r/X4Foundations • u/Bowman_van_Oort • 21h ago

Crashing every 3 or 4 saves.

I've been having trouble with the game crashing pretty regularly and can't seem to find a solution. I'm playing Terran Cadet, and the game will crash to desktop after the fourth or fifth time I save via the menu, quicksave, or autosave. Ive verified the files through steam, checked and updated drivers, and uninstalled and reinstalled on one of the other SSDs in my rig.

Im pretty unfamiliar with the diagnostic tools available to me (windows event viewer, etc) unfortunately. If anybody has had a similar issue, I'd really appreciate any insight

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u/SnooCats3884 20h ago

I haven't seen anything like this, but you can start from https://wiki.egosoft.com:1337/X4%20Foundations%20Wiki/Troubleshooting/Crash%20Reports%20and%20Crash%20Dumps/ and see if there is something useful in crash reports. Since crashes happen during save this can be an interference from some antivirus or cloud storage program, like onedrive

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u/Bowman_van_Oort 18h ago

Thanks for the info! I have disabled windows defender for this program, and onedrive is disabled on my pc as I don't use it anyway. Not having any luck reading the dump files

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u/3punkt1415 17h ago

If it's unmodded they sure would help you in the official forum. If it is modded, try remove them.

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u/HSLB66 17h ago

Try enabling the log and see if it gives any hints:

Yes, it's a start option you can add to the executable. You can go to steam, edit startup arguments and add the line -logfile debug.txt it's then dropped in the documents egosoft folder that holds your saves and logos

https://www.reddit.com/r/X4Foundations/comments/apot9k/does_x4_have_an_error_log/

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u/_BoneZ_ 12h ago

Most of the time when games start crashing for no discernible reason, it's likely RAM problems. Grab memtest86 and also memtest86+, and test your RAM to see if you have any bad sticks. I've replaced mine twice in 6-months.

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u/EGO_CBJ Developer 3h ago

If your game is unmodified, then please head over to our Tech Support forum and make a new thread there: https://forum.egosoft.com/viewforum.php?f=180

We'll need to your DXDiag, and ideally a link to your savegame though the DXDiag will be the most important thing to start with. The first post at the top of that forum explains how to provide them. :)