Game keeps Crashing when about to land.

[MerlinsMaster]

Hey Guys,

Lately I've been having this problem, where every time I'm returning to Kerbin from a big science gathering mission, after I've reentered, as I'm descending, the game crashes seconds before I get to the ground, or at the exact time I get to the ground. And it always seems to happen when I've got a bunch of science.

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Has anyone else had this problem?

[John FX]

Are you using chutes? I had this but it was the extra memory used when opening a chute caused a CTD.

If you include screenshots, maybe a craft file or a log then you`ll get much more help.

[MerlinsMaster]

Are you using chutes? I had this but it was the extra memory used when opening a chute caused a CTD.

If you include screenshots, maybe a craft file or a log then you`ll get much more help.

My craft does have five parachutes, and very often the crash will occur when I deploy some or all of them. Sometimes, it crashes when I decouple my engine and fuel tank from my payload.

Does opening chutes cause KSP to consume more RAM? That doesn't make any sense. The chutes are already loaded into RAM at the beginning. Also, in most of the error reports, it says I was using about 75% of my RAM.

I'm at work right now and don't have access to the files, so I can't submit anything like that until later. Although this is the second craft and the second mission this has happened on, so I don't think it would be the .craft file. And for months before I started my career mode game, I was playing sandbox, repeatedly deorbiting huge rovers, with numerous parachutes, and never had the game crash when I was about to land.