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'''Do you have mods installed?'''<br>
'''Do you have mods installed?'''<br>
Using 3rd-party mods may possibly cause issues with the game. Checking that mods aren't the source of the problem is a good place to start.
We encourage modding Vintage Story.  But using 3rd-party mods may possibly cause issues with the game, especially if not updated for the current Vintage Story game version you are playing. Checking that mods aren't the source of the problem is a good place to start - check the forum page and Mod DB comments for the mod, or talk to other players using the mod.  If disabling mods, you should keep the "vanilla" mods enabled, that's Creative, Essentials and Survival.


'''Are you on the latest Graphics drivers?'''<br>
'''Are you on the latest Graphics drivers?'''<br>
More often than not, outdated graphics drives can be quite unstable.  
Updating graphics drivers may help if there are visual issues or graphics (OpenGL) related crashes. Vintage Story uses many OpenGL features. Vintage Story also makes heavy use of shaders.


'''Do you have enough hard disk space?'''<br>
'''Do you have enough hard disk space?'''<br>
The game will crash if you run out of it, and likely also corrupt your savegame.
The game will crash if you run out of disk space during a save, and likely also corrupt your savegame. A Vintage Story savegame varies in size depending on how much of the map you have explored, it could be a few GB in size.  ''If you update game versions, and the 'remapping' dialog pops up asking if you want to make a backup (backup enabled by default), make sure you have plenty of disk space for the backup, the backup process will also need plenty of space on the hard drive where your Temp files folder is located.''


'''NullReferenceException in Entity*.FromBytes()'''<br>
'''NullReferenceException in Entity*.FromBytes()'''<br>
Load your savegame in repair mode, fly to the crashing spot, leave the world and run the game normally again.
Load your savegame in repair mode, fly to the crashing spot, leave the world and run the game normally again.
'''Out of Memory exception'''<br>
The game ideally needs at least 4GB of free RAM to run properly.  If you have limited RAM on your computer (e.g. 4GB or 8GB), try closing down your browser and other applications while playing the game.  ''Some extreme gameplay actions and settings (e.g. fast travel across the map, with 1024 view distance and other settings maximised) could make the game run out of memory even on a powerful PC with plenty of RAM - if this is you, try setting up your game as a dedicated local server on your own PC, and connect to it (127.0.0.1) as if connected to a multiplayer game: this helps with extreme RAM issues because the server and the game client then each have their own memory space.''


===Game Runs Slow===
===Game Runs Slow===
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