Game locks while saved game loads
I recently had a situation where it gets to the point you're dropping frames (down to like 2-5 FPS with small nuggets/gems) where I saved/exited to try and get the FPS back. For some reason, the game now freezes while the camera zooms to the player. Freezes at the same place every time, end up having to ctrl alt del to end the process. I figured it was because I created a zillion little items to collide with themselves and this buggered the save.
So I started a new save, much more organized this time, no problems with frame drops or stuttering at all (much more efficient mining setup). I just had the same problem with the game not loading, with the camera freezing while panning and never actually making it to the player.
Has anyone else experienced this? Feels kinda bad, losing a pretty good bit of playtime to both saves.
Posted Aug 18, 2020, 2:42 AM UTC
Did you use a save editor or mod to spawn in all the items? When the player is moved to their last location when continuing the save it loads items in stages depending on what the items are. It sounds to me that when it gets to the resource stage, your PC cannot handle the resources all being loaded in at that time. I'd suggest looking at using a save editor to remove all these items. I believe there is one on the mod page on the wiki (you can find a link to it on the main menu in game) Hope that helps!
Thanks for the advice, will give it a try. The game is completely vanilla, no mods or save editors used so far.
Worked like a charm! A bit of a learning curve on the editor but it worked great. Thanks for the advice!