Bugs & Crash Reports

[Zharkov]

Interesting. Can you please zip up the whole installation without hte vanilla files and post it here? Both options.cfg files would be appreciated too.

Something is very wrong. This is the file that leads to the interesting effect. But it is just the old one from 9.99E_2.

[Zharkov]

And this is the automatically generated one. It crashed the game for me.

Maybe something is wrong with the download. Is it intentional that no options.cfg is included in 99_F_5?

[legionof1]

Well i do recall that the intent for allowing a modder to hardlock certain options was to do away with shipping config files.

[Stoddard]

@Zharkov

Can you hear me? Did you read my messages at all? Send the entire installation. One file or another don't tell anything. No one is going to do anything unless the crash is reproducible.

[Zharkov]

@Zharkov

Can you hear me? Did you read my messages at all? Send the entire installation. One file or another don't tell anything. No one is going to do anything unless the crash is reproducible.

Yes, I do read you. I am very thankful for your willingness to help, but I cannot send you the entire installation, because it includes copyrighted material (the original x-com files) and sending you the rest would be a reupload of the Dioxine_XPiratez_0_99_F_5.rar - there is nothing else.

You could help me very much, if you could tell me the md5 of your Dioxine_XPiratez_0_99_F_5.rar and take a peak, if options.cfg is included.

[Stoddard]

883fe09a5588f4442cda4077d344c3b1  Dioxine_XPiratez_0_99_F_5.rar

Dioxine_XPiratez_0_99_F_5.rar does not contain options.cfg.

I can not reproduce your crash with only options.cfg you uploaded.

I explicitly mentioned the exclusion of the original resources from any upload.

Maybe it's just bad RAM 

[Zharkov]

883fe09a5588f4442cda4077d344c3b1  Dioxine_XPiratez_0_99_F_5.rar

K, that is identical to mine, at least.

Dioxine_XPiratez_0_99_F_5.rar does not contain options.cfg.

But it does generate one, once you start OpenXcomExPlus37.exe?

I can not reproduce your crash with only options.cfg you uploaded.

I explicitly mentioned the exclusion of the original resources from any upload.

Maybe it's just bad RAM 

Yes, you did mention this and I overlooked it, sry.

Let's try this your way: https://expirebox.com/download/5928bbe1523f6570aa34e83f05769486.html

[Stoddard]

But it does generate one, once you start OpenXcomExPlus37.exe?

As soon as you change any option and quit the options screen, yes.

Yes, you did mention this and I overlooked it, sry.

Let's try this your way: https://expirebox.com/download/5928bbe1523f6570aa34e83f05769486.html

Sorry for the tone in the previous message.

This gets a bit more exciting. In other words, unpossible. Even though the executable in the archive is Mar 12th and not the latest, the game doesn't not crash on me despite whatever I do to it, and knowing a bit of the code I can't think of anything that might cause that spectatular font corruption.

Besides, the options.cfg in your archive doesn't match the resolution of your screenshot.

What's your system?

[AngelicJoker]

I've had a few instances where items dropped by a unit that panicked aren't saved when the game is saved and reloaded.  Is this a known issue?  I just lost one of my fancy new neural whips to this while trying to capture a Smuggling ship.

[Zharkov]

This gets a bit more exciting. In other words, unpossible. Even though the executable in the archive is Mar 12th and not the latest, the game doesn't not crash on me despite whatever I do to it, and knowing a bit of the code I can't think of anything that might cause that spectatular font corruption.

Besides, the options.cfg in your archive doesn't match the resolution of your screenshot.

Yes, I changed the resolution with an editor at some point, so the screenshot has a higher resolution than the latest options.cfg that did not crash.
To be safe, I got the latest exe and data by Meridian. Still no good. And anyways won't explain why it runs on your rig.

What's your system?

Win 7 64bit prof 6.1 (7601) - while checking this, I couldn't help but notice, that something is weird about my .net framework. Is OpenXcomExPlus37.exe using that? OpenXcomExPlus33.exe is running perfectly, though.

EDIT: managed the .net framework, still not working

EDIT2: It works perfectly on a win 10 PC I have temporary access to. Phew, I am not the bug!^^

[Stoddard]

EDIT2: It works perfectly on a win 10 PC I have temporary access to. Phew, I am not the bug!^^

I seriously suspect that something is wrong with your hardware. The binary is basically self-contained, no .net, no fancy dependencies, so even if the windows installation is fubar, it should work.

[Zharkov]

I seriously suspect that something is wrong with your hardware. The binary is basically self-contained, no .net, no fancy dependencies, so even if the windows installation is fubar, it should work.

Mdsched says ram is fine, fdisk (or whatever it calls itself now, chkdsk?) says hard drives are fine, and dxdiag as well as amd tools say graphics are fine. I have no diagnostics for the cpus or the rest of the motherboard, but problems shouldn't be limited to this one .exe? I will try it on my other win 7 pc next.

EDIT: K, doesn't run on my other win 7 pc either. This is supposed to work with win 7, right?

[legionof1]

Works on my Win 7 machine, albeit much worse then OXCE+35 and prior did. Initial loading time went from 45-60 secs to 4-5 mins after that version.   

[Stoddard]

EDIT: K, doesn't run on my other win 7 pc either. This is supposed to work with win 7, right?

Of course must work on win7.

Initial loading time went from 45-60 secs to 4-5 mins after that version.   

Seriously weird shit. It's ~20 secs on an ancient Phenom II 945. Checking it out.


EDIT:
Try this build: Extended-3.7a+-ca2e93d-2017-04-24-win64.7z

DLLs it depends on are in https://lxnt.wtf/oxem/builds//dlls.7z. Just extract the .exe from the above, and everything from the dlls.7z into the oxce directory.

I don't have access to my windows box right now, but even under wine my build takes ~28 seconds to load as opposed to ~200 seconds for Meridian's.
There is something wrong with his build.

[legionof1]

i kinda suspected something was fishy, but was leaning towards hardware fatigue for my personal experience. Glad to discount some evidence that this thing is failing. Cant afford to replace it just yet.