I fast travelled to Starlight and started moving around the settlement when FO4 just dropped out. Crashed to desktop. I moved there on foot and it did the same thing. So I fast travelled again and immediately did a 'refresh all plots' from the city planner 'tape'. After awhile, I got a pop up from a 'crash detector' saying that an infinite loop in workshop scripts was detected and to go to sim settlements forums if I wanted help troubleshooting it. Well I can't use Starlight right now so, help!
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Infinite Loop Error
- Thread starter BillR
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So I acknowledged that message and it continued to refresh then locked up/froze and shifting to desktop a windows crash dialog showed. I acknowledged that and relaunched and tried to restart the plot refresh. The game locked up solid and repeated the last steps, but this time I screen grabbed the windows error dialog about Fallout. I attached it here.
This is on Windows 7.
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
This is on Windows 7.
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
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A few quick questions:
1) is your timescale set to the normal time-scale or have you increased or lowered it at all?
2) Does the crash watch happen if you don't approach starlight? In theory it should (it could be coincidental that it happens when you are near starlight, the crash watch takes a very very long time to start appearing, so the actual cause could be from several in-game days back).
1) is your timescale set to the normal time-scale or have you increased or lowered it at all?
2) Does the crash watch happen if you don't approach starlight? In theory it should (it could be coincidental that it happens when you are near starlight, the crash watch takes a very very long time to start appearing, so the actual cause could be from several in-game days back).
No timescale change. No, it doesn't happen if I don't approach Starlight. Only when I go there. I started the plot refresh and walked away, and before it completed the crash message happened. It very well could have happened that the character was just standing there a couple of game days while the refresh was working. I was doing something else in the room while it was going on rather than just sitting there watching it.
On a note, I do get crashes when approaching some settlements which doesn't happen if I fast travel. But this time I get it if I walk/run there or fast travel, and it will happen while I'm right in the middle of the settlement walking around. For example after I arrived by fast travel I moved into the settlement and saved. I then 'walked around' the settlement a bit and the game crashed. I reloaded and stood still a while and it crashed. Repeat, walk around it froze and when I ctl-alt-del to get to the task manager it came up with the windows crash error as attached above.
On a note, I do get crashes when approaching some settlements which doesn't happen if I fast travel. But this time I get it if I walk/run there or fast travel, and it will happen while I'm right in the middle of the settlement walking around. For example after I arrived by fast travel I moved into the settlement and saved. I then 'walked around' the settlement a bit and the game crashed. I reloaded and stood still a while and it crashed. Repeat, walk around it froze and when I ctl-alt-del to get to the task manager it came up with the windows crash error as attached above.
I have 4.
I did update and rolled way back. But the game is still randomly crashing, but it is worse at the Starlight Drive-in. This is where it gave the infinite loop error after I started the settlement plot refresh. I managed to leave there and did a bunch of stuff at a number of other settlements with the odd crash. But when I returned to Starlight I saved (which took a long time) and for whatever reason did a plot refresh again. While it was working I was moving around the settlement and after around 11 of 44 plots refreshed the game crashed to desktop. I really have non idea what is going on. It is frustrating. On the upside it has dissuaded me from spending so much time playing.
The game was pretty stable up until your funky update. Like I said, I did update, and deleted a lot of saves to roll back. I didn't initially use Fallrim as I rather do something where I didn't have to dig too deep. I like the mods, but I don't want to know how they work so much. I like to play the game, installing mods is about as far as I go.
I work in software development by the way. I get enough of that kind of thing during the day. Just want to relax when I get home. For the record, I really like your mods including the industrial addon. Thanks for them. They are very key in improving the play of the game. Those two btw are all the automation around settlements I need. I still like being the one in charge of creating the settlements.
It seems kind of pointless having the game play for you. But to each their own.Thanks for the reply.
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@BillR You don't have any of the known issues in your save. You can disable the crash watch in the notification settings - looks like it's a false positive.
As far as crashes in Starlight, I doubt it's any new bugs, probably the same issues that have been plaguing folks in the game all along. The engine can struggle to handle that many plots for a lot of players (other players have settlements with 200 plots). I've put together a list of things you can do to improve Fallout and Sim Settlements performance, maybe some of them will interest you: https://simsettlements.com/web/wiki/index.php?title=Performance
If you're longing for the pre-RotC days, every version of the mod is still available on nexusmods.com. So you could grab SS 2.1.8 and the last pre-3.0 update to IR for your future play.
As far as crashes in Starlight, I doubt it's any new bugs, probably the same issues that have been plaguing folks in the game all along. The engine can struggle to handle that many plots for a lot of players (other players have settlements with 200 plots). I've put together a list of things you can do to improve Fallout and Sim Settlements performance, maybe some of them will interest you: https://simsettlements.com/web/wiki/index.php?title=Performance
If you're longing for the pre-RotC days, every version of the mod is still available on nexusmods.com. So you could grab SS 2.1.8 and the last pre-3.0 update to IR for your future play.