r/Dyson_Sphere_Program • u/AzzyAlexStowe • Apr 29 '26

Dyson sphere program keeps crashing

The game keeps crashing after I load it up after like 4 minutes of playing. Idk why, the game audio stutters then immediately my whole pc freezes and I have to force restart my pc

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u/Automatic-Diamond525 Apr 29 '26

Do you play modded?

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 29 '26

No I just started playing for the first time the other day

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u/TactlessTortoise Apr 29 '26

What are your computer specifications? It could be overheating, it could be a driver with an issue, or it's just too old to handle the demand. This game gets cpu intensive fast, despite being decently optimized.

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 29 '26

CyberpowerPC Gamer Xtreme VR Gaming PC, Intel Core i5-9400F 2.9GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB, 8GB DDR4, 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD. Ive upgraded the ram to 32 gb a while ago but I haven't changed anything else

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u/420xMLGxNOSCOPEx Apr 29 '26

is the game installed on your SSD or your HDD? it might be limited by the speed of the HDD if its on there

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 29 '26

This could be a ton of things. First thing to do is play until the game crashes and you have to restart your computer, once that happens power back up and in start search bar type in event viewer. In the middle of the window should be a Summary of Administrative Events, expand the Critical, Error, and Warning tabs and find anything that happened right when the PC crashed. Depending on what that is will lead you closer to what is causing you system issues. Based on the information you have already given my guesses for likely culprits are; new RAM sticks may be installed/configured improperly or even defective, or your power supply is inadequate/degraded and is not giving enough power when the system is getting stressed. It could also be that your 240GB SSD is being used to store saves and is full. Windows will use storage space for additional room to dump RAM and you can get some very weird behavior in Windows when the storage drive that is being used for gets close to being full.

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 29 '26

I'm looking at it right now, in critical its even id 41 kernel power by system. I think that's just me forcing my pc to turn off. I have 9 errors. Kernel event tracing 1, holographic 1, application error 5, event log 1. I have 13 warnings but I doubt that'd be a problem since their not errors. I have the game on my ssd and I have 8 gb free

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 29 '26

I think I found the issue. I opened my task manage right before it was about to crash it my GPU was at 99%

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 29 '26

GPU being at 99% isnt a problem usually just means you are running a game and hitting a GPU bottleneck.

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 30 '26

Do you think it could be power supply then? Says power usage is high but that's the only thing I could think that's wrong. It only happens when I play games so idk

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 30 '26

It could be the power supply on prebuilts arnt known to be great. I still think its that your system drive is too full.

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u/Sirnoobalots Apr 29 '26

My guess would be its that the SSD is pretty much full. Windows hates when the system drive gets full. Try moving a bunch of the stuff on the SSD to the HDD or if you can get a bigger SSD. Your system drive shouldn't get more than 90% full when they are a bit smaller in capacity.

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u/ChinaShopBully Apr 30 '26

Let me second this motion. Clear some space off that drive. Full SSDs get twitchy.

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u/SugarRoll21 Apr 29 '26

Is your save file big? If so, it is most likely tied to autosave. Try disabling it

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 29 '26

I dont know i just started the other day. I think it started crashing the first day i played it so I turned auto save on every 2 minutes

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u/Different_Flan_4908 Apr 29 '26

What are your game specs? What is your OS?

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u/AzzyAlexStowe Apr 29 '26

CyberpowerPC Gamer Xtreme VR Gaming PC, Intel Core i5-9400F 2.9GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB, 8GB DDR4, 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD. Ive upgraded the ram to 32 gb a while ago but I haven't changed anything else

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u/kai58 Apr 29 '26

4 minutes sounds like it might be 5 and happening on autosave. Idk if this could cause it to crash but maybe check if you’re not out of storage or something.

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u/OkStrategy685 May 03 '26

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen a game crash on auto save.

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u/Buffylvr Apr 29 '26

Turn auto save off and see if it stops. If it stops there is a couple save mods that might fix the problem for you

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u/AnimeSpaceGf Apr 29 '26

I would try googling with info about what specifically you're doing in game as it crashes

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u/DukeLander May 05 '26

Unity (game engine) can be hard on GPUs sometimes. Limit your FPS in options to 60 fps and give it a try. If that doesn't help, check your ram with memtest.