Ninetailed

Same as a few of the other commenters, I've been playing a couple of hours and haven't been able to find a printer or vehicle bay, despite getting research pods to unlock things like storage, shuttle, and solar panel. It strikes me that a good way to get around some of these early progression headaches would be to only unlock techs after you've already unlocked the thing you need to build them. Like, for example, you rolled the large solar panel, but don't have the printer tech yet, unlock the printer instead and leave the solar panel for another pod.

Thanks for the tip! I'll do that in future.

I don't think I can edit it. I don't see a control to do that anywhere.

Good catch. I'll try that next.

Following Siimple Taco's report above, I tried out a fresh save without using any tethers whatsoever. It lasted close to an hour before freezing, which is a definite improvement. It still seems to freeze sometimes when digging out terrain.

I tried disabling sound. It unfortunately didn't help me, but I encourage others to try it. Maybe you'll have better luck. I suspect this is actually a cluster of related issues manifesting as this freeze, as I've seen some people say avoiding tethers helps, but others say it happens even fresh out of the pod without building anything. The common factor I can see (though I haven't been able to see the dxdiag attachments) is that we all seem to have AMD processors and Nvidia graphics cards. A10-7850K / GTX 660Ti here. I encourage anyone with a different setup to contradict me here.

I suspect they wanted to solve the issue that was affecting the greater number of people first. It's only been available for a couple of days, and they're a small team. Give it time.

Just tried out the new beta (0.2.96.0). Issue is still present.

The information is publicly available, in every user's address bar. Perhaps I should have erred on the side of caution, but it's done now.

I've been using tethers extensively, so that could be it.

I'm using a GTX 660Ti, so it's not entirely a 9-series problem.

There's another thread of people having the same issue, no sign of a resolution yet.

Someone over at the Steam forums suggested adding the -NOSOUND flag to disable sound, which supposedly fixes some FPS issues. I can confirm that this did not help with this freeze for me.

I am also experiencing this bug. It doesn't seem to happen every time, I've had it happen on one of four loads so far. Steam version. Save and DxDiag attached. DxDiag.txt AUTOSAVE_0_2016.12.16-16.53.39.sav

I agree. It would be nice if the escape key closed the backpack, as I keep hitting it by mistake when trying to close it.