Troubleshooting Player - TheShubham99/Terasology GitHub Wiki

  • The most common cause for game crashes is older video cards, especially Intel HD Graphics on laptops. Make sure you have the very latest graphics drivers available.
  • If you're using a laptop that has a discrete NVIDIA GPU and Intel HD Graphics, the game may be attempting to run on the latter, causing a crash. To make the game use the discrete GPU,
    • Right-click on your desktop, select NVIDIA Control Panel. If the option doesn't show up, install the latest NVIDIA drivers.
    • Select Manage 3D settings.
    • Select Program Settings, then navigate to wherever the Terasology executive file is located and select it.
    • In the processor selection dropdown, choose High-performance NVIDIA processor and click Apply.
  • You may run out of memory if your system doesn't have much available or you run the game with too little memory assigned and too high view distance. Especially with a 32-bit system or Java (has failed on even taking large screenshots in the past)
    • To run with increased memory you can launch via command prompt / terminal with something like: java -Xms128m -Xmx2048m -jar libs/Terasology.jar which will assign a max of 2 GB (but crash with a 32-bit Java! Can't assign more than around 1.5 GB)