portalguy Posted June 20, 2025 Report Posted June 20, 2025 (edited) I played vintage story recently, and be it for over a few hours or like 5 or 10 minutes, somewhat longer. the game will hard freeze then crash. no crash reports, just a hard desktop crash it's crashed whilst smithing, mining a certain area, literally just opening chests. i dont know what to do here and i'm stuck ( didnt know what one to post this on ) Edited June 20, 2025 by portalguy
Zane Mordien Posted June 21, 2025 Report Posted June 21, 2025 Sounds like a mod issue. I recently had this issue with primitive survival and rust bound magic.
FlareUKCS Posted June 21, 2025 Report Posted June 21, 2025 I suggest disabling all mods except the base VS mods, and creating a new world and see if the issue persists. It may be a mod issue but the CTD suggests a bigger issue and it may help to at least establish a base... if the game runs fine sans mods, then check the mod database for new versions, enable mods one at a time... time consuming yes, but at least you can determine a base level. You can run all the tests on a new world, or back up copy your current world, I suggest a new world as you dont want to mess up a long running world to test on. Thats what I do, have a test world and run mods that are possibly out of date there and see what happens. 2
Thorfinn Posted June 22, 2025 Report Posted June 22, 2025 (edited) One other thing: most of the JSON mods should be fine. If you know which those are, you can probably enable them all right from the start. If you don't know which those are, just search for *.dll but be sure to enable "Zipped" under advanced options. Those are NOT JSON, so the ones which you should either b search or, if you don't know what that means, add one by one. Edited June 22, 2025 by Thorfinn
Parenn Posted July 4, 2025 Report Posted July 4, 2025 I had a similar problem, basically anything I did in the world could hang the client. I spent ages taking off mods and adding mods, and eventually it stopped. Tried the base game and it was fine. A few days later, it started happening again. Fiddled with mods again, then it stopped again. What I hadn’t remembered was that I had changed some graphics settings because the frame rate had got so much better without the farseer mod. To cut a long story a little shorter, for me its shadows. Shadows on, random crashes. Shadows off, 5 hours without a problem.
Solution Parenn Posted July 6, 2025 Solution Report Posted July 6, 2025 Okay. It wasn't shadows I found it would reliably crash when opening and closing a storage vessel multiple times (after 10-15s of holding the right mouse button down). Once I could reproduce it I started removing mods. It still crashed with no mods. I tried a new world, placed a vessel and it didn't crash. So, finally, I opened the game in recovery mode, and let it do its thing for a bit. Then I went back in, and it didn't crash (with no mods). I added all the mods back, still no crash. So, maybe try recovery mode for a bit? 1
portalguy Posted July 17, 2025 Author Report Posted July 17, 2025 i think i fixed it??? i just made a new modlist and disabled shadows
Parenn Posted July 17, 2025 Report Posted July 17, 2025 Yeah, I haven’t had a crash for days now, without shadows and with the graphics details lowered a little.
portalguy Posted September 20, 2025 Author Report Posted September 20, 2025 ok it seems to be starting up again, i made a new world in a warm region, completely fine within my base, hardcrash when i go out into the wilds for like a minute, do the most basic thing and then a hardcrash, no logs, nothing. could it be some weird thing with the warm biomes being somewhat undeveloped or is it just my pc?
LadyWYT Posted September 20, 2025 Report Posted September 20, 2025 2 hours ago, portalguy said: could it be some weird thing with the warm biomes being somewhat undeveloped or is it just my pc? I don't think it's the warm biomes; given that you're playing with mods I would still suspect some lurking issue within one of them. Just to be on the safe side, I would backup your saves and reinstall the game, then play with a vanilla world for a bit just to make sure everything is working correctly. If you have no issues running vanilla, then start building your modlist once more; make sure that the mods you pick are properly updated and add them one at a time, testing to make sure they work as they should. It might be a bit tedious, but it's the best way to make sure that everything is working as it should, or to otherwise figure out what's causing problems.
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