#[1.0.3 rc3] Game freezes when trying to load savegame

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soft aurora
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When I try to load my Manufacture savegame, the game freezes (not responding). This happens every time, even after I restarted Windows. Earlier today, the game already froze a few times when trying to save, but so far I've been able to relaunch the game just fine. Until now. I tried loading a backup, but even the backup one before the most recent one crashes when I try to load it (this also means that I have played at least 5 minutes on a savegame that I couldn't load).

My pc has had issues with random high disk usage for a while, and it did spike again before I restarted my pc (this is also when the savegame was most recently saved), if that helps. (maybe it couldn't write to disk properly/fast enough?)

I have attached my savegame and the Player.log, in which I have also created a new Classic savegame, to confirm that it is specific to my savegame (and not my pc or something else).

📎 backup-v215-2026-5-01--17-25-15--6556077.spz2 📎 Player.log
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soft aurora
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Ok apparently it loaded just fine now, but it took like 30 seconds which is way longer than usual

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