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Terrarian
I could really use some help with this one.
TL;DR my game crashes anywhere between a few hours and 10-15 minutes at a time.
It's an out of memory exception while trying to resize an array.
I've lost a few good Ankh components and have begun save/exiting after I do anything important, but it's becoming rather frustrating.
Here is a pastebin of all of my crash logs so far
Edit: After a great deal of experimentation it appears to be because I'm using either Retro or Trippy lighting. The memory self-regulates at around 790 MB when using color or white lighting, but Retro and Trippy cause it to steadily climb. The game crashes around 840 MB used.
Things worth noting:
Things I've tried:
Option/settings:
Hardware:
Terraria saves/windows install is on a 128 GB SSD
Steam drive is on a 4 TB Hybrid Drive
Software:
Any assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TL;DR my game crashes anywhere between a few hours and 10-15 minutes at a time.
It's an out of memory exception while trying to resize an array.
I've lost a few good Ankh components and have begun save/exiting after I do anything important, but it's becoming rather frustrating.
Here is a pastebin of all of my crash logs so far
Edit: After a great deal of experimentation it appears to be because I'm using either Retro or Trippy lighting. The memory self-regulates at around 790 MB when using color or white lighting, but Retro and Trippy cause it to steadily climb. The game crashes around 840 MB used.
Things worth noting:
- The game version is
1.3.0.4 - Crash still occurs on 1.3.0.5
- Cloud synchronization is disabled already.
- I'm on Windows 7.
- I am NOT using recompiled source/exe, this is a vanilla binary in every possible way.
- I am NOT using a 3rd party app, game launcher, mods, or anything of the kind.
- I am NOT running in compatibility mode.
- I am launching the game through steam.
- Occurence of exception is seemingly random; from the logs you can see that the time between crashes can be hours at a time, or as little as roughly 10 minutes.
- I haven't been able to deduce a specific trigger for the crash; "what I'm doing" at the time appears to be irrelevant.
- Edit: World size is SMALL, Type is Expert. I am playing single player.
Things I've tried:
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- Only passes on a fresh install. According to a sticky thread, this is normal: one file fails and fails to be reacquired.
- Q: Steam has reported that one (1) file has failed verification and was downloaded?
- A: This file is known as the serverconfig.txt file. Originally this file shouldn't be packed with the game as Terraria should create this file automatically on launch if it is missing or out of date. Due to it being changed and updated by server owners, the file will constantly fail the verification process. This has no effect on playing the game, and can be ignored.
- Deleting Local Content - Completely wiping the terraria steam app folder and redownloading/installing. Causes game cache to go back to passing verification, until the next time it is run.
- Disabling Cloud Saves - As stated above, cloud syncs are disabled, the game still crashes
- Running as administrator - still crashes
Move my Terraria install to the SSD so the saves are on the same drive.(Done)Check my drivers for updates(Done)Reinstall XNA(Done)Check Avast for quarantine or blacklist files.(Nope) According to a few (reddit, steam, here) threads, Avast is throwing false positives on the Terraria executable.-
Q: I am experiencing low frame rate for Terraria, but the machine passes as recommended?
A: If you are using nVidia Control Panel, you can select Terraria.exe process and change the specifications on how your graphic card handles the game. Follow these instructions:
Open nVidia Control Panel.
Select Manage 3D Settings.
Choose Program Settings Tab.
Select Terraria as current program.
Turn Triple buffering and Vertical sync to On.
Run Terraria and turn Frame Skip to Off.
The application should be running better than your current setup.
Option/settings:
- Video frame skipping enabled
- Multicore lighting disabled
- Lighting trippy
- Full screen Resolution 1920x1080
Hardware:
- CPU i7 quad [chipset idk]
- GPU Nvidia GTX 760
- RAM 8 GB
- HDs 128 GB SSD and 4 TB Hybrid Drive
Terraria saves/windows install is on a 128 GB SSD
Steam drive is on a 4 TB Hybrid Drive
Software:
- .NET Framework 4.5.2, last I checked.
- XNA installed, I forget the version. I will check it when I get home.
- Terraria is through steam, it is very much a legal copy.
Any assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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