Bug #3985
Ships vanish on Kerbin to Duna transit via Solar orbit as soon as selected in Tracking Station. Kraken.
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Description
I had three ships of similar design in transit to Duna, two vanished when they were selected, the screen went black, and I had to restart the game because the game display remained largely black (the menus would appear if I hit escape, but none of the scenery). I had no saves for these two ships, and when I tried to recreate the behaviour with the last ship, the ship appeared briefly after selection, then vanished into debris, with only the OKTO left in screen and at least one other part flying off at high speed on a solar system exiting trajectory. This time the screen did not go black and the game remained responsive. Then I tried another ship also heading to Duna (my last). It also vanished, but this time the screen went black again.
At the time of the initial 2 vanishments, I had no mods installed. After this I installed S.A.V.E.dll.
I have attached screen shots of the ship, the selection screen in the tracking station before and after, and the ship immediately after selection and a second or two after that once it disintegrated. Screen shots of the second ship after vanishing (ie black screen) are also included. Version 0.90.0.705; Windows 7 64 bit; 8GB RAM; NVidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti
History
#1
Updated by RexKramer over 9 years ago
Updated by - Status changed from New to Need More Info
Could you please also post your output_log.txt? Ideally, grab this log immediately after the event occurs.
Instructions on locating your output_log.txt file can be found here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/92230-%21%21%21-PLEASE-READ-BEFORE-POSTING-%21%21%21-Stock-Support-Bug-Reporting-Guide
While screenshots are usually helpful, in this case the output_log.txt file might provide us more insight into the issue.
#2
Updated by 6079_Smith_W over 9 years ago
Updated by - File output_log.txt output_log.txt added
Here is the output_log.txt file. I had trouble reproducing the problem this time: everything behaved. But eventually after loading a previous quicksave, I got one of the ships to vanish.
#3
Updated by Rob about 9 years ago
Updated by Here on my system I can easily reproduce this behaviour.
I'd say every 3rd to 5th time the switching fails.
Currently the only way to cope with it, is to quicksave before switching ships in the tracking station. In case it fails I quickload and completely restart ksp. Exiting to the start screen and reloading my save game won't change anything, the screen stays black.
I added my zipped save files (\Kerbal Space Program\save\<username>) and hope it'll help you to reproduce this bug. If you require any more information, I'll be happy to help. I didn't add any screenshots as those above perfectly describe the situation.
ksp 0.90.0.705
Win 8.1 64bit
NVidia GTX 780
#4
Updated by Squelch over 8 years ago
Updated by - Platform Win32 added
- Platform deleted (
Windows)
#5
Updated by sal_vager over 8 years ago
Updated by - Severity changed from High to Low
Hi, please be mindful of the bug reporting guidelines and priority table when reporting issues, thank you.
http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/projects/ksp/wiki
Also please retest in 1.0.5
#6
Updated by TriggerAu almost 8 years ago
Updated by 
- Status changed from Need More Info to Needs Clarification
#7
Updated by TriggerAu over 7 years ago
- Status changed from Needs Clarification to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Closing this report out for now. If you find it is still occuring in the latest version of KSP please open a new report (and this one can be linked to it.) For best results, the wiki contains really useful info for when creating a report http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/projects/ksp/wiki.
You can also ask questions about the bug cleanup in the forum here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/143980-time-to-clean-up-the-bug-tracker/ and tag @TriggerAu to get my attention