We should make a post in Gameplay or support section describing this workaround, to link it to anyone affected (gonna start merging these reports soon).
@Nikia, I doubt this has to do with ACE or with how ACE was integrated (I think, but I might be wrong).
It should be related to some other fixes (we replaced an assertion with a log in hopes it would let the game proceed, but sadly it seems that it does get into a bad state).
If anyone has a reliable way to repro, like, they can see exactly the moment when the hearthling goes missing, please tell us. So far players have reported that the high ipf started happening while in combat.
Summary:
The only similar topic I found was caused by building. I have a storage system in progress, but itās been there for many days. So basically, I have a world in Archpelago biome. What happened is hard to explain. My game froze, but internally. I can scroll, zoom and stuff, but I canāt control the game. Itās like I get put into spectator mode, while the world is on pause. It happens roughly after daily update. Also, if I try to save, it just gets stuck there forever. Quitting to main menu gets stuck (screenshot). Steps to reproduce:
I have exactly the same issue. It looks like all UI and AI freeze. This happens to me, as soon as I try to delete or finish a building. At this moment, everything freezes. I can still click on everything, except the game GUI doesnāt react as well.
Except from ACE, I only have some additional buildings installed.
I know what a lot of the different CPU usage categories mean, but not ālpfā, maybe someone can help out there. Just to check, since the other person replying about experiencing this was running ACE, are you running ACE? Itās not in your mods list, but just wanted to double-check.
IPF is ItemPathFinder, which is used for finding items mainly in AI actions. Stuff like restocking or looking for food. IIRC the IPF category is dominated by the time spent calling the filter function (which AI actions provide to define what they are looking for).
No I donāt, it causes the āran out of memoryā bug. Well, not that it doesnāt happen with these mods, but it just happens faster with ACE sadly. When I play 0 mods I almost never get that bug, with these mods I get it after about 2 or 3, and ACE takes roughly an hour to stop the game. But I think I read about it somewhere so I guess itās a known issue (I hope)
Well, thatās infromative, thanks. That may contribute to the problem, but Iām not sure if it causes the problem. Like I said, the game froze after the daily update. I specifically tested by doing nothing and just waiting if anything would happen. Maybe I could send a world copy so people could check it out? However, I donāt know where to look for itā¦
Just for info. Starting a new game solves the issue for me. I only have it with this one map. Was there an update for ACE today? Always have weird problems with āoldā saves afterwards.
Iām having this same issue, no mods and on low graphics settings. Playing on normal speed seemed to let me go a bit longer before it froze up but I canāt do anything else
I am harvesting a āforest of herbsā, but, as I mentioned above, itās been there for a long time (night till day).
Oh, one thing just came to my mind. What if It actually is the cause, like, when daily update comes, it tries to redistribute actions, but something fails and it just freezes?
Hereās the world save file, see if anyone has the same issue:
Oh, new users canāt upload attachments, ok
I just found something weird. My game saves folder has saves, newer than the autosave, while when I load from the game, the newest one is autosave. Incomplete saving bug? (Ghost worlds?)
Back with an update:
So, i cancelled all the actions, all the roles, got daily update and all was good. Also ipf was way higher while idle than in action, which was surprising (~50% while actions on to ~75% while all actions off). I turned on haul and job and wanted to pick up a fox lilly. I built a ladder, gave a command to pick up the flower (before the ladder was built), and hearthllings made another ladder to pick it up. Then the game froze:
Itās not allowing me to open it because itās saying itās not an archive. Iāve tried it a few times. Would it be possible to zip the file in a non-rar format?