Bugs & Crash Reports

[Stoddard]

Cant afford to replace it just yet.

Get the dust out and it'll last until the caps die, and that most likely would be instantenous and years in the future.

[legionof1]

Certainty true in the general case but my system was not the pinnacle of thermal engineering 6.5 years ago and being a laptop alot of normal thermal maintenance is functionally impossible without breaking components. Also my SSD is nearing the end of it lifespan so it slowly losing performance.

[Zharkov]

Of course must work on win7.

Yeah, I thought so - what could be wrong with my PCs?

[Meridian]

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.

That's strange.

I tried it now with PirateZ 0.99F.5, OXCE+ from 12.03.2017... takes 10 seconds for me to load.

And with the newest OXCE+ from 24.04.2017... it also takes 10 seconds.

Can someone else confirm?

[Ethereal_Medic]

With my old laptop it took 40s to load the game.
My new PC took 10s to load into the menu.

One funny thing is that the very first start after a new patch is faster to load. Every new start of the .exe takes longer for the system to boot the game.

[Bartojan]

That's strange.

I tried it now with PirateZ 0.99F.5, OXCE+ from 12.03.2017... takes 10 seconds for me to load.

And with the newest OXCE+ from 24.04.2017... it also takes 10 seconds.

Can someone else confirm?

Loading time 36 seconds on my:
CPU: I5 3,4GHz; 8 GB RAM; Win10 64bit; system on SSD; game on Seagate SV35 - 7200 RPM with  64MB cache
BUT
another loading after that takes about 9 sec.

Confirmed on my PC: First start of the game after the restart of Win10 takes more than 30 seconds. Another starts less then 10 sec.

[Zharkov]

Damnation, I am not giving up yet. Could anybody pls provide me with a options.cfg that works for him or her with 99_F_5 and win 7?

[Meridian]

Damnation, I am not giving up yet. Could anybody pls provide me with a options.cfg that works for him or her with 99_F_5 and win 7?

Just delete your options.cfg, the game will create a default one.

[Zharkov]

Just delete your options.cfg, the game will create a default one.

True, but that doesn't help. The game crashes, when I start it without an options.cfg. And it crashes when I start with the options.cfg created during the previous crash/start.

There I was, thinking I was old enough to install the newest version all by myself, but no:

[...]
[02-05-2017_20-27-20]   [INFO]   OpenXcom started successfully!
[02-05-2017_20-27-20]   [INFO]   requested file not found: UFOINTRO/UFOINT.FLI
[02-05-2017_20-27-20]   [WARN]   cutscene definition empty: intro
[02-05-2017_20-27-20]   [FATAL]   A fatal error has occurred: Segmentation fault. This usually indicates something missing in a mod.
[02-05-2017_20-27-21]   [FATAL]   OpenXcom has crashed: Segmentation fault. This usually indicates something missing in a mod.

Where did I go wrong?

[Meridian]

Based on the screenshot with the funny unreadable text on the geoscape... I'd say you still have OpenXcom 1.0 installation somewhere.

You need to get rid of it completely, it WILL conflict both with the nightly installation and with OXCE+ installation.
Especially delete the "OpenXcom/data/" folder in your user home directory...


PS: If you can't find it, just back up what you need (saves, mods) and uninstall/delete everything that even remotely resembles OpenXcom, especially from your home directory... then start from scratch.

[Zharkov]

Based on the screenshot with the funny unreadable text on the geoscape... I'd say you still have OpenXcom 1.0 installation somewhere.

You need to get rid of it completely, it WILL conflict both with the nightly installation and with OXCE+ installation.
Especially delete the "OpenXcom/data/" folder in your user home directory...


PS: If you can't find it, just back up what you need (saves, mods) and uninstall/delete everything that even remotely resembles OpenXcom, especially from your home directory... then start from scratch.

[Meridian]

I assume this means it works now.... for future reference, what was wrong?

[Zharkov]

I assume this means it works now.... for future reference, what was wrong?

You were right, I had an old OpenXCom 1.0 install - desinstalling it was not enough, though. So I deleted every logfile, registry entry and reference I could find. That did it.

[scrabbletank]

Did something change with how infamy is calculated? I just started a new game (well, several) on 99F.5 and it doesn't seem to matter whatever I do I always end the first few months with scores below -500. In my most recent attempt I did a temple raid, 2 landed academy nurse ships, and a crackhouse raid. Between those 4 missions and research I should have been sitting at ~400-500, but I ended the month with -718.

Is anyone else getting this? I have yet to finish a month above 100 points, and get a mutiny within 6 months regardless of what missions or tech I do.

[legionof1]

That's earlier then I've been seeing the spikes of "fuck your score you lose now cause lol RNGebus" but your certainly not alone. Something is causing massive activity spikes, generally out of player vision in the first year. Hopefully Dioxine has figured out the culprit and will address it in the next patch. I haven't gotten the cause in radar yet despite several attempts.

In the mean time keep rolling the dice, it doesn't always happen. Or cheat your way past it by editing your save to increase your score when the spikes happen. Something defiantly borked IMO. Address it in what war way you see fit.