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Not using steam, also I'm on Linux.

I got a CRC error twice now when launching factorio space age. First time I fixed it by replacing the mentioned file with a non corrupted one from the installer archive.

Worked but now it's happening again, a different tree.jpg this time. Haven't tried anything yet because I think it might happen again in a few days.

Is my SSD or ram fried or could there be another explanation?

Has this happened to anyone before?

Searching online I found people had this issue with mods, but nobody had it with the space age mods.

Edit: this is the exact error this time:

Failed to load mods: IDAT: CRC error: __base__/graphics/entity/tree/09/tree-09-d-normal.png

this is a screenshot of the corrupt file. Lemmy won't accept it as an image so I had to go this way:

this is what it's supposed to look like:

edit2: this time replacing this image worked again. Factorio launches. Let's see how long it takes until I see this error again.

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Those files are never changed or written to by the game itself, so this error is looks like a deeper issue.

Which distro are you running?

What sort of file system are you on?

What folder are the files in? Is it a mounted folder?

Does your computer have problems with freezes, crashes or reboots in general?

Have you tried to do a disk scan/repair with fsck or similar?

I'd try and monitor file access and see what accesses the graphics resource files.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Until a technical explanation for the issue has been found I choose to believe the trees have found new ways of causing problems.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Why no steam?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I bought it on their website and used that install. I don't want to use steam if I don't have to, generally it's cumbersome imo, more than just an installed game.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I think you're gonna be out of luck given steam has an integrity check built in that you could use and most linux games use steam.

I degress. This is most likely a corrupted download imo. Try installing it completely fresh. As in, clean all files created by the installer and run it again.

Maybe bad ram. it can give checksum errors. run memtest to find out.

maybe bad ssd, like you said. Check ssd health with nvmi cli or smart ctl or similar.

also, i thought you just get a zip file with all the game files.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

also, i thought you just get a zip file with all the game files.

yeah, something like that

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

if you're on btrfs you might do a check disk for corruption? I've had similar corruption issues that only impacted one game even on reinstall and turned out to be a corrupted sector, thankfully a repair fixed it for me.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Test without mods I suppose? But if you're not getting any other file corruption related errors, SSD or RAM doesn't seem likely. It's possible, though.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Only three mods are elevated rail, quality and space age. Turned them off last time and factorio would start.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You could try adding one at a time to see if there's a conflict between your mods? So, test elevated rail with quality, then elevated rail with space age, then quality and space age.

This is just from general experience, btw; I actually don't play factorio! Just offering some of the basic troubleshooting I've used with other games. Hope it helps!

Are there any other forum sites you can post at for help?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

This is just from general experience, btw; I actually don’t play factorio! Just offering some of the basic troubleshooting I’ve used with other games. Hope it helps!

These three mods are the mods that make up the new factorio space age expansion. So it's actually content straight from wube

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago

Well, I don't suppose they have a customer service email or something you could reach out to? But that does add an interesting wrinkle.

I'm curious now; if I end up researching this later, I'll make sure to report back anything I discover. But yeah, at this point I'm stumped!