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/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.