed, but the crash consistently occurs right as I feed versatile frameworks to my second continuous space elevator to unlock the next phase.
I've seen on the mod page the note about downgrading to the previous version, I haven't tried that yet but I might once I get home. Does it work for this problem?
ok i've tried using the 1.0.17 version and it seems stable but i think i've restriceted at least the problem
it seems that the game what causes the game to crash has something to do with trying to feed a second space elevator. my latest crash happened when i tried to feed a second space elevator versatile frameworks while the first was already full. i don't know if what caused the crash was trying to feed two space elevators, the speed of the belts on the second (i was using mk 6s) or if it was the fact i was feeding an elevator a component it was already full of in annother instance. maybe a combination.
i don't think it is the second because i don't remember feeding the same product in different space elevators in the previous crashes but i might be wrong
in the past i've definitely fed multiple CSE's with the same materials, and had them both fill up, and not had crashing. my situation is definitely distinct because it's only present on my main pc not my laptop lol
I managed to get rid of the bug by rolling back to update 1.0.16
Alright, I'll set a reminder and when I'm free i will check if it also works for me