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Buio wrote: Sat Aug 22, 2026 11:11 am Got probably the best start ever with the new 1.3.7.0 beta. Too good in fact, probably a spawn bug or something. Just ouside my starting planed, I got a debris field with 6 ships; 1 light carrier, 1 advanced destroyer, 3 advanced frigattes and 1 troop transport. Around 2756 I had an 4k fleet, when the carrier was repaired some years later I had an 8k fleet. And got a bunch of fully researched tech up to T3 by only repairing. The carrier had a long range scanner. And the fleet had 860k jumpspeed. So I started zipping around and shot down everything I could see (which was a lot due to the movable long range scanner).

Neurobed wrote: Sat Aug 22, 2026 3:00 pm

MaximKI wrote: Wed Aug 19, 2026 1:49 pm ... [snipp]
Crash logs should be in the form of text files.

Sorry for my mistake, but in the ..\data\Logs directory the last crash log was for the 1.3.6.3, now obsolete.

I started a new game with beta 1.3.7.0; everything worked perfectly for 45 years. Boskara declared war on me, and after a few months, the first crash occurred. It happened when I tried to interact with the game menu. After a few seconds of gameplay, saving, loading, or changing settings caused the game to crash. No crash logs were written to ..\data\Logs. I tried switching the video drivers from DX11 to Vulkan and checking the file status with Steam: nothing changed. If I loaded a save from a slightly older game, the crash didn't occur.
Now I'm trying to continue with the last "good" save; I'll see if the problem recurs.

Edit: I restarted from a previous save, waited a bit—20 days—and tried saving: all was well. After another 35 days, I tried saving to a new file: click Save > crash; the game crashes with the usual Windows message: DistantWorlds2.Windows not responding... No crash logs was written. Last good save in attachemet.

Edit 2: The event that appears to trigger the crash is the 5th Fleet's assault on the Quilla 1 Mining Station (Boskara Hive) on 2798.11.23. When making consecutive saves at the slowest speed (x1/8), the game appears to be unable to save after 2798.12.08 (repeating this action multiple times, the crash appears to coincide with the first damage suffered by the station).