T+ 4 days - why do I always explode?

[noneyabidnis]

I\'ve been trying to map the Mun over the past week, and inevitably, when I get past 4 days in orbit (Kerbin days), My ship has some sort of catastrophic failure and explodes. Does this happen to anyone else?

[vexx32]

If you orbit the Mun at low altitudes, it has been known to cause the game to crash because of the terrain engine getting fed up with rendering all the terrain at such high detail. As to actually exploding... well, no, that probably shouldn\'t be happening.

[Alchemist]

If you crash into the Mun while orbiting off-rails that could be because of numerical imprecisions that can cause some perturbations and put the periapsis too low.

[Cooly568]

Meh, If you use a Nvidia Geforce GTX 550 TI graphics card you can orbit the mun at super low altitudes without the terrain getting mad at me.

About exploding...I have no idea whats causing it.

I can always land on the mun in 1 and a half days.

[noneyabidnis]

I\'m orbiting at around 40 km. The Pe does drop over time, but I re-circularize every 8 hours or so. For some reason, though, just random 'Boom' and my ship is gone.

[Monkthespy]

Okay, warp it into two days, then turn off warp and leave it over night, make sure it\'s 12 hours sense you stopped the warp. If it exploded, then it\'s not due to warp.

[VincentMcConnell]

Hm. This should not be happening. You also said that your Periapsis is dropping? That\'s not a problem that I\'ve ever encountered, even when orbiting for more than a few months (warp of course...)

You may have a game problem. I would recommend redownloading, but see what everyone else says, first.

[Candre]

I think apsis distortion only occurs when at 1x and 2x warp rates. 5x and above are on-rails. At that point, PhysX stops governing the motion of the spacecraft (therefore precision errors disappear,) and calculations based on the orbital parameters of the object assume the responsibility of determining spacecraft position and velocity.

[chillman1212]

This has happened to me multiple times while taking my warp back to 1x and 2x. Usually while circularizing my orbits