[2.0.73] Crash when I have Chrome and OBS Studio open

[daraksharnah]

I'm not sure what triggers the crash other than having both Google Chrome and OBS Studio open at the same time as Factorio. To my recollection this doesn't happen with 1 or the other open. And, normally happens when autosave initiates, but not exclusively. I have made sure drivers and bios are up to date.

This seems to happen once per session meaning: This morning I have played for about 2 hours, no issues with just the game and chrome opened. I opened OBS Studio (it does happen in the inverse, obs already open and i open chrome), then a minute or so later when the autosave started, the game crashed. Now, historically speaking, I won't experience another crash until I restart my computer

I left that text because that's what i thought was happening. But I just did another test. I close and reopened chrome and obs while factorio was running. I started the last good autosave (one at crash was incomplete and corrupted) and then tried to do a manual save and it crashed again.

I am currently running a Space Exploration mod pack. I do not recall if it happened with vanilla Space Age.

I am sorry I cannot be more specific. I'm not sure if it's even a Factorio issue, but I don't know how to troubleshoot it further. Mostly just looking for ideas on what to troubleshoot next.

[Rseding91]

The crash is in some cleanup code after saving is essentially finished which means it successfully went over everything to save and is now doing book-keeping to finish. This suggests everything was correct when it went over it and between that and cleanup something corrupted the memory it was using for book-keeping.

That suggests bad/failing RAM to me. So I would start by running some form of memory tester (there are many of them and no single one passing is a guarantee that the RAM isn't bad).

[daraksharnah]

Thanks for the info! I'll get some ram testing done. My pc is a circa 2018, so I wouldn't be surprised if one is starting to fail. Would high ram utilization cause similar issues? With all 3 running, I run about 85 to 90% utilization. Ive been wanting to get more for a hot minute, but of course with AI, its the worst time financially.