Game Crash - Kraken of some sort?

[DLrocket89]

Hi all,

I have been fiddling around with KSP for a few months now - I'm a huge "space nerd", worked for about 5 years for a company that does consulting work for NASA. Got to work on the close out of the shuttle program and ORION. Good stuff, and KSP has given me a whole new understanding of things.

Last week I put myself into my first career-mode game that didn't have maxed starting funds, science, etc. It went really well till I made my 2nd trip to Duna. I launched two rockets - first one was the lander and ascent stage, which would dock with the 2nd for the return trip home.

I didn't really look at where Duna was relative to Kerbin, just launched into a high orbit of Kerbin and then warped ahead till Duna was correctly aligned. When I came out of warp and then went to take control of the first rocket, I had issues. It didn't show the rocket, the navball was completely black with nothing in it, and Escape key wouldn't work so it was effectively locked up.

What'd I do wrong? Is there an amount of time I can't warp at once?

Thanks for any help!

Dustin

[Xannari Ferrows]

Sounds like the work of the NaNo virus. As far as I know, there's not limit to how much you can time warp at once. Were you actively changing your orbital parameters at the time of the warp [rotating, oscillating, ect]? If so, that would explain far too much.

[DLrocket89]

Nope. I was coasting to the maneuver node...

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Also - just read up on the NaNo virus, sounds right to me.

[Xannari Ferrows]

Well in that case, it could've just been looking to have a good laugh.

[steve_v]

Gah, what can I say... Bugs. Horrible, ship destroying, kraken summoning bugs. Quicksave often, make multiple backups etc. etc.

Something went wrong in the physics calcs, propagated through the rest of the system, and then the kraken came to restore disorder to the universe.

[DLrocket89]

Happened again. I had two ships on the way to Duna...one with the lander, one that was basically a big fuel tank I dock with for the return home. I saved the game last night, all was well. I just started up KSP, all is well when I load the space center screen. I go to Tracking Center, select the first ship and click "Fly". Snaps to the ship, it's fine for about half a second, and then everything goes black and all the physics data is NaN.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Yes, this is happening to me as well a lot more than is used to... Actually I think I never happened to me before 1.0.2, now it happens often. You can say good-bye to the ship you were trying to go to, unless you have a backup or quicksave.

[DLrocket89]

Reloaded a previous save and it worked. Went back and reloaded it and it NaN'ed again. Crazy. At least I know the workaround.