Game reliably crashes all of a sudden

[ulix]

I've carefully built a big prison in many hours of play. Now that I'm letting the first prisoners in, everything seems to work fine at first.

However, with this savegame, the game just crashes after a few seconds (5-10 ingame minutes), no matter what I do. No idea why.

No mods, no DLC.

 

[AndrewT]

That save hung rather than crashing on two machines for me. Is that what you see, or something different?

 

[ulix]

Yes, the game freezes. So it does not close itself, instead it freezes, doesn't react anymore, and Windows Task Manager also tells me the game isn't responding.

My uneductaed guess would be one actor (prisoner, guard, etc.) does something at that point in time that crashed (hung/froze) the game. Because it happens right after a new schedule timeslot starts. Maybe changing the schedule would alleviate the problem, but only for a while and with a ton of uncertainty. May try it later just to test it.

I know this doesn't help, but this is obviously very frustrating after putting like 10-20 hours into that prison (40+ ingame days), only to then have it crash after I've let prisoners in.