Game crashes silently on initialization if hard drive space is low (also crashes Steam client)

Pavel Demuth shared this bug 25 hours ago
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Hello support! I have a bug-ish to report.

When starting Space Engineers 2 with critically low storage space on the main Windows installation drive or the game's active install directory, the application crashes silently instead of verifying disk space or presenting a clear "Out of Disk Space" error dialog. Furthermore, this behavior causes the entire Steam client to force-close or crash along with the game.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Limit free space on Drive C: (I had 10GBs before launch)

2. Launch Space Engineers 2 from Steam.

3. Observe that the game abruptly terminates mid-sentence while initializing and writing to SpaceEngineers.log (cutting off at 'DetailedR...'), taking the Steam client down with it.


Expected Behavior:

The game should perform a system capability/validation check on startup. If storage space is insufficient for pagefile allocation or shader compilation, it should halt gracefully and display a warning notification to the user rather than critically crashing the application.


Log snippet at point of crash:

2026-07-13 00:25:01.222 - Main Thread -> Drive C: | Capacity: 999,020,294,144 bytes | Free space: 302,993,408 bytes

2026-07-13 00:25:01.222 - Main Thread -> Drive G: | Capacity: 214,748,364,800 bytes | Free space: 287,842,304 bytes

...

TextureRenderLogging: false | DetailedR [CRASH HERE]

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