Ship overheating while idling at launch platform?

[paul23]

Well this is awkward, my ship is just destroying itself while "standing there" - quickly overheating and parts exploding all over the place, ultimately destroying the ship & launch pad with it. I've captured an image of it happening:

 

[sal_vager]

Anything in your logs? Also, if you rename the physics.cfg KSP will make a new one with default values, so unless a mod is changing them it might stop whatever this is.

[bewing]

If that doesn't work, a craft file and repro steps (how did the EVA kerbal get there?) would also be interesting -- so we could check it in a stock install.

[paul23]

The eva was just me testing; btw this is in version 1.0.4 of ksp. It's also only with certain "heavy" crafts. It's also hard to "reproduce", and the heating only occurs slow. It seems also to have something to do with "decouplers" - the internal temperatures rise till the radial decouplers explode - especially in stage "2" above image.

Lettings physics.cfg be rebuild by ksp doesn't change a thing. (Btw it is kind of an important problem, since it also happens "in space", where I can't cool by just lifting off)

Stock file: dropbox link

Edited November 15, 2016 by paul23

[OrbitalBuzzsaw]

Huh. That's a new one.

[paul23]

Still looking to find the logs, where are they located? (btw the game doesn't crash, so it keeps working).

 

EDIT: after testing some more this seems to "only" occur in vehicles with lots of parts - where the timer turns yellow or red. And so far it seems to also occur in stock (though way less often, I have to "jam" my machine limiting KSP of using only a part of the CPU so the timer goes in yellow).

Edited November 15, 2016 by paul23

[Streetwind]

13 hours ago, paul23 said:

btw this is in version 1.0.4 of ksp

Known issue with the thermal simulation in 1.0.4, I'm afraid. Was fixed in later versions of KSP.

Edited November 16, 2016 by Streetwind

[Sharpy]

14 hours ago, paul23 said:

Stock file: dropbox link

Not really.