Crash on rendez-vous in LKO

[Jashin]

Hi everyone,

Just as I thought 1.2.1 had solved all my problems with KSP, I've encountered a bizarre crash: I'm trying to dock two vessels in orbit and as soon as one comes near the other (I suppose within the loading range), I can only catch a glimpse of the ship I'm trying to dock before the game crashes. The crash is 100% repro in my save file, there is simply no way to rendez-vous these two vessels without the game crashing on me even on a clean boot.

Here's the log: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzi4vbI8ETh_V0k5WFQ4c1pYNUE

My mod folder: http://i.imgur.com/UGX9eRo.png

[ROXunreal]

I have very much the same issue, only in my case I could undock the lander from the orbiter, land, go up, rendezvous and dock, then I entered Kerbin's atmosphere and near the surface I activated parachutes and undocked the ship into two parts that descend separately, side by side. And EVERY time I would pan the camera from the craft I was piloting to view the other craft that was descending not far away, the game would instantly crash.

 

[Waxing_Kibbous]

I'll add my voice here as well- was approaching a vessel to do a rescue and had a CTD when I got close, I'm not sure if it was during a vessel switch though. Restarting the game allowed to to complete the mission however, no issues.

[JPLRepo]

I'm wondering if you guys can tell us if you have Part highlighting switched on in your Settings Menu? (the "Highlight FX" radio button)
Also, before the crash occurs/occured had you been using the Aero Overlay at all? (F12)
Asking because it may be related to a known problem where these two features are a factor in the crash.
 

[Waxing_Kibbous]

2 hours ago, JPLRepo said:

I'm wondering if you guys can tell us if you have Part highlighting switched on in your Settings Menu? (the "Highlight FX" radio button)
Also, before the crash occurs/occured had you been using the Aero Overlay at all? (F12)
Asking because it may be related to a known problem where these two features are a factor in the crash.
 

HIGHLIGHT_FX = True

pretty sure I didn't use the Aero Overlay, it's not something I use.

Is this just a 1.2.1 thing though? This is my first CTD in the 1.2 series, including pre-release

[Ohm Machre]

I think I can absolutely confirm that the F12 Aero Overlay has something to do with most, if not all, of my crashes.

[Jashin]

@JPLRepo Sorry for the late answer I hadn't seen the answers in this thread. I had been using the Part Highlighting option in the settings but the Aero Overlay was switched off: the game would just crash from a cold boot as soon as I got the two vessels close enough.

I have since trimmed down my modlist and I did a clean reinstall of my game and mods. I have been able to dock the two ships without issue but I don't understand where the crash came from: most mods I had been using are there again and now it just works whereas it didn't before...

[JPLRepo]

There is a known problem with Part Highlighter and the Aero Overlay in combination.
http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/13188

The best way to avoid it is to either not use the Aero Overlay, or turn off the Part Highlighter in flight until a fix can be found.
If you are using one and not the other you should be ok.

[Jashin]

Gotcha. I was using ModularFlightIntegrator at that time so that might be the reason? I don't know enough about that mod but I suspect it may have something to do with the Aero Overlay. Anyways it's working now and I have been able to dock multiple times with different ships so hopefully this crash was a one time thing. I'll be cautious with F12 though until this bug is fixed

[OddFunction]

7 hours ago, Jashin said:

Gotcha. I was using ModularFlightIntegrator at that time so that might be the reason? I don't know enough about that mod but I suspect it may have something to do with the Aero Overlay. Anyways it's working now and I have been able to dock multiple times with different ships so hopefully this crash was a one time thing. I'll be cautious with F12 though until this bug is fixed

I am encountering the exact same issue as you. No aero overlay, when I am trying to dock, I switch vessals and it crashes. Preparing my own post.

Edited November 6, 2016 by OddFunction

[OddFunction]

Using Part Highlighter alone causes the crash for me. Crash occurs when 2 vessels approach each other for a rescue or dock. Specifically it crashes when I switch camera focus to the other ship. 

 

Disabling Part Highlighter  fixed it. 

 

Aero display was never activated during any crash.

[SniperPilot]

You guys are life and time savers. I've had the aero overlay crash for a month now but I don't really need it so no big deal. But the rendezvous crash(just learned how to rendezvous which is why I haven't had that issue) I've actually stopped playing, dreading going through each mod one by one  and spending hours looking at the log.

TLDR- thanks for this!