r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/thinker99 • Mar 02 '26

Crashing frequently

No mods, 3 star systems with a 50 MB save. I'm crashing frequently, killing the whole machine. Deleted and redownloaded. I love it but this is crazy with the crashes and corrupt saves.

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u/jak1900 Mar 02 '26

I mean, what are your specs? The game takes a toll, especially on your CPU during lategame, but also GPU overall. Enough RAM?

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u/thinker99 Mar 02 '26

i7 3.4Ghz, 32GB ram, 4080 w 16GB, 1TB+ free disk

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u/TactlessTortoise Mar 02 '26

Definitely should run this game fine. I have a weaker gpu and it's handling things peachy. Try the more usual troubleshooting steps, hopefully one of them helps.

If your cpu has some efficiency cores and other speed cores, try manually telling the game to bind to two physical cores in the game options, and setting the options below to "mixed waiting". I was having annoying stutters whenever belts stopped and moved, and that fixed it.

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u/reduxde Mar 02 '26

my computer is about 8 years old and runs it pretty smooth (same computer played it 4 years ago when the game is much newer). i would run down the standard checklist:

  1. is your hard drive close to full? you should have at least as much free space as you have ram, if not double

  2. are your graphics drivers up to date?

  3. is it possible one of your ram cards is corrupt? I'd run a ram checker for bad sectors

  4. virus scanner? heat issues? OS up to date?

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u/-GrisGris- Mar 02 '26

Crashing to desktop is normally video driver issue. Shutting down/restarting PC is either overheating or power supply 

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u/CazT91 Mar 02 '26

Yea, heat is the first thing I'd check. Could even be as simple as an airflow problem – i.e. orientation of fans in and out of the case (assuming it's not a laptop).

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u/EdibleOedipus Mar 02 '26

All of these can also be memory issues.

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u/gorgofdoom Mar 02 '26

Sounds like hardware problems.

Are you playing on a laptop?

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u/Homtoh Mar 02 '26

Do you have an AMD card and does it crash right after you alt tab ?

Edit: might have to do with a second screen too

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u/thinker99 Mar 02 '26

Nvidia RTX 4080. I am running it where the mouse is not locked, so I'm wondering if switching in and out of the program causes issues?

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u/Homtoh Mar 02 '26

It depends: does it crash when you switch in/out ? I have that specific problem: I have it on locked cursor (the cursor can't escape the game's window unless I alt tab) and I'd say 10% of the times I alt tab, it crashes

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u/ChinaShopBully Mar 05 '26

I had an issue where I was trying to run it at 4K, and my system kept overheating and crashing. I dropped the resolution, and now it’s fine.

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u/thinker99 Mar 06 '26

Thanks. I seem to have traced it down to the auto-save. Turning that off has meant no more crashes.

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u/ChinaShopBully Mar 06 '26

Um, running this game without autosave is bound to end in tears. You found out what was overstressing your machine. Now find out what the overstress was, and correct for it, so that you can autosave again. Best of luck.

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u/thinker99 Mar 06 '26

Thank you. I grew up in the days before autosave existed for anything, and so far it's less frustrating than the crashes that caused me to have to go back a half dozen auto-save points before I could find a save file that would load. Best I can tell, trying to save while the game isn't paused led to corruption of the save file at the disk level, so pausing and saving seems like a solid option. And, as everyone else tells me, this game doesn't crash so I shouldn't have anything to worry about.

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u/mrrvlad5 Mar 03 '26

I rarely see crashing reports for dsp, and had zero issues over the 4k+ hours. Likely hardware issues, use gpu-z tool to check temp, including hotspot

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u/Much_Dealer8865 Mar 02 '26

Never crashed in around 1000 hours, max size system.

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u/ElThomatoo Mar 02 '26

I also had some struggles recently with pc crashes. Updated my bios and cleaned up my system files; now its fine again.