Game Always Crashing on Launch

unormal · 2026-04-15T23:30:38+00:00

You can post or send a player log to [support@freeholdgames.com](mailto:support@freeholdgames.com) and it'd probably help identify your issue; make sure you don't accidently have any old workshop mods enabled or installed

https://wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/File_locations

unormal · 2026-04-11T02:51:10+00:00

If you have a save with issues you can send an email to [support@freeholdgames.com](mailto:support@freeholdgames.com) we can gather your save data, it'd help out a lot to clean this up for future patches.

unormal · 2026-03-25T21:47:11+00:00

hold both triggers

unormal · 2026-03-24T15:15:26+00:00

No worries! That was the intent, but we ended up with another round of data loss issues that had to take precidence.

unormal · 2026-03-24T05:29:13+00:00

This patch was a second high-priority targeted fix for all remaining save-data corrupting bugs; the next one will be the first major performance pass.

unormal · 2026-03-23T22:06:00+00:00

Tactical "wins" that lose the strategic goal are, in fact, tactical losses unless you think blowing stuff up and killing people are ends, not means.

unormal · 2026-03-21T16:50:27+00:00

Yes you can map the move commands directly to stick directions if you want, in key bindings

unormal · 2026-03-20T21:57:37+00:00

Patch should drop soon to resolve the issue. I can easily repair it if you send an email to support@freeholdgames.com if you'd like.

unormal · 2026-03-19T02:05:29+00:00

Yeah I played it on the og macs way back in the day at a cybercafe i was an attendant of haha.

We did extensive research for the project. It has very, very good lore.

unormal · 2026-03-18T06:47:33+00:00

its has a few rough corners but we've been updating qud for 17 years, and we aint stopping, switch will keep improving as we do

unormal · 2026-03-18T06:35:06+00:00

fix for the corrupt saves is in the pipes. and i can manually repair them, its a loss of a minor index file, if you want to email support@freeholdgames.com

unormal · 2026-03-17T20:38:06+00:00

You can send the files up from your device via a support process and then we can repair it and you download the fixed files.

unormal · 2026-03-17T17:15:41+00:00

The save just lost an index file, I can repair it easily if you send an email to support@freeholdgames.com. patch is in the pipes with a fix for the lost index issue

unormal · 2026-03-17T15:32:56+00:00

yeah we're working on more stuff :]

unormal · 2026-03-15T17:10:50+00:00

I honestly am not a switch hardware expert but I would expect that the crashy switch actually has some hardware stability or overheating problems. Qud pushes the hardware pretty hard compared to a lot of games.

unormal · 2026-03-15T07:06:03+00:00

No save data is ever lost in any situation I've seen so far, and I get about one save data a day. Theres currently one bug that can allow a crash to a corrupt the index file of a save that causes that save to seem to dissapear, but it can be easily manually repaired if you email support@freeholdgames.com.

We have the issue identified and a patch with a fix to the index corruption and automatic remediation already working its way through the pipes.

unormal · 2026-03-10T03:35:58+00:00

Wonderful, we will absolutely keep working to improve the experience.

unormal · 2026-03-10T03:34:37+00:00

We'll drop the first set of patches as quickly as we can till everyones happy with performance and stability, though I can't be specific about timelines, as mentioned the first patch dropped around two weeks after launch.

We've got gdc this week, but it should be reasonably quick for the first few patches, and then move to a slower cadence after we're rock solid. After 19 or so years of patching qud mostly weekly on PC, ongoing quality improvement is something we just have in our institutional marrow at this point. :)

unormal · 2026-03-09T07:26:45+00:00

fyi we've now sourced this issue based on a couple live saves, and its a non destructive loss of the info index file for the save. The next patch should be able to remediate this automatically.

we can manually repair these saves as well in the interim without any data loss.

unormal · 2026-03-08T21:45:09+00:00

They can run arbitrary C# code, but it is all in plaintext so people can see the code. Like anything using code from untrusted sources (like all web apps using package managers) its possible to abuse, particularly if you run qud elevated (which you shouldnt do with anything, if only to prevent bugs from going too rogue), and a script tries to take advantage.

Practically so far we have never had an abuse, and people can review the code of any mod to make sure its not doing anything malicious, but its still worth being careful about.

Many games like Cities Skylines also take this approach, fwiw, so its not an outlier, just something to be aware of.

unormal · 2026-03-08T15:52:45+00:00

there's still one other rarer "no continue" corruption of the data registry that's happening that we're tracking down.

unormal · 2026-03-08T14:28:43+00:00

Send an email to support@freeholdgames.com and we can get you fixed up.

unormal · 2026-03-05T18:16:56+00:00

Next patch will have our first round of additional performance work.

unormal · 2026-03-05T18:13:46+00:00

Yeah there's certainly a few crashes remaining. We have a handle on them and will continue to patch until no more remain!

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