Long load time and crashes in game and in restarting caused by stability calculation of large structure

Basic Info:

Platform: Steam
Issue Type: Crash
Game Mode: Single Player
Server Type: PvE
Map: Exiled Lands
Server Name: =SERVER NAME=
Mods: GCam, or none


Bug Description:

Disabled or low stability loss settings cause very long load time for both modifying large scale build in game or restarting a game with such large scale buildings within.


Bug Reproduction:

1, Start a new single player game with no mod installed.
2, Disable stability in (single player, but should also work for public server) server settings.
3. In game, whether turn on or not turn on construction mode, build a 80x80, or larger pending on CPU, piece of ceiling supported by 1 single column of foundations.
4. Should be feeling it takes longer time (in range from 50ms to several minutes, anyway not as smooth as at the beginning) to place or remove a piece of any connected ceiling or other building piece.
5. Turn off the game (or server) and restart, a significantly longer time is needed to restart comparing with both a new game or a server that contains the same amount of foundations which are all directly connected to ground.
6. Start a new game, activate GCam mod, or any other mod that allows foundation pieces to be connected horizontally like ceilings.
7. Apply same server settings as Step 2.
8. In game, like Step 3, build a 50x50x10, or comparable large piece, or for the best comparison a same sized and shaped construction as in Step 3, made of horizontally connectable foundation pieces, make sure at least a large amount of such foundations (as the piece to be tested) do not directly touch the ground.
9. An even longer stuck, or crush should have been observed during the construction process than observed during Step 3. Removing a piece take longer time than adding a piece. Restarting the game (server) can also take very long time (can go up to several hours as observed, with around 80000 pieces placed in game not directly connect to ground for a single construction).
10. Start a new game with GCam activated, set stability loss to 5.
11.Construct a single building with horizontally connectable foundations, with a size (can be several times) larger than in Step 3 and Step 6 to 9, and connect directly to ground as much as possible.
12. Both modifying the building and restarting game should be smooth.
13. Replay all previous steps with older game versions ever since 3.0, with corresponding versions of mod if needed, similar effects should be observed.

Um… aaa :face_with_peeking_eye: excuse me… but… do you by any chance have some pictures of this 80000 block magical castle sitting on top of a single foundation column that’s causing longer load times?

Can confirm this.
There is no need to go to 80k pieces though.
We’ve noticed the problem starts before a base gets to even 5-10k pieces.

Wouldn’t know :slight_smile: my largest base which is huge is under 1k blocks and I never turn stability off :stuck_out_tongue:
Still would be nice to see that picture :joy:

I mean kinda yeah XD.
Servers I play on have no build restrictions but I’ve still never seen anything close to that size.
Would be interested in seeing it myself…

That one was not on a single foundation though…but was true that load took around 6 hours due to everything not directly connected to ground was calculated like a finite element analysis…

Sorry, I just made this new account for uploading this report and unable to share any screenshot yet (I just tried…). After facing this problem I spent 5 days to remove everything not directly connected to ground, and built something new with stability loss set to 5 for all foundations and planning to use some support beam to minimize calculation thanks to individual stability data for each block. But it is still just a basement of rectangular sections. Hopefully I can make something out of it before 1 dimension calculation also crashes and show the results here later on. Cheers

(So just had to spend 1 hour free chatting. Screenshot at below, took me 7 min to start with 100k blocks)


Okay here is it, as a new beginning. Single player, tons of mods, 100k blocks and beyond green fence. (So why it has to be a single player craft.)

Greetings Exile,

Thank you for your report. Can you please share your saved file with us without mods active?

You can find it by following:

Steam\steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved

It should be the “game” file for Exiled Lands or “dlc_siptah” for Isle of Siptah.

Could you also send us the game logs? You can find it by following:

Steam\steamapps\common\Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Saved\Logs

Feel free to reach out in private via direct message if you prefer.

Thank you in advance.

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