# Massive fungal spore and fungaloid colony hangs computer or crashes the game

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**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [January 13, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749 "2014-01-13T11:57:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![PunkCapitalist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@PunkCapitalist](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PunkCapitalist)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749/1 "2014-01-13T11:57:26Z")

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0.9-3139-g44364f8  
ncurses  
Archlinux

Everytime I get anywhere near this particularly big colony of fungal spores and fungaloids, the game either crashes or makes the computer stop to a halt. First I noticed if I tried to remove a motor from a vehicle somehow near it, the game crashed with a Core Dumped message. Then I approached the massive colony from the other side and the whole computer stoped to a halt, forcing me to hard reset it.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749/2 "2014-01-13T17:23:26Z")

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Could you upload a save? Without a crash log it’s difficult to tell if the problem is caused by an overflow in something fungal related, or if it’s simply due to a particular spot on the map that is corrupted (and happens to be near the fungal colony).

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**Author:** ![PunkCapitalist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@PunkCapitalist](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PunkCapitalist)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749/3 "2014-01-14T21:14:13Z")

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No, I unfortunately lost the character, but I will remember to save a backup file next time I encounter something like this.

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**Author:** ![EkarusRyndren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ekarusryndren/32/80_2.png) [@EkarusRyndren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EkarusRyndren)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749/4 "2014-01-14T21:32:12Z")

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best guess is you hit a size limit… Does anyone know how to compile 64 bit versions of CDDA?

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749/5 "2014-01-14T23:25:15Z")

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I had similar problems whilst testing the sleep-state mutations.

Yesterday’s (13th Jan) Experimental, local build  
WinXP  
Console

Long story short, hanging out in an Evac Shelter about 6 or so tiles north of a Fungal Bloom eventually crashed to desktop after about 20 hours of waiting around. (The things we do to test mutations.) I think it might be spore-overload; can upload the world if I know what files you’d need.

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**Author:** ![Ferodaktyl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ferodaktyl/32/56_2.png) [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/massive-fungal-spore-and-fungaloid-colony-hangs-computer-or-crashes-the-game/4749/6 "2014-01-15T19:26:36Z")

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i just experienced a very bad lag between pressing a key to move and the actual movement in game. Everything else responds good, and i’m not near any fungal/ooze/triffid generator as far as i can say. Only my house is full of loot. It must be something local, because a new char in the same map moves normally.

If anyone wants to check this, here is the file :  
[http://www.2shared.com/file/-\_vOIf1x/save.html](http://www.2shared.com/file/-_vOIf1x/save.html)

Edit : this is weird, after a few tries, the games responds normally… don’t know what happened there, gonna check more