ui menus disappearing and pawns start freezing on certain squares

[1daft]

1. What the circumstances were.

Playing the game for a prolonged time. Usually, but not always after combat the bug occurs though, the two bugs might be connected they might not. It's happened many times (more than i can recount).

example of freezing and as a bonus the icon for the pawn vanishes briefly, menus disappear too
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172570600?t=1h50m39s

example of the menus disappearing with no combat
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172570600?t=3h57m7s

2. What happened.

Upon playing for a while (30 minutes to a couple hours) either the bottom menu starts disappearing and/or pawns start freezing on certain squares. It is not limited to my pawns. i've seen AI pawns stop/freeze and no longer update till i reload the game (where they were bleeding out and as time passed nothing changes on them, though they still spew blood.. never moving closer to the group waiting for them leaving the map)

3. What you expected to happen.

... not being bugged? The game cant be played when this happens. literally, menus aren't there. and pawns that are stuck can sometimes be moved out of the area but you have to avoid moving over certain squares (move away from them instead of over them and they start moving again. the square(s) remain bugged though if i path back over them without reloading the game).

4. Steps we can follow to make the bug appear on our machine. This part is important! We need a set of steps which we can follow to get the same results you're seeing. Ideally you'll test these steps to make sure they work from scratch.

This usually does it. use 2 or more pawns with melee and kill attackers over and over again in the same spot. summon them using skip. do 5 or 6.

5. Savegame file

i cannot attach it. the save file is 22 megs big. even using 7z at max settings its still 2.2 meg big. which is larger than the 1 meg limit for the forum. I can either provide download link from a url i control or let me know how you want it delivered.

6. Log File

player.log is attached.

[Ark]

Propably the skip duplication bug at work again. You have version 1.3.3117. Fixed in 1.3.3130.
https://game-updates.info/rimworld?94
Fix: Skip causes duplication bugs.

[1daft]

i guess they are still vetting it for release on steam then? (is that what unstable means in this context) if so i can just continue to work around it and know that it's being addressed

[Ark]

You can opt-in to the unstable branch. Close RimWorld if it's running, right click RimWorld in your Steam library, properties, betas, then select unstable from the list. Unstable updates much more frequently and makes mods occasionally explode. Since you're not running mods, it's propably fine.

[1daft]

i'll try that tonight. thanks