Slightly Major Issue

[Block3y219]

I had a slight issue whilst building a small shuttle. I was trying to place a launch clamp on my craft, and my cursor slid onto the T-1 Toroidal Aerospike "Dart" Liquid Fuel Engine i had on the bottom of my craft. i thought this would be no big deal, until the game froze and wouldn't let me open the Task Manager. I was unable to switch to any other windows, so i had no choice but to forcefully shut down my computer. This was a bit of an issue for me, however I hope it will not happen again, and will be fixed.

 

Directions to recreate:

0. Ensure all programs are not running, or have had their data saved.

1. Launch KSP Ver. 1.1.0.1230

2. Go to the VAB and place a Fuel Tank and T-1 Toroidal Aerospike "Dart" Liquid Fuel Engine (tm) on it.

3. Obtain a TT18-A Launch Stability Enhancer and hover over the T-1 Toroidal Aerospike "Dart" Liquid Fuel Engine.

4. For me, this froze my game, and forced my to shut down my computer.

 

As the computer was force shut, no error log was produced, so I cannot include it here.

DxDiag "important bits"

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 450  @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

Available OS Memory: 3884MB RAM

Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 10586) (10586.th2_release.160126-1819)

DirectX Version: 10

 

I hope you can recreate this, and tell me what went wrong.

Spoiler

 

LoaderInfo
    {
        ModuleManager.2.6.22 v2.6.22.0 = True
        aaa_Toolbar v1.0.0.0 / v1.7.11.0 = True
        LibSquishPort v1.0.0.0 = True
        NvidiaTextureTools v1.0.0.0 = True
        AmbientLightAdjustment v1.4.4.2 = True
        MiniAVC v1.0.3.0 = True
        kOSVoidAction v1.0.0.0 = True
        KerbalEngineer v1.1.0.2 = True
        KerbalEngineer.Unity v1.0.0.0 = True
        MiniAVC v1.0.3.2 = True
        KerbalJointReinforcement v3.1.5.0 = True
        MechJeb2 v2.5.1.0 / v / v2.5.7.0 = True
        QuantumStrutsContinued v1.6.5956.37168 = True
        RcsSounds v5.0.0.0 = True
        KerbalAlarmClock v3.6.1.0 = True
        000_Toolbar = True
        ActiveTextureManagement = True
        AmbientLightAdjustment = True
        Diazo = True
        KerbalEngineer = True
        KerbalJointReinforcement = True
        MechJeb2 = True
        QuantumStrutsContinued = True
        RcsSounds = True
        ScienceAlert = True
        ShowFPS = True
        TriggerTech = True
        MechJebAndEngineerForAll.cfg = True
        ModuleManager.2.6.22.dll = True
        ModuleManager.ConfigCache = True
        ModuleManager.ConfigSHA = True
        ModuleManager.Physics = True
        ModuleManager.TechTree = True
        toolbar-settings.dat = True
    }

 

 

 

 

[Red Iron Crown]

Moved over to Technical Support. (Edit: Modded Technical Support)

Can you try again on the most recent version of KSP? 1.1.0 is two versions behind.

[Renegrade]

19 minutes ago, Block3y219 said:

i thought this would be no big deal, until the game froze and wouldn't let me open the Task Manager. I was unable to switch to any other windows, so i had no choice but to forcefully shut down my computer. This was a bit of an issue for me, however I hope it will not happen again, and will be fixed.

Windows is (allegedly) a modern, protected-mode operating system.  Unprivileged applications should NOT be able to hang or crash the entire machine on such an OS, so I hate to say this, but you probably have a driver/OS/hardware issue.

[Guest]

Additionally, KSP_x64.exe can crash in such a way that the process never unloads successfully. It is left in a "suspended" state with all the game files locked. The process doesn't appear in the Task Manager, so you have to use something like Process Explorer to find it. Even then, it can't be terminated. Your only option is to reboot. I've had this happen four times now.