


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. The game will crash if you run out of disk space during a save, and likely also corrupt your savegame. Vintage Story also makes heavy use of shaders. Updating graphics drivers may help if there are visual issues or graphics (OpenGL) related crashes. Tip: If there's a crash report and in the report the top line of the code ends with _patch0 or similar (look for the word patch!) then it's probably a mod issue. If disabling mods, you should keep the Vintage Story "vanilla" mods enabled, that's Creative, Essentials and Survival! Check the Mod DB comments and forum page for the mod, or talk to other players using the mod. See if an update for the mod is available, generally you should use the latest version. Checking that mods aren't the source of the problem is a good place to start.

Generally if updating Vintage Story to a new version like 1.16.5, you should also update all of your mods at the same time (though, some mods are fine with game updates). But using 3rd-party mods may possibly cause issues with the game, especially if the mod is not updated for the current Vintage Story game version you are playing. We encourage modding Vintage Story - see the amazing mods on the Mod DB. If you are playing with mods and you update Vintage Story without also updating the mods, some of the mods may have issues: see the next question! You could try asking other players on Discord, or if all else fails, try re-installing a previous version of Vintage Story which was stable. Normally updates add new features and fix older bugs, but very occasionally something breaks in the process. Vintage Story releases new updates several times each year. Having trouble getting the game to run correctly? Here's a list of common problems and fixes. 2.1 Error: Garbage collector could not allocate 16384u bytes of memory for major heap section.1.4 Multiplayer lag / Host not responding messages.
