Random Crashes to Desktop

[Elkano]

Greetings my fellow adventures, developers and supporters.

When playing MSC it tends to crash to desktop after a few minutes without showing any further error messanges. As I'm running Vista, I tried the suggestions from the Vista thread but they didn't help. The crashes seem to be somewhat random but iirc didn't happen when only idleing.
I've just been playing with Mikkel on his server a bit and he didn't have a clue, too, so I'm posing on the forums now.

In case they are of any use to you I can provide the memory dumps HL creates.

So hopefully you can enlighten me somehow or maybe it points out to something in code that can then be fixed.

 

[Jelly]

Have you used any addons or anything, or is it a fresh MS:C install?

 

[Elkano]

I'm using the 1.11 installer and I installed MAR2008a as listed on the download page today. But the crashes had also been happening when I only used 1.11 shortly after it was released.

 

[FER]

Its Vista, Thraxis was having the same issues, until he installed xp

 

[Xeropace]

Skillasaur had random crashes because he disabled music in options. If you've done this, just turn it back on and lower the volumes instead.

 

[Thraxis]

I had memory deallocation errors between maps, if not I was either 10% of the time, lucky and the map worked fine, 90% of the time, anything would lag me to the point of barely being able to play and dropping my fps to around 5 - 10.

It's more than likely either the Event hud (if it's still past 10 lower it to below 10) or the music as has already been stated. After Xero said that I remember myself and quite a few others having that issue and it was one or the other (possibly both) that needed adjustment for whatever reason.

 

[Elkano]

OK, since I did set the event log from 14 to 8 it didn't crash anymore, so maybe that was causing the problems. Thanks

 

[Thothie]

Where did you get a copy of the msc installer where the ms_evthud_size defaults to 14?

On all the installers currently linked on the main page, it defaults to 6 - so it'd be useful to know where the rogue install is.

 

[Elkano]

Unfortunatly for the 1.11 installer, msc_installer.exe, I don't know anymore. Was over a month ago when I downloaded it.
It's dated Feb. 07 on my disk. MD5 hash for the file is 03E92D709664E2A8EC3C07D7016F78E9

The MAR2008a update I use was loaded from this URL: http://www.msremake.com/fn/msc_beta_package.exe
Its MD5 is 43BBC7D31977003E0327BF90B6701267

I found this mod via a link on HLPortal.de, more precise this news: http://www.hlportal.de/?sec=mods&site=n ... ws_id=5819
But I can't remeber if I downloaded via the link on their page or if I got it via your download page. Sorry.

 

[Thothie]

*sigh* Yeah, I wish we had better control over our distro's. That one seems to have gotten into the world somehow. (The full install that is - your betapack is fine.)

I shall send hate mail to HLPortal.de - again, if the link isn't on the download page (which it wasn't) ya can't trust it.

 

[Snow Wolf / RaZoR]

I shall send hate mail to HLPortal.de - again, if the link isn't on the download page (which it wasn't) ya can't trust it.

I could do that...